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
A61170	The Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's household	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5049; ESTC R15013	15,012	68

time at Copthall as much as my Lord of London's and my Memory could Serve us to do it But one thing farther I must observe as very Remarkable in this Affair that if the exact time of this our Address to King Iames at Whitehall shall be compar'd with the Day of the Prince of Orange his present Majesties setting forth his First Declaration in Holland they will both be found to bear very near the same Date For our Address here was form'd at Lambeth on Monday October the First and should have been deliver'd on Tuesday the Second and was actually presented on Wednesday the Third And that Declaration was Sign'd there on the Tenth of October which considering the Two Styles makes little or no Difference And if I might presume to compare Small Things with Great in the Matter of them as well as in the Date I would venture to say that most of the very same Grievances which his Highness insisted on in his Declaration except One or Two that were too high for us Subjects to meddle with were so early represented by us to the King in that Petition as Things necessary to be speedily Redress'd And My Lord I cannot but add that this we did in a time when the King thought of nothing less than Victory when in all Humane probability he was the strongest both by Sea and Land when as yet there was no appearance of such a Prodigious Alienation of his Subjects Affections when at least his Army was thought to be still firm to him when the very Winds and Seas seem'd hitherto as much on his Side as they all afterwards turn'd against him After that My Lord as I remember the next Solemn time of our Waiting on King Iames the Second was occasion'd by the Interception of the Prince of Orange's Declaration here in London some short time before his Highness's Landing For upon Reading that Expression in it That the Prince was most earnestly Invited hither by divers Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and by many Gentlemen and Others of all Ranks the King forthwith sent for some of the Bishops who were nearest at hand and required us to Justifie our Selves to the World as to our Part in that Invitation To this end His Majesty fixed a Short Day whereon He obliged us to present him a Paper under our Hands signifying our Abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's intended Invasion My Lord the Day came and great Throngs there were at Court expecting the Issue of that Conference We saw both the Friends and Enemies of the Church of England equally impatient to know what we would do in that difficult Moment The King himself had affirm'd to us He thought his good Success exceedingly depended upon our Ready Compliance with his Command of Abhorring A Declaration was then in the Press against the Prince of Orange the present King and was only stopp'd for our Paper of Abhorrence to be inserted into it And there happen'd to be but Four of our Number my Lord of Canterbury my Lord of London my Lord of Peterborough and my Self who were present upon the Place to endure that terrible Brunt In short as soon as we were come into the King's Presence His Majesty with great Earnestness called for our Paper We with all Submission intreated to be Excused from writing any thing of that Nature and from making a particular Defence to a general Accusation left we should give the First Precedent of that kind against the Privilege of Peers Besides that our Profession being to promote Peace VVe thought it belong'd not to us to declare VVar especially against a Prince so nearly Ally'd to the Crown But the King still more Insisted Argued and Expostulated with us insomuch that if ever in all my Life I saw him more than ordinary vehement in Speech and transported in his Expressions it was at that time However we still made good our humble Refusal in as dutiful Terms as 't was possible Among many Arguments urging chiefly That as we were joyn'd with our Brethren the other Lords Spiritual and with the Lords Temporal and with the Gentry of England in the Accusation so we beseech'd him we might not be separated from them in our Justification Concluding all with an earnest Request to His Majesty that He would be pleased to Condescend to the Calling a Free Parliament Wherein only he could rightly understand what was the General Sense and True Interest of the whole Kingdom At last when neither the King would bearken to our Zealous Motion for a Parliament nor we could be prevailed on to Subscribe an Abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's Design His Majesty parted from us with Indignation And thereupon the Jesuited Party at Court were so violently enraged against us that as we were credibly informed one of the Chief advised in a heat we should all be Imprisoned and the Truth should be extorted from us by Violence I told your Lordship the Conclusion of that our Serious De●●●● with the King was on our Side 〈◊〉 begging him to call a Free Par●●●ment The truth is a Free Par●●●ment was the main Point and t● last Result of all our Requests to His Majesty from the First Day of his admitting us to give him our honest Advice till the time of his leaving the Kingdom I need not put your Lordship in mind of the Petition we presented him to the same purpose which was Signed by divers of the Spiritual and Temporal Lords and among others by your Self and was afterwards Seconded from several Parts of the Nation especially by the Noblemen and Gentlemen Assembled at York and by the Fleet under the Command of my Lord Dartmouth and by the Lord Bishop and the Clergy and the Citizens of Bristol As it had been also soon followed by the rest of the Kingdom had there been time enough for the doing of it But having mentioned that Petition for a Free aud Regular Parliament I hope it will not be thought Presumption in me if I suggest I had the Honour to have it Considered Agreed on and Sign'd at my house at Westminster And that I was one of the Four Bishops the Two Archbishops and my Lord of Ely being the other Three who ventured to deliver it to the King after we heard he had protested he would take it highly Ill of any Man that should offer him a thing of that Nature Nevertheless we did it and thought our selves bound in Duty to God and Man so to do Your Lordship perceives all that I have said on this last Subject concerns only some few Particulars that pass'd in Three or Four Conferences between King Iames the Second and some of the Bishops who happen'd then to be within Call. Thô we had afterwards the Concurrence of our Absent Brethren And we may now appeal to all the World whether we did not Demean our Selves in those hazardous Occasions with that Zeal against Popery and for the Legal Establishment both in Church and State as became the Station