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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
A96545	The Prince of Orange's letter to the King [Felipe II of Spain, requesting the Cardinal de Granvelle's removal from Flanders]	William I, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584.; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.	1689 (1689)	Wing W2354; ESTC R186647	1,217	1

THE Prince of Orange's LETTER TO THE KING HOVV great our Devotions have always been to your Majesties Service in these Parts we believe may be sufficiently known both by our so Faithful Service to your Majesty and by those Favours which in lieu thereof you have upon all Occasions so Graciously conferred upon us the same Zeal makes us now perhaps transgress the Rules of Reverence that we may not prove faulty in those of Loyalty Your Majesty at your Departure left the Government of these Provinces to the Dutchess of Parma so vertuous a Princess as she hath fully the applause of so worthy a Choice It was believed that the Bishop of Auras now Cardinal was left with her to Counsel and Advise her and not to be Arbiter in the Government but he arrogating unto himself the absolute Disposal of all things and leaving nothing of Regent to the Dutchess but the bare Name disposes of these Provinces as he would do of his own private House He orders all things as he pleases he handles and resolves the weighty Affairs without the Knowledg of the Councel of State and doth this so Imperiously and with such contempt of all the Nobility as the manner is more Odious than the thing it self If the Evils which ensue from hence did terminate in our own private Offences we might at last resolve to bare with them but experience doth shew dayly more and more that this Malady is already become Publick and that not stopping in the Court it certainiy passes and breaks out into all the Provinces with sure and great danger that the effects will still prove worse as long as the Cardinal Granville shall tarry in Flanders so long will these Inconveniencies and Disorders Increase and because they perchance in time arise to such a height that it will be too late to remove him from hence We therefore have thought it suited with the Obligation which the candour of our fidelity and the Condition of our several Imployments imposeth upon us to acquaint Your Majesty with what hath been said to the end that you may apply such Remedy as is necessary which certainly consists in taking the Cardinal from Flanders as soon as may be those who are here of the best sort and generally all the rest of the Provinces are of our Opinion in which let not the Cardinal boast himself that he desires the integrity of these Countries more then we for we may rather justly glory that had it not been for us the Liberties thereof would have been much more damnified and diminished in them The King 's Gracious Answer I Am glad that I can Attribute all that which you have written touching Cardinal Granvill to the particular respect of My Service I commend your Zeal and am well pleased with the Courage but on the other side I do not use for any Complaint to be made by others to bereave any Officers of Mine and his Employments without hearing him speak for himself Moreover it is fitting in Business of this Nature to come from generalities to particular Offences to the end that if the Accused cannot justifie himself his Punishment may be the greater but because these are things which peradventure may better be discust by word of mouth then by Letters I think it best that you to that purpose come over to me in Person with assurance of being here by me both willingly heard and Honotrably receiv'd See C. Bentev●g Hist part 1. EXON Printed in the Year 1689.