Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	heir_n	son_n	wales_n	2,315	5	10.2589	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29209	The serpent salve, or, A remedie for the biting of an aspe wherein the observators grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the laws of God, of nature, or of nations, and most repugnant to the known laws and customs of this realm : for the reducing of such of His Majesties well-meaning subjects into the right way who have been mis-led by that ignis fatuus.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4236; ESTC R12620	148,697	268

States come to have peace a while then let them take heed of falling in pieces The condition of the English Subject when it was at the worst under King Charles before these unhappy broiles was much more secure and free from excises and other burdens and impositions then our Neighbours the Netherlanders under their States If His Majesty should use such an Arbitrary Power as they doe it would smart indeed I wonder the Observer is not ashamed to instance in Hanniball he knows the Factions of Hanno and Hannibal did ruine themselves and Carthage whereas if Hannibal had been independent Rome had run that fortune which Carthage did How near was Scipioes Conquest of Affricke to be disapointed by the groundlesse suggestions of his Adversaryes in the Roman Senate When he had redeemed that Citty from ruine how was he rewarded Sleighted called to the Barre by a factious Plebeian and in effect banished from that Citty whereof he had been in a kind a second Romulus or Founder but if he had been independent he had been a nobler gallanter Scipio then he was And if Caesars Dictatorship had not preserved him from the like snuffles he might have tasted of the same sawce that Scipio did and many others It is true he was butchered by some of the Observers Sect a Rebell is a civill Schismatick and a Schismatick an Ecclesiasticall Rebell the one is togata the other is armata seditio and some of them as notoriously obliged as Servants could be to a Master but revenge pursued them at the heeles as it did Korah and his Rebellious Crew Zimri Absalom Adonijah Achitophel Iudas c. Frost and falshood have alwayes a foule ending Neither is it true altogether That Parliaments are so late an invention What was the Mickle Synod here but a Parliament what were the Roman Senates and Comitia but Parliaments what were the Graecian Assemblies Amphictionian Achaian Boetian Pan-AEtolian but Parliaments what other was that then a Parliament Moses commanded us a Law even the inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob. And he was King in Jesurum when the Heads of the People and Tribes of Israell were gathered together Here is the King and both Houses with a legislative power Non de possessione sed de terminis est contentio the difference is not about the being of Parliaments but the bounds of Parliamentary Power As Parliaments in this latitude of signification have been both very ancient and very common so if he take the name strictly according to the present constitution of our Parliament he will not find it so very ancient here at home nor a Policy common to us with many Nations yea if the parts of the comparison be precisely urged with none not so much as our Neighbour Nation I pray God it be not some Mens aime to reduce our setled Form to a conformity with some forrein Exemplars But if it be understood to have such a fulnesse of power as he pretends according to his late found out art to regulate the moliminous body of the People it is neither ancient nor common nor ours He may seek such presidents in republicks but shall never find so much as one of them in any true Monarchy under Heaven I honour Parliaments as truely as the Observer yet not so as to make the name of Parliament a Med●…saes head to transform reasonable Men into stones I acknowledge that a compleat Parliament is that Panchreston or Soveraigne salve for all the Sores of the Common-wealth I doe admire the presumption of this Observer that dare find holes and defects in the very constitution of the Government by King and Parliament which he should rather adore at a distance as if he were of the posterity of Iack Cade who called himselfe Iohn A●…ead all It is l●…wfull for these Men onely to cry out against innovations whilest themselve●… labour with might and maine to change and innovate the whole fram●… of Government both in Church and 〈◊〉 We reade of Philip of Maced●…n that he g●…thered all the naughty seditiou●… fellowes in his King●…ome together and put the●…●…ll into 〈◊〉 C●…y by thems●…lves which he called 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Che●…er I wish King Charles would doe the like if a Citty would contein them and make the Observer the head of the Corporation where he might molde his Governm●…nt according to hi●… pr●…vate conceit And yet it cannot be denyed but the greatest and most eminent Councells in the World m●…y be either made or wrought by their Major Part to serve private end●… I omit the Lay Parliament 1404 and Sir Henry Wottons younge Parliament 18. Iacobi our Historians tell us of a Mad Parliament 1258 and the Parliament of B●…tts or B●…ttownes 1426 a kind of Weapon fitter for Cav●…leers then peaceable Assemblyes The Statu●…es of Oxford were confirmed by the Parliament at We●…minster 1259 and ratified by a course against the breakers of them shortly after the King and Prince were both taken Prisoners yet in the Parliament following at Winchester 1255 all the said Acts were rescinded and dis●…nulled and the King cryed quittance with his Adversaryes In the raigne of Edward the second after the Battell at Burton we see how the tydes of the Parliament were turned untill the comming of Q●…een Izabell and then the Floods grew higher then ever In the dayes of Richard the second how did the Parliament●… change their Sanctions as the C●…maelion her colours or as Platina writeth of the Popes after Stephen had taken up the body of Formosus out of his grave It became an usual thing for the Successors either to infringe or altogether to abrogate the Acts of their Predecessors The Parliaments of 1386. and 1388. were contradicted and revoked by the subsequent Parliaments of 1397. and 1398 and these again condemned and disanulled by the two following Parliaments in 1399. and 1400 yea though the Lords were sworn to the inviolable observance of that of 1397 and Henry Bullenbrooke who was a great Stickler for the King in that Parliament of 1397. against the Appealants yet in that of 1399 was elected King by the Trayterous deposition of Richard and the unjust preterition of the right Heires Parliaments are sublunary Courts and mutable as well as all other Societyes If we descend a little lower to the times of Henry the sixt we shall find Richard Duke of Yorke declared the Lord Protector in Parliament yet without Title to the Crown in 1455. Shortly after we find both him and his Adherents by Parliament likewise attainted of High Treason in 1459. The yeare following 1460 he was again by Parliament declared not only Lord Protector but also Prince of Wales and right Heire to the Crown and all Acts to the contrary made voide and the Lords sweare to the observance thereof It rests not here the very next year 1461. his Sonne Edward the fourth not contented to be an Heire in reversion assumes the Imperiall Diadem and in Parliament is received actuall King The end is