Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	king_n	say_a	treaty_n	2,145	5	9.6984	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06043	The declaration of Charles Duke of Sconberg, Lieutenant-General to His Majesty of Great Britain, and colonel of his First Regiment of English Guards, to the inhabitants of Dauphine	Schomberg, Charles Schomberg, Duke of, 1645-1693.	1692 (1692)	Wing S868B; ESTC R183266	1,522	1

The DECLARATION of Charles Duke of Sconberg Lieutenant-General to His Majesty of Great Britain and Collonel of His First Regiment of English Guards to the Inhabitants of Dauphine AS the Violences which France has exercised upon all its Neighbours ought to make the Subjects of that Kingdom fear that if the Allies should enter into his Estates they would take a Vengeance proportionable to the Wrongs which they have suffered from him We think it is our duty to inform them of the good Intentions of the King our Master towards them The World knows that he has been forc'd to take Arms because his Estates in Burgundy were unjustly seized by the King of France His Principality of Orange was sack'd and all his Subjects oppress'd These Injuries have also been attended with the most base and unworthy Circumstances that the Fury of his Enemies could suggest endeavouring to out him of all that was due to him by Birth or Succession for the present or in times to come For this cause he was forc'd to take Arms to recover what was his own and he intends to imploy them for the preservation of all men in the possession of their Estates and Rights This is the end for which he has sent me into France and his only intention is to establish the Nobility Parliaments and People in their Ancient Lustre and the Towns and Provinces in their Priviledges He knows that the Nobility has been troden under foot that the Parliaments have no Authority that the People have been ruin'd by Taxes But now if the Nobility the Parliaments and the People do not abandon their own Interest and neglect this Opportunity the King my Master will see the General Estates of France established the Gentry secured in the enjoyment of those Priviledges which belong unto their Birth and will restore unto their Parliaments their Ancient Lustre and Authority and deliver the Oppressed People from their Devouring Taxes The King my Master having taken Arms for no other end but to maintain the Rights of others as well as his own there is no reason for his Enemies to pretend That this is a War of Religion which is design'd for no other end but to kindle in the People a false Zeal the laying of a snare for their Credulity that they may be enabled to make them spend the last drop of their Blood in this Quarrel The Clergy however are not to be taken by such gross Impostures the Causes and True Authors of this War being well known unto them But however I declare unto the Clergy of what Dignity soever they be that the King my Master will take them all into his Protection and that their Priviledges and Estates shall be exactly preserved That he will exemplarily punish all those which shall do them any Injury and that there shall not be any Change brought upon them with respect to the Roman Catholick Religion Yet forasmuch as the Kings of England are Guarantees for the Edict of Nants the Peace of Montpelier and many other Treaties of that Nature the King my Master believes himself to be obliged to maintain that Guaranty and to cause the said Edict to be Established All good French men ought to Aid Him in this because that Edict was the Great Work of Henry the Fourth whose Wisdom and Memory is so dear unto them The Roman Catholicks who have had the Generosity to look with Compassion upon the Sufferings of the Protestants will without doubt take pleasure to see them Re-established It is also hop'd that the Gentlemen of the Clergy having now made serious Reflections thereupon will be well content therewith and by a Wise and Christian Conduct testifie That they had no part in the Violation of the said Edict and all the Cruelties which have followed upon it And all those which shall Joyn with us shall receive those Recompenses and Marks of Distinction as their Services shall Deserve and which we shal be able to give them But on the contrary All those which shall be so far from Aiding us as to Joyn with the Oppressors of their Country can expect nothing but the Severities of a Military Execution And we declare to all those that will live in Peace at Home That they shall have no Injury done them as to their Lives or Fortunes At Am●run Aug. 29. 1692. Licensed EDMVND BOHVN Edinburgh Re-printed in the Year 1692.