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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	arragon_n	king_n	moor_n	2,599	5	10.9084	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11510	A discourse vpon the reasons of the resolution taken in the Valteline against the tyranny of the Grisons and heretiques To the most mighty Catholique King of Spaine, D. Phillip the Third. VVritten in Italian by the author of the Councell of Trent. And faithfully translated into English. With the translators epistle to the Commons House of Parliament.; Discorso sopra le ragioni della resolutione fatta in Val Telina contra la tirannide de' Grisoni & heretici.. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Philo-Britannicos.	1628 (1628)	STC 21757A; ESTC S116780	64,044	104

ought very well to consider if hee haue lawfull cause and honest right to possesse them and where hee knowes no other Title then that of Religion much more hee ought to be aduised that it bee not a faire and honest Couer of a foule and wicked Couetousnesse Don Pedro the tenth King of Aragon and third of that name hauing raised the greatest forces in his power passed therewith into Affrica to make warre vpon the Moores the ancient enemies of our Christian Religion For which holy purpose he receiued great Aides of money from S. Lewis the most Christian King of France What more worthy action could he haue vndertaken Who would haue found occasion to blame him yet vnder the herbe lay hid the Serpent Iosephus Bonfilis Hist. Sicil. par 1. li. 8. Gonzalo de Igliescas Hist. Pontif. par 1. lib 5. cap. 45. M. A●ton Sabel p. 2 E●●ad 9. li. 7. This King had sometime before sent into Sicily Iohn Procita who offended by Charles of Anioy his Lord desired to be reuenged disguised in the habit of a Fryar to stirre the mindes of that Nation to rebell who for some ill vsage did shew themselues distasted with the French Gouernment Iohn Procita effected his businesse The Rebellion of the Sicilians and the destruction of the French followed King Charles armed for the recouery of his lost Kingdome and the Rebells to resist him In the meane while Peter of Aragon that scarcely hauing touched the Coast of Affrica was retyred to Sardinia to be nearer Sicily obseruing the time and occasion of his designe fitting suddenly went to Palermo where hee was receiued with great ioy and gladnesse and published and proclaimed King of the Siciltans who flocked to him from all parts of the Island See now your Maiestie with what insidious and cursed Art vnder the colour of Religion the King Don Pedro faining to haue taken Armes against the Enemies of Christianity tooke that Kingdome from a Christian King and foedary of Holy Church and which is more with the help of that Gold which he had receiued from the most Christian King right Brother of King Charles Whereupon the blessed Pope Martin the fourth a man of renowned sanctitie of whom as the Spanish Pontificall and other Histories doe report Igliescas vbi supra were seene many miracles after his death did excommunicate and depriue him of his Kingdomes and absolue his Subiects of their Oath of Allegiance giuing power to any Prince to persecute him as a common Enemy Perhaps the holy Bishop thought that with this rigour the King Don Pedro would be brought to acknowledge his error and to restore what he had ill gotten But it proued without any fruit for hee which made it lawfull vniustly to vsurpe the rights of others did little feare Ecclesiasticall censures for their restitution And what more Catholique and more pious Enterprise could bee imagined then that of India for the enlargement or the sacred Gospell What iuster title then that which the highest Bishop Alexander the Sixt did grant to the Catholique Kings Ferdinand and Isabell in the new world ordeyning them as supreme Emperors ouer those Kings and Infidell Kingdomes But after what thing was more vniust then the Conquest of the immediat Dominion of those Countries I call it a Conquest to enter with warre to subdue the people before they were allured with the peacefull voice of preaching and to take away the life of lawfull Lords and Naturall Princes to vsurpe their States notwithstanding they did not hinder the promulgation of the Gospell but rather were ready to receiue the holy Faith And it is a certaine truth that when also they were not conuerted whilst yet they did not oppose the progresse of Christian Religion they could not be by the way of warre subiected that being contrary to the will of Christ who said Speciosi pedes Euangelizantium pacem And much lesse could they bee spoiled of their Dominion seeing the same Christ when he came into the world did declare that the empire also of the Gentiles is iust lawfull commanding euen his own Apostles to pay tribute to Caesar. Neither is it to bee beleeued that the Pope when hee granted to the Catholique Kings the Soueraign Empire of the Indies had any thought to preiudice the immediate Dominion of Gentile Princes because he could not doe it The which the great Atabaliba King of Peru did know by the onely light of nature to whom Friar Vincenzo di val verde made the most sottish and abominable oration to reduce him to the holy faith that could be imagined amongst other Curious things which he spake this was one El Papa que oy biue diò a nuestro potentissimo Rey de Espana Emperador de los Romanos Igliescas p. 2. lib. 6. c. 26. Sect. 14. y Monarca del mundo la conquista destas tierras El Emperador embia agora Francesco Piçaro à rogaros seay●su amigo y tributario y que obedezcays al Papa y recibays la feè de Christo y creays en ●lla porque uereys como es sanctissima y quc la que vos agora teneys es mas que falsa Si esto todo no haz●ys sabed que os hemos de dar guerra y os que braremos los Idolos y os sor çaremos a que dexeys la Religion di uuestros falsos Dioses That is The Pope this day liuing hath granted our most mighty King of Spaine Emperor of the Romans and Monarch of the World the Conquest of these lands now our Emperor doth send Francesco● Pisaro to desire you to be his friend and Tributary to obey the Pope to receiue the faith of Christ and to beleeue therein because you shall see that it is most holy and yours most false If you doe not all this know that wee must make warre vpon you wee will breake your Idols and enforce you to leaue the religion of your false Gods Who euer heard a holier and wiser Sermon Como si el hijo de Dios que murio per cadauno dellos Vescouo di Chiappa nel lib della d●structione di India ouicra en su ley mandado quando dixo Euntes docete omnes gentes que se hiziessen requerimientos à los insieles pacisicos y quietos y que tienen sus tierras propias y si no la ricibiessen luego sin otra predication y dotrina y si n● diessen a si mesmos al scnorio del Rey que nunca oyeron ni vieron espetialmente cuya gente y mensaieros son tan cruel●s tan desapiadados y tan horribles Tirannos perdiessen por el mesmo caso la hazienda y las tierras la libertad las mugeres y hijos con todas sus vidas que es cosa absurda y estulta y digna de todo vituperio ●scarnio y infierno That is As if the Sonne of God who dyed for euery one of them had commanded in his holy Law when