Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	4,461	5	11.5012	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37421	An argument shewing, that a standing army, with consent of Parliament, is not inconsistent with a free government, &c.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1698 (1698)	Wing D828; ESTC R20142	15,613	32

how was it altered in the Case of Oliver Tho' his Government did a Tyrant resemble He made England Great and her Enemies tremble Dialogue of the Houses And what is it places the present King at the Helm of the Confederacies Why do they commit their Armies to his Charge and appoint the Congress of their Plenipotentiaries at his Court Why do Distressed Princes seek his Mediation as the Dukes of Holstien Savoy and the like Why did the Emperor and the King of Spain leave the whole Management of the Peace to him 'T is all the Reputation of his Conduct and the English Valour under him and 't is absolutely necessary to support this Character which England now bears in the World for the great Advantages which may and will be made from it and this Character can never Live nor these Allyances be supported with no Force at Hand to perform the Conditions These are some Reasons why a Force is necessary but the Question is What Force For I Grant it does not follow from hence that a great Army must be kept on Foot in time of Peace as the Author of the Second Part of the Argument says is pleaded for Since then no Army and a great Army are Extreams equally dangerous the one to our Liberty at Home and the other to our Reputation Abroad and the Safety of our Confederates it remains to Inquire what Medium is to be found out or in plain English what Army may with Safety to our Liberties be Maintained in England or what Means may be found out to make such an Army serviceable for the Defence of us and our Allies and yet not dangerous to our Constitution That any Army at all can be Safe the Argument denies but that cannot be made out a Thousand Men is an Army as much as 100000 as the Spanish Armado is call'd An Armado tho' they seldom fit out above Four Men of War and on this Account I must crave leave to say I do Confute the Assertion in the Title of the Argument that a Standing Army is Inconsistent with a Free Government and I shall further do it by the Authority of Parliament In the Claim of Right presented to the present King and which he Swore to observe as the Pacta Conventa of the Kingdom it is declar'd in hac verba That the Raising or Keeping a Standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace unless it be by Consent of Parliament is against Law This plainly lays the whole stress of the thing not against the thing it self A Standing Army nor against the Season in time of Peace but against the Circumstance Consent of Parliament and I think nothing is more Rational than to Conclude from thence that a Standing Army in time of Peace with Consent of Parliament is not against Law and I may go on nor is not Inconsistent with a Free Government nor Destructive of the English Monarchy There are Two Distinctions necessary therefore in the present Debate to bring the Question to a narrow Compass First I distinguish between a Great Army and a small Army And Secondly I distinguish between an Army kept on Foot without Consent of Parliament and an Army with Consent of Parliament And whereas we are told an Army of Soldiers is an Army of Masters and the Consent of Parliament don't alter it but they may turn them out of doors who Rais'd them as they did the Long Parliament The First distinction answers that for if a great Army may do it a small Army can't and then the Second Distinction regulates the First For it cannot be supposed but the Parliament when they give that Consent which can only make an Army Lawful will not Consent to a larger Army then they can so Master as that the Liberties or People of England shall never be in danger from them No Man will say this cannot be because the Number may be supposed as small as you please but to avoid the Sophistry of an Argument I 'll suppose the very Troops which we see the Parliament have not Voted to be Disbanded that is those which were on Foot before the Year 1680. No Man will deny them to be a Standing Army and yet sure no Man will imagine any danger to our Liberties from them We are ask'd if you establish an Army and a Revenue to pay them How shall we be sure they will not continue themselves But will any Man ask that Question of such an Army as this Can Six Thousand Men tell the Nation they won't Disband but will continue themselves and then Raise Money to do it Can they Exact it by Military Execution If they can our Militia must be very despicable The keeping such a Remnant of an Army does not hinder but the Militia may be made as useful as you please and the more useful you make it the less danger from this Army And however it may have been the Business of our Kings to make the Militia as useless as they could the present King never shew'd any Tokens of such a Design Nor is it more than will be needful for 6000 Men by themselves won't do if the Invasion we speak of should ever be attempted What has been said of the Appearance of the People on the Purbeck fancied Invasion was very true but I must say had it been a true One of Forty Thousand Regular Troops all that Appearance cou'd have done nothing but have drove the Country in order to starve them and then have run away I am apt enough to grant what has been said of the Impracticableness of any Invasion upon us while we are Masters at Sea but I am sure the Defence of England's Peace lies in making War in Flanders Queen Elizabeth found it so her way to beat the Spaniards was by helping the Dutch to do it And she as much Defended England in aiding Prince Maurice to win the Great Battel of Newport as she did in Defeating their Invincible Armado Oliver Cromwel took the same Course for he no sooner declared Wat against Spain but he Embark'd his Army for Flanders The late King Charles did the same against the French when after the Peace of Nimeguen Six Regiments of English and Scots were always left in the Service of the Dutch and the present War is a further Testimony For where has it been Fought not in England God be thanked but in Flanders And what are the Terms of the Peace but more Frontier Towns in Flanders And what is the Great Barrier of this Peace but Flanders the Consequence of this may be guess'd by the Answer King William gave when Prince of Orange in the late Treaty of Nimeguen when to make the Terms the easier 't was offered That a Satisfaction shou'd be made to him by the French for his Lands in Luxemburgh to which the Prince reply'd He would part with all his Lands in Luxemburgh to get the Spaniards one good Frontier Town in Flanders The reason is plain for every one of