Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	orange_n	2,955	5	10.1958	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36630	His Majesties declaration defended in a letter to a friend being an answer to a seditious pamphlet, called A letter from a person of quality to his friend : concerning the kings late declaration touching the reasons which moved him to dissolve the two last parliaments at Westminster and Oxford.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2286; ESTC R180	23,921	20

Subjects without any one advancement of Prerogative The next thing material in the Letter is the questioning the legality of the Declaration which the Author sayes by the new style of his Majesty in Council is order'd to be read in all Churches and Chappels throughout England And which no doubt the blind obedience of our Clergy will see carefully perform'd yet if it be true that there is no Seal nor Order of Council but only the Clerks hand to it they may be call'd in question as publishers of false news and invectives against a third Estate of the Kingdom Since he writes this only upon a supposition it will be time enough to answer it when the supposition is made manifest in all its parts In the mean time let him give me leave to suppose too that in case it be true that there be no Seal yet since it is no Proclamation but only a bare Declaration of his Majesty to inform and satisfie his Subjects of the reasons which induc'd him to dissolve the two last Parliaments a Seal in this case is not of absolute necessity for the King speaks not here as commanding any thing but the Printing publishing and reading And 't is not denyed the meanest Englishman to vindicate himself in Print when he has any aspersion cast upon him This is manifestly the case that the Enemies of the Government had endeavour'd to insinuate into the People such Principles as this Answerer now publishes and therefore his Majesty who is always tender to preserve the affections of his Subjects desir'd to lay before them the necessary reasons which induc'd him to so unpleasant a thing as the parting with two successive Parliaments And if the Clergy obey him in so just a Design is this to be nam'd a blind Obedience But I wonder why our Author is so eager for the calling them to account as Accessaries to an Invective against a third Estate of the Kingdom while he himself is guilty in almost every sentence of his discourse of aspersing the King even in his own Person with all the Virulency and Gall imaginable It appears plainly that an House of Commons is that Leviathan which he Adores that is his Sovereign in effect and a third Estate is not only greater than the other two but than him who is presiding over the three But though our Author cannot get his own Seditious Pamphlet to be read in Churches and in Chappels I dare secure you he introduces it into Conventicles and Coffee-houses of his Faction besides his sending it in Post Letters to infect the Populace of every County 'T is enough that this Declaration is evidently the Kings and the only true exception which our Answerer has to it is that he would deny his Majesty the power of clearing his intentions to the People and finds himself aggriev'd that his King should satisfie them in spight of himself and of his party The next Paragraph is wholly spent in giving us to understand that a King of England is no other thing than a Duke of Venice take the Parallell all along and you will find it true by only changing of the names A Duke of Venice can do no wrong in Senate he can make no ill Laws in Council no ill Orders in the Treasury can dispose of no Money but wisely and for the interest of the Government and according to such proportions as are every way requisite if otherwise all Officers are answerable c. Which is in effect to say he can neither do wrong nor right nor indeed any thing quatenus a King This puts me in mind of Sancho Panca in his Government of the Island of Barataria when he was dispos'd to eat or drink his Physitian stood up for the People and snatch'd the dish from him in their right because he was a publick person and therefore the Nation must be Judges to a dram and scruple what was necessary for the sustenance of the Head of the Body politique Oh but there is a wicked thing call'd the Militia in their way and they shew'd they had a moneths mind to it at the first breaking out of the Popish Plot. If they could once persuade his Majesty to part graciously with that trifle and with his power of making War and Peace and farther to resign all Offices of Trust to be dispos'd by their nomination their Argument would be an hundred times more clear for then it would be evident to all the World that he could do nothing But if they can work him to part with none of these then they must content themselves to carry on their new Design beyond Seas either of ingaging the French King to fall upon Flanders or encouraging the States General to lay aside or privately to cut off the Prince of Orange or getting a War declared against England and France conjoyntly for by that means either the King can be but a weak Enemy and as they will manage matters he shall be kept so bare of Money that Twelve Holland Ships shall block up the River or he shall be forc'd to cast himself upon a House of Commons and to take Money upon their Terms which will sure be as easie as those of an Usurer to an Heir in want These are part of the projects now afoot and how Loyal and conscionable they are let all indifferent persons judge In the close of this Paragraph he falls upon the King for appealing to the People against their own Representatives But I would ask him in the first place if an Appeal be to be made to whom can the King Appeal but to his People And if he must justifie his own proceedings to their whole Body how can he do it but by blaming their Representatives I believe every honest man is sorry that any such Divisions have been betwixt the King and his House of Commons But since there have been how could the King complain more modestly or in terms more expressing Grief than Indignation or what way is left him to obviate the causes of such complaints for the future but this gentle admonishment for what is past 'T is easily agreed he says and here I joyn issue with him That there were never more occasions for a Parliament than were at the opening of the last which was held at Westminster But where he maliciously adds never were our Liberties and Properties more in danger nor the Protestant Religion more expos'd to an utter extirpation both at home and abroad he shuffles together Truth and Falshood for from the greatness of France the danger of the Protestant Religion is evident But that our Liberty Religion and Property were in danger from the Government let him produce the instances of it that they may be answer'd what dangers there were and are from the Antimonarchical Party is not my present business to enquire As for the growing terrour of the French Monarchy the greater it is the more need of a supply to provide against it The Ministers tell us in