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	son_n	wales_n	15,226	5	10.7599	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41248	A description of the whole world with some general rules touching the use of the globe : wherein is contained the situation of several countries, their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them ... / by Robert Fage, Esq.	Fage, Robert.	1658 (1658)	Wing F83; ESTC R16870	29,927	77

arms are Gules a carbuncle nowed Or the chief order of knighthood was of the Lilley their Blazon a pot of Lilies with the pourtraiture of the Virgin ingraven upon it their duty to defend the faith and dayly to repeat certain Avemaries thirdly Biscay and Empascon hath had nineteen Lords their arms Argent two wolves sable each of them in his mouth a lamb of the second four Leon and Oviedo hath had thirty Kings the arms are argent a Lion passant crowned Or five Gallicia hath had ten Kings the arms Azure semee of Cressets fiched a Chalice crowned Or six Corduba hath had twenty Kings the arms Or a Lion Gules armed and crowned of the first a border Azure charged with eight towers argent seven Granado hath had twenty Kings the arms Or a Pomgranate slipped Vert eight Murcia nine Toledo hath had eleven Morish Kings ten Castile hath had twenty Kings the order of Mercie is his chief order here their arms are a cross argent and four beads Gules in a field Or their habit white the rule of their order that of Saint Augustine their duty was to redeem Christians taken by the Turks with such money as was bestowed upon them eleven Portugal hath had twenty one Kings the principal orders of Knighthood here are first of Avis wearing a green cross second of Christ instituted one thousand three hundred twenty one their robe is a black Cassock under a white surcoat wherewith a red cross stroked in the midst with a white line their duty to expel the Moores out of Boetica the next neighbour to Portugal the arms of this kingdome are argent on five Escouchins Azure as many Befants in Saltire of the first pointed sable within a border Gules charged with seven towers Or eleven Majorca hath had successively four Kings twelve Aragon hath had twenty Kings the order of Knighthood is of Mintesa their robe a red cross upon their breast the arms Or four Pallets Gules all these are now united in one Monarchy of the King of Spain Their religion Popish whereunto they are kept by the violence of the Inquisition The land yields all sorts of wines oyles sugar grain metals as gold and silver it is fertile enough for the inhabitants whose ambitions for the most part are base the meanest proud the best superstitious and hypocrites many of them lascivious yet good souldiers by patience in enduring hunger thirst labour The King is not rich by reason of his great expences to keep his dominions in which he hath eleven Arch-bishops fifty two Bishops England together with Scotland on the north part thereof maketh the greatest Island of Europe and the richest in the world situated in a very temperate soil and wholesome air and exceeding fruitful in wheat and other grain hath many pleasant rivers plentifully stored with fish excellent havens commodious and safe mines of silver lead iron espetially of fine tinne innumerable flocks of sheep bearing fine wool of which is made cloth that serves not only themselves but is also transported into other parts the chief city is London the inhabitants are brave warriers both at sea and land and many of them learned and witty the orders of Knight-hoo● are of Saint George or of the Garter there are twenty six Knights of it whereof the King of England was the Soveraign the Ensigne is a blew Garter buckled on the left leg on which these words are embroidered Honi soit qui mal y pense about their necks they weare a blew riband at the end of which hangeth the image of Saint George upon whose day this order is for the most part celebrated Secondly of the Bath instituted one thousand and nine They used to be created at the Coronation of Kings and Queens and the installing of the Prince of Wales Their duty to defend true religion Widows Maids Orphans and to maintain the Kings rights the Knights thereof distinguished by a red riband which they weare ordinarily about their necks to difference them from Knights Bachelours of whom they have in all places the precedence unless they be also the sons of noble men to whom their birth gives it before all orders Thirdly of Baronets an hereditary honour the arms are Mars three Lions passant gardant Sol. Scotland invironed with the sea except on the south side where it bordereth with England is not so fruitful yet hath of all things enough to sustain it self the head-city is Edenborough Scotland giveth not many sorts of course woollen cloth wool mault hides fish The principal order of Knighthood here is that of Saint Andrew The Knights did weare about their necks a collar interlaced with thistles with the picture of Saint Andrew appendant to it The Motto is Nemo me impune lacessit Secondly of Nova Scotia ordained by King Iames one thousand six hundred twenty two hereditary but the Knights thereof distinguished by a riband of Orange Tawney the arms of the kingdome are Sol a Lion rampant Mars within a double Tressure counter-flowred Ireland is full of brooks marshes waters and woods hath good pasture and abundance of tame and wild beasts but little grain the inhabitants are rude and wild people yet through the conversation and government of the English are dayly more and more brought to civility the aire here is very temperate cooler in summer and warmer in winter then in England the arms of Ireland are Azure and Harp Or stringed Argent The Isles belonging to great Brittain are the Surlings or Scillies Garnesey Iarsey Wight Anglesey Man Hebrides Orcades and many others All which three Kingdoms and Islands aforesaid make up one Common-wealth under the government of his now Highness OLIVER Lord Protector Their religion is Calvinist Protestant their government called Independent The Low Countries contain seventeen Provinces the Dukedoms of Brabant Guelderland Lymburge and Lisenburge the countries of Flanders Artois Henault Holland Zeland Namen Zukfen the Marquisate of the holy Empire the Lord-ships of Freezland Michlen Ouserisen and Graving all which are lands above measure well tilled and inhabited containing two hundred and eight cities fortified with walls and ditches and about six thousand three hundred villages with parish Churches besides the Castles Forts and Noble mens houses which are almost infinite in number This land is watered with many excellent rivers as the Rhine the Mose the Mard the Scheld and others It hath also many commodious Sea-Havens abounding in ships and very skilful and expert Mariners and Pilots as by their navigations may appear whereby they have compassed as it were the whole world The inhabitants also are very valiant and notable warriors as well by sea as by land as their enemies themselves will witnes They are excellently well skilled in all cunning and handy-crafts Many attribute unto them the invention of the Sea-compass as also the needle and laudable art of printing of books they send abroad into other parts all sorts of linnen and wollen cloth Camerick Pasementlace of gold silver and silk