item: #1 of 67
          id: A02624
      author: Cadwaladr, Vendigaid, d. 664?
       title: A prophesie of Cadvvallader, last king of the Britaines containing a comparison of the English kings, with many worthy Romanes, from William Rufus, till Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure battels betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster. The field of Banbery. The losse of Elizabeth. The praise of King Iames. And lastly a poeme to the yong Prince.
        date: 1604
       words: 15761
      flesch: 76
     summary: ●●●stotle . Bussi●●brooke D●●● of Heref.
    keywords: age; blood; caesar; crowne; dead; death; doth; edward; end; englands; eyes; feare; good; great; hath; haue; henry; honor; king; land; life; like; liue; loue; man; men; minde; muse; nature; neuer; peace; praise; prince; raigne; richard; sacred; sing; slaine; sonne; starre; thee; thou; thy; vnto; warres; warwicke; yorke; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 67
          id: A02848
      author: Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.
       title: An ansvver to the first part of a certaine conference, concerning succession, published not long since vnder the name of R. Dolman
        date: 1603
       words: 48975
      flesch: 72
     summary: But where you attribute these mutations to the authoritie of the states , Girard saith , that they were by faction & vsurpation of such , who frō the weaknes of their Prince , did make aduantage to their owne ambition ; affirming plainly , that betweene the death of Loys le Begue , & Charles the simple , not one of them who held the crowne of the Realme was lawfull king g , noting further , that the first two races of Kings , were full of cruel parricides & murthers ; & that in those times the Realme was oftē trauelled with tempests of seditiō . It is most certaine that Dauid knew , both because Samuel tould him , and because he had the spirit of prophesie , that God had reiected Saul , and designed him to be king in his place : yet his doctrine was alwaies , not to touch the Lords anoin●ed , wherto his actions vvere also answerable .
    keywords: againe; authoritie; bee; betweene; bloud; borne; brother; cap; cause; common; crowne; custome; death; diuers; doe; doth; euery; euill; example; father; forme; france; giue; god; good; gouernment; hath; haue; hee; henry; himselfe; iudgement; iustice; king; king henry; kingdome; law; lawe; lib; man; men; nations; naturall; nature; neuer; oath; opinion; people; place; power; prince; realme; reason; right; saint; saith; second; selfe; sonne; state; subiects; succession; thereof; thē; time; title; true; vnder; vnto; vpon; wealth; wil; world; write; writeth; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 67
          id: A13427
      author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
       title: A briefe remembrance of all the English monarchs with their raignes, deaths, and places of buriall : from the Normans Conquest, vnto Our Most Gratious Soueraigne / by Iohn Taylor.
        date: 1622
       words: 1092
      flesch: 68
     summary: The most Illustrious Prince CHARLES , Prince of Great Britaine and Ireland , Duke of Cornwall , Yorke , and Albany ; Earle of Ch●ster , and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter , &c. ILlustrious Off spring of most glorious Sten● , Our happy hope , our Royall CHARLES the great , Successiue H●y e to foure rich Diadems , With gifts of Grace and Learning ●●gh repleat . For thee th' Almighties aid I doe m●●●at , To guide and prosper thy proceedings still , That long thou maist suruiue a Prince compleat , To guard the good , and to subuert the ill .
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        item: #4 of 67
          id: A13472
      author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
       title: A memorial of all the English monarchs being in number 151, from Brute to King Charles. In heroicall verse by Io. Taylor.
        date: 1630
       words: 14046
      flesch: 85
     summary: Estrild was a beautious Lady of King ●…umbers , whom Locrinus tooke prisoner . From which Posthumus Royall loynes did spring , * Great Brutus , Brittaines first commanding King : The people then were ( here ) all voyd of pride , Borne Naked , Naked liu'd , and Naked dy'd .
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        item: #5 of 67
          id: A17119
      author: Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623.
       title: Daphnis polystephanos An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, and to whom of right they appertaine. Addressed, and consecrated to the Kings Maiestie. By G.B. Knight.
        date: 1605
       words: 11399
      flesch: 78
     summary: He was King of England in the right of his mother Matilda the Empresse , daughter and heire to King Henry the first , by Matilda Bona daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir , and of Margaret his wife , who was the daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the sonne of Edmond Ironside King of England Anno Dom. 1016. The Hymne inauguratory for his Maiestie : mentioned in the Epistle D.D. O God of gods , O King of Kings , Aeternall Father of all things , In heav'n and earth , and euery where , By whom all Kings their Scepters beare .
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        item: #6 of 67
          id: A19224
      author: Constable, Henry, 1562-1613.
       title: Discoverye of a counterfecte conference helde at a counterfecte place, by counterfecte travellers, for thadvancement of a counteerfecte tytle, and invented, printed, and published by one (person) that dare not avovve his name
        date: 1600
       words: 14215
      flesch: 28
     summary: And this sentence thus generally set dovvne , is to be made good allovved and ratiffied by pretēce of sōme principals , maximes , or assertions of Ciuil lavve or lavvyer , suche as though in speciall cases , for some singular respect , in a priuat sence , vpon due circumstances , and necessarye occasions ( to speake onlye touchinge designements , & ordinances of a true vnfeigned cōmon vveth and not other vvyse ) may be true , & haue somme grovvnde in the Ciuill lavve , yea in common reason , & maye also stand vvith thenglish lavves : yet neuerthelesse to serue these mēs turnes , in pleasinge the multitude , they must be made generall vvith out exception , to ouerrule the municipial lavves of englande , And this sentence must also be confirmed by exāples and patterns of practizes executed in colorable common vveathes , or rather disordered multitudes , beinge no common vvealthes in deed , but prodigious monsters of manye heads , vvith out a good foot to stand vpon , and in materiall points for temporall affayres agreable to that of Holande and Zelande at this daye : The principal scoape & dryft , first in mynd , though last in operation , & in meane vvhyle dissembled ( besides the deposīge , of the present possessor ) is to supplant , dispossesse , & disherit the true heire & lavvfull successor of the english Crovvn , vvith all the ofsprīge , to translate and alter the ancient lavves and customes of that Realme , and cōsequently to trāsforme the gouernement of that Nation in to a Prouince ; or at the least to thrust in to the Royall throne , against the right course of english lavves , a forainer bred & borne farr of , vvhiche neyther in her ovvne personne , nor any braunche of the roote from vvhence theis practizers pretend to deriue hir title , vvas auer herde or tho ught of in the memorye of man , nor before mentioned in any record of any age , to suche effect or purpose as novv is deuised ; Nay if any such things haue bene spokē of , theis smoothe conferers haue practized in time past to suppresseit , & to beare the garland an other vvay , & that not longe a goe , as heare after shal be declared .
    keywords: allovved; bene; cause; conference; crovvne; englande; euer; good; hath; haue; kinge; lavves; lavvyers; matter; men; multitude; people; right; sayd; selfe; state; suche; thē; thies; true; tvvo; tyme; vpon; vvaye; vvealth; vvere; vvhat; vvhen; vvhich; vvho; vvill; vvise; vvith; vvould; yea
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        item: #7 of 67
          id: A19548
      author: Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624.
       title: A sermon at the solemnizing of the happie inauguration of our most gracious and religious soueraigne King Iames wherein is manifestly proued, that the soueraignty of kings is immediatly from God, and second to no authority on earth whatsoeuer : preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last 1608 / by Richard Crakanthorpe ...
        date: 1609
       words: 22817
      flesch: 76
     summary: Quod si Christiani oli●… non deposueru●… Neronem Dioclesia●…m valentem Arrianum & similes ; id suerat quia de●… ▪ vires temporales Christiauis ▪ Bellar. ●…ō .
    keywords: apoc; babylon; bee; cap; christ; church; day; earth; esse; est; euen; euer; god; gods; hath; haue; himselfe; holy; honour; ibid; israel; king; kingdome; lib; like; lord; loue; man; men; non; ouer; owne; peace; people; pope; power; praise; quod; rome; sacred; saith; salomon; set; soueraigne; thee; themselues; throne; thy; time; truth; vnto; vnto god; vpon; wisedome; world; yea; yeares
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        item: #8 of 67
          id: A22655
      author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
       title: By the King trustie and welbeloved, we greet you well : hauing obserued in the presidents and customes of former times, that the kings and queenes of this our realme vpon extraordinary occasions haue vsed either to resort to those contributions ...
        date: 1625
       words: 1234
      flesch: 63
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28182)
    keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #9 of 67
          id: A25258
      author: Ames, Richard, d. 1693.
       title: Chuse which you will, liberty or slavery: or, An impartial representation of the danger of being again subjected to a popish prince
        date: 1692
       words: 8170
      flesch: 44
     summary: eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: church; conscience; duke; england; english; french; government; interest; james; king; liberty; prince; religion; return; tcp; text; time
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        item: #10 of 67
          id: A27115
      author: Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?
       title: The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.
        date: 1649
       words: 33540
      flesch: 39
     summary: Secondly , God shewed him ; for n●●ther the people , nor any of the Sain● nor the Elders of Bethlehem , no , nor Sam●●l himself , knew not where to find this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kings , till God said , This is he , he shall ●ign over my People , 1 Sam. 9.17 . It is written that the hearts of Kings are in the hands of the Lord , and he disposeth them as seemeth best to his heavenly wisdome ; certainly I would ●ake a little advice from that heart , ●hat is so directed by that hand ; the Kings head never plotted Treason a●ainst the Crown , and no man can wish ●etter to His Majesty then the King .
    keywords: apostles; bishops; chap; child; children; christ; christian; church; david; doe; doth; episcopacy; father; god; gods; good; government; hand; hath; head; holy; king; law; liberty; lords; man; men; people; power; princes; reason; religion; right; saith; sam; state; thing; thou; time; touch; way; word; ● e; ● nd; ● o; ● s; ● ●
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        item: #11 of 67
          id: A28559
      author: Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
       title: The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites by a lay gentleman of the communion of the Church of England, by law establish'd.
        date: 1689
       words: 18346
      flesch: 55
     summary: For my part I was none of them that did , or durst have resisted or Rebelled against King James : but when he chose rather to leave his Kingdom , than to do his Subjects Right ; it was just with God and Men to confirm the Election he had made ; and seeing he would not continue in the Station , God had placed him in ( that of a Regular and Limited Monarchy ) but aspired to an Absolute and unlimited Arbitrary Empire , and persecuted those who had set him up and preserved him in his Throne ; It was just , I say , that God should say unto him as he did to Saul , Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord ; he hath rejected thee from being King. The great Thuanus makes this Reflection on the Deposition of Christian the Second , King of Denmark if Princes will Reign well and happily , they must govern their Affections , and not out of a violent lust of insulting over their Subjects give up themselves to the Conduct of their Passions , or otherwise they ought to assure themselves , God is a severe revenger , alway ready and delighting to pluck off their Thrones the most Proud and Insolent who shall abuse that Power he has intrusted them with . Nor is this less true of lawful Princes , than of unlawful Usurpers , no Title can exempt a Prince from being responsible to the Justice of God , and he will use his Power as he thinks fit , and punish one Man after one manner , and another in another ; some in this World , and others in the next ; and the Church in the best of times accordingly left it to him to dispose of the Government of the World : and as she did not anticipate his Judgments by disturbing the Peace of the World , whatsoever she suffered ; so neither did she think her self more wise or just than he , but submitted to those he was pleased in his Providence to set over her ; and would certainly have been very thankful for such a Deliverance as we of the Church of England have had , by the Ministery of our King , who like another Constantine has delivered us out of the hands of our Enemies , who designed to enslave and ruine us and our Posterity for ever .
    keywords: allegiance; christians; church; doctrine; england; god; good; james; king; laws; man; men; power; prince; religion; right; subjects; things; time; world
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        item: #12 of 67
          id: A29176
      author: Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.
       title: A true and exact history of the succession of the crown of England collected out of records, and the best historians, written for the information of such as have been deluded and seduced by the pamphlet, called, The brief history of the succession, &c., pretended to have been written for the satisfaction of the Earl of H.
        date: 1681
       words: 27854
      flesch: 70
     summary: Therefore * it was Enacted , Declared , and Established , That if any Person or Persons whatsoever , within the Realm or without , should compass , imagine , invent , devise or intend the Death or Destruction , or any Bodily harm , tending to Death , Destruction , Maym , or Wounding of the Person of Queen Elizabeth , or to Deprive or Depose her of or from the Stile , Honour , or Kingly Name , &c. or to levy War against her Majestie within the Realm or without , or to move or stir any Forreigners or Strangers with Force to Invade this Realm ; or if any Person of Persons whatsoever shall maliciously and advisedly declare and publish , That Queen Elizabeth during her Life is not or ought not to be Queen of England , &c. or , That any other Person or Persons ought of Right to be King or Queen of the said Realm : or , That shall maliciously and advisedly set forth and affirm , That Queen Elizabeth is an Heretick , Schismatick , Tyrant , Infidel , or Vsurper : That then all and every such said Offence and Offences shall be taken , deemed , and declared , by the Authority of this Act and Parliament , to be High Treason . But he thinking it a great scandal and disgrace to him that they should be killed in England , sent them to his Friend and Confederate , the King of Sweves , to be slain ; who not complying with his desire , sent them to Solomon , King of Hungary , to be preserved : where Edmund died , and Edward married Agatha , Daughter to Henry the Roman Emperor : by whom he had Edgar ,
    keywords: act; angliae; anno; arch; barons; bishop; blood; brother; crown; death; duke; earl; edmund; edward; election; elizabeth; england; father; fol; france; great; heir; henry; history; ibid; ibidem; issue; john; king; king edward; king henry; king richard; kingdom; lin; lord; parliament; person; queen; quod; realm; regni; regnum; rex; richard; right; royal; scots; son; succession; things; time; title; william; year
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        item: #13 of 67
          id: A29953
      author: Brydall, John, b. 1635?
       title: The white rose, or, A word for the House of York, vindicating the right of succession in a letter from Scotland to a peer of this realm.
        date: 1680
       words: 5623
      flesch: 57
     summary: was , (c) That the said King might make a Will , and give Legacies , but that he could not bequeath the goods of the Realm , ( vizt . ) the Antient-Crown and Jewels : much less can a King dispose of the Soveraignty it self . The Other is of Alphonzo el Bravo , King of Castile an● Leon , who having conquer'd Portugal from the Moors , Gave it in Marriage with his Bastard Daughter to Count Henry of Lorrain , so that here are two Examples , one by Testament , the other per Donationem inter Vivos .
    keywords: crown; great; king; kingdom; law; men; prince; right; royal; succession; tcp; text
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        item: #14 of 67
          id: A31743
      author: Caesar, Charles, 1636-1707.
       title: Numerus infaustus a short view of the unfortunate reigns of William the Second, Henry the Second, Edward the Second, Richard the Second, Charles the Second, James the Second.
        date: 1689
       words: 18533
      flesch: 44
     summary: eng William -- II, -- King of England, 1056?-1100. Henry -- II, -- King of England, 1133-1189.
    keywords: army; brother; charles; crown; death; duke; earl; edward; england; english; father; gaveston; government; henry; ireland; king; kingdom; life; london; lords; parliament; people; richard; scotland; scots; second; son; subjects; tho; time
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        item: #15 of 67
          id: A33265
      author: Clark, Henry, 17th cent.
       title: His grace the Duke of Monmouth honoured in his progress in the west of England in an account of a most extraordinary cure of the kings evil given in a letter from Crookhorn in the county of Somerset from the minister of the parish and many others.
        date: 1680
       words: 1832
      flesch: 60
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A33265) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107444)
    keywords: eebo; girl; mother; tcp; text
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        item: #16 of 67
          id: A33897
      author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
       title: Animadversions upon the modern explanation of II Hen. 7. cap. I, or, A King de facto
        date: 1689
       words: 6634
      flesch: 65
     summary: So that by Consequence he may be King to all Intents and Purposes without an immediate Hereditary Right , i. e. without any Hereditary Right at all : For Hereditary Right is nothing but a Lineal Succession to the last Lawful Possessor , and therefore it must be immediate in the very Notion of it . Now if a King de Facto be neither de Iure nor a Usurper , neither a Lawful nor ( as our Author affirms ) an Unlawful King , then certainly he is no King at all .
    keywords: act; allegiance; iure; king; law; prince; right
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        item: #17 of 67
          id: A34717
      author: Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.
       title: The forme of government of the kingdome of England collected out of the fundamental lawes and statutes of this kingdome : wherin is manifested the customary uses of the kings of England upon all occasions, either of marriage, peace or warre, to call their peeres and barons of the realme to be bartners [sic] in treatizes, and to give their judicious advice : the state and security of the whole kingdome depending upon such counsells and determinations : likewise the names of the kings and the times when such Parliaments were called, and the acts that passed upon those and the like occasions : Henry I, Iohn, Henry 3, Edward I, Edward 2, Edward 3, Richard 2, Henry 4, Henry 5, Henry 6, Edward 4, Henry 7, Henry 8 : published for the satisfaction of all those that desire to know the manner and forme of the government of the land, and the fundamentall lawes of the kingdome.
        date: 1642
       words: 5980
      flesch: 77
     summary: This King in the fift of his Raigne called a Parliament , and therein advised with his Lords and Commons , for suppressing Llewellin Prince of Wales : And hearing that the French King intended to invade some peeces of his inheritance in France , summoned a Parliament ad tractandum , ordinandum , & faciendum cum Prelatis , Proceris & aliis Inco●is Regni , quomodo huiusmodi periculis & excogitatis militiis sit obviandum ; inserting in the writt , that it was Lex notissima & provida circumspectione stabilita , that that quod omnes tangit , abomnibus approbaretur . The yeare succeeding a Parliament is called , for that the King would have the advice of his Lords and Commons for the warre with Scotland , and would not without their Counsell conclude a finall peace with France .
    keywords: advise; commons; france; hen; henry; king; parl; parliament; peace; yeare
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        item: #18 of 67
          id: A35246
      author: R. B., 1632?-1725?
       title: The Secret history of the four last monarchs of Great-Britain, viz. James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II to which is added an appendix containing the later reign of James the Second, from the time of his abdication of England, to this present Novemb. 1693 : being an account of his transactions in Ireland and France, with a more particular respect to the inhabitants of Great-Britain.
        date: 1693
       words: 54480
      flesch: 43
     summary: A●gyle was said to be Landed , under the Notion of a Rebel in Scotland , they declare● their Resolutions to ●●an● by , and assist him , wi●● their Lives and For●●●es , ag●inst all his En●mies w●a●ever . The poor Gen●lemen overjoyed wi●h the security of their Lives , and the Prospect of their Liberties , consented readily ; and in a short time , about 14 of the Prisoners ( with extraordinary Pains and Charge● ) brought in the number demanded , and delivered them to the Conduct of the Collonel ; whom , with his Men● was no sooner Shipp'd off , but an Order was sent from the late King , to seize upon those deluded Gentlemen , and to recommit them to their former Prison , on pretence , that Fielding`s Contract with them , was not done with his Allowance :
    keywords: b ●; brother; c ●; commons; con ●; court; death; duke; earl; england; english; france; french; general; good; government; house; ireland; king; king iames; kingdom; laws; lord; m ●; money; nation; o ●; p ●; parliament; people; persons; plot; popery; popish; power; pr ●; prince; protestant; religion; scotland; sir; st ●; subjects; th ●; thought; time; w ●; war; way; wi ●; world; ● d; ● e; ● ed; ● f; ● g; ● h; ● ing; ● ion; ● ll; ● n; ● nd; ● r; ● rs; ● s; ● ss; ● t; ● ter; ● tion; ● ts; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #19 of 67
          id: A35809
      author: Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1640-1707.
       title: Reasons for His Majesties passing the bill of exclusion in a letter to a friend.
        date: 1681
       words: 4201
      flesch: 53
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Religion , consider'd only in a Politick Sense , is one of the chief Supports of Civil Government ; for the fear of corporal Punishments , nay of Death itself , would often prove insufficient to deter men from refusing Obedience to their Superiours , or from breaking their Laws , without those stronger tyes of Hope of Reward , and Fear of Punishment in another Life .
    keywords: bill; government; king; people; prince; religion; tcp; text
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        item: #20 of 67
          id: A37640
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Whereas there has been a horrid and detestable conspiracy formed and carried on by papists and other wicked and traiterous persons for assassinating His Majesties royal person
        date: 1699
       words: 1085
      flesch: 62
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Title from 1st lines of text.
    keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #21 of 67
          id: A39852
      author: E. F.
       title: A letter from a gentleman of quality in the country, to his friend, upon his being chosen a member to serve in the approaching Parliament, and desiring his advice being an argument relating to the point of succession to the Crown : shewing from Scripture, law, history, and reason, how improbable (if not impossible) it is to bar the next heir in the right line from the succession.
        date: 1679
       words: 15304
      flesch: 67
     summary: saith , That it is Law and Custom of Parliament , That no King can alien the Crown from the right Heir , though by consent of the Lords and Commons . The Pope , with some of the Catholick Princes , and others of her Friends , thought this was no very kind Treatment , and therefore endeavour not onely to set her at liberty , but also to advance her to the Throne ; the generality of Mankind in that Age looking upon the said Mary's Title to be much clearer than that of the Queen in possession , the later being bastardiz'd , and render'd incapable of the Crown by solemn Act of Parliament , which still stood unrepeal'd , and therefore valid in Law ; at leastwise but a Statute-Queen , as I prov'd before :
    keywords: act; blood; case; crown; england; god; hath; heir; henry; king; king henry; law; laws; man; nature; parliament; queen; right; shall; statute; succession; time; title
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        item: #22 of 67
          id: A42235
      author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
       title: The proceedings of the present Parliament justified by the opinion of the most judicious and learned Hvgo Grotivs, with considerations thereupon written for the satisfaction of some of the reverend clergy who yet seem to labour under some scruples concerning the original right of kings, their abdication of empire, and the peoples inseparable right of resistance, deposing, and of disposing and settling of the succession to the crown / by A lover of the peace of his country.
        date: 1689
       words: 5662
      flesch: 55
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. It is evident then , That if either of these three do break in upon the Rights and Priviledges of either of the other two , Force is justifiable to repell this Invasion : as for instance , If any new Precept , Ordinance or Command should be introduced as an obligatory Law ; or if any Law formerly made should be repeal'd or dispenc'd with , which in effect are both the same , by any one of these three Estates , without the Concurrence of the other two in Parliament ; this is such an Invasion as Grotius here speaks of , because this Power of making and repealing a Law is jointly in the King and People , but in neither of them separately .
    keywords: belli; est; government; jure; jus; king; laws; lib; non; people; power; qui; right; succession; tcp; text
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        item: #23 of 67
          id: A42371
      author: Gardiner, Ralph, b. 1625.
       title: Englands grievance discovered, in relation to the coal-trade with the map of the river of Tine, and situation of the town and corporation of Newcastle : the tyrannical oppression of those magistrates, their charters and grants, the several tryals, depositions, and judgements obtained against them : with a breviate of several statutes proving repugnant to their actings : with proposals for reducing the excessive rates of coals for the future, and the rise of their grants, appearing in this book / by Ralph Gardiner ...
        date: 1655
       words: 67708
      flesch: 74
     summary: WHereas the Committee hath been petitioned by Barbery Hilton Window , on the behalf of her self , and divers Masters of Ships , trading to Newcastle , whose names are here subscribed to the said Petition , that the Petitioners may receive the benefit of loading and unloading at the Ballast-wharf , erected at Shields , about seven miles from Newcastle , as tending to the good and preservation of shipping , &c. V. THe said King Edward the Third , by his Letters Pattents dated at Westminster , the tenth day of May in the one and thirtieth yeer of his Reign confirms all former Charters , with an addition of his own , that he for himself , and his Heirs , Granted , Demised , and Confirmed unto his honest men of the Town of the Newcastle upon Tyne , his Town of Newcastle before called Manchester , with all its Appurtenances for a hundred pound per Annum to be paid to the said King , and his Heirs , &c. Which he the said King confirms to the said men , and Burgesses , and to their Heirs for ever .
    keywords: ballast; burgesses; c. fo; cause; chap; charter; coals; corporation; county; day; edw; england; free; good; hath; having; hen; john; king; law; laws; liberties; like; london; lord; man; master; mayor; men; newcastle; northumberland; oath; page; parliament; people; person; port; power; prison; queen; reason; river; sea; shall; shields; shillings; ships; shoars; stat; successors; time; town; trade; tyne; use; water; year
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        item: #24 of 67
          id: A43536
      author: Peter Heylyn, 1600-1662.
       title: Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent.
        date: 1641
       words: 58433
      flesch: 78
     summary: It takes name from the Town of Lancas●e● , or more truly L●ncaster , seated upon the banks of the river L●nc , whence it had the name ; the Saxons adding Ceaster ( as in other places ) for the ●ermination . Thus did King Iames of blessed memory conferre upon the Earle of N●●tingham , ( on his surrendry of the place and Office of Lord Admirall ) the seniority and precedencie of the Mowbraies , ( out of which house he was extracted ) during the life of the said Earle .
    keywords: 1641; anno; arch; bishoprick; bishops; castle; chan; chiefe; church; churches; city; countrey; county; diocese; dukes; earle; east; edm; edw; edward; england; english; faire; fitz; great; gul; hath; henry; high; honour; hugh; iohn; john; king; king henry; kingdome; l. chan; l. tr; lincoln; london; lord; man; new; north; oxford; parishes; parts; people; place; princes; rich; richard; river; robert; saint; saxons; shire; son; sonne; south; tho; thomas; time; title; town; treas; visc; wales; west; whereof; wil; william; yorke; ● ●; ✚ ✚
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        item: #25 of 67
          id: A43659
      author: Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
       title: The judgment of an anonymous writer concerning ... I. a law for disabling a papist to inherit the crown, II. the execution of penal laws against Protestant dissenters, III. a bill of comprehension : all briefly discussed in a letter sent from beyond the seas to a dissenter ten years ago.
        date: 1684
       words: 9983
      flesch: 49
     summary: With respect to the First ; a man is persecuted either on a negative account , for not worshiping a False God , as the three Children in Daniel ; or for not worshipping the True in a False way : as St. Paul and the other Apostles were persecuted by the Pharisees , for not worshipping the True God according to the Jewish manner after it was abrogated : Or as our Fore fathers in England , For not worshiping God and our Saviour after the Romish Rites . Or Secondly , on a positive account , For worshipping the true God in a way that is true ; or to express it yet more clearly and absolutely in your own terms , For serving of God : as Daniel was cast into the Lyons Den , for praying to God against the King's Decree . For first , the Laws , whose Execution you mis-call Persecution , do not punish you for not worshiping God after our way ; or if they did to prove their Execution to be Persecution , you must First prove that the Church of England ( whose Doctrine is down right against Idolatry and Superstition ) does worship God in an Idolatrous and Superstitious manner ; which , good Cousin , you know can never be proved .
    keywords: church; crown; england; english; god; great; king; laws; men; people; priests; religion; self; time
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        item: #26 of 67
          id: A43660
      author: Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
       title: A letter from a person of quality to an eminent dissenter to rectifie his mistakes concerning the succession, the nature of persecution and a comprehension.
        date: 1685
       words: 9616
      flesch: 46
     summary: But this , as often as it happens , is the misery of the Church of England , which all true Church men lament though the men of the short Cloke take all such occasions to expose her to the scorn of the common people who judge by Sense , and not by Reason and who are taught by you , to make no distinction between the Bishops and the Church . With respect to the First ; a man is persecuted either on a negative account , for not worshiping a False God , as the three Children in Daniel ; or for not worshipping the True in a False way : as St. Paul and the other Apostles were persecuted by the Pharisees , for not worshipping the True God according to the Jewish manner after it was abrogated : Or as our Fore fathers in England , For not worshiping God and our Saviour after the Romish Rites . Or Secondly , on a positive account , For worshipping the true God in a way that is true ; or to express it yet more clearly and absolutely in your own terms , For serving of God : as Daniel was cast into the Lyons Den , for praying to God against the King's Decree .
    keywords: church; england; english; god; great; king; men; people; persecution; religion; self; tcp; text; time
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        item: #27 of 67
          id: A43914
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
       title: The history of the Association, containing all the debates, in the last House of Commons, at Westminster concerning an association, for the preservation of the king's person, and the security of the Protestant religion : the proceedings about an association in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and a true copy of the Association, produced at the Earl of Shaftsbury's tryal, and said to be found in his lordships study, with some observations on the whole : to which is added by way of postscript reflections on the parallel between the late Association, and the Solemn League and Covenant.
        date: 1682
       words: 18138
      flesch: 51
     summary: All this while here was nothing but a means debated , conformable to the incouragement which his Majesty himself had most graciously given them , which next to the Bill of Exclusion , might be most probable ( since the first was to be laid aside ) to secure his Majesties Person and his Government , and consequently the whole Kingdom , and the Protestant Religion . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: association; bill; church; good; government; hath; house; interest; king; laws; majesties; majesty; popery; popish; protestant; religion; sir; time; way
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        item: #28 of 67
          id: A44656
      author: Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
       title: The life and reign of King Richard the Second by a person of quality.
        date: 1681
       words: 65494
      flesch: 40
     summary: In this Parliament likewise , the Duke of Lancaster desired Leave of the King Lords and Commons , to go into Spain to recover that Kingdom belonging to him in the Right of his Wife ; which was granted , and Forty thousand Marks promised him for his aid therein ; and accordingly on Easter-Day he came to take his Leave of their Majesties : The King commanding that he should be styled King of Spain , presented him with a Crown of Gold , as the Quen did ano●her to her Sister : A great number of the Youthfull Nobility and Gentry attended the Duke in this Voyage , who having Matcht one of his Daughters to the King of Portugal , with joynt Forces Invaded Castile , and took many strong Towns ; but at last on a Treaty it was agreed , that the King of Spains Eldest Son should marry Katherine another of the Dukes Daughters , and the Duke receive Two hund●red thousand Nobles in hand , and the S●m of Ten thousand Marks yearly , during the Lives of him and his Dutchess , and in consideration thereof all Claims should cease . Item , When Parties contending in the Ecclesiastical Court in Causes meerly Ecclesiastical and Spiritual , had endeavoured to obtain from the Chancellor of England , Prohibitions to hinder the lawful Process in the said Courts ; and the said Chancellor had justly refused to grant the same , yet the said King by Letters under his Signet , has frequently prohibited the Ecclesiastical judges to proceed in such Causes , thereby evilly infringing the Liberties of the C●urch in the Grand Charter approved , to the Conservation whereof he was sworn , and damnably incurring Perjury , and the Sentence of Excommunication ▪ against such Violators thereof , by the Holy Fathers pronou●ced .
    keywords: archbishop; bishop; cause; church; clergy; command; commons; council; crown; day; death; divers; duke; earl; england; french; glocester; god; good; great; hath; having; holy; honour; ireland; item; john; justice; king; king edward; king henry; king richard; kingdom; lancaster; law; laws; letters; london; lords; majesty; man; manner; money; parliament; people; person; pope; power; present; realm; reason; royal; sir; subjects; things; thomas; time; traytors; year; york; ● ●
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        item: #29 of 67
          id: A44707
      author: Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
       title: A brief account of the royal matches or matrimonial alliances vvhich the kings of England have made from time to time since the year 800 to this present 1662 collected by a careful collation of history with records.
        date: 1662
       words: 2350
      flesch: 68
     summary: KIng Ethelwolph the second English Monark , having visited Pope Gregory the fourth at Rome , and returning through France , married The Lady Judith , called in those dayes the Perl of Beuty , daughter to Charles the Bald , who was then Emperor and King of France . The Lady Matilda or Maude , daughter to Malcolme King of Scotland by Margaret sister to Edgar Atheling , whereby the Saxon or English Blood Royal was restored , he had by her Maude the Empress , but left 14.
    keywords: daughter; english; king; lady; married; tcp; text
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        item: #30 of 67
          id: A44972
      author: G. H.
       title: The power of parliaments asserted by G.H., in a letter to a friend, lately chosen a member of the House of Commons, in answer to an indigested paper by E.F. called, A letter from a gentleman of quality to his friend upon his being chosen a member to serve in the approaching Parliament, being an argument relating to the point of succession to the crown, &c.
        date: 1679
       words: 8672
      flesch: 37
     summary: Next he tells you , That the Right Heir of the Crown cannot be Barr'd or Excluded by Act of Parliament , Because the descent of the Crown in an Instant absolutely Purgeth and Dischargeth all Obstructions and Incapacities whatsoever , Created by the same Act of Parliament , but now , if an Act of Parliament hinder that descent , that Argument is Non-suit , notwithstanding all his Examples according to his usual way , to no purpose , no Case alledged being any thing Parallel to that he pretends to ; One great Argument he hath is , That the Law of the Crown differs from Subjects in point of descents , as descending to an Alien , no Coheirs in the Case , no Tenancy by Courtesy , Descent by half Bloud , as all Honours do , And therefore that may be Law in Case of the Crown , which is not in Case of the Subject . Besides all these , my Author may remember what he allowed to be Law once in Her Case , and in the Case of Hen. the Seventh , That the Crown takes away all Defects in Blood and incapacities by Parliament , and from that time that the King viz.
    keywords: case; crown; hath; king; law; laws; man; nature; parliament; power; queen; shall; statute; succession; text
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        item: #31 of 67
          id: A45999
      author: Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.
       title: Idem iterum, or, The history of Q. Mary's big-belly from Mr. Fox's Acts and monuments and Dr. Heylin's Hist. res.
        date: 1688
       words: 5363
      flesch: 59
     summary: Another O Almighty Father , which didst sanctifie the Blessed Virgin and Mother Mary in her Conception , and in the Birth of Christ our Saviour thine only Son ; also by thine omnipotent Power didst safely deliver the Prophet Jonas out of the Whale's Belly ; defend , O Lord , we beseech thee , thy Servant Mary our Queen , with Child conceived , and so visit her in and with thy godly gift of Health , that not only the Child thy Creature , within her contained , may joyfully come from her into this World , and receive the blessed Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation , enjoying therewith daily increase of all Princely and gracious gifts both of Body and Soul ; but that also she the Mother , through thy special Grace and Mercy , may in time of her Travel avoid all excessive dolor and pain , and abide perfect and sure from all peril and danger of Death , with long and prosperous Life , through Christ our Lord , Amen . AFter our hearty Commendations unto your good Lordship ; Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God amongst other his infinite benefits of late most graciously poured upon us and this whole Realm , to extend his Benediction upon the Queens Majesty in such sort , as she is conceived and quick of Child , whereby her Majesty ( being our natural Liege Lady , Queen , and undoubted Inheritor of this Imperial Crown ) good hope of certain Succession in the Crown is given unto us , and consequently the great Calamities ( which for want of such Succession might otherwise have fallen upon us and our Posterity )
    keywords: child; god; lord; mary; queen; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; time
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        item: #32 of 67
          id: A46942
      author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.
       title: An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.
        date: 1692
       words: 15228
      flesch: 63
     summary: An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson. An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.
    keywords: crown; doctrine; england; english; god; government; james; king; king james; kingdom; law; laws; nation; obedience; orange; parliament; people; power; prince; right; text; throne; time; world
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        item: #33 of 67
          id: A47810
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The case put, concerning the succession of His Royal Highness the Duke of York
        date: 1679
       words: 13311
      flesch: 64
     summary: A Government , we are told , cannot be suppos'd Destitute of a Power to preserve it self , in Cases of Manifest , and Publick Dangers . eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701.
    keywords: case; duke; good; government; king; majesty; man; pag; parliament; people; plot; power; question; religion; royal; self; subject; text; thing; way
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        item: #34 of 67
          id: A47819
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The character of a papist in masquerade, supported by authority and experience in answer to The character of a popish successor / by Roger L'Estrange.
        date: 1681
       words: 36915
      flesch: 60
     summary: Take it the other way now : In the case of a Pop●sh King , who is either kept out ( as I said before ) or d●iven out from the exercise of his right , by the tumultuary licence of the Rabble ; an Oath of Abjuration in case of any fair opportunity for him to assert his Claim with his Sword in his hand , will be so far from engaging any man against him , that yielded contrary to his conscience to swallow it for the saving of his stake , that he will find no firmer Friends to his Cause and Interest , than those men that are stimulated both by Honour and Revenge to the execution of their Duties . The best way to discover a Jesuite , is by his Principle ; for it is the Doctrine , and not the Order , or D●n●mination , that creates the Danger .
    keywords: authority; case; character; church; conscience; crown; england; english; fear; fol; god; good; government; hand; honour; justice; king; law; laws; majesty; man; nay; oath; papist; people; person; popery; popish; power; prince; protestant; religion; right; rome; self; state; subjects; successor; thing; way; world
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        item: #35 of 67
          id: A47899
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The observator's observations upon the bill of exculsion Let every one mend one, and begin the reformation at home. Do as you would be done by, is no text for excluders.
        date: 1685
       words: 2929
      flesch: 62
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A47899) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 39061) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: dominions; duke; english; iames; tcp; text; york
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        item: #36 of 67
          id: A47921
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The state and interest of the nation, with respect to His Royal Highness the Duke of York discours'd at large, in a letter to a member of the Honourable House of Commons.
        date: 1680
       words: 10770
      flesch: 45
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
    keywords: commons; english; estate; government; interest; king; laws; nation; nay; people; person; power; present; religion; self; sir; tcp; text; title
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        item: #37 of 67
          id: A47998
      author: Gentleman in the city.
       title: A letter from a gentleman in the city to one in the country concerning the bill for disabling the Duke of York to inherit the imperial crown of this realm
        date: 1680
       words: 7175
      flesch: 56
     summary: Accordingly the House of Commons have not only declared , nemine contradicente , That the Duke of York's being a Papist , hath given the greatest countenance to the present Designs and Conspiracies of the Papists , against the King and Protestant Religion ; but have brought in a Bill , Disabling him to Inherit the Imperial Crown of this Realm . The case in brief stood thus , Sigismond the Sweed who had been before chosen King of Poland , was as next Heir to the Deceased King of Sweedland admitted to the Throne of that Kingdom , but upon previous conditions that he should not infringe their Liberty as to Religion , nor introduce Popery which they had Banished out of their Dominion .
    keywords: crown; duke; england; hath; king; laws; parliament; people; prince; protestant; religion
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        item: #38 of 67
          id: A48078
      author: Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 1633?-1685.
       title: A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the speech made by a noble peer of this realm by a better Protestant than the author of it (though a servant to His R.H).
        date: 1681
       words: 2428
      flesch: 63
     summary: 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. Oates declared to the Lords , that he had no more to accuse ; if he accuse him now , and Oates be divided against Oates , how can his Testimony stand good ? Bedloe 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 . Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104307)
    keywords: duke; eebo; king; lordship; tcp; text
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        item: #39 of 67
          id: A50052
      author: Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
       title: Choice observations of all the kings of England from the Saxons to the death of King Charles the First collected out of the best Latine and English writers, who have treated of that argument / by Edward Leigh ...
        date: 1661
       words: 59535
      flesch: 75
     summary: 〈…〉 al●cubi le●●sse , pris●os septentrionales populos etiam spurios 〈◊〉 in succession●m ; nec ill●us igitur tituli , gloriosum Angliae subactorem 〈◊〉 Normann●m pu●●●●sse videtur , qui Epistolam ( ut alias plur●s ) ad Alanum Brittaniae min●ris comitem , sic orditur Ego Wilielmus Cog●n●m●nto Bastardus . Our Countriman Beda hath prophetically expounded that Roman S. P. Q. R. of our Englishmen travelling to Rome , Stul●us Populus Quaerit Roman .
    keywords: a50052; age; ang; anglorum; archbishop; arms; bloud; body; book; brittain; brother; canterbury; castle; chap; charles; church; city; conquest; court; crown; cum; daughter; day; dayes; death; div; duke; earl; eighth; ejus; elizabeth; end; england; english; est; father; fifth; fourth; fox; france; francis; french; fuit; gestis; god; good; government; great; hath; hayward; hist; history; honour; house; iames; ibid; iohn; justice; king; king edward; king henry; king richard; kingdome; l. 1; l. 2; latine; laws; learning; life; london; lord; love; majesty; malmesb; man; manner; marriage; master; men; monarch; moneths; mother; nation; non; notes; oxford; paris; parliament; people; person; place; polyd; pope; power; presence; prince; quae; quam; queen; qui; quod; raign; realm; reason; regum; religion; rex; richard; right; robert; rome; saith; saxons; scotland; second; sed; set; seventh; sir; sirnamed; sixth; son; sons; speech; speed; subjects; thomas; thought; time; title; unto; vide; virg; wales; warres; westminster; wife; william; words; world; years; ● d; ● e; ● s; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #40 of 67
          id: A52522
      author: Atwood, William, d. 1705?
       title: Wonderful predictions of Nostredamus, Grebner, David Pareus, and Antonius Torquatus wherein the grandeur of Their present Majesties, the happiness of England, and downfall of France and Rome, are plainly delineated : with a large preface, shewing, that the crown of England has been not obscurely foretold to Their Majesties William III and Mary, late Prince and Princess of Orange, and that the people of this ancient monarchy have duly contributed thereunto, in the present assembly of Lords and Commons, notwithstanding the objections of men and different extremes.
        date: 1689
       words: 34197
      flesch: 70
     summary: Nor is this Learned Man more fortunate in mentioning the Salvo , which Littleton tells us is to be taken to the Oath of Homage to a Subject , Salve la Foy que jeo doy a nostre Signior le Roy ; where there is not a word of Heirs ; but he tells us , that Littleton cites Glanvil , where the word Heirs is ; whereas 't is the Lord Cook who makes the Quotation , as he does of Bracton , whose Sense of the word Heirs we have seen ; and Littleton fully confirms it , by leaving out the word Heirs , as a Redundancy , Allegiance being due to every one that becomes King , and to no other . Yet who can say but these Humane Creatures , or Ordinances of Men , may be altered , as they were made ? And tho' it may seem strange to some , yet I may with great Authority affirm , That when the People had determin'd the Right on the Side of R. 3. he was King as much according to God's Law , as E. 4. For Pufendorf holds , That where the Question is , what Degree , or what Line is best , the declared Will of the People determines the Controversie ; since every one is presum'd to understand his own Intention ; and the People that is now , is to be thought the same with that by which the Order of Succession was constituted .
    keywords: acts; allegiance; anno; authority; blood; case; cent; commons; contract; crown; death; england; english; est; force; form; france; god; government; grand; great; heirs; justice; king; kingdom; late; law; laws; les; lord; man; nature; oath; parliament; people; person; power; prince; question; qui; right; says; sera; settlement; sir; son; statute; subjects; succession; things; tho; time; title; vid; years
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        item: #41 of 67
          id: A53949
      author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
       title: The apostate Protestant a letter to a friend, occasioned by the late reprinting of a Jesuites book about succession to the crown of England, pretended to have been written by R. Doleman.
        date: 1682
       words: 24472
      flesch: 62
     summary: But I add , secondly , that 't is a pretence which casteth such a Disgrace , such a reproach , such a scandal upon Christianity , and the Christian Church , that you can hardly find any thing to compare with it ( unless it be the lewdness of a certain virulent scribler , that pretending to write a Church-History , hath Calumniated the Christian Bishops , as if they had been a Race of the most Blood-thirsty and wicked men in the world , ) what would not a Celsus , or a Porphyry , or Julian have given for a Clergy-man in those days , who would have given it under his hand , that Christians were a sort of men , that wanted only strength and opportunity to be Rebels ? such a man would have done most rema●kable service to all sorts of Infidels and Blasphemers : For then they would have had some Reason and Authority for such Di●bolical sugg●stions as these . A man of whom the Papists themselves in those days gave this Character , that he was filius populi & filius peccati ; one born to be a Plague to the world , restless , seditious , turbuleu● , cruel , imperious , treacherous , and in a manner the very Epitome of all wickedness .
    keywords: authority; book; church; commonwealth; crown; doleman; england; god; good; government; hath; jesuit; king; laws; nature; pag; parsons; people; power; prince; principles; religion; saith; succession; world
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        item: #42 of 67
          id: A54689
      author: Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
       title: The mistaken recompense, or, The great damage and very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably happen to the King and his people by the taking away of the King's præemption and pourveyance or compositions for them by Fabian Phillipps, Esquire.
        date: 1664
       words: 42146
      flesch: 21
     summary: Neither can there be any reason given why the Clergie , for whom God the ratio rationum incomprehensible wisedome and greatest perfection ordained so great a Pourveyance for them in their Tythes and Oblations , should enjoy it , and his Vice-gerent and Protector of them be without it , the Nobility , and many of the Gentry , and Laity not want it either in kind , or some other satisfaction for it , and all Cities , Corporations , Guilds , and Societies furnish out their grandeur and greatness derived only by reflection from that of the Kings ▪ and he only be deprived of that which should maintain his hospitality , and was so usefull to all other King● and Princes for the gaining of the affections of the People , Et a concilier ( as L●i● de Orleans saith ) L' amour de 〈◊〉 subject● quil● 〈◊〉 par le bouche & d' leurs le pe●ple au 〈◊〉 & les p●●ds a lateste pour affirmir le corps politique , et le l●er par ▪ une grac●●use voire necessaire correspondence ; and to procure the love of the people , who are taken by the mouth , and to fasten them unto the King , and the Feet unto the Head , strengthen the Body Politique , and unite all the parts thereof by a loving and necessary complyance , when he doth at the same time yearly pay and allow some thousands of pounds for the support and Pourveyance of his Councel in the Marches of Wales , and his Judges and Justices of the Peace , and other Officers in the Kingdom for the administration of Justice . Or for us to think that when God in his Government of his chosen people of Israel , in that his most righteous Theodratie , did command them not to delay the offerings of the First of their Ripe Fruit● and of their Liquors , and of their Oxen and their Sheep , and ordained , that if a Sheaf were forgotten in the time of Harvest , they were not to goe again to fetch it ; and when they did beat their Olive trees , they should not go ●ver it again ▪ and gathered their grapes , they should not gle●n them , for they should be for the ●tranger , the F●therless ▪ and the Widow , he would now be well pleased with such an unworthy sparing and avarice of Subjects , in withholding their Oblations from his Deputies , and disabling them from relieving the Strangers , the Fatherless , and the Widows . But that being said and imagined only , and not ever likely to be admitted into the virge of Truth or Evidence , will for the most part be proved to be meer suggestions contrived and cast abroad by the insinuations of some who do seek to preserve their own , as they deem it happiness , and increase of fortunes , by the ruine and miseries of multitudes , or such as will take up reports , as many Gentlemen do Tradesmens deceitfull Wares upon trust , and will prove to be no otherwise then as the blind man in the Gospel did in believing men to be walking Trees , when that which made them seem to be that which they were not , was his own mistakings , and by those , and other ungrounded scandalls , do as much service to the King by it , as the devouring Ingrossers do usually do unto the People , when they take away the more honest gains of the Retailers , to create unto themselves a liberty of imposing what rates they please upon them , and may be easily enough convinced by a discreet and juditious examination of particulars , h●aring of parties accused , survey of the excellent Orders and Government of the Royall Houshold , ( which are so exact , and limiting every Officer to their Liveryes , or stinted proportions , as some antient and very able knowing Officers of the Houshold who do well deserve to be believed , have averred , and will be ready to assert that the Orders of the Kings House are so very watchfull , vigilant , and preventing of chea●s and cozenings , as without a● universal combination of all the Servants of the Kings House ▪ which is never likely to be accomplished it is impossible that there can be so much as a Loaf or Manchet cozened from the King ) and the daily care of the Lord Steward , White-staved Officers , and of the Green-cloth , although the yearly Salaries and Pensions be the same for the most part which were in the Reign of King Henry the Seaventh , when the Kings provisions were so near the th●n cheap Market rates and prices , as they had not so much as an aspect of grievance , when ten thousand pounds was a good Dowry for the Kings Daughter in marriage with the King of Scotland , ten pounds per annum a good Annuity for a Kinsman to an Earle , a penny was but reckoned to an Earle of Oxford by his Wardrobe keepers for a pair of Gloves for his own wearing , and the value of silver by the ounce was then but little more then half a Crown , and but creeping up towards three shillings four pence the ounce : and Nicholas West Bishop of Ely in the 23th year of the Reign of King Hen●y the Eighth ▪ keeping yearly one hundred Servants in his house , gave the Gentlemen and better sort of them but 53 s. 4 d. and to the inferiour sort but 40 s. per annum , and the next year after that the ounce of silver was brought up to 3 s. 4 d. a fat Ox was sold at London for six and twenty shillings , Beef and Pork for an half-penny a pound , and a half penny farthing a pound for Veal and Mutton , was by an Act of Parliament in that year understood to be a reasonable price , and with gain enough afforded ; and due consideration shall be had of the necessary differences which are to be observed betwixt the Pensions , allowances and expences of many of the Nobility and Gentry of the best extraction and houses of the Kingdome serving and attending in the Kings House : those that stand before Princes , and are to be clothed , as the holy Book of God hath told us , with Silk and soft Raiments ; and those that are none of these , but do serve and take wages in Houses and Families of private men ; and that the Majesty and Honour of a King in the Order and splendour of his House is not to be reduced to the pattern of private Housekeepers , and the narrow and unbeseeming Customes of their smaller Estates and Families .
    keywords: act; annum; cap; care; cause; charge; compositions; counties; county; court; customes; duty; england; estates; gentry; good; half; hath; honour; house; houshold; king; king edward; king henry; lands; laws; london; lord; money; nation; nobility; officers; parliament; pay; pence; people; pounds; pourveyance; prices; pride; progenitors; provisions; queen; rates; reason; reign; rents; royall; servants; shillings; statute; subjects; tenants; time; trade; victuals; wages; want; year; ● ●
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        item: #43 of 67
          id: A54690
      author: Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
       title: A plea for the pardoning part of the soveraignty of the kings of England
        date: 1682
       words: 13734
      flesch: 40
     summary: For former Ages knew no Bills of Attainder , by Act of Parliament after an Acquittal or Judgment in the House of Peers , until that unhappy one in the latter end of the Reign of King Charles the Martyr , which for the unusalness thereof had a special Proviso inserted , That it should not hereafter be drawn into Examples or made use of a President . And proved to be so fatally mischievous to that blessed King himself , and His three Kingdoms of England ; Scotland and Ireland , as he bewailed in his excellent Soliloquies , and at his Death , his consenting to such an Act , and charged His Majesty that now is , never to make Himself or His People , to be partakers of any more such Mischief procuring State-Errors . And many have been since granted by our succeeding Kings in Parliament , at the request of the Commons ( the People of England in Worldly and Civil Affairs as well ever since , as before , not knowing unto whom else to apply themselves for it . )
    keywords: commons; earl; england; great; hath; house; justice; king; laws; lords; pardon; pardoning; parliament; peers; people; power; reign; richard; roi; rot; time; treason; year
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        item: #44 of 67
          id: A54694
      author: Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
       title: Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people.
        date: 1662
       words: 31799
      flesch: 15
     summary: And may in a legall and well pleasing way to the people without the unwelcome raising of the Tenths of the Abbie and religions Lands to the present yearly value , which may be of dangerous consequence , and the Tenths and First-fruits of the Bishops and Clergy of England , who have been over much pared already , or a Resumption of the Crown Lands which unless it be of such wherein the King or his Father have been grossely deceived : and the first money paid for the purchase upon an account of the mesne profits , and interest satisfied , will hugely disturb the Interest and House-gods of too many of the Nobility , Gentry and rich men of the Kingdome , and without any new or forreign devices or Talliages , to raise monies , and Fricasser , or tear in pieces the already too much impaired estates of a Tax-bearing tired people , which that Monarch of virtues and blessed Martyr King Charles the first did so abhorre , as he caused Mr. Selden & Mr. Oliver St. John to be imprisoned in the Tower of London , & a bill to be exhibted in Star-chamber against them and the Earl of Clare , and others , for having only in their custody , and divulging a Manuscript , or writing of certain Italian projects proposed to him by Sir Robert Dudley a Titulado Duke in Tuscanie , and with out the gawling , grating , and most commonly unsuccesfull way of Projects , which if set up will be thrown down again by the after Complaints and discontents of the people , or hunting and vexing them with informations or calling their Lands and Estates in question to the ruine of them and their Families upon defective Titles , or by Monopolies or a trebling abuses by pretending to reform them ; or Essayes of new wayes of profit framed or found out by such as designe more to themselves then for the good either of King or People , and either know not , or cannot , or will not , foresee the many evills and sad consequences which may as effects from causes , fatally and unavoidably follow such or the like attempts , which the necessities of Kings , or want of competent revenues , may either put them or their servants and followers upon . All which with the Escheats and Forfeitures of the Terra Normanorum in England , upon the losse of Normandy by King John unto the French , confiscated Lands of a great part of the English Nobility and Gentry , after the misfortune of Henry the Third , in the unquietness of many of his Barons and People , his better fortune in the battel of Evesham , and subduing them in the forty ninth year of his Reign , the accession to the Crown of the Earledoms of Derby , Leicester , Salisbury , and the County Palatine of Chester , with the vast Territories and Estates which belonged unto them , and many other lesser Escheats and Forfeitures ; the Forfeiture of Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and his Earldome , and great Possessions with divers other Escheats and Forfeitures , the Principality of Wales and the Conquest of Scotland in the Reign of King Edward the First , confiscating of the lands of inheritance ( for from the making of the Statute de Donis or Entails in Anno 13. of Edward the first , untill Anno 5 & 6 of Edward the sixth , Lands entailed were not forfeited for Treason ) of Thomas Earl of Lancaster , Lincoln and Derby ; Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex ; of the Lords Clifford , Warrein , Lisle , Tutchet , Cheney , Mowbray , Teyes , Aldenham , Badlesmere and Gifford , and many other men of great note and eminencie to King Edward the second , the lands of Mortimer Earl of March , Edmund Earl of Kent , and the Escheat of the great Estate and Inheritance of Hastings Earl of Pembroke to King Edward the third , with several other confiscations and forfeitures , and his Conquest of a great part of France , the forfeitures of Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland , Michael dela Pooli Earl of Suffolk , of the Duke of Gloucester , Earles of Arundel and Warwick , and divers other great Inheritances to King R. 2. the marriage of John of Grant fourth son to King Ed. 3. to Blanch the sole daughter and heir of Henry Duke of Lancaster , Earl of Derby , Leicester and Lincoln , making that of Lancaster to be as a Principality or little Kingdome , which by Henry 4 , 5 , 6 , and 7th Kings of England coming afterwards to attend the Royal Dignity , accompanied by the forfeitures of the Dukes of Exeter and Albemarle , Mowbray Earl Marshal , Earles of Kent , Salisbury Huntington , Northumberland , Stafford , March and Worcester Owen Glendour ; Lords , Hastings , Despencer , Falconbridge , Bardolph , and many others to King H. 4. and the lands of the Earldome of Oxford long detained by him , confiscation of the lands of the Prior Aliens , and all France conquered and in possession , and many other great Estates coming to Hen.
    keywords: anno; annum; charges; clergy; court; crown; divers; doe; duke; earl; edward; england; english; estates; exchequer; expences; good; great; hath; henry; king; king edward; king henry; knights; lands; laws; like; lord; money; parliament; pay; pence; people; pounds; princes; reign; revenues; royal; service; shillings; subsidie; successors; time; trade; value; years
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        item: #45 of 67
          id: A54759
      author: Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
       title: The character of a popish successour compleat in defence of the first part, against two answers, one written by Mr. L'Estrange, called The papist in masquerade, &c., and another by an unknown hand.
        date: 1681
       words: 25458
      flesch: 45
     summary: Now one Remark I would make upon this Sigismond , to continue the parallel to our Case : He was a Prince in his nature as Heroick as we have or can have a Popish Heir , worthy of all those praises that either of these two Answerers have given the last ; and in short , to use one of their own words , A Prince for every thing else , bating his Perswasion , brave to admiration : Which one thing must more particularly witness for him , his being elected King of Poland , a Nation which we all know make their choice for a King out of the gallant , famous , and illustrious Worthies of all the Princes and Nobility through the whole Christian world . If so , and the King is Supreme Governor Ecclesiastick and Civil , and a Popish King notwithstanding shall alienate half his Supremacy to the Pope , then the Pope is co-King with him ; and that it may not be objected that Supream Ecclesiastick Power is not Kingly Power , where the Highest and last Appeal lyes , there lyes Royal Power , and therefore whilst the highest and last appeal in all causes Ecclesiastick , in such a Government is lodged in the Pope his Power is Royal.
    keywords: case; character; church; crown; england; english; god; government; hand; heir; king; l'estrange; laws; little; man; nay; oath; parliament; people; popery; popish; power; prince; protestant; religion; right; rome; shall; succession; successour
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        item: #46 of 67
          id: A54796
      author: Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
       title: A vindication of The character of a popish successor, in a reply to two pretended ansvvers to it by the author of the character.
        date: 1681
       words: 8156
      flesch: 52
     summary: And all this lyes again at the Parliaments door , because they have endeavoured for the good of the Kingdom to disinherit a Popish Successor , and have not supplied the King with moneys , tho' at the same time they have declared , if his Majesty will be graciously pleased to join with them , and bar all the pretence of Papists to this English Diadem , secure their fears by passing that one Bill against that Prince , whose succession is the terror and distraction of this Nation ; an Act in which consists the peace , the safety , and the glory of three Kingdoms ; let him but be removed from all pretensions to this Crown , which justly may be done by King and Parliament , and they will open their purses so wide to Him , give Him that Mass of Wealth , as will make Him both fear'd abroad , and beloved at home . Truly 't is hard indeed ; but the circumstances of this Nation considered , not at all to be wondred at : for I believe all men of sense , as well as Sir Poll , as he calls him , will take it for granted , that if this Popish Heir comes to the Crown , he will by the dictates of that Religion , in spight of Vows and Covenants , promote the Romish Interest with all the severity , injustice , and tyranny , that most religious Cruelty can invent .
    keywords: character; church; king; papist; people; popery; popish; power; reason; religion; text
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        item: #47 of 67
          id: A55017
      author: Plaxton, George, 1647 or 8-1720.
       title: The loyal speech of George Plaxtone, M.A., minister of Sheriff-Hales in Shropshire spoken at Shifnal in the same county upon the proclamation of His Sacred Majesty, King James the Second, &c.
        date: 1685
       words: 2125
      flesch: 68
     summary: The loyal speech of George Plaxtone, M.A., minister of Sheriff-Hales in Shropshire spoken at Shifnal in the same county upon the proclamation of His Sacred Majesty, King James the Second, &c. Plaxton, George, 1647 or 8-1720. 1685 Approx. The loyal speech of George Plaxtone, M.A., minister of Sheriff-Hales in Shropshire spoken at Shifnal in the same county upon the proclamation of His Sacred Majesty, King James the Second, &c. Plaxton, George, 1647 or 8-1720.
    keywords: english; james; king; prince; tcp; text
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        item: #48 of 67
          id: A56345
      author: Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
       title: The true portraiture of the kings of England, drawn from their titles, successions, raigns and ends, or, A short and exact historical description of every king, with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it, especially from William the Conqueror wherein is demonstrated that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right, for six or seven hundred years : faithfully collected out of our best histories, and humbly presented to the Parliament of England / by an impartial friend to justice and truth.
        date: 1650
       words: 19987
      flesch: 5
     summary: This King not being able to suppress the Barons and people by his own strength , ( they having gotten not onely heart , but power ) sends to forraign Nations for aid , and entertains Poictovines , Italians , Almains , Provincioes to subdue his own people , and set them in great places ; which dangerous and desperate design the Barons much resenting , raised their spirits , and ingaged them in opposition to his Government , and set them on with more courage to look after their liberties ; therefore they several times stand up against the violence of Prerogative ; but what through want of strength or caution they were commonly disappointed ; yet rather ( if we may speak truly ) from the unfaithfulness of the King then any other defect , except it were their easiness to believe Kings , when their Prerogative , and the peoples liberties came in competition ; for after they had many times got , or rather extorted many promises , and confirmed them by oaths , ( the best humane security ) they were put to new designs , through either the suspention , or breach of them , witness these Instances ; after many foiles ▪ and tedious and various delusions by this King ( whose beams attracted most , dazled others ) the Barons , and people ( who were then unanimous through mutual oppressions ) fall more close , and severe on their principles , and wil not endure either delays , or delusions , and therefore effectually to redress their grievances , came very well armed to a Parliament then holden at Oxford ( intended rather for getting Subsidies , then removing oppressions ) in which Assembly they put the King to it , urge their former complaints with more zeal and reason , and with an addition of a mighty Spirit , demand the absolute confirmation of Magna Charta , and in a larger edition ( wherein are comprised those gallant priviledges of the Commons of England , which have yet been but kept by Ink , and Parchment ) and not trusting the King , got his son , Prince Edward , to seal it , with an addition of twenty four ( some write twelve ) Peers which Fabian stiles the douze Peeres , not only to see these priviledges truly observed , but to be as joynt Regents with the King ; and all the Lords , and Bishops in Parliament took a like Oath , to maintain these Articles inviolable ; yea , and all that would have any benefit of residence in the Kingdom , were enjoyned to take the same ; But these were too strict bonds for such a Princes wil , he soon finding advantages ( as he sought them ) recals all , gets a dispensation from the Pope for his forced Oath and to countenance his perjurie ▪ and acts in the old account ; the Barons again stand up with the people stoutly for the performance of the Articles of Oxford ; and sometimes brought him into straits ; yea , fully ▪ defeated him in many bloody battles , and regained the confirmation of the same laws , with security ; that all the Castles throughout England should be delivered to the keeping of the Barons , that the provisions of Oxford be inviolably preserved , that all strangers should be dismist the Kingdom , but those which by generall consent should be thought fit to remain ; this necessitous act though as it gave the people some peace and hopes , so it gave the King time to consider of new mediums , and therefore still to delay , and blind , he Assembles a new Parliament at London , where having ( by the sprinkling of Court water ) won many Lords to take his part , begins to surprise as many of the Barons as he could get , and spoiled their Castles and Houses , that success and authority grows strong on his side , and the Barons with some calme provisoes mediate a peace , insisting onely in generall that the Articles of Oxford might be observed ; But the King relying on his strength , defies them as Traitors ; which done , the peoples two Generals , the Earls of Leicester and Glocester , seeing no other means but to put it to a day , supply their want of strength by their wit and diligence , and carefully and artificially placing their battel ( which was fought at the Town of Lewis in Sussex ) overthrew the Kings Army , took the King , the Prince , the Earl of Cornwal , and his son Henry , the Earls of Arundel , Hereford , with many other Lords , and Gentlemen , both English and Scottish . His eldest Son Edward who was the fifth of that name , succeeded him in claim , & title , but rather lived then raigned ( being an infant ) had never any actuall exercise of his government ; for Ric. Duke of Glocester , and Uncle to this Infant , and made his Protector , that he might set up himself , causeth both the young titular King , & his Brother , ( these two Royall Infants ) to be barbarously murthered in their beds , and so wears the Crown himself , by the name of Richard the Third , untill Henry Earl of Richmond ( a twigg of a Bastard of John of Gaunt ) by his valour at Bosworth field , having overthrown his Army , slew the Tyrant himself , and created by his sword ( for other he had none ) a new title to himself , and was Crowned King , by the name of Henry the Seventh , who , what by his power and by a marriage of the Lady Eliz. the eldest daughter of Ed. the Fourth , confirmed his succession , & from him do all our later Princes derive their Title , as Henry the Eighth , Edward the Sixth , Queen Mary , Queen Elizabeth , King James , and our last Tyrant Charls .
    keywords: crown; edward; end; england; english; father; good; government; hath; henry; king; kingdom; laws; liberties; parliament; people; power; prince; raign; right; set; son; succession; title; years
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        item: #49 of 67
          id: A59298
      author: Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
       title: The character of a popish successour, and what England may expect from such a one humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, appointed to meet at Oxford, on the one and twentieth of March, 1680/1.
        date: 1681
       words: 15285
      flesch: 53
     summary: If then the English Blood boils so high , and the access of a Papist to a Throne must necessarily meet a passage so difficult , with all these solid Bars between ; if his Religion were as Honourable as 't is invincible , what deathless Fame , and what eternal Trophies might a Popish Heir atchieve , if the welfare of a King and Kingdoms could so far influence him , as freely of himself to make the union of King and people a work of his own creation , by slacking the fatal strength of a too generous Brothers over-violent Friendship ; and so rendring our universal peace his inclination , and not necessity ? I remember in the old Roman History , when a long Plague had reigned in Rome , and an Earthquake had opened a prodigious Gulph in the middle of the Forum , their Consulteo Oracle told 'em , that neither the Plague should be stopt , nor the breach closed , till the most noble Victim in Rome had appeased their angry Deity . If a King of England were no more than a Stadt-holder in Holland , or a Duke of Venice , no doubt Popery would have little hopes of creeping into England ; which is in short , he that is no King , can be no Tyrant .
    keywords: act; crown; england; english; glory; god; heir; king; laws; man; nay; papist; people; popery; power; prince; protestant; religion; right; rome; succession; throne
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        item: #50 of 67
          id: A60816
      author: Gentleman in the countrey.
       title: Some observations upon the tickling querie (viz.) whether the admitting of a popish successor be the best way to preserve the Protestant religion, with other passages touching the history of the succession and other pamphlets / by a gentleman in the countrey to his friend in London.
        date: 1681
       words: 5318
      flesch: 45
     summary: whether the admitting of a popish successor be the best way to preserve the Protestant religion, with other passages touching the history of the succession and other pamphlets / by a gentleman in the countrey to his friend in London. whether the admitting of a popish successor be the best way to preserve the Protestant religion, with other passages touching the history of the succession and other pamphlets / by a gentleman in the countrey to his friend in London.
    keywords: god; great; hath; king; law; querie; religion; successor; tcp; text
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        item: #51 of 67
          id: A61099
      author: Spelman, John, Sir, 1594-1643.
       title: Certain considerations upon the duties both of prince and people written by a gentleman of quality ...
        date: 1642
       words: 10301
      flesch: 57
     summary: So that ( unlesse we can imagine some Kingdome to consist of people sprung of themselves , in perfection of righteousnes , not depending , nor obliged to God , or nature , nor obnoxious to those conditions to which the fall of man has subjected all men , ) we cannot devise how men should naturally be free from subjection to government ; and lesse , how ( being subject ) private men in any State , should in their naturall capacity , meddle with any thing concerning government ; or so much as goe about the making , changing , on anulling of ordinances ; or so compell Governours ▪ to doe them , without being criminally culpable ; not only against the positive lawes of the land , but even against conscience pressed with the bonds of naturall , or morall , and also divine law . AMONG many intemperances that minister disturbance to the Church and State , we have those , whose supine affectation of flattery has grown to that impudence , as that they have not only for learnings sake disputed , but in the name of the word of God , and at the time and place when we should expect no other then the lively Oracles of God , delivered , that the persons , and fortunes of all Subjects , are absolutely at the will and command of the Prince , to dispose according to his will and pleasure .
    keywords: authority; church; doe; god; gods; good; government; himselfe; king; men; people; power; princes; way
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        item: #52 of 67
          id: A62874
      author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
       title: A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy wherein these six propositions are asserted. 1. That some swearing is lawful. 2. That some promissory oaths are lawful. 3. That a promissory oath of allegiance and due obedience to a king is lawful. 4. That the King in his realm, is the onely supreme governour over all persons. 5. That the king is the governour of the realm, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things, or causes, as temporal. 6. That the jurisdictions, priviledges, preeminences, and authorities in that oath, may be assisted and defended. By John Tombes B.D.
        date: 1660
       words: 10829
      flesch: 73
     summary: These are express examples of swearing Allegiance to Kings , which is consonant to what our Lord Christ teacheth , that we should render to Caesar the things that are Caesars , as to God the things that are Gods , Matth. Brethren , let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God , that is , his Christian calling doth not bind him to leave the state and condition of life in which he was , nor diminish his Authority which he had when he was called to be a Christian , as not consisting with Christianity ; so is it true concerning Kings and other Magistrates , they have greater obligation to God , and the Lord Christ , no less Authority and power as Kings by their Christianity : but they may abide in their Office , and exercise the lawful Authority they had before .
    keywords: god; gods; hath; king; law; lord; oath; persons; power; religion; swearing; things; use
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        item: #53 of 67
          id: A64190
      author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
       title: The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present as also how long each of them reigned, how many of them came to untimely ends, either by imprisonments, banishments, famine, killing of themselves, poyson, drowning, beheading, falling from horses, slaine in battells, murthered, or otherwise / written by John Taylor ...
        date: 1649
       words: 6309
      flesch: 80
     summary: yeers : a good King , built Cambridge and Gra●ham . 78 Coyle Duke of Colchester reign'd 14 years , h● married Hellen who was the mother ● the Emperour Constantine , she beautifie●Jerusalem , with many faire buildings an● Churches , and she also walled London an●Colchester , where Coyle was buried , An. 315● 79 Constantius reigned 4 years , a good King , buried at York . 80 Constantine the great was an English m●●orne , he was Emperour of the Christia● world ; he was the Founder of Constant●nople , which was an old ruin'd Towne called Bizantium , he was zealous for God glory , for which he was honoured o● earth , and doubtlesse eternally glorified● He raigned 22. yeers .
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        item: #54 of 67
          id: A66571
      author: Wilson, John, 1626-1696.
       title: A discourse of monarchy more particularly of the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland according to the ancient, common, and statute-laws of the same : with a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of His Royal Highness James Duke of York.
        date: 1684
       words: 40232
      flesch: 68
     summary: The other , an Homager , or Feudatary , to another King , as his Superior Lord ; such as that of Navar and Portugal ( of old ) to Castile ; Granada , and Leon , to Aragon ; Lombardy , Sicily , Naples , and Bohemia , to the Empire ; six parts of the Saxon Heptarchy , who acknowledged the seventh , Anglorum Rex primus ; and such was Aella , King of Sussex ; the Kings of Man and others , of whom I shall have occasion to speak hereafter . So Reignald Lord or King of Man ( Cui etiam fas erat Corona aurea Coronari ) and those of Ireland , did Homage to our Henry the Third .
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        item: #55 of 67
          id: A67233
      author: Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.
       title: Certaine serious thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry occasions have stollen themselves into verse and now into the publike view from the author [Wyvill coat of arms] Esquire ; together w[i]th a chronologicall table denoeting [sic] the names of such princes as ruled the neighbor states and were con-temporary to our English kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned.
        date: 1647
       words: 10906
      flesch: 83
     summary: HAst thou not heard O man , or canst forget This terrible Alarme , God will whet His sword , prepare his Arrows , and his bow ; Doth not experience daily bid thee know That , when he will revoke thy borrowed breath A Fly or Gnat's an Instrument of death , Canst thou shake off those thoughts w ch whisper to thee , This minut's sin for ever may undoe thee ? For God hath said ; The woman's seed shall give A wound unto thy head , that man may live .
    keywords: 4th; 5th; alphonso; anno; bohemia; charles; dimi; fourth; france; god; henry; iohn; lewis; lord; man; philip; poland; portugall; rome; sancho; scotland; sigismund; thee; thou; thy
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        item: #56 of 67
          id: A69451
      author: Ames, Richard, d. 1693.
       title: The character of a bigotted prince, and what England may expect from the return of such a one
        date: 1691
       words: 8157
      flesch: 44
     summary: eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: church; conscience; duke; england; english; french; government; interest; james; king; prince; religion; return; rome; tcp; text; time
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        item: #57 of 67
          id: A70542
      author: Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.
       title: Two great questions determined by the principles of reason & divinity I. whether the right to succession in hæreditary kingdoms, be eternal and unalterable? Neg. : II. whether some certain politick reasons may not be sufficient grounds of divorce? Affirm.
        date: 1681
       words: 13074
      flesch: 34
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. I. That the Power and Authority which Princes , or Supreme Magistrates have , is derived to them from God ; and that , by these several wayes , immediate Deputation , Hereditary Succession , and Election .
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        item: #58 of 67
          id: A70767
      author: England and Wales. Parliament.
       title: Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and declaration.
        date: 1699
       words: 1236
      flesch: 60
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 44472)
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        item: #59 of 67
          id: A80701
      author: Covel, William.
       title: The true copy of a letter sent to the Kings Most Excellent Majestie. By W. Covell Gent.
        date: 1661
       words: 2426
      flesch: 60
     summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. And they that are ruled must fear God and the King , by whom Kings reign , which is Gods Order onely ; therefore care is to be taken for the Poor and Despised and Oppressed , as well as for the Rich and Mighty of this world ; for our great Master hath put a Law in every thing he maketh , to guide it according to its kind ; without Counsel the People perish , and his Counsellors are the aged in Christ , for not many Wise men after the flesh , nor many Mighty , nor many Noble are called , but God hath chosen the Foolish things of the world to confound the Wise , and God hath chosen the Weak things to confound the Mighty and Base things of the world , and things that are Despised hath God chosen , and things which are not to bring to nought things that are , that no flesh should glory in his presence ; and as our great Master is good to all , so must his Stewards and Counsel and Servants be , for Christ will not be made a Slave and a Vagabond to Dag●n ●or ever ; but the poor penitent Souls have received of his fulness and goodness , and they that are counted mad as Paul was , oftentimes speaks forth the words of Truth and Sobriety , and the Wisdom of God in the Despised and Poor persecuted ones , is a chief good and help to Rulers , who are Gods Deacons : Therefore thou art to provide a Counsel of poor penitent Souls , and not to take Counsel of none but Mighty men of this world , for the Ministry of Wisdom is in the poor Saints , the worlds despised ones , Gods Cherubims at his Command , and his enemies Deliverers , when they obey him in them ; they are his enemies Coverings , when the enemy combines with subjection to his Will , and be sweetly contained ; it is the wisdom of a King to conceal a matter , so do thou , and defend them in Peace and Truth , and provide for them , and relieve them , and as a good Steward of the manifold gifts of God , out of the abundance of the earth ; in thy disposing , dispence part thereof to set such people to work , who are willing to live according to Gods Order in some place convenient for them , that they may be a pattern of good works to the ignorant world , through Gods Wisdom outsighting them , for the good of thee and of these people of these Nations ; which being settled in our great Masters Order , will bring Glory , Peace , Truth , Plenty and Health to thee and them , and by degrees remove Ignorance , Idleness , Want and Beggery out of the Land , and make thee great in our Masters Eye , and be loved of him ; without which , greatness in this world will make us miserable in the World to come :
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        item: #60 of 67
          id: A80944
      author: Cartwright, William, 1611-1643.
       title: November.
        date: 1647
       words: 1235
      flesch: 86
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80944 of text R210671 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[93]). F The rate of 116 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words.
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        item: #61 of 67
          id: A91202
      author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
       title: King Richard the Third revived. Containing a memorable petition and declaration contrived by himself and his instruments, whiles Protector, in the name of the three estates of England, to importune and perswade him to accept of the kingship, and crown of England, by their joynt election, (as if he were unwilling to undertake, or accept, though he most ambitiously aspired after them, by the bloudy murthers of K. Henry 6. Edward 5. and sundry others) before his coronation; presented afterwards to, and confirmed by the three estates and himself, in his first Parliament, to give him a colourable title both by inheritance, and their election to the crown. Transcribed out of the Parliament roll of 1.R.3. (printed in Speeds History of Great Britain: where his other additionall policies to engage the City of London, lawyers, divines and people, to elect, and make him their king, are at large recorded.)
        date: 1657
       words: 4278
      flesch: 60
     summary: eng Richard -- III, -- King of England, 1452-1485. Over this , we consider , that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York , very inheritor of the said Crown , and dignity royal , and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance ; And that at this time the premises duly considered , there is none other person living but you only , that may claim the said Crown and Dignity royal , by way of Inheritance , and how that you be born within this Land , by reason whereof , as we deem in our minds , you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common weal of the same , And all the three Estates of the Land have , and may have more certain knowledge of your birth , and filiation aforesaid .
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        item: #62 of 67
          id: A91487
      author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.
       title: Severall speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament, to proeeed [sic] against their King for misgovernment. In which is stated: I. That government by blood is not by law of nature, or divine, but only by humane and positive laws of every particular common-wealth, and may upon just causes be altered. II. The particular forme of monarchies and kingdomes, and the different laws whereby they are to be obtained, holden and governed ... III. The great reverence and respect due to kings, ... IV. The lawfulnesse of proceeding against princes: ... V. The coronation of princes, ... VI. What is due to onely succession by birth, and what interest or right an heire apparent hath to the crown, ... VII. How the next in succession by propinquity of blood, have often times been put back by the common-wealth, ... VIII. Divers other examples out of the states of France and England, for proofe that the next in blood are sometimes put back from succession, ... IX. What are the principall points which a common-wealth ought to respect in admitting or excluding their king, wherein is handled largely also of the diversity of religions, and other such causes.
        date: 1648
       words: 54901
      flesch: 46
     summary: FIrst of all is to be considered , that of all other Formes of Government the Monarchy of King in it selfe , appeareth to be the most excellent and perfect , and so do hold not onely Aristotle in his fore-named Bookes of Politiques , and namely in his third ( with this onely condition that he governe by Lawes ) but Seneca also and Plutarch in his Morals , and namely in that special Treatise wherein he discusseth , An sens sit Respub , tracta●●da , whether an old man ought to take upon him the Government of a Common-wealth or no ; where he saith that , Reg●um inter omnes respub . Franc. as also was the king of Navar at the same time , who was son and heir unto this womans eldest brothers daughter , named Lewis Huttin king of France , ( which king of Nav●r thereby seemed also to be before king Edward of England ) but yet were they both put by it , and Philip de Vallois , a brothers son of Philip the fair , was preferred to it , by general decree of the States of France , and by verdict of the whole Parliament of Paris , gathered about the same affaires .
    keywords: admission; arch; authority; bishop; bloud; brother; children; christ; consent; coronation; crown; day; death; divers; don; doth; duke; edward; election; end; england; father; france; french; god; good; government; great; hath; himselfe; justice; king; king henry; law; lawfull; left; life; man; matter; nature; oath; order; people; place; points; princes; realm; reason; reigned; religion; saith; second; seeing; son; sonne; spain; states; subjects; succession; time; title; wealth; wit; words; world; yeares; ● ●
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        item: #63 of 67
          id: A91489
      author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.
       title: A treatise concerning the broken succession of the crown of England: inculcated, about the later end of the reign of Queen Elisabeth. Not impertinent for the better compleating of the general information intended.
        date: 1655
       words: 39706
      flesch: 71
     summary: The use of Speech is given to man for this end and purpose , otherwise little available were it , if men should live alone , and converse with none . Subjecti estote omni humanae Creaturae propter Deum , sive Regi quasi precellenti , sive Ducibus ab eo missis , &c. saith S. Peter , where he seemeth to signifie that a King's Government is the best among all others ; seeing at this time when he wrote this Epistle , the chief Governor of the world was not called King , but Emperor ; though indeed between the title of King and Emperor there is little or no difference in substance , but only in name .
    keywords: anno; authoritie; bee; blood; brother; cap; charles; children; crown; daughter; day; death; don; duke; edward; elder; england; father; france; god; good; government; hath; hee; heir; henry; issue; john; king; law; lib; man; people; prince; realm; religion; richard; right; second; son; spain; succession; time; title; wealth; years
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        item: #64 of 67
          id: A96173
      author: Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?
       title: A cat may look upon a king
        date: 1652
       words: 8431
      flesch: 63
     summary: THis King reigned about nine years and a halfe , all which time our stories mention nothing but his wars , raising of monies , and spending the blood of this poor Nation . ●●on , which briefly was thus : Sir Henry ( a man for person & parts highly esteemed , and honoured of all that knew him ) being in Florence , when Queen Elizabeths death drew nigh , ( which King Iames gaped for ) the Duke of Florence had intercepted some Letters , which discovered a designe to take away the life of King James : The Duke abhorring the fact , resolves to endeavour the prevention , calls for his Secretary to advise by what meanes a caution might be best given to the King ; and it was resolved to be done by Sir Henry Wotton , who ( being well instructed ) is presently dispatched into Scotland with Letters to the King , and most rare Antidotes against all manner of poysons , whereby that mischief was prevented ; and Sir Henry Wotton returns into Italy , where shortly after came the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth , and James King of Scots proclaimed King of England ; and away comes Sir Henry Wotton , to joy the King .
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        item: #65 of 67
          id: B04792
      author: Powle, Henry, 1630-1692.
       title: The speech of the right honourable Henry Powle, esquire, Speaker of the House of Commons: delivered to the King and Queen's Majesties, at the banqueting-house in White-Hall, Friday, April 12, 1689. With his Majesty's answer thereto.
        date: 1689
       words: 1306
      flesch: 65
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04792) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176014)
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        item: #66 of 67
          id: B06121
      author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
       title: To the king's most excellent majesty. The humble address of the magistrates and council of your city of Glasgow in Scotland, and in the name of the inhabitants.
        date: 1685
       words: 1218
      flesch: 62
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06121) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176238)
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        item: #67 of 67
          id: B06129
      author: Norwich (England). Common Council.
       title: To the Kings most sacred Majesty : the most faithful and unfeigned thanks and resolves of the mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, citizens and commonality of the city of Norwich, in Common Council assembled ...
        date: 1681
       words: 1363
      flesch: 57
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06129) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176241)
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