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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	death_n	king_n	wales_n	2,767	5	10.1787	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44949	Humanum est errare, or, False steps on both sides		1689 (1689)	Wing H3364; ESTC R26810	12,889	12

opinion for Abdication upon a constrained absence of the King and after that for his Deposition and the Electiveness of the Crown that They all know and ever have asserted for Law cannot be legally done by the Government of England which Contradiction over-throws all the Proceedings of their Learned Predecessors and sets the Law with its heels upwards VIII That the Prince should send his Secretary to the Judges upon the opinion of private Lawyers that the Kings absence was an Abdication peremtorily to forbid the Term which gives Judgement anticedent to the Resolution of the Convention that the Kings Retreat was an Abdication tho at the same time the rest of the Government went on in the Kings Name IX That the Convention did not in the first place assert all Power was in the People of England that They where the people of England and what they did was the Agreement of the people of England and upon that assert their power to Make Limit Alter Depose and Punish Kings when they see Cause and that in persuance of this power they made the present Alteration and that it was both lawful and a duty to do what they had now done else whatever good may be got to the publick by the present Change They that make it are obnoxious and those that shall imitate it in after time do it at their own peril X. That They did not mend the Constitution as well as seem to Restore it from its abuses at least as to the Choice Session and Power of Parliaments such opportunities as this seldom coming into the Peoples hands Had we had our Annual Parliaments Setled the Negative Voice Restrained a Commitee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament the Revenue Appropriated all Eminent Offices had upon good Behavour and Election of Members to Parliament secured the Work might have deserved a better Character XI That They did not first determine the Disputable Elections before they went upon any thing of moment there being near one Hundred and some say by very soul play and that at no other time of day things were carried more grosly Debauching the Electors Adjourning the Poles suffering false Poles Lords appearing to Influence the Elections all which former Parliaments thought Intolerable But that which encreases the error they Chose a Speaker out of those that had the Disputable Elections and of the worst sort too being against the Choice of the People and that Charter that they pretend to Restore And they that know how much the Chaire guides that House and who it is that is in it and his Circumstances and by what Interest he came there are ready to render it a Capital Blemish in the Convention it self XII That They proceeded to chuse a new King before they had proved the Crimes laid to the Charge of the old King or without so much as giving him the Refusal upon the terms of Restoring or Amending of the ancient Constitution of the Realm in Case he were not found guilty of those vile imputations of which as it makes People think him now clear because he would not have been spared if he had been guilty so they begin to esteem it the least piece of Justice to him that he should not loose his Kingdoms because he has been accused falsly XIII That They Voted he had broke Faith with his People and did not prove in what which leaves all in the dark If his Breach of Faith be Violating his Corronation Oath that Breach cannot un-King him unleass that Oath made him a King and that it did not because he was King the very Minute his Brother dyed He was so reputed in Scotland where he was never Crowned and his Brother acted as such from the Death of his Father and it was almost a Year after his Restoration before he took the Oath This is obvious to all and but the natural consequence of an Hereditary Monarchy where the King never dies XIV That They should make the Prince of Orange King without either Oath or Corronation which in an Elected King are the Seals and Sacraments of Kingship to the People and without which some question if there can be any Allegience due from them XV. That the Prince considering his respectful terms to the King in his Declaration would accept of such a Choice without so much as inspecting the Right of the pretended Prince of Wales because the aforesaid Declaration allows him to be such till he be disproved and since he is not so every body will conclude him too young to be guilty of faults to the Nation that can make him deserve to be Excluded as now he is XVI That admitting there was no true Prince of Wales he could let the flattery of the Convention carry him to overthrow the order of the Line in setting his Wife and Sisters Right aside after what he had said in his Declaration of the Title of his Princess being the great reason of his medling so publickly in our English affairs The danger of such a latitude is that we teach the Instruments of our Ambition what to do to our prejudice when it is for their Interest or Revenge by the same morrals that we use them to our advantage But this is not all XVII That He would think of taking upon him the Kingship here before he had Reduced or Secured the three Kingdoms from a Division of Interest is as extraordinary for by looking after that personal Dignity in England he has left Scotland and Ireland naked so that King James is before-hand with him in one if not in both Kingdoms by which neglect he has put the Labour Oar upon himself and delay'd his Affares to a dangerous after-Game And this will in all probability quickly have its Effects here and hath already now the News of his Arrival in Ierland may be relied upon For many that would have followed him all the World over as Prince of Orange their Protector from the danger of Popery relish his affecting his Fathers Crown very unpleasantly and those that consider the Civil-Wars it will immediately involve these Nations in and the Desolation and Misery that must follow as the Price of a new King think they have an hard Bargain without the Six Hundred and odd Thousand Pounds that they are to give the Dutch for helping them to it to save themselves yet it might have been a tollerable Rate for saving of three Kingdom but too much of all conscience to hire any Man to take them away for himself XVII That the Convention should offer to sit without taking the Test when that was the Jealoufie that was had of the King as the fatalest thing that could befal the Government in his time For it is reasonably argued if the Convention had Power to make a King they must have had Power enough to Constitute some Body to administer the Test without which if no legal Parliament could be held nor no one

Humanum est Errare OR FALSE STEPS ON BOTH SIDES First On the Kings Part. I. THat the King did not declare his Judgement in Council for Liberty of Conscience at the same time that he professed himself a Roman Catholick that so all Parties might have known at once what they had to Trust to which would rather have excused his Popery then have rendered it more Intollerable nothing being more Popular at that time then such a Liberty II. That He did not try the Parliament He called at his coming to the Crown upon the Penal Laws only before He parted with it for either He had gained the Liberty so far without an hazard or got a better Parliament to his mind by parting with that upon a Point that his Brothers severities had made very desirable in the Kingdom III. That He did not chuse to begin Liberty of Conscience by Parliament rather then by Declaration by Law then by Prerogative for that way it could not have met with such exception and the other might have served at last IV. That when it was given and He was pleased with the acceptance it found He did not immediately call a Parliament to confirm it while that humer prevailed and they who did not like it were ashamed to oppose it and had not yet so much as formed any secret Councils or Correspondencies against it V. That the Prince and Princess of Orange were not taken into that measure which had been very easie so early and by their Concurring that were next to the Crown and of the Legal Religion of the Kingdom there had been no place left for Jealousie or Contradiction nor any one of moment enough to Head or Countenance a Defection This way Popery might have had room enough in England by leave and her Children been preserved by suffering a larger security to others For this method had begotten a good understanding between Us and Holland and consequently between Us and the Confederates who being mostly Catholick would have been sure to have secured good terms here for those of their own Judgement tho by their present Motions it appears Interest may prevail with Princes of that Communion more then their Religion which we here have refused at any rate to believe VI. That the King would be drawn into such partial and unnecessary methods as that of Closseting the Ecclesiastical Commission Regulating Corporations and Imposing upon the Clergy the Reading his Declaration that in the consequence of it more then any thing fired the Spirits of the People against his Government All which the early calling of a Parliament had prevented and the ill effects of them may truly be charged upon that fatal omission as That upon the Caution of the Ministers to venture themselves with a Parliament tho they knew at the same time their Master could not be safe without one Some think it is plain that the reason of Closseting was from his unwillingness to part with the Sons of the Church of England that were in his Service if it had been possible to have kept them and Liberty of Conscience together and therefore they owe him an Obligation even there where they thought themselves disobliged by him For the Ecclesiastical Court without doubt he was told it was the best way to check the Clergy from running down his Religion in their Pulpits where no body might contradict them least by insensing the People against his Preswasion they might come by degrees to insence them against his Person and Government But a ●iegal course had certainly done his business more effectually and where the Authority had been clearer in the Judgement of the Law the punishment had lain lighter on the minds of the People For the Corporations in his Time it was but changing of men according to the power of the Charters For the reading of his Declaration his Friends would have People have the Charity to believe he meant no more then the best and spediest way of giving notice of a Parliament thinking withal that the popularity of the thing would in great measure cure the Jealousies that were fomented against him and make amends for the false Steps taken in the Interval of Parliament But certainly it is never to be advised in any case of Importance to try Experiments but to do that which is Safest where what we think is best is too hazardous to effect He that learns to fence with Swords rather then Foyls runs a danger greater then the Skill Merrits VII That after He was perswaded to put the Bishops into the Tower He did not discharge Them upon the Birth of the Prince of Wales which had brought in the Church into the acknowledgement of him and They at that time of the day the Nation with them Over stout hurts no body but ones self VIII That Ireland was generally put out of Protestant and English Hands It is true it proves now his advantage but that is by accident It was certainly a false Step though He might do it for fear of what has now befallen him till he could see that He and his Friends were out of all hazard It is certain that gave occasion to his Enemies to run Division against him IX That He filled up the Vacancies in the Portsmouth Companies with Irish Souldiers for tho they were but four persons to each Company and as much his Subjects as the other yet it crost an humer that was for his Interest to indulge at least at that time X. That having by these things disobliged the Church of England He did not do enough to engage the Whig and Fanatick to stand by him but trimmed dangerously for himself A little thing will serve to disengage a Party but it must not be a small thing that will oblige and fix a Party in a new Interest XI That He was so long before He published his Expedient of letting the Parliament Test remain Next to his delay of a Parliament his not telling us sooner indeed as soon as his Friends say he resolved it what he would allow us for our security against the mischieves that were feared from a Liberty to Roman Catholicks was the worst thing He could have done for his own Interest It kept Thousands from joyning with Him in that design of Liberty of Conscience and made the Scrupelous a Property to his Enemies which shews us that resolutions to please the People should neither be long in taking nor long concealed when they are taken If Princes once let the People loose their longing they often miscary or their desires so languishe that it is hard if not impossible to recover their Appetite XII That after He had heard of the Preparations in Holland He did not then at least send an English Man and a Protestant to the States both to find out the Design whatever it cost and if against him to have deverted it by timely Memorials and all that address that such an Important thing could call for at the Hand of an Honest