Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	elder_a	son_n	wales_n	4,760	5	10.4096	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05410	A discourse of the vsage of the English fugitiues, by the Spaniard	Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626.; Wadsworth, James, 1572?-1623, attributed name.; Scarlett, Thomas, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 15562; ESTC S106916	37,206	82

mightie bribes bestowed vpon the nobles of the countrie as also the charges of a great armie of Rewtiers hee sent his kinsman Maximilian of Austria what by force and what by helpe of the parte which he had gained with his treasures thought to inuest him in the kingdome The successe of which enterprise I wold not write being to the whole world notorious and knowen In the consistorie of Rome hee is faine to entertaine a great number of those hungrie Cardidinals in pension and fee therby to gaine their voices when need requireth which liberalitie of his he cannot by anie meanes withdrawe for in so dooing he should be assured to haue them his enemies and contrarie to his proceedings Lastly for conclusion he maketh at this instant open warres with France England and the Lowe countries What deme you then hereof Hath he not trow you vent for his treasures His father was a better souldier and a greater man of warre than he is and as mightie a prince euerie deale his Portugall Indians only excepted in place of which he quietly inioyed these his Lowe countries which in respect of their great oppulencie abundance of riches conuenientnes of scituation were to them accounted nothing inferior And yet he neuer dared attempt to make warres vpon France alone but he first sought by all possible meanes to assure himselfe in friendship with England giuing to that end great and mightie presents to Cardinal Wolsey and others of the councel that in those daies were with her Maiesties father of worthie memorie K. Henrie the eight whereas his sonne makes war with all the world carelesly at once but the Italians haue a true prouerbe Cum tutto abracciâ—nes iunque string And so I hope it shall fare with him Now as touching those his mightie and puisant numbers of men which they say he is able to make I take vpon me to know the state of his forces aswel as other and I herein of all other men know him to be most needie and wanting For as for Spain Naples and Lombardie of which his only force consisteth and which are his chiefest store-houses of men it is sufficiently knowen that his drums haue gone a whole yeere beating vp and downe according as their maner is to get together six thousand men and those all shepheardes hedgebreakers and such idle trewantly rogues the most parte of which he is forced to put in garrison for a yeere or two to fashion them before he send theÌ„ to seruice I saw about two yeres agone a fresh leuie that came out of Pastrauia who put them presently in the castle of Antwarp drawing out the olde garrison the most silly naked snakes that euer I sawe in my lyfe such as in my conscience a man in deed wold beat ten of them As for Germanie out of the which heeretofore he hath drawen greate numbers and by theyr helpe done great matters before Mastrig in Freisland and those places his vsage hath bene so base and miserable vnto them that the old souldiers are all starued and consumed in his seruice whose calamitie hath so terrified the rest at home that no prince in Europe hath lesse credite to raise men there than hee And though there were no such matter yet they are no waie bound vnto him more than to an other theyr profession beeing to serue onely him that will best paie them best and yet if hee shoulde raise anie of the alliaunces of her Maiestie and the scituation of their Countrie considered it shoulde be a matter of great difficultie to ioyne them wyth his other troups Where are then his innumerable legions with which hee meanes to ouercome the world Alliance he hath none vnlesse it bee wyth the rebellious league of France of them he can receiue no aide nor comfort themselues being miserable and distressed by reason wherof most burdenous vnto him yet there is no man liuing in the world lesse beholden vnto them than he For notwithstanding all his assistance they woulde neuer yeeld to receiue his forces into their townes or fortresses seruing onely their turns on him for the present time As for the pope and the Princes of Italye what fayre weather so euer they doo beare him he both trusteth them and they him and great reason they haue so to doo And withall this malediction hangeth vpon him that as hee is of all forraine nations distrusted doubted and abhorred so both he and the very name of a Spaniard is most loathsome and hatefull to the rest of his owne subiectes Insomuch that in Millaine the young Gentlemen haue a pastime by night which they call Caccia Marran that is putting on a visard on theyr face by night they goe with theyr long rapiers or picked bastinadoes vnder they cloakes out in the Towne to seeke Spaniardes in the stewes or anie other place where they thinke they are lykely to finde anie of them vnto whome they giue as manye stabbes and blowes that they can laie vpon them insomuch that the Spaniards dare not for their eares abide out of the castle after shutting in of the gates As for his dealing in Portugall who knowes not his cruell tyranie and the hatred they beare him But now come to her MAIESTY and you shal find another manner of state of matters her realme plentifully abounding in men of warlike disposition of whom she is loued adored her warres are iust charitable godly defensiue for maintenance of which besides the trust that she reposeth in God who hath hetherto mightily and miraculously defended her she is alied in straight league friendship confederation with the most victorious christian king of France with the kings of Denmarke Scotland with the Switzers and with sundrie princes and states of the Empire al being her neighbors dominions vnited with hers and thereby ready to assist aid succor one another in all such occasions as shall or may happen Al this then considered tell me I praie you what occasion of feare or misdoubt you haue If you thinke the English valor not to be compared with that of the Spaniard reade but the Chronicles and you shall finde how much you are deceiued you shall finde that a smal armie of English-men vnder the conduct of that worthie prince of Wales eldest sonne to Edward the third passed in despight of them thorough Cauarre into Spaine and there in the middest and bowels of their owne countrie ouerthrew at Nadres their vsurping king Henry the bastard of whose rase this man is descended by his grandmother being accompanied with the nobilitie of the countrie and 60000. of the brauest fighting men in Spaine so vtterly ouerthrew him that they erected king in his place Don Pedro their iust lawfull prince of that kingdome whom by maine force they constrained all their cities and noble men of the country to receiue Read besides the valerous conquestes atchieued by Iohn Duke of Lancaster brother vnto the sayd prince in Gallicia against Don Iohn

horrible tyrannies and odious offences especiallye for his wicked pariacide and murther committed vppon the person of his wife his sonne and sundrie others of his best and truest subiects that he is in the middest of these his riches indigent poore and indebted vnable to giue satisfaction to such souldiers as he maintaineth to which end he is forced to extort vpon his poore subiectes and tyranize ouer them Of this his indigency and beggerie we see euerie daie experience here before our eies his owne naturall subiects the Spaniards being the best disciplined souldiers he hath and of whom he maketh greatest account are forced for want of their paiment which is now three yeres behind to cease his townes and artillery to contemne his commandements and proclamations finally to bend their armes display their Ensignes vpon the wals against the Duke To remedie which mutinie there was post vpon post sent into Spaine yet in seuen moneths there could no monie be found Notwithstanding many and most important detriments he receiued by occasion of this mutinie as the losse of Breda the retardaunce of the Frenche succours the danger of Numigen c. whereas the whole summe they demaunded was not much aboue fifteene thousand Besides doo but looke into the manner of his proceedings in these Low countries with his souldiers of which because I haue best experience I will chieflie speake and you shall finde nothing in the world more beggerly and indigent Neither as I heare is it better in his other prouinces which verily I beleeue seeing of all others it importeth him to vse them best as being his eldest perfectest in discipline and best experienced troupes and in fine those vnto whom he chiefliest reposeth as the onely vpholders and maintaynance of him in his tyrannie Yet was there neuer in the worlde I dare vndertake king nor prince how base banquerout or needie so euer in whose seruice so many braue souldiers haue died of hunger or that haue vsed such coosning trickes shifts to stoppe necessities and to deceiue his souldiers as he hath done First the countrie not beeing yet fully consumed wasted and destroyed he authorized his soldiers to spoyle and steale the goods and cattell of the poore pesants forcing them to raunsome theyr houses from fire and their persons from murther by which meanes the souldiers lingered in such sort that I haue knowen them remaine three yeres together without one moneths paie But afterward Antwarpe being rendered and by reason of the generall deuastation of the countrie the souldiers failing to finde their wonted reliefe and praie grewe into so great and miserable extremitie that it was a great matter to finde twentie souldiers vnder anie Ensigne The Spaniardes mutined vpon the Staunda whome they founde meanes to appease wyth some few moneths payment The Wallounds mutined in Laiskine Houâ—ke and the lande of the Wast the Almaines went by hundreds begging vp and downe the streets of Antwarpe bare legged and bare footed or in manner naked the Italians starued in their quarters and diuerse of them being in garison in Breda ranne thence to Huisdâ—n to other towns of the enemie To remedie all which inconueniences he found meanes to deale with the Italian Bakers of Antwarpe for cloth and silke as Northerne kersies pack clothes baies refuse Italian silkes taking vp the same vpon excessiue interest yeerely to a certaine summe for receit of which and deliuerie out againe he appointed a Spaniard one Christopher Crasâ— a man of most wicked conscience to be his Treasurer Then he began to grant paiments to the whole campe horse and foot and vnto such Gentlemen and pensioners as were in great extremitie and had ben long sutors which they hauing receiued were forced for want of monie presently to make sale thereof for the thirde of that value in which they receiued it so that a souldier hauing foureteene shillings a moneths paie receiued only foure shillings and sixe pence And he hath his factors and broakers abroad to buy those sayd clothes and silkes again which he deliuereth presently out of the first price to the next that comes and so styll foorth deliuering and buying the same againe for the third parte of the price insomuch that with an hundred pounds he maketh ten thousand poundes in a yeere and yet sometimes he maketh them stay foure or fiue moneths before he will deliuer them cloth or anie contentment at all And sometimes hee neuer troubleth himselfe with the deliuerie of the cloth but causeth their assignation to be boght as now at this instant sir William Standley before his departure had obtained a Liberancâ— for two moneths for his Regiment amounting to an hundred and fiftie poundes the payment thereof hath bene deferred till this present and is nowe solde in Antwarpe to one of his factors for three score poundes and yet hee that solde it made a good bargaine I haue knowen diuerse that haue solde diuerse such Liberancas for thirtie poundes and eight and twentie pounds in the hundred Yet this payment how bad so euer hath somewhat conâ—ented the souldyers foure or fiue yeeres rather hauing that than nothing But now also the same is dryed vp and come to nothing Paymentes haue bene this halfe yeere verie scarse and with much difficultie for the marchants haue at this instant vtterly refused to furnish him with anie more wares both because the same wherein he standeth alreadie indebted vnto them amounteth to an excessiue matter as also he beginneth to wrangle with them aboute the interest of which hee craueth moderation seeing besides before their eies so many presidents of men ruined vndone and dishonored such as he hath delt withall of which what more apparaunt example maye there be than that of S. Siueres a Portugal marchant and one of the chifest best respected marchant of Antwarpe both for the wealth and credit which he possessed as also for the securitie and vprightnesse which he handled the Duke of Parma reducted of Antwarpe the passage of the riuer shut vp and the countries and townes afflicted with great dearth scarcitie of corn at which time rie was at 44. S. sterling the virendell in Antwarpe withall being daily cried vpon by the generall of Vibres for munition come to victual the camp the old store being cleane consumed knewe no other meanes than to deale earnestly with this S. Siueres and other marchants that had trade with Hanborough Lubeck and the Easterlings which countries were replenished with corne to make some aduenture thether for the releefe of the countrie he amongst the rest shewed not himselfe vnwilling to enter into an action so charitable and vertuous if so be his pains might be requited and hee sufficiently warranted and kept free from such danger as might insue either by peril of sea taking of the enemies or losse in the same when it came to this end the duke sent into Spaine and procured him the kings Letters of assurance in the most ample manner

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