Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	king_n	parliament_n	wales_n	3,402	5	10.4444	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08374	An answer to a lybel, called, A speech lately made by a noble peer of this realm by a better Protestant than the author of it.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683. Speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II).	1681 (1681)	Wing A3320A; ESTC R224387	3,026	1

An Answer to a Lybel called a Speech lately made by a Noble PEER of this REALM By a better Protestant than the Author of it I Have heard much of the sad state and condition we are in and I am convinced of it since I see such reflexions made with impunity upon the Kings Person and Government I shall say little to the Precedent of our Hary the fourth Unbridled violence and mean condescensions are the unhappy necessities of an Usurper but a good and a lawful King is oblieged to maintain His Own Prerogative as well as the Rights of His Subjects But is it possible that the supposed Author of the Printed Speech should already forget how lately the King after a great Re-trenchment of His Family did at once and as it is said by his Lordships advice Change almost His whole Council and yet the People or those that still make use of their Names never were nor will yet be satisfied I will not put his Lordship in mind of the Court-Ladyes since he doth not remember he spoke of them But unless he make himself a Samuel I do not know what authority he has to examine Saul about the bleating of the Cattel I cannot believe his Lordship could have the heart to sacrifice the fairest of them His Lordship may read in the same place That Obedience is better than Sacrifice but if a Sacrifice must be made It is not to the People but to God and Justice I would fain understand what is meant by the People For now every man calls himself the People and when one man calls for one Thing and another for Something directly opposite both cry out that if this or that be not done the People is betrayed that is to say they will endeavour to perswade them so But the People in this Speech hath a strange Dialect such as I hope no English Man understands Must was never the Language of a good Subject nor Submission the part of a King We must c. and no new Converts I am sorry that with all our Zeal we are so unkind to Prosylites we had a greater value for them not long since for though L. B. was accused of the Plot his Conversion secured him without a Pardon though either his Lordship was deeply guilty or the Kings Evidence grossely perjured Till the Author discover who he means by Sempronia I shall not tell him who I believe to be as bad as Catiline But it is prodigious that while we are frighted with Bugbeares of invisible Dispensations from the Pope his Lordship with his arbitrary Must should dispense at once with the Law of God as to the Queen with the Law of Nations as to forraign Ministers with the Laws of Hospitality as to Strangers and all that part of the Oath of Allegiance that concerns the Heir of the Crown which is equally binding with the rest to all whose suspected honesty cannot accept of such an Arbitrary Dispensation His Lordship seems much concerned to hear of a Bargain between the King and the House of Commons and so am I for things are too ripe for mischief when Subjects are permitted to capitulate with their Soveraign The Kings Subjects by His permission have made Capitulations with forraign Princes but his Lordship would not have the King so far trusted as that His own Subjects may Capitulate with him because as his Lordship says he has so often deceived that hard Word the People And I beg leave to use the same expression of His Majesties patience which his Lordship uses of his little care of his Person That no Story affords a parallel of him The actings of the Duke are indeed admirable to all but incomprehensible to such as have not the true Principles of Loyalty rooted in them But his Lordship who in Cromwel's time was much better acquainted with what past at London then at Bruxells avers That the Duke had an early aim at the Crown before the Kings Restauration this is a high Charge and ought to be better proved than by a bare assertion Hath his Lordship any Letters to produce from His Royal Highness to Himself or any other chief Minister of the Vsurpers Or to what Crown could the Duke pretend when they had robbed the King of His own The Duke can show undenyable proofs of his Allegeance even in those days For what could an exiled Prince do more than leave the great Commands and Pensions that he had abroad and all the advantages that his Birth his Courage and his Reputation promised him to follow the Fortune and the Wants of His Majesty But how will his Lordship make out that after the Match with a Portugal Lady for that is the only Title his Lordship allows the Queen The Duke and his Party made Proclamation to the World that We were like to have no Children and he must be the Certain Heir Where is the World and where is the Proclamation He sayes the Duke took his Seat in Parliament as Prince of Wales but his Lordship knows that the Seat on the Right Hand of the State was and is reserved for the Prince of Wales The Duke took that on the Left Hand the Printed Pictures of the House of Peers sitting upon the Tryal of the Earl of Strafford show that this is no Innovation And His Royal Highness had the same Seat when the King His Father Called the Parliament at Oxford He urges That the Duke had his Guards about him upon the same Floor with the King and so the King was every Night in his Power It was a timerous ambition that lost so many opportunities But what an Impudence is this The Duke never had Guards they are the Kings the King pays them they wait in their turn upon the King and have but the Name of the Duke as the Foot-Regiments have of Collonel Russel and my Lord Craven So the Duke was every Night in the Kings Power Next he fires his greatest Guns The Duke is plainly the Head of the Plot By whose evidence Long before the Duke was Named Mr. Oats declared to the Lords that he had no more to accuse If he accuse him now and Oats be divided against Oats how can his Testimony stand good Bedlow said as much and here appears no Evidence where the greatest would be little enough I say nothing of a Presbyterian Plot but with his Lordships leave what has been may be The Calling the Proroguing and the Dissolving of Parliaments are so absolutely in the King that they ought to be Riddles to a Subject When the Duke was Commanded to leave the Kingdom I appeal to all the World how readily how Submissively he obeyed and comparing his immediate Obedience with the obstinate Refusal of others who still stay in opposition to the Kings Commands let any Impartial man of Sense decide which has shewed most Loyalty and Duty His Lordship and his Party for he says We expect every hour that the Court should joyn with the Duke against them but I find the Court is as hard a Word as the People and as boldly and as odly used If by that Word he means the King all his Lordships Rhetorick will scarce perswade us that the King should Conspire with the Duke against His own Crown and His own Life If not what can the Court do without the King and against the Nation Besides his Lordship has too many Friends among the Courtiers to suspect them and the Duke has met with too much Ingratitude to trust them His Lordship avers as truely that the King has declared the Duke to be dangerous as That His Royal Highness is now raising men in Scotland that whole Council that whole Kingdom will disprove Him And by the apparent falshood of this Assertion let all men judge of the Truth of the rest If the Arms the Garisons c. be in such hands as the King thinks safe We are safe too But if not it concerns His Majesty to secure them since his Lordship declares the King is to be trusted with nothing till he has Resigned Himself to his Lordship and his Party and is wholly theirs and yet then too He must trust their good Nature and Surrender upon Discretion They will allow Him no other Terms no not to be Himself and have His Senses unless they can fright Him out of them I will yet charitably hope that the pretended Author is abused It concerns him to vindicate himself by wishing as I do That the true Author may have the same Fate that his Speech had by order of the House of