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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
A48827	The pretences of the French invasion examined for the information of the people of England	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1692 (1692)	Wing L2690; ESTC R20528	11,190	19

in that still keeps it at a low Ebb so that for the late King's Friends to expose the present Government for this is like a Conjurers complaining of the Storms he raises That ingenious History of Bishop King 's of the Estate of the Protestants in Ireland under King James makes it out that the late King feared and hated the increase of Trade which made him use all means to hinder it and all the World fees that no Absolute Monarch as he affects to be likes that his Subjects should grow rich by Trade But our present King so soon as he can have Peace will make it his first Care to promote Trade here as he did in the Country he came from and even in the difficult times he had Trade hath been a great part of his and his Parliaments Care Finally if Men can remember the times that are so lately past when Law and Right was only the King's Pleasure dictated by Mercenary Judges when no Party but the Papists flourished when a general Consternation had stopt all Business they cannot hope to be happy by his Return who caused all these Miseries And they must expect now he hath more perfectly Learned the French Methods of making a King the greatest of Monarchs by making his Subjects the vilest of Slaves that he will practise it with greater Industry and Application than ever to put it eternally out of his Subjects Power to protect themselves again For oppressing his People which was but expedient before will now be thought absolutely necessary So that nothing can be more improbable not to say impossible than for England to be happy under him that attempted to make her Miserable without any provocation and must return with the same Principles and Designs the same Counsellors and Interests he had before and with all the addition that Revenge Hatred and Fear can make to an angry and implacable Mind But it may be said his Dear-bought Experience of the ill success of these Methods will make him rule more moderately if he be restored To which I reply Coelum non Animum mutat The fore-cited Book of Bishop King's demonstrates that after he had lost England and Scotland and a great part of Ireland upon his Return thither from France he was more Arbitrary and hard to his Protestant Obedient Subjects than ever he had been before even though it was against his visible Interest and tended to disgust all the Protestants who would have served him there His declaring himself Papist at first here and all his Actions since shew that he prefers his Will and an obstinate pursuing his own Methods far above his true Interest whence it follows that we vainly expect from one of his Temper that either his past Experience or his future Interest should teach him Moderation any longer than till he hath Power to oppress us And if he should by a Thousand Promises or Oaths engage to rule by Law his frequent breach of both hath given us no reason to trust him and the Religion he professes can so easily dispence with both that neither of them give us any security from that sort of Obligations The Interests of Popery and France require he should be Absolute and his Nature spurs him on to it and nothing but Fear can for a Moment restrain him from being so What a shadow of a Dream then must this be of Protestant Subjects being happy under a bigotted Popish Prince of such a Temper Thirdly Whereas 't is said we have changed our old Hereditary Monarchy into one meerly Elective and by degrees shall bring it to a Common-wealth nor can any thing prevent this which will be of Fatal consequence to the Church but our restoring the late King I answer the Position is false and the Consequence a meer Sham the Government of England always was and ever must be Monarchical that Twelve Years when it was endeavoured to make it otherwise convinced all Men that all Projects to the contrary must come to nothing As for this Revolution 't is not likely a Parliament which made an Entail of the Crown in a Lineal Succession should be for setting up a Common-wealth or altering the Hereditary Monarchy If it be alledged there was a great Breach as to the Person of the Reigning King 't is replyed he himself made it and they did not make but find the Throne void And there have been greater Breaches since the Conquest as to the true Lineal Succession and laying aside yea deposing the Reigning King and setting up his Son or a Remoter Person which indeed was an Injury to the Kings so Deposed but still the Monarchy was called and continued to be Hereditary In our case the King deserted us yea left us without any Government but we applied to his next certain Heir with whom at her Request and for our Safety and hers by general consent a Title was given to her Husband and our Deliverer but this only for Life though he be much nearer in Blood to the Right of Succession than either Henry the Fourth or Henry the Seventh successively made Kings of England And the saving the Succession to the Princess of Denmark and her Heirs shews how far that Parliament was from designing any such thing as a Common-wealth We see Philip of Spain who had no Title to be King of England but by his Marriage with Queen Mary was made King at her Request and in her Right but he had not merited so much as our King and therefore his Title was to cease at her Death As for the Prince of Wales there are so clear Indications of his Birth being an Imposture and the Design of forming that Project is so known to be Revenge on the Princesses for adhering to their Religion and to get more time to force Popery and Slavery upon us yea his Health and Strength make it so unlikely he should proceed from such crazy Parents that till the Parties concerned prove the Affirmative by better Witnesses and clearer Evidence and the People of England in Parliament own him for the Heir we need not go about the unreasonable Task of proving a Negative Wherefore since the breach in the Succession was the late King 's own Act and only concerns his Person and a supposed unknown Heir we are not to answer for that and considering the hurry his unexpected Desertion put all things in and the absolute necessity of a speedy Settlement the Friends of the old English Monarchy have just cause to rejoyce it was made so near the old Foundation with a small and only Temporary Variation from it which was also absolutely necessary in that Juncture of Affairs And 't is evident that there are many of the best Quality and Interest who hate the notion of a Common-wealth in England and love Monarchy as well as any of the late King's Abettors who freely consented and firmly adhere to this Establishment If it be objected that King William was bred up in a Common-wealth and inclines to