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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,714	5	10.2681	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37089	A compendious chronicle of the kingdom of Portugal, from Alfonso, the first King, to Alfonso the Sixth, now reigning together with a cosmographical description of the dominions of Portugal / by John Dauncey.	Dauncey, John, fl. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing D289; ESTC R22503	109,540	240

zeal and devotion towards God yet he must needs advise him that God had placed him as King and Governor over his people that the Divine Majesty would be better pleased if he would with his prayers to the Almighty for their welfare add his care for their protection that it was a duty incumbent upon him to provide for his subjects felicity as of parents for their children whilest according to the Apostle He that does not take care for his family was worse then an infidel that for want of his superintendency the kingdom was posting into the road of destruction by reason of the ill administration of his Ministers that according to his duty he could not but advise him to free them from oppression c. These Speeches of the Arch Bishop extreamly stirred up the Kings affections to his people both because he was sensible of the great love the Arch Bishop bore him and because he knew what he had spoken was truth he therefore takes the Helm of State into his own hands calls those unjust Steward to account frees the people from their oppresses where he finds cause punishes them severely and finally makes several Laws for the good and benefit of the people whose affections he in short time so far gained that they surnamed him the Good And having thus setled his kingdom to the content of his subjects at home he next applies his minde to the aggrandising of it to which purpose in the year 1500. he fitted out a great number of ships which he divided into three Fleets sending one towards the East the second towards the West and the third towards the South to make discoveries That which steered their couse towards the East were the first Christian Fleet that ever passed the Cape of Good-Hope and found out the passage by Sea into the East-Indies that towards the West made discovery and took possession of Brazile in America that towards the South reinforced and added to their former Conquests in the kingdoms of Conga and Angola These happy discoveries thus made at the return of the fleet from the East-Indies a more potent was sent out with a convenient Land Army to take possession of some places in the Country these discomfited the great Armies of the Turks and Sultan of Egypt possessed themselves of the Island of Ormus in the Persian Gulf an Island so rich and well situated that the Arabians used to say that if the whole world were a ring that would be like the Diamond in it many other Forts and Places upon the Sea-coast they likewise subjected and fortified and returned home richly laden Thus were the riches of India which before had been brought over the vast Arabian deserts upon the backs of Camels to Grand Cairo in Egypt and from thence by Sea transported to Venice and so dispersed over these parts of the World were now brought home by Sea a longer but less chargeable and far quicker way Emanuel while his Fleets were performing these glorious services abroad governed his kingdoms in peace and prosperity at home blessed with a noble and numerous Issue to wit six sons and two daughters the sons were first Prince Iohn who succeeded him in the kingdom secondly the Infante D. Lewis thirdly the Infante D. Alfonso who was after a Cardinal Arch-Bishop of Lisbon and Abbot of Alcobaza fourthly the Infante D. Henry Cardinal and Arch-Bishop of Braga fifthly Infante D. Fernando sixthly the Infante D. Edward The daughters were first the Infante Isabella who was married to Charles the fifth that famous Emperor and King of Spain and secondly the Infante Beatrice married to Emanuel Duke of Savoy Emanuel having long governed this Nation to his great glory and renown at last in the seventy third year of his life and forty first of his Empire yielded to fate at Lisbon in or about the year 1435. and was buried in the Cathedral of that City amongst many of his Ancestors He was a Prince in whom the Divinity seem'd to have been at a strife whether his body or minde should be made more amiable for the features of his face were worthily to be admired yet his outward part could not boast more beauty then his soul could that imbellisher of man vertue I can not well say whether he was more severe or merciful but where he met with offences that he could not pardon he was always pitiful in sum he so lived and so ruled that he deservedly merited that Glorious Name of Emanuel the Good JOHN the III. Fifteenth KING of PORTVGAL JOhn the third of that Name who succeeded his father in the kingdom was born in the year 1504. and educated in the University of Conimbria in all those Sciences befitting a Prince he arrived at the Crown at the age of one and thirty years Heir as well to his fathers vertues as kingdoms He prosecuted those discoveries made by the Fleets of his father in the East and West Indies in the first of which he took and possessed many Islands and Towns his Armies encountred and overthrew the potent and formidable kings of Bengala Pegu and Siam and likewise obtained many signal Victories over the Moors of Malacca Sumatra and Molucco who were as well provided of Artillery as any Princes of Europe His Armies in West Indies had no worse success taking and fortifying divers places no● was fortune less favorable to him in Guiny During his fathers life-time being about the age of three and twenty years he was married to Catherine sister to Charles the fifth Emperor and King of Spain by whom he had Issue Prince Iohn who died during his reign but left behind him a son named Sebastian who succeeded this Iohn his Grand-father in the kingdom Iohn the third reigned in all eight and thirty years making many Laws for the increasing and encouragement of Traffique to the great enriching of his subjects he died in the sixty ninth year of his age and in the year of our Lord 1573. being buried in the Cathedral at Lisbon SEBASTIAN the I. Sixteenth KING of PORTVGAL SEbastian Grand-child of King Iohn the third was his successor in the kingdom which he entred into at about three and twenty years of age Scarce was he well seated in his Throne or had sat in it much above a year and a half when he was by Ambassadors from Muly Mahamet then turned out of his kingdoms of Fesse and Morocco by his Unkle Abdemelech implored to aid him in the recovery of his kingdom with promise that if by his means he could drive out Abdemelech he would freely resign to Sebastian the kingdom of Morocco and content himself with that of Fesse Ambition of glory and hopes to propagate the Christian Religion makes Sebastian readily undertake the enterprize and to that purpose makes all possible speed to levy Men and Arms he sends to Phillip the second King of Spain who promises him the assistance of ten thousand men but fails yet Sebastian not discouraged resolves with his own forces

to proceed to which by an accident he got some addition for as he was almost ready to go Stukeley an Englishman created by the Pope Marquis of Ireland as he was going with a small fleet of ships and about six thousand Italian soldiers to assist the Irish Rebels against the Queen of England was by tempest driven into Lisbon him with much entreaty he perswades to desist from his intended design and accompany him into Barbary Thus set forth he arrives at Tanger with an Army of about thirty thousand men here he meets Muly Mahamet with a very small addition of forces and much less then he expected yet he marches forwards towards Abdemelech who by letters would have advised him to have returned in peace but in vain so the two Armies meet in the plains of Alcazar where Sebastian is utterly discomfited himself Muly Mahamet Stukeley and several persons of quality slain three Kings fell in this field for Abdemelech was killed in the hottest of the battel this was fought in August 1578. Yet some there be that have affirmed that Sebastian was not slain in this battel but that for shame and sorrow he returned not home but wandring from one place to another was at last found out and known at Venice and from thence carried to Naples where he was kept three days in a dark and dismal dungeon without any sustenance but a knife and a halter that he was after by the command of the King of Spain sent thither where he died miserably That whether this were the true Sebastian or no was not certainly known but that he was so like him that the Spaniards used to say if it were not he it was the devil in his likeness but however he being thus lost to the Portugals they Crowned in his stead Henry the Cardinal HENRY the I. Seventeenth KING of PORTVGAL HEnry the Cardinal third son to Emanuel the first who succeeded Sebastian in the kingdom being both by reason of his age to wit 67. years old and his function being a Church-man deprived of all means to give the people any hopes of Issue it was during his short reign of his years the whole discourse and debate not onely of Portugal but of all Christendom who of right ought and who probably might succeed King Henry in that Crown and Kingdom several pretenders there were whose several Titles the ensuing Table will make clear Emanuel the first had eight children 1 Iohn King of Portugal who had Issue Iohn Prince of Portugal who had Issue Sebastian King of Portugal 2 Lewis Infante who had Issue Don Alfonso the Bastard Christopher and others 3 Infante D. Alfonso died without Issue 4 Henry the Cardinal King of Portugal died wirhout Issue 5 Fernando Infante died without Issue 6 Edward Infante who had Issue 1 Mary wedded to Alexander Farnese Prince of Parma a forreigner Reinuce Prince of Parma 2 Katherine married to Iohn Duke of Bragance 7 Mary married to Charles the fifth King of Castile and Emperor who had Issue Phillip the second King of Spain 8 Beatrix married to Charles Duke of Savoy had Issue Philbert Duke of Savoy The several claims to the Crown were in 〈◊〉 eight and all the pretenders endeavored by 〈◊〉 the most weighty arguments they could to j●●stifie their several Titles first the people cla●●med Iure Regni a Priviledge to Elect the●● own Kings but it was soon answered th●● until the Royal Line of a kingdom were qui●● extinct they could claim no right in the El●●ction for if they could they might by the sam● reason at any time depose the lawful Heir 〈◊〉 Popes challenge to be Iure Divino Arbitra●●● if not Donour in all controversies of Crown● but especially in this because Alphonso the 〈◊〉 King to obtain that Title became tributary 〈◊〉 the Sea of Rome was slighted and dis-regarde●● The third claim was that of Antonio the b●●stard son of Lewis Infante who alledged th●● his mother was lawfully wedded to his fathe●● and endeavoured by all means to clear 〈◊〉 aspersion of his being illegitimate some strug●lings he made for the Crown as hereafter sha● be spoken more at large Catherina de Medice● the widow of Henry the second King of Franc● was the fourth that pretended a Right and 〈◊〉 to the Crown as being descended legitimatel● from Alfonso the third King of Portugal cha●●ging all th●● had raigned since to be usurpers● To this it was readily answered that all Lawyer● had ever allowed one hundred years sufficien● to clear and make firm the Title of any king●dom and that there being the prescription 〈◊〉 three hundred years against her her claim 〈◊〉 utterly void The fifth that pretended to 〈◊〉 Crown was Philibert Duke of Savoy as son to ●eatrice the younger daughter of Emanuel ●hough it is to be supposed that he laid not his ●laim out of any hopes to prevail whilest he was descended but of the youngest daughter and Phillip the second of Spain of the eldest but 〈◊〉 is rather to be thought that he was incited to ●ut in his claim by the rest of the pretenders who knew that of the claimers who were not Natives he was the fittest person of all others ●o resist and annoy King Phillip not onely by ●eason of his personal valor but also because of his Countries bordering upon the Dutchy of Millan which with the assistance of the French ●is neighbors on the other side and pretenders ●o that Dukedom he might with ease at all ●imes invade The sixth who-presumed a right to this kingdom was Reinuce the young Prince of Parma who demanded it in right of his mother the eldest daughter to the Infante Edward alledging that Iure Primogeniturae the male Line was to be ●erved before the female so that until the Line of his Grand-father Prince Edward were wholly extinct neither Phillip the second nor ●he Duke of Savoy could have any pretence to that kingdom Catherine Dutchess of Braganza and youngest daughter to the Infante Don Edward was the seventh that laid claim to this Crown who alledged that in all successions whatsoever these four qualities were to be considered viz. the Line the Degree the Sex and the Age that the better Line ought in justice first to take place although others should have advantage in the other three qualities that in all successions of Crowns the last possessor was to be succeeded ●ure hereditatis which allowed the benefit of representation that she representing the Infante Don Edward the better Line did by representation preceed Reinuce the Law never allowing a Grand-child that benefit and that by her better Line she did exclude King Philip who descended of a daughter but especially by the prime and fundamental Laws of the kingdom put in execution against B●atrice daughter of Ferdinand the ninth King of Portugal who having married out of the kingdom to the King of Castile her right of succeeding was utterly lost and King Iohn chosen in her stead she was to be preferred before all