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	wales_n	6,380	5	10.4533	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

all our conferences that those things may be propounded conceived allowed and confirmed which may best please thee and most directlie and soundly uphold the honour of thy Name the ●…nceritie of thy worship the safety of our King and peace of thy people even for thy Son our Lords sake And that we may not our selves be any hinderance to the obtaining of these our defires either by means of any sin formerly committed or of any corruption yet remaining in us we humblie pray thee to forgive our sins and blot out all our iniquities and to stand reconciled unto us in an everlasting covenant of peace as if we had never sinned against thee And because our hearts by nature are not fit for good cogitations create a new heart and renew a right spirit in us remove far from us all vain-glorious humour of advancing our private profit all envious humour of disgracing other mens gifts all malicious humour of hurting anie mans person and finally all froward humour of opposing our selves against just needfull and godly things by whomsoever propounded Furnish us with knowledge wisedom and zeal by sending down thy spi●…it into our hearts that we may understand discern prefer and set forward all things tending to the advancement of thy glorie and such as may be thought worthie our assent and furtherance And because all good things are not of equal goodness nor all needfull things of equal necessitie let our care and zeal be equallie proportioned to the degrees of things in g●…nesse and necessitie different And therefore first make us carefull of the glory of thy Name which is the high end of all thy counsels and works and ought to be the last and first respect of all our purposes and doing●… And therein let our especial care be to provide for the continuance of thy word and religious practice of thy worship by the Ministery and means that Christ hath planted in his Church next let the good of this whole Island move our care and zeal which consisting in the safety and honour of the King and the enacting and executing of good Laws let us be wisely carefull and faithfully zealous for the Person of our King whom thou the King of Kings hast in mercy set over us And because no Law can be good that is not agreeable to thy Law which containeth the Fundamental equity of all Laws in making Laws to govern thy people let us alwaies have an eye unto thy Law not digressing from the holy equity thereof and what through thy mercy we shall here profitably enact we pray thee through the whole Kingdom it may be truly executed that our great labour may not be disgraced with little fruit And forasmuch as we all and every one of us have in this place with wonder and astonishment and without any merit of ours found a most evident assurance of thy mercy and goodnesse in a miraculous deliverance from the greatest danger by Popish treachery tha●… ever was attempted or threatned towards our King our State and Us give us good Lord hearts above the hearts of men to offer unto thee in the same place a daily sacrifice of thanksgiving in the highest measure together with a fervent and incessant zeal care and diligence in all our proceedings for the setling of the peace and happy estate of thy Church amongst us the preservation of our King his royal Progeny our selves and our Posterity and for the preventing suppressing and final rooting out of the spring issue and fruit of all such hellish and popish hearts intentions and practices to the everlasting praise and glory of thy blessed name Hear us we pray thee O Father of mercy in these our most humble and needfull petitions forgive and answer us according to thy fatherly and great goodnesse for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be all praise glory and power now and forever Amen A Prayer for the Parliament used also in the House II. ALmighty God which by thy holy Prophet David art most truly said to stand in the Congregation of Princes and givest judgement in the midst of the mighty men of the world and through whom Princes do reign Law-makers do disce●…n j●…st things Lords bear rule and all Judges of the earth execute judgement and for that cometh of thee all Counsel and equity all understanding and strength grant unto us here gathered together in thy name that wisdom which is alwaies assistant to thy seat to give knowledge to our feeble and ignorant minds Send down we beseech thee the same wisdom out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy Majesty that is may be now with us and labour with us whereby we surely knowing what is acceptable unto thee may be led through it to the debating weighing and final determining of those matters by the which thy blessed Name may be glorified thy Catholick Church of England confirmed and increased the Kings assurance established the common tranquillity of this Realm safely maintained and last of all all estates and people thereof in true obedience and charity united and knit together Grant this O God for thy only Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Lords House the Collects and Prayers in the Common Prayer Book and Letany for the King Queen Prince and Royal Posterity with other prayers were daily used by the Bishops and Peers during their Session To mention all the particular Prayers for the King Queen and Royal posterity comprised in Books of private Prayers and Devotion as the Practice of Piety and the like and Epistles Dedicatory perfixed to hundreds of B●…oks and Sermons dedicated to King James by Bishops Ministers and others of all sorts and in usual Graces before and after meals would be both infinite and nauseous being commonly known and obvious to all and therefore I shall wholy pretermit them the substance of them being comprised in those Prayers already mentioned I shall now proceed to the reign of our late King Charles who as he had constant Supplications and Prayers made for him in all Cathedral and Parish Churches Chapels Colledges most private families and in our Parliaments themselves by name during all King James his reign as Duke of York and Prince of Wales so after his comming to the Crown March 27. 1625. till January 1648. he had the like publike and private Prayers Intercessions and Supplications made for him throughout his 3. Realms as King and for his Queen and royal Posteritie not only by our preaching Ministers in their prayers before their Sermons and by most others in their morning and evening family and closet prayers Graces before or after meales as our own experience attests but likewise these special set Prayers Petitions and Collects in our Letany and common Prayer Book which I shall here transcribe because almost quite forgotten by above 12. whole years discontinuance in most Churches Families too In the publike L●…tany ordered

Christ and commending himself Sanctae matris Eccl●…siae precibus to the ●…rayers of his holy Mother the Church and particularly to the Pray●…s of St. G●…blac the Confessor and Anchorite Whence a Poet'thus writ of him Ethelbaldus c. Dret pro nobis sanctissimus iste Sacerdos Guthlacus Ad tumbam cujus haec mea dona dedi A c●…ear evidence that the Churches and Ministers of Christ in England did then constantly pray for their Christian Kings who specially recommended themselves to their prayers Our venerable and most learned Beda doth very much p esse this Duty of Prayer for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors from sundry Texts of Scripture on which he comments In his Expositiones allegoricae in Ezram l. 2. c. 7. Et offerant oblationes Deo Coeli Oren●…que pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus He thus comments Offerunt autem ea Sacer dotes iidem pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus j●…xta illud Ap●…stoli 1 Tim. 2. Obsecro igitur primò omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro Regi●…ns omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus c. And in his Fxposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tom. 7. p. 708 709 710. he recites and approves the passages of St. A●…gustin at large recited in the next Chapter commanding Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgivings to be made not only for Christian and pious Kings but even for ●…agans and Idolaters though vitious though Persecutors of the Gospel and fincere Professors thereof Our famous Council of Clov●…sho under Archbishop Cuthbert Anno Dom. 747. cap. 30. De orando pro Rege decreed 〈◊〉 deinceps per ●…anonic as Orationum hor●… non solum pro se Ecclesiastici sive Monasteriales sed etiam pro Regibus ac Ducibus totiusque populi Christiani incolumitate Divinam incessan●…èr exorent clementiam quatenus Duictam et Tranquillam Uitam sub corum pia defensione mereantur agere Et ut ita post haec unanimes existerent in Deum fide spe caritate seipsos invicem diligerent etiam post hujus peregrinationis pericula ad supernam pervenire pariter mereanter patriam The reason of making this Canon for incessant Prayers for Kings Dukes and Princes is thus expressed in the preceding part thereof that there was a scandal and suspition raised amongst the Priests of God inferiour Clergy that they had an ill opinion of Kings Dukes and Princes as too many have now Hoc est quod Reges cum Ducibus Principibus suis ac deind●… minoris potetestatis persuasi plurimi de eis dicere soleant quod non tantum sincero eos non diligant affectu sed insuper eorum bonis prae●…entibus ac prosperitatibus quibusque foelicioribus magis invideant animo nimis infesto quàm devoto satis congaudeant corde eorum que conversationis statum Odibili quadam detractatione dilacerare non desinant A very good ground to revive and re-enforce this Duty both on Ministers and people now Ut horis canonicis Pr●…ces fiant pro Regibus as the Margin of this Canon prescribes as well as the body thereof Boniface Archbishop of Mentz an Englishman by birth thus inscribes and begins his 19. Epistle to our King Ethilbald Domino charissimo in Christi amore caeteris Regilus praeferendo inclyta Anglorum imperii sceptra gu●…ernanti Ethilbaldo Regi Bonifacius c. Wera Burckart Warbeth Abel Wilibald Coepiscopi Perennem in Christo charitatis salutem Confitemur coram Deo sanctis Angelis quia quamcumque prosperitatem vestram video opera bona Dee coram homini●…us per nuncios fideles audivimus quod inter gaudentes et pro vobis orantes gratias agimus Deo postulantes et obsecrantes Salvatorem nostrum ut vos sospites et in side stabiles et in operibus coram Deo rectos in Principatu Christiani populi longo tempore custodiat And King Ethilbert thus closeth his Epistle to Boniface the Archbishop who prayed for him in those times Orantem pro Nobis beatitudinem tuam longaevam divina pietas faciat His 14. Epistle to Pippin King of France begins thus C●…lsitudinis vestrae clementiae magnas gratias agamus et Dominum Iesum Christum precantes ut vobis in regno Coelorum aeternam merced●…m retribuat Most of his and Lu●…us his Successors Epistles conclude with Prayers Cenewlphus King of the East-Saxons with his Bishops and Nobles in their Epistle to L●…llus Successor to this Boniface as they pray for him so they likewise entreat him and his Clerks to pray to God for them in thei●… Congregation Ut pro nostra parvitate proque ●…ace congregationis nostrae Domino supplicare cum eis qui tecum invocant nomen Domini Iesu memineris Omnipotens Deus qui dispersa congregat congregata ●…stodit ipse vos sua gratia prot●…gat et v●…stri laboris fructum in aeterna patria nos 〈◊〉 concedat The renowned Council of Calchuth held in the year 787. under Alfwold King of Northum 〈◊〉 and Offa King of Mercians their Prelates and Nobles and P●…pe Adrians two Legates Gr●…gory and Th●…ophylact c. 12. De Ordinatione honore Regum amongst other things prescribed constant Prayers for and subjection to Kings prohibiting all Treasons and Conspiracies against them in these words and from these Scriptures Scitore quia Dominus dominator est in regno hominum ipsius est regnum cuicu●…que voluerit dabit illud Ideo Omnes generaliter admonuimus ut consona voce et corde Dominum rogent ut qui eum eligit in Regnum ipse ei tribuat regimen Disciplinae sanctae suae ad regendam plebem suam Honor quoque eis ab omnibus impendatur dicente Apostolo Regem ●…onoroficate alibi sive Regi qua●…i praecellenti five Ducibus tanquam ab co missis ad vindictam male●…actorum laudem verò bonorum Item Apostolus Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatious subdita sit quia non est potestas data nisi 〈◊〉 Deo Q●…ae autem sunt à Deo ordinata sunt Igitur qui 〈◊〉 potestati Dei ordinationi resistit qui autem resist●…nt ipsi ●…ibi damnationem acquirunt Nulius Regi detrahat dicente Salomone in ore tuo ne detraxeris Regi in corde tuo ne maledixe●… 〈◊〉 Principi●… quia aves Coeli portant illud qui habet pennam a●…ntiabit verbum In necem Regis Nemo communicare audeat quia Christus Domini est Et si quis tali sceleri adhaeserit si Episcopus est aut ullus ex Sacerdotali gradu ex ipso detrudatur et â sancta haereditate dejiciatur sieut Judas ex Apostolico gradu ejectus est omnis quisquis tali sacrilegio assenserit aeterno anathematis vinculo

N. ad Regni fastigium dignatus es provehere concede propitius ut a cunctis adversitatibus libertatus Ecclesiasticae pacis dono muniatur ad aeternae pacis gaudia te donante pervenire mereatur Per Dominum nostrum Quaesumus Omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus N. qui tua miseratione suscepti Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium à te percipiat incrementa quibus decenter armatus vitiorum monstra devitare hostem superare ad te qui via veritas vita es gratiosus valeat pervenire Per Dominum nostrum Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum inclina ad preces humilitatis nostrae aures misericordiae tuae f●…mulo tuo Imperatori nostro regimen tuae appone sapientiae ut haustis de tuo fonte eonsiliis tibi placeat super omnia Regna praecellat Per Dominum nostrum Deus cujus Regnum est omnium seculorum supplicationes nostras clementer exaudi Christianorum Regnum tibi subditum protege ut in tua virtute fidentes tibi placeaut super omnia Regna praecellant Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui providentia tua coelestia simul terrena moderaris propiciare Christianorum rebus Regibus ut omnis hostium fortitudo te pro nobis pugnante frangatur Per eundem Domiuum nostrum Propiciare Domine precibus famulorum tuorum propter Nomen tuum Christiani nominis defende Rectores ut falus servientium tibi Principum pax tuorum possit esse populorum Per eundem Dominum Deus Regnorum omnium Regumque Dominator qui nos percutiendo 〈◊〉 ignoscendo conservas praetende misericordiam tuam ut tranquillitate pacis tua potestate firmata ad remedia correctionis utamur Per Dom. nostrum These were the constant publick and private prayers and Devotions of the Clergy and people for their Kings Princes and their Kingdoms heretofore not unseasonable for our present times In my perusal of the Clause Rolls in the Tower of London I have observed sundry Memorable Writs and Mandates issued by King Edward the 1 2 3. ●…ichard the 2. and other of our Kings to their Bishops Clergy Abbots Freers Predicants Minors and other Religious Orders upon sundry emergent occasions requiring and commanding them to make frequent and fervent Supplications Prayers I●…tercessions and Thanksgivings unto God alone not Saints or Angels in times of War danger Treaties and the like for his special assistance direction protection blessing and favour upon the King Queen Prince of Wales the Royal issue kingdom Nobles Armies the Kings Counsels Treaties affairs of all sorts and for publike peace and prosperity Which Writs because very rare pious pertinent to my present Theme suitable to the state of our affairs and never hitherto published in print I shall here insert the chiefest of them at large pretermitting all others of like nature for brevitie sake those here transcribed comprehending in them the form and substance of the residue except only Writs for Masses Dirgees and Prayers for deceased Kings Queens and Princes of which there are many Presidents heterogeneal to my Subject matter which I shall totally passe by Claus. 22 E. 1. m. 11. dorso Rex Archiepiscopo Eborum c. salutem Cum inter magnificum Principem Dominum Regem Franciae illustrem Consanguineum nostrum et Nos aliqua sint exorta propter quae ad partes intendimus transmarinas personaliter Nos conferre cum dicto Rege super hiis habituri colloquium et tractatum Credentes firmiter et sper●…tes quod felicior votis nostris effectus adveniret si devotorum intercessionibus ●…djuvemur Paternitatem vestram aff●…ctuosè requirimus et rogamus quatenus apud Deum preces devotas suppliciter effundatis et à vestris Subditis illud idem fieri injungatis ut in hujusmodi negotio prosequendo tractando ac etiam ordinando sic Deus Dominus regat et dirigat actus nostros quod cooperante unigenito Dei filio Jesu Christo labor noster in hac parte ita possit fructuosus haberi quod cedat ad laudem sui nominis ac statum quietum prosperum Regni nostri pariter honorem necnon ad totius Christianitatis commodum profectum T. R. apud Sanctum Albanum decimo die Febr. Consimiles literae diriguntur A. Dunolm Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur I. Epo Karliel Consimiles literae diriguntur O. Line Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur W. Elyen Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur R. Norwyc. Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur I. Wynton Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur G. Cic●…str Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur I. Roffen Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur Th. Exon. Epo Consimilies literae diriguntur N. Sarum Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur R. London Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur W. Bath Well Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur R. Coventr Lichf Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur G. Wygorn Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur Assav●…n Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur Th. Heref. Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur Bangor Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur Custod Spiritualitatis Archiepiscopatus Cant. sede vacante mutatis tamen mutandis viz. ubi paternitatem c. ibi devotionem c. Consimiles lite●…ae Custodi Episcopatus Landaven sede vacante diriguntur Consimiles literae diriguntur M. Meneven electo Claus. 24 E. 1. dorso m. 10. Rex Venerabili in Christo Patri R. eadem gratia Cant. Archiepo totius Angliae Primati salutem Evidentem Causae nost●…ae justiciam quam vos latere non credimus ferventi studio hactenus prosecuti et adhuc summo opere prosequentes pro recuperatione et prosecuti terrae nostrae Vascon tanquam Coronae Regiae et honori Regni nostri Angliae hereditario jure annexae de qua Rex ●…rancia nos injustè exhae●…edare conatur ad partes ips●…s Ducatus gentes nostras nupe●… cum potentia quam tunc commode potuimus et nunc demum Edmundum fratrem nostrum cum honorabili comitiva Nobilium dicti Regni duximus destinand Sanè ●…um in ●…omine non ●…it auxilium sed è coele ac propter hoc ●…porteat impotentiam nostram divinae manus praesidiis sustentari Paternitatem vestram requirimus rog●…mus quatenus non solum nostram set vestram justitiam intuentes corda vestra sursum habentes ad Dominum apud eum ut haec alia quae neg●…tic expedire cognoveritis antedi●…to procedant salubriter in ma●… us nostris prosperè dirigantur devotis supplicationibus insistatis Cumque ob reverentiam ●…edis Apostolicae et ad ve●…erabilium Patrum S. Albanem S. Penestren Episcoporum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalium requisitionem instantem ad tractandum de treugis et pace cum Rege praedicto super guerris dissensionibus discordiis quibuscunque inter ipsum Nos exortis motis sollempnes Nuncios nostros ad partes

to be read thrice every week or oftener upon occasion there are these several Prayers and Petitions to God That it would please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governor That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gratious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Issue After every of which several Prayers and Supplications all the People severally answered We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. After which followed these two Prayers for the Kings M●…jestie the Queen Prince and Royal Issue and read twice every day in most places O God our heavenly Father high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts Grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may 〈◊〉 and overcome all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God the Father of thine elect and of their seed which Bishop Laud changed into the fountain of all goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to blesse our gracious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the royal issue Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy Heavenly grace prosper them with all happinesse and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Prayer for the whole Estate of Christs Church there is this Clause relating to Kings in general and King Charles in particular We beseech thee also to besee●…h and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specia●…y thy servant Charles our King that under him we may be godly and quietly Governed When these Prayers and Collects with the Book of Common-Prayer were suspended by the Directory of the publike worship of God in most places throughout the 3. Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Printed by order of both Houses 13 Martii 1644. yet the substance of them was still continued by the very Directory it self during the heat of the late Wars between the King and Parliament witnesse p. 10 11. of publike Prayer before the Sermon wherein all Ministers are directed To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and righteousnesse save him from all evil Counsel and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the Conservation and Propagation of the Gospel for the Encouragement and Protection of those that do well and the terror of all that do evil and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdoms for the Conversion of the Queen the Religious education of the Prince and the rest of the Royal seed for the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the Restitution and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominious and Dignities To pretermit all Prayers made for King Charles in Epistles perfixed to hundreds of Books of all sorts dedicated to him whiles Prince of Wales and King of England Scotland and Ireland I shall Conclude only with 3. short Prayers of this Nature in 3. of our learnedest late deceased Antiquaries Dedicatory Epistles to his Majesty being of 3. several professions The first is Mr. John Seldens in the cloze of his Dedicatory Epistle to His Mare clausum Londini 1635. Inexuperabilem Tibi felicitatem sanctissima illa Majestas quae Tuae archetypa est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in the end of his Dedicatory Epistle before the first Tome of his Councils Londini 1639. Dei Vicario Ecclesiae Nutricio Fidei Defensori Carolo Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi c. Magno Pio Augustissimo Deus optimus maximus Regi am vestram Majestatem sobolemque Sere●…ssimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Ush●…r who thus winds up his Epistle to King Charls perfixed to his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates Dublini 1639. Deus optimus maximus Regum suorum custos et vindex vitam ●…ibi det prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus ●…rtes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus s●…is vota haec solemnia pro tua et tuorum salute Redintegrat et toto animi affectu numini divino nuncupat Serenissimae Tuae Majestatis servus humilimus Iacobus Armachanus The very next day after the most illegal Trial Condemnation and bloody Execution of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles by that Prodigy of Lawyers John Bradshaw and his Assessors in the new created High Court of Injustice against the Votes and Protests of the Secluded Lords and Secured Commons one of the then secured Members out of his Loyalty to his Majesty and his royal Heir and Successor whose rights he strenuously asserted in his Speech in the House for which he was seized and imprisoned by the Army Dec. 6. 1648. at his own charge Printed 350. of the ensuing Proclamations which he caused to be sent to most Sheriffs and Mayors throughout England and Wales and some of them to be pasted up at Westminster and elsewhere in and about London notwithstanding the Anti-Parliamentary and Antimonarchical Junctoes strict Proclamation to the contrary under pain of High Treasons and the most Capital Punishments which deterred others both from crowning and proclaiming their Hereditary Soveraign according to their former Oathes Covenants and printed Remonstrances A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING CHARLES Prince of VVales King of Great Britain France and Ireland WEE the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Free-holders Marchants Marchants Citizens Yeomen Seamen and other freemen of England doe according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and trayterous Murther we doe from our souls abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawfull succession rightfull and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And

for the C●…urch of God and for the Emperor himself the Author of these most excellent things and for his Chi●…dren who were dear to God In his Expedition against the Persians communicating his design unto the Bishops and desiring some of them to be alwaies present with him who were most fit to discharge the Duties of Piety they readilie promised to follow and not to depart one step from him but to go on warfare with him Et apud Deum supplicibus vovotis se pugnaturos and that they would fight with God for him against his Enemies with Supplications and Prayers whereupon being greatly delighted with this expression of their Wills and Endeavours he caused a magnificent Tabernacle to be made in form of a Church in quo Deo victoriarum datori ipse cum Episcopis supplicaret Wherein he with his Bishops might make Supplications to God the giver of Victories When he lay upon his Death-bed his Centurions and Captains of the Army coming to his Chamber deploring his Condition Longioremque et vitam optarent and wishing him a longer life he answered them He had now obtained true life after his Baptism and that he only understood of what felicity he was made partaker and therefore he would hasten and not procrastinate his migration unto God Upon the tydings of his death all his Gards renting their Cloaths casting their Bodies upon the Ground and knocking their Heads against it sending forth mournfull Voyces with great sorrow and clamours calling him their Lord Prince Emperor and in the interim bewayling him not as a Lord and Tyrant but as pious and natural Children do their Father The Centurions and other Officers and Souldiers predicated him their Saviour Keeper Benefactor the whole Army with all reverence desired him as Flocks of Sheep their Shepheard all the People throughout every City running up and down manifested the secret wound and grief of their minds by outcries and clamours and the rest walked with dejected Countenances as if they were astonished every one reputing that this calamity had principally hapned to himself and miserably afflicting themselves as bereaved of the common safety of human life All the Dukes Earls and Assembly of Princes who were formerly accustomed to reverence and bow down unto him observing their pristine use and custom going in at set times saluted the Emperor lying in his Herse as if he were alive even after his death bowing themselves to the ground the Senate with all the rest of the Magistrates and People doing the like reverence to him Upon which Eusebius hath this memorable Observation Solus vero iste beatus Imperator etiam mortuus regnavit cum ei soli post hominum memoriam vel ipso Deo authore omnes qui solebant honores tanquàm superstiti tribuerentur Nam ●…um is solus ex omnibus Imperatoribus Regemomnium Deum Christum ejus omnibus vitae actionibus piè sanctèque col●…erit jure sanè etiam hunc honor●…m solus adeptus est ut Dei voluntate quod in eo morte sepultum erat tamen apud homines regnaret ut ista scilicet ratione nobis Deus significaret animarum Regnum his qui non prorsus obduruerunt nunqu●…m consenescere nunquàm emori His two Sons being absent when he died there were some select Captains out of the whole Army eminent for their Fidelitie sent to acquaint them with his death the News whereof being spread throughout all the Legions they all with one mind and consent presently resolved as if great Constantine himself were alive Neminem praeter ejus Filios Romani Imperi●… Principem agnituros and soon after all resolved that they should not only be called Caesars but likewise Augusti which being a Title of the greatest Dignity of all sorts is the Proper note of the greatest Empire The Senate People and whole City of Rome exceedingly lamented this Emperors death did the same reverence to his Pictures as to himself whiles living and painting the Effigies of Heaven in its proper colours pictured him above the Coelestial Orbs resting in the Heavenly Assembly At his Funeral the Souldiers P●…iests and People standing round about his Herse expressed their Affections and Devotions towards him in every kind they could ●… quibus Divinus per Preces cultus exhibitus est Whose Prayses when they gloriously predicated Jam populus frequens 〈◊〉 cum Saverdotibus non sine lachrymis et sane magno cum gemitu preces pro anima Imperatoris fundebant to wit that it might speedily be united to his body again at last by a most joyfull resurrection not delivered out of purgatorie in quo illi gratum atque optatum pro Principe offici●…m praestabant Deus ipse singularem benevolentia●… ergà famulum suum ostendit Quod post mortem charis e●… jus ac Germanis Filiis Patris sui Successoribus●… Imperium donasset This was the signal loyalty piety and devotion of the Christian Bishops Priests Nobles Senators Souldiers and People of all sorts in that Age to this first Christian Emperor Constantine both living and after his decease and to his royal Posterity after him worthy our imitation Constantine the 2d Son of Constantine the Great degenerating from his Fathers Faith and Pietie favoured the Arrian Heresy and very much persecuted the Orthodox Bishops who maintained the Deity of our Saviour Jesus Christ yet they and the Orthodox Christians ceased not to make constant fervent publick and private Prayers unto God for his long life health and prosperous reign Among others Athanasius Bishop Alexandria the chiefest Champion against the Arrians though exceedingly persecuted injured deprived and banished by him merely for his zeal in defending the Orthordox Faith and the Godly Christians under his charge were very loyal and consciencious in discharge of this Duty as is evident by these notable passages in his Apologia ad Constantinum Imperatorem against the Arrians calumnies who falsely accused him for holding intelligence with Magnentius the Murtherer of his Brother Constans who wipes off that Calumny by this Argument That he made Prayers for this Prince in the open Assembly of the People and likewise for the Emperors safety Pro salute tua vota facio Quapropter dum te contemplatus fuissem in illo Constante Imperatore illumque in te quî fieri potuisset ut illi malidicere sustinerem aut hosti illius literas mittere ac no●… potius pro tua salute 〈◊〉 precesque funders quod et feci Hujus rei testis est praecipuus Dominus qui exaudivit te largitus tibi est integrum à majoribus tuis relictum Imperium Testesque sunt qui tam affuerunt Philicesumus qui fuit Dux Aegypti Ruffinus item Stephanus and four more there named agentes in rebus Nihil enim aliud dixi quàm precemur pro salute 〈◊〉 Imperatoris Censtantii statim universus Populus una voce acclamavit Christe auxiliare Constantio et magna cum