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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
A44747	The pre-eminance and pedigree of Parlement whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorite, pen'd and published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him no frend [sic] to Parlements and a malignant, pag. 42 : with a clearing of som occurences in Spain at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the vocal forest / by J.H., Esq., one of the clerks of His Maiesties most honourable Privy-Councel.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Popish royall favourite.	1649 (1649)	Wing H3107; ESTC R28696	11,947	24

Claudius Caesar at which time as som well observe the Roman Ensigns and the Standard of Christ came in together It is well known what Laws the Roman had He had his Comitia which bore a resemblance with our Convention in Parlement the place of their meetings was called Praetorium and the Laws which they enacted Plebiscita The Saxon Conquest succeeded next which were the English ther being no name in Welsh or Irish for an Englishman but Saxon to this day They governed by Parlement though it were under other names as Michel Sinoth Michel Gemote and Witenage Mote Ther are Records above a thousand yeers old of these Parlements in the Raigns of King Ina Offa Ethelbert and the rest of the seven Kings during the Heptarchy The British Kings also who retain'd a great while som part of the Isle unconquered governed and made Laws by a kind of Parlementary way witness the famous Laws of Prince Howel called Howel Dha the good Prince Howel wherof ther are yet extant som Welsh Records Parlements were also used after the Heptarchy by King Kenulphus Alphred and others witness that renowned Parlement held at Grately by King Athelstan The third Conquest was by the Danes and they govern'd also by such general Assemblies as they do to this day witness that great and so much celebrated Parlement held by that mighty Monarch Canutus who was King of England Denmark Norway and other Regions 150 yeers before the compiling of Magna Charta and this the learned in the Laws do hold to be one of the specialest and most authentic peeces of Antiquity we have extant Edward the Confessor made all his Laws thus and he was a great Legis-lator which the Norman Conquerour who liking none of his sons made God Almighty his heir bequeathing unto him this Island for a Legacy did ratifie and establish and digested them into one entire methodical Systeme which being violated by Rufus who came to such a disastrous end as to be shot to death in lieu of a Buck for his sacriledges were restor'd by Henry the first and so they continued in force till King John whose raign is renowned for first confirming Magna Charta the foundation of our Liberties ever since Which may be compar'd to divers Outlandish Graffs set upon one English stock or to a Posie of sundry fragrant Flowers for the choisest of the British the Roman Saxon Danish and Norman Laws being cull'd and pick'd out and gathered as it were into one bundle out of them the foresaid grand Charter was extracted And the establishment of this great Charter was the work of a Parlement Nor are the Laws of this Island onely and the freedom of the Subject conserved by Parlement but al the best policed Countryes of Europ have the like The Germanes have their Diets the Danes and Swedes the Riicks Dachs the Spaniard calls his Parlement Las Cortes and the French have or should have at least their Assembly of three States though it be grown now in a manner obsolete because the Authority therof was by accident devolv'd to the King And very remarkable it is how this hapned forwhen the English had taken such large sooting in most parts of France having advanced as far as Orleans and driven their then King Charls the seventh to Bourges in Berry the Assembly of the three States in these pressures being not able to meet after the usual manner in full Parlement because the Country was unpassable the enemy having made such firm invasions up and down through the very bowels of the Kingdom that power which formerly was inherent in the Parlementary Assembly of making Laws of assessing the Subject with Taxes subsidiary levies and other impositions was transmitted to the King during the VVar which continuing many yeers that intrusted power by length of time grew as it were habitual in him and could never after be re-assumed and taken from him so that ever since his Edicts countervail Acts of Parlement And that which made the busines more seasable for the King was that the burthen fell most upon the Communalty the Clergy and Nobility not feeling the weight of it who were willing to see the Peasan pull'd down a little because not many yeers before in that notable Rebellion call'd La Iaquerie de Beauvoisin which was suppressed by Charls the wise the common people put themselves boldly in Arms against the Nobility and Gentry to lessen their power Add hereunto as an advantage to the work that the next succeeding King Lewis the eleventh was a close cunning Prince and could well tell how to play his game and draw water to his owne Mill For amongst all the rest he was said to be the first that put the Kings of France Hors de page out of their minority or from being Pages any more though therby he brought the poor Peasans to be worse than Lacquays VVith the fall or at least the discontinuance of that usuall Parlementary Assembly of the three States the liberty of the French Nation utterly fell the poor Roturier and Vineyard-man with the rest of the Yeomanry being reduced ever since to such an abject asinin condition that they serve but as sponges for the King to squeeze when he list Nevertheles as that King hath an advantage hereby one way to monarchize more absolutely and never to want money but to ballast his Purse when he will so ther is another mighty inconvenience ariseth to him and his whole Kingdom another way for this illegal peeling of the poor Peasan hath so dejected him and cowed his native courage so much by the sense of poverty which brings along with it a narrownes of soul that he is little useful for the VVar which puts the French King to make other Nations mercenary to him to fill up his Infantry Insomuch that the Kingdom of France may be not unfitly compared to a body that hath all its blood drawn up into the Arms Brest and Back and scarce any left from the Girdle downwards to cherish and bear up the lower parts and keep them from starving All this seriously considered ther cannot be a more proper and pregnant example than this of our next Neighbours to prove how infinitely necessary the Parlement is to assert to prop up and preserve the Public Liberty and National Rights of a people with the incolumity and welfare of a Countrey Nor doth the Subject onely reap benefit thus by Parlement but the Prince if it be well consider'd hath equall advantage therby It rendreth him a King of free and able men which is far more glorious than to be a King of Slaves Beggers and Bankrupts Men that by their freedom and competency of 〈◊〉 are kept still in heart to doe him service against any forrain force And it is a true maxim in all States that 't is lesse danger and dishonour for the Prince to be poor than his people Rich Subjects can make their King rich when they please if he gaine their hearts he