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
A55434	Popery and tyranny, or, The present state of France, in relation to its government, trade, manners of the people, and nature of the countrey as it was sent in a letter from an English gentleman abroad, to his friend in England, wherein may be seen the tyranny the subjects of France are under ...	English gentleman abroad.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2922; ESTC R1480	12,025	21

practised very Arbitrary and also appoints the Assessors in the Parish who are answerable for the Taxes upon the Parish out of their own Estates and may impose the same Arbitrarily upon their Neighbours yet most of them of any Substance take their Turns and are much regulated by new Edicts in imposing and levying the same If there be any complaint made that the Parish is over-burdened the Remedy is by Petition to the Intendant who upon Examination doth as he sees cause and the Appeal from him is only to the King which is rarely or never practised for those that are great men and concerned at Court are alwayes favoured by the Intendant and for the rest he matters them not The Intendant as I said before is an Officer Elected to Govern and Oversee the Affairs of the Revenue and Finances but his Power is since inlarged to Examine and Determine all Complaints concerning the good Government of the Province and every Member and now lately to oversee the new Manufacturies and Trade and all other things except the Militia and he gives a constant Account to the King by a Master of Requests of the Estate of the Province and Trade and of all such Grievances Inconveniences and Complaints as are not in his Power to remedy and is become a very necessary Officer yet rarely any of Quality is preferred to this Imployment but men Industrious bred up to the Law If there be any complaint between the Assessours and their Neighbours this is determined at the Court of the Elect. Now it is to be known these Elects are certain Officers who buy their Offices and are appointed by the King for each Division though possibly in their beginning they were elected by each Division There lies an Appeal from them to the Courts of Aids where also Process issues forth against the Assessors if any Sum be behind which Courts are assisted with the Chamber of Accounts these hold Plea generally of all Matters relating to the Revenue and the Edicts concerning the same are now used to be Registred there and not in Parliament An Account of the Clergy and their Revenue The Roman Church of France hath in it fourteen Arch-bishopricks viz. Lyons Sens Auches Arles Remis Bourdeaux Tholouse Burgers Narbone Aix Vienne Roan Paris Under which are contained 95 Bishopricks 120000 Parishes or Cures it hath 1356 Abbies 12400 Priories 256 Commanders of Malta 452000 Monasteries that have all Chaplains besides the Monasteries of Religious Women of which the number is 557. Beside these there are 700 Convents of Cordelis without comprehending the Jacobins and Carmelites the Augustines the Charteva the Belisines the Jesuits the Minims and other Religious Houses the Number whereof is 14078 which Ecclesiasticks possess 9000 Castles Pallaces and Houses which have high mean and low Justice They have also 259000 large Farmes and 10000 Arpans of Vines so that it is found that the Revenue of the Church per annum amounts to 312 Millions of Livres Concerning the Manners of the People The Nobility and Gentry unless it be such as are assured of Ecclesiastical Preferment are Unlearned yet generally well bred and very capable of the Court and Camp or Charges belonging to the Law The Gentry when they are past the Grammar-School are usually sent to the Academies where they learn to ride the great Horse Dance Fence and some of them some part of the Mathematicks especially Fortifications The Burgois are very Ingenious the Artisan and Peasant very Laborious of which latter sort not a hand is Idle from break of Day till dark Night all except the great Nobility and Gentry Devout they are Civil to Strangers Servile to their Prince and Good to their Relations and Families Their Defects and Vices They are superficially Learned or knowing nought but Law Physick Chirurgery and Art of War horribly addicted to Luxury and Vices of the Court as plain Building great Trains Courtship and Entertainments which seems to be the Butt and Scope of all men of all Degrees except peasants Proud Boasters Despisers of others Envious of their Superiours and Tyrannical to their Inferiours Slighting in their Friendship Unreasonable in their Askings Unjust in their Dealing extreamly given to Law-Suits and Exacting upon Strangers joyn'd with a Court-Confidence from the Highest to the lowest The Sum of all they imploy themselves to a Court-Deportment are not Naturally Industrious except to acquire mony for their Luxury which the Peasant also would be inclined unto were not his Condition such as puts him in despair of it As to the Countrey the Air is generally very wholsom the Towns wel● built the Soil very fruitful and well improved in all but Herbage abounding in small Walled Towns and Burroughs through the multiplicity of Lords that shar'd the Lands now generally decayed an ill People delicious Companies and full of Elegant Seats and Country-Houses generally small but embellished with Groves and fine Gardens the great Cities are full of Sumptuous Buildings well Peopled and over-run with the Religious with Officers of all kinds and small Artizans there is abundance of Wealth but collected no where but in the Crown the rest the Lawyers Clergy and Officers hitherto have the best share Reflections on the Alliance of France and its Foreign Interest They are suspected by all their Neighbours at present though some out of Necessity or Interest are forced to depend on them such are the Princes of the Rhyne and the King of Portugal the Dukes of Savoy and Lorraign the Dutch in Case of Difference with England the Dane is generally opposed to the Swedes and joyned to Holland the Pole upon the Defensive against the Swede Moscovite and the Cosack the Swede and Swiss upon Occasion for Money if not otherwise imployed the Italian perfectly Spanish except the Duke of Modena the Turk upon occasion may make a Diversion upon the Empire with these several Respects they regard France whose great Hopes that England will be corrupted as it hath been hitherto with the Designs of changing the Government their flattering Hopes of Assistance in that Behalf are also to ruine the Dutch and make us sharers in Flanders beside the Sums of Money to assist the King in his Necessities and to corrupt his Ministers are the Baites by which they have hitherto prevailed and hope still to catch us As for their Tripple Alliance their present Design is to get an Opportunity to fortifie Flanders subdue all Parties and Interest at Home settle the Revenue of the Crown to keep up a considerable Army alwayes in Preparation to take Advantage of the first Occasion and to oblige the Spaniard to a constant Charge of entertaining the Swede by keeping us from all further Occasion to render us cool in the Prosecution of Alliances unprofitable to the Spaniard burthensome to our selves without Prospect of future Advantage and to give us Leisure of dividing among our selves To this I may add the fomenting the Duke of York's Interest and Don Ivans in Spain and their Pretence in Weakening the Dutch in directing their Trade by their new Impositions and new introduced Manufactories whilst we in our Manufactures suffer most by them the Dutch looking well enough to themselves and their Concerns Paris May 12th SIR Your most Humble Servant FINIS