Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	great_a	king_n	orange_n	3,164	5	10.0228	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37465	The charge of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions held for the county of Chester on the 11th of October, 1692	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694.; Cheshire (England). Grand Jury.	1693 (1693)	Wing D874; ESTC R27633	13,513	36

THE Lord DELAMERE's CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY OF CHESTER THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY AT THE QUARTER SESSIONS Held for the County of Chester On the 11th of October 1692. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY c. GENTLEMEN PEACE in a Nation is like Health in a Natural Body whose value is not sufficiently known but by the want of it and herein God Almighty is wonderfully gracious to this Land not only in continuing to us the Blessing of Peace but in teaching us the worth of it by letting us see the Nations round about us in War and groaning under all the miserable Effects of it whilst it is kept at a distance from Us and we are only at some Expence which is unavoidable all Circumstances considered unless we will submit to that Monster the French King And indeed God hath done so many and great things for us that nothing is wanting to compleat our Happiness but our selves Of all the Mercies this Nation hath lately received I think our Deliverance from King James was none of the least if it be a Mercy to be delivered from Popery and Slavery That we were in great danger thereof I think was very evident from what we had suffered and what King James apparently further designed to have done had he been let alone a little longer for his Administration was become so exorbitant that Men of all persuasions many of the Papists not excepted did think his Yoke intolerable and that it was highly just to be relieved against his Oppressions for when the Prince of Orange landed scarce any Man appeared for King James nay a great many of his Army deserted him which coldness and neglect could not probably proceed from any thing so much as from the ill opinion they had of his Cause Now if any that were then so indifferent and passive have lately conceived a better Opinion of him it may well be suspected that a particular Picque or some Sinister Byas guided their motion at that time and if so it 's no matter what side they are on for those who are governed in such cases by any thing but a publick Principle are easily turned about by every breath of Air Nor can I imagine what can give any man a better opinion of King James now than he had of him before he went into France the only place as he says he could retire to with safety considering how improbable it is that any Instructions which that Tyrant may give him will make him less inclined to Popery and Arbitrary Power Before I come to the Particulars of your Enquiry give me leave to say something of a great Deliverance which God wrought for us this Year To talk of Plots and Conspiracies against the Government may be rather to tell some people News than that which they do believe because we have already heard of many Discoveries of Plots but none that have been prosecuted and for that reason men may be inclined to think they were rather Fictitious than real Plots against the Government Plots sometimes are not prosecuted either because of the great indulgence of the Government being desirous to gain people rather by mercy than by being too extream to mark what is done amiss or it may be because the Government hath a more than ordinary tenderness for that sort of People or it may be because some of the Ministers of State are concerned in them But whether for any of these Reasons or others it is that we hear of no great Prosecution of those Discoveries that have been made I will not pretend to determine time will best explain this and other Mysteries of the like Nature Yet this I will adventure to say That it is not so safe a Rule to measure Plots by whether they be true or false by the remisness or forwardness of the Government in prosecuting of them as to consider how far it is the interest of the persons accused to carry on such a Design And herein every man of a reasonable understanding is as capable of giving a judgment as the Ministers of State I would not encourage any man to be over-credulous in believing of Plots and yet there are some Conspiracies that carry their own Conviction along with them as it will always be the interest of the Papists to bring in Popery and of the Non Jurors and those who take the Oaths in a double sense to bring in King James Nor would I be the occasion of pushing on a Prosecution with too much violence and yet to be too remiss is an Errour of the other extream and seems to intimate That either the Government is afraid of them and dare not call them to account or else that it is necessary to oblige that sort of people all it can and when ever either of those cases fall out it is sooner or later mischievous if not fatal to the Government I suppose you have heard that King James intended to land here the last Spring with a French Force tho this seems to be already forgot by some yet I am verily persuaded that many people believe it because of the notoriety of the thing For they that doubt of it may as well question whether there was a Gunpowder Plot for it is as plain as a thing of that nature can be which has not actually taken effect It was wonderfully prevented first by the Easterly Winds that continued so long together and next by the happy success of our Fleet even beyond what any man could have hoped for at that time All things considered it was wholly the work of God and to his ever blessed and holy Name be the praise and glory of it tho the Nation hath not yet made so publick an acknowledgment of it as it usually doth upon less occasions than that was The defeating of that Design is a mercy never to be forgotten for we do not yet know of any Design that was ever formed against this Nation that could have been more bloody and destructive than that would have been For King James in his Declaration doth expresly say That his Intent is to spend the remainder of his Reign as he hath always design'd since his coming to the Crown These Words speak a great deal of comfort to England for they cannot mean less than what he hath already done When he took the Customs against Law Carried on Sham-Plots by his countenance and bribery to destroy honest and worthy men When he ravish'd the Corporations of their Liberties and Franchises When he turn'd out Judges for acting according to their Consciences and fill'd the Benches with the Raff of the Gown When he avowedly set up Popery and erected publick Chappels in all parts of the Kingdom When he placed notorious Papists in the Seats of Justice and brought a Jesuit into his Councils