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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	6,057	5	5.8807	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47227	K. William or K. Lewis wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these nations lye under : of submitting wholly to one or other of these kings, and that the matter in controversie is not now between K. William and K. James, but between K. William and K. Lewis of France, for the government of these nations / written out of Cheshire by a gentleman lately arriv'd there from Ireland.	Gentleman lately arriv'd there from Ireland.	1689 (1689)	Wing K27; Wing K577; ESTC R18493	6,329	12

further Satisfaction or Justice And particularly the Lord Galmoy had in the North most barbarously cut off a Gentleman's Head and made the Gentleman 's own Son carry it on a Pike in Triumph before his Regiment Upon Complaint of this to the King he seemed mightily displeased at the Bloody Inhumanity yet the Lord Galmoy the very next day after the Complaint carried the Sword before his Majesty to Mass When the Protestant Bishop of Meath with a Body of Clergy-men waited on the King the Bishop addressed himself to him in this manner May it please your Majesty The Clergy of this City of Dublin with several of the Rural Clergy that are retired from this Country for Safety attend your Majesty to congratulate your Arrival in this Kingdom and do humbly implore your Royal Protection to them their Churches and Religion desiring that from time to time they may be admitted to make their just Complaints of those Injuries they have lately received His Majesty's Answer was That he would protect all Men in their Religions and Properties and as for the Wrongs that had lately been suffered by several 't was impossible in these Times of Commotions but such would happen but he should as far as he could prevent and redress them However if I am Invaded in the Kingdom as I have been in England I must secure my self as well as I can What could the King possibly intend by this last Expression Can it be otherwise than that as he found the Protestants of England desert him upon the Invasion and some of them fly over to the Prince's Party he would prevent the like Trick in Ireland by cutting them all off or securing them under close Confinement Now what reason have Subjects to trust a King that will nor trust them When the Band of Mutual Credit is broken all Government fails immediately But that we may see more plainly that King James never designs any more to trust his Protestant Subjects but to oppress them and utterly to extirpate their Religion from these Nations I shall here relate a remarkable Passage that was lately between a Protestant Clergy-man of Dublin and an Irish Lord who came thither with King James out of France The Clergy-man said to the Lord That he hoped now the King was come amongst them he would protect his Protestants and redress them in those Injuries they had of late groaned under and not only so but that his Majesty would be more than ordinary kind and favourable to them advancing them to Places of Trust and Power and granting them a Share both in Civil and Military Imployments for that this was the most probable Method for gaining on his Protestants of England by whose means only he must expect if ever to be resetled in his Throne To this the Lord who is one of the best sense amongst them and coming with the King from France does certainly know all their designed Measures made this Return That his Majesty was naturally Merciful and Compassionate and that he would as far as he could prevent all Injuries to any of his Subjects But for doing this with the Design you mention or for his trusting his Protestants I assure you 't is far from his Thoughts Both he and we had rather he should hazard and lose Forty Crowns than be obliged to his Protestants for the Possession of his Kingdoms He can never expect to come in by their means unless tied and fettered with Conditions which he cannot nor shall not observe to them 'T is by the Force of the Arms of his good Catholicks and by Assistance from the Glorious Monarch of France that he designs to regain his Dominions And then he comes in free and boundless like an Absolute Conquerour and shall afterwards do what he pleases By this we may plainly see what King James by Direction from King Lewis designs And if after all this the Eyes of the Nation are not enlightned we are all destin'd to Ruine and Misery But thanks to God in a great measure these Proceedings of King James in Ireland have had their natural Effect on several good Protestants that before were pretty well inclined to his Government but by these most unreasonable Methods which he has taken in Ireland contrary to their expectation and his own visible Interest they are clearly taken off and have abandoned him to be destroyed by the Measures set him by France and are resolved to stick firm to the Protestant Interest under Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary on whose auspicious Government the Protestant Religion not only of these Kingdoms but of all Europe does wholly rely For should King James succeed in his Designs we may plainly see what we are to be brought to And after that what will follow We shall be made a Prey to France whose restless Contrivances have been bringing that about these Twenty Years for which this seems to be the most convenient Opportunity that ever presented Holland must certainly expect to be suddenly destroy'd by that ambitious Monarch and then I propose it to the Consideration of all thinking Men whether he will let England be quiet tho' under the Government of his Dearly beloved Catholick Brother King James No certainly he knows well enough that King James has neither the Conduct nor Power to defend his Dominions from his Powerful Arms He has lately supply'd him with Money Ammunition and Arms in great Quantities and is yet making greater Preparations for him at Brest designing to Land an Army of Forty or Fifty thousand French in England or some other of these Kingdoms on purpose to conquer them And can we think that he does all this meerly out of a Principle of Generosity and Honour for Re establishing his Brother All the World knows the French King's Generosity extends no farther than his Interest and in his most glorious Archievements he has his secret Designs What then can he more reasonably intend than that one day or other England may be brought to a severe Account for these vast Expences and the Non repayment of them may be a sufficient Pretence of War whenever he pleases Moreover we may plainly see the French King uses King James in this Juncture meerly as a Stalking-Horse over whose Back he designs to render himself Master of these Kingdoms By his Covert he has already got strong Footing in Ireland All there is transacted even at this time by King Lewis King James has only the empty Name Monsieur d'Avaux gives all Instructions and was sent there by the French King so to do The French Officers manage the War against the poor Remains of strugling English there Only King James's Name is used but he has nothing to do in the whole Affair And even in the Treasury for Disbursing the Money 't is perform'd solely by a Treasurer sent out of France and King James has no more Power in the Matter than the King of Bantam And several Irish Officers are displaced to give way for