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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
A44762	Two discourses lately revievv'd and enrich'd by the author one, The pre-eminence and pedegree [sic] of Parlement, whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorit, penn'd and published by Master Prynne ..., with a clearing of some occurrences in Spayne at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocall forrest ... : the second, Englands teares / by James Howell ...; Pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666. Englands teares for the present wars.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3124; ESTC R16765	26,500	31

our Microcosme HE that is never so little versed in the Annales of this Islle will find that it hath bin her fate to be four times conquered I exclude the Scot for the scituation of his Country and the quality of the Clime hath been such an advantage and security to him that neither the Roman Eagles would fly thither for fear of freezing their wings nor any other Nation attempt the work These so many Conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and toffings many disturbances and changes in Government yet I have observed that notwithstanding these tumblings it retained still the forme of a Monarchy and something there was always that had an Analogy with the great Assembly the Parlement The first Conquest I finde was made by Claudius Caes●r at which time as some well observe the Roman Ensignes 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 meeting was called Praetorium and the Laws which they enacted Pleboscita The Saxon Conquest succeeded next which were the English there being no name in Welsh or Irish for an English man but Saxon to this day They governed by Parlement though it were under other names as Michel Sinoth Michel Gemote and Witenage Mote There are Records above a thousand years 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 retaind a great while some part of the Isle unconquered governed and made Laws by a kind of Parlementary way witnes the famous Laws of Prince Howell called Howell Dha the good Prince Howell whereof there are yet extant some Welsh Records Parlements were also used after the Heptarchy by King Kenulphus Alphred and others witnesse that renowned Parlement held at Grately by King Athelstan The third Conquest was by the Danes and they govern'd also by such generall Assemblies as they do to this day witnesse that great and so much celebrated Parlement held by that mighty Monarch Canutus who was King of England Denmark Norway and other Regions 150 years before the compiling of Magna Charta and this the learned in the Laws do hold to be one of the specialst and most authentick 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 methodicall 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 Iohn 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 choicest 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 Lawes of this Island only and the freedome of the Subject conserved by Parlement but all the best policed Countries of Europe have the like The Germanes have their Diets the Danes and Swedes their Rijcks Dachs the Spaniard calls his Parlement las C●rtes and the French have or should have at least their Assembly of three States though it be growne now in a manner obsolete because the Authority thereof was by accident devolv'd to the King And very remarkable it is how this happened for when the English had taken such large footing in most parts of France having advanced as far as Orleans and driven their then King Charles the seventh to Bourges in Berry the Assembly of the three States in these pressures being not able to meet after the usuall manner in full Parlement because the Countrey was unpassable the Enemy having made such firme invasions up and down through the very bowels of the Kingdome that power which formerly was inhaerent in the Parlementary Assembly of making Lawes of assessing the Subject with Taxes subsidiary levies and other impositions was transmitted to the King during the war which continuing many years that intrusted power by length of time grew as it were habituall in him and could never after be re-assumed and taken from him so that ever since his Ediots countervaile Acts of Parlement And that which made the businesse more feasable 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 downe a little because not many years before in that notable Rebellion call'd la laquerie de Beauvoisin which was suppressed by Charles the wise the Common people put themselves boldly in Arms against the Nobility and Gentry to lessen their power Adde hereunto as an advantage to the worke 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 own 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 thereby he brought the poore peasans to be worse than Lacquays With 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 poore ●oturier and Vineyard-man with the rest of the Yeomanary being reduced ever since to such an abject asinin condition that they serve but as sponges for the King to squeeze when he list Neverthelesse 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 there is another mighty inconvenience ariseth to him and his whole Kingdome another way for this illegall peeling of the poore Peasan hath so dejected him and cowed his native courage so much by the sense of poverty which brings along with it a narrownesse of soule that he is little usefull for the warre which put 's the French King to make other Nations mercenary to him to fill up his Infantery Insomuch that the kingdome of France may be not unfitly compared to a body that hath all it's bloud drawn up in to the arms breast and back and scarce any lest from the girdle downwards to cherish and bear up the lower parts and keep them from starving All this seriously considered there cannot be a more proper and pregnant example than this of our next Neighbours to prove how infinitely