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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	call_v	king_n	wales_n	2,937	5	10.1170	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90516	Nuntius a mortuis: or, a messenger from the dead. That is, a stupendous and dreadfull colloquie, distinctly and alternately heard by divers, betwixt the ghosts of Henry the Eight, and Charles the First, both Kings of England, who lye entombed in the church of Windsor. Wherein, (as with a pencill from heaven) is liquidly (from head to foot) set forth, the whole series of the judgements of God, upon the sinnes of these unfortunate jslands. Translated out of the Latine copie, by G.T.; Nuntius a mortuis. English	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1599A; ESTC R229647	18,209	36

through the lenitie of my Nature though unwillingly wherefore respecting that strict Father of justice whose dominion is juster over Kings then that of Kings over other mortals I cannot waile my Blood so spilt unworthily who Pilate like subscrib'd anothers death having declar'd him first wholy innocent in my judgement Henric. Had this been the cause of thy Calamity those other rather much should have been punished with the losse by Heavens just vengeance of their heads who Thee being innocent made thus guilty by their prejudice and however against thy will and Relucting as by the shoulders forc'd thee headlong forwards into that most horrid iniquity of their judgement Therefore some thing there must necessarily be more which have caused this so execrable fate to thee nor know I why thou shouldest here be more obtruded on me thou thy selfe canst tell me any just cause why thou wert stripp'd out of this miserable Life by so shamefull and opprobrious a death if thou camest as such thou boasts thy self of Kings had it not been meeter thou hadst layd thy Bones amongst thy ancestors then trouble here my rest and quiet Carol. I earnestly indeed dying desired to have been buried in the Tomb of my Father but who spoyled me of my life deny'd that boone to me Fearing I beleeve least lying so neer them that the voyce of my Blood would cry more loud to them But in this they have not only been inhumane to me Many other and most grievous indignities have I suffered in my shamefull way of Dying At Westminster where my Self and my Ancestors the Kings of this Nation were Inaugurated was I forc'd to heare the Sentence of my Life from the mouth of a silly Petty-fogger when according to the municipall Lawes no Noble man can be judg'd but by his Peers At St. Iames his was I keep'd close Prisoner whilest my Enemies did determine of my Head wholly cast upon their Arbitrary judging me a Place above all others lov'd by me through the memory of my past there Childhood where my youth also had been harmlesly entertain'd with many innocuous and most innocent oblectations The Scaffold for my death appointed rais'd directly before the Court of my house unto which that I might come with more regret and also shame ev'n through those roomes they dragg'd me where to honour Forraign States Embassadors with Royall pompe I used and Masques to recreate them I beheld also but with what sence of indignation his head cover'd Eyes sternly fixed on me Oliver Cromwell one of ordinary extraction and abstracting from what Fortune hath rear'd him to much more despicable then the meanest of my Nobles how much short then of the majesty of a King sitting umpire of my life and death But though these things were very grievous and deplorable yet that one was even then death it selfe lesse tollerable to me when my eares the Blood yet spinning out my veynes swallowed in that fatall mandate from the Cryer that it should be death to call my Son or Prince of Wales or destine him to bee his Fathers successor And then indeed it truely appeared as conjectured by the wiser in the beginning that not the King so much as Rule displeas'd the Rebels who conspired so unanimously my death to the end that That aswell as I should be extirpated Yet this one thing very much consolates my Griefes that at least I have been destin'd to this Place where I cannot doubt of your more courteous reception of me as being Nephew of your Sister the Princess Margaret her I meane who marrying Iames the fourth of Scotland bore that Mary of whom so lately you made mention and she Iames my late Father since deceased unto whose Scepter she gave both England and Scotland unto which James I Charles the first as Heire unto my Father have succeeded Henric. Hom what 's that J heare and art thou that Charles then the Son of James to whom from me by Elizabeth that Kingdome is divolved by Succession art thou I pre-thee that self same Charles and canst not see how all these evils have oppressed thee But it seems thy eyes yet very well see not newly come into into this region of Darkness No! hadst thou remembred how a long while agoe I drew from out that yoake my necke which in the Church I had full 20. yeares drawne in after first I was annointed King I and defended with both Sword Pen too thou wouldest lesse wonder that after 20. yeares Reigne thy Subjects should have so departed from thee Thou canst not be ignorant that amongst all the Christian Kings J was the first that ever arrogated the Supremacy and would be cal'ed The Head of the Church which Titles that I might knit them to my Crowne with a knot that should never be unty'd Oh! what Blood have I not shed of Martyrs This sinne of mine so long since committed being to be expiated by the blood of a King both this Scepter and monstrous Head together were at once to perish this was long agoe decreed by the Fates as we may judge now 't is come to passe But more then all this J will tell you There was a Person of great note during my Reigne of whom many things thou canst not choose but have heard whose Name was called Thomas Moore This man adorned with vertues so transcendent many ages could not match his worth from a Pleader at the Barre of the Law and having regard unto his merit and Learning I call'd to be Lord Chancellor of England But I seemed only thither to have rais'd him that I might depress him from the greater Hight For when following the dictamen of his Conscience he would not owne me the Head of the Church I commanded forthwith His to be cut off So that whilest Playing Calisthenes hee fell into the hands of Alexander Goe thou then now Head of the Church and complain that by the Sentence of a pittifull Lawyer Thine is also cut off from thy Shoulders Or rather seest thou not plainly in these Prodigies the Tenor of Gods admirable Iudgements It was grievous to thee to be a Prisoner at St. James his where thou hast so innocently in thy youth disported thy Selfe but thou minds not that I formerly by violence and Sacraledge snatcht those Houses from the Church as not long after all the Goods of the Monks the Carthusians Bernardins Cestersians Canon Regulers and so of all the rest But more especially of those of St. Benedict whose houses and Estates I confiscated being the most Splended and Opulent of all the Kingdome by an injustice till that Time not ever heard of wherfore as I for that they own'd me not their Head cast in Prison many innocent Religious and from their Houses made them hve unto the Gallowes so then hadst for thy Prison where thou sufferedst a house that had been heretofore Religious I hang'd up severall Abbots at their doores to give a terrour by their sufferings to the Monks And what