item: #1 of 34 id: A04250 author: Betts, Richard, 1552-1619. title: A remonstrance of the most gratious King Iames I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For the right of kings, and the independance of their crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the chamber of the third estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie. date: 1616.0 words: 57043 flesch: 62 summary: Nay , doubtlesse it was rather a meanes to eleuate and aduance the dignitie of the Crowne of France , and to style the French King , a King of Kings , as one that was able to giue the qualitie of King , to all the rest of the Nobles and Gentrie of his Kingdome . Let vs heare him speake : Jt is not in controuersie , whether obedience bee due to Kings by Gods Lawe , so long as they are Kings , or acknowledged for Kings : but our point controuerted , is whether by Gods Lawe it bee required , that hee who hath beene once recognised and receiued for King by the bodie of Estates , can at any time bee taken and reputed as no King , that is to say , can doe no manner of act whereby hee may loose his right , and so cease to be saluted King. keywords: article; authoritie; bee; bishop; cardinall; cause; christ; christian; church; crowne; doctrine; doe; doth; emperour; empire; estate; euen; feare; france; french; giue; god; good; hand; hath; haue; head; hee; heresie; himselfe; hold; holinesse; holy; king; kingdome; lawfull; lesse; life; lordship; man; matter; men; neuer; oath; obedience; ouer; owne; pag; people; place; point; pope; popes power; power; prince; purpose; question; reason; religion; right; rome; said; soueraigne; subiects; temporall; time; vnder; vnto; vpon; way; whome; words cache: A04250.xml plain text: A04250.txt item: #2 of 34 id: A26137 author: Atkyns, Richard, 1615-1677. title: The Kings grant of privilege for sole printing common-lavv-books defended and the legality thereof asserted date: 1669.0 words: 4930 flesch: 63 summary: Law printing. In the Reign of King Hen. 6. the Art of Printing was first invented . keywords: books; hath; king; laws; liberty; patent; printing; priviledge; sole; text cache: A26137.xml plain text: A26137.txt item: #3 of 34 id: A26167 author: Atwood, William, d. 1705? title: An apology for the East-India Company with an account of some large prerogatives of the crown of England, anciently exercised and allowed of in our law, in relation to foreign trade and foreign parts / by W.A. ... date: 1690.0 words: 12306 flesch: 66 summary: However they being taken in actual Rebellion , the Governour having by the King's Charter , [ In Case of Rebellion , Mutiny , or Sedition , as large and ample Power as any Captain General of the King's Army by Virtue of his Office ; ] hang'd some for Examples , and detaining others in Prison , sent a Narrative of the Fact signed by others of the Council there ; upon which Narrative , the then King thought fit to issue out his Commission of Martial Law for Trial of the rest , who were tried accordingly , and some executed . By W. A. Barrister at Law , Author of the first Answer to the late chief Justice Herbert's Defence of the Dispensing Power . keywords: company; england; english; goods; king; law; laws; liberty; merchants; power; sea; staple; statute; time; trade cache: A26167.xml plain text: A26167.txt item: #4 of 34 id: A26677 author: Gentleman in the country. title: Allegiance and prerogative considered in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend, upon his being chosen a member of the meeting of states in Scotland. date: 1689.0 words: 6701 flesch: 53 summary: From consideration of these things , it is evident and clear as Sun shine ; That if such a Supremacie be allowed to our Kings , then they shall have Power to introduce Corruptions in our Religion by a Corrupt Clergy , to raise constant Schisms in our Church , to nourish and Foment a Spirit of Animositie and Persecution by one party of Clergy against another , to the great reproach of our Religion , and danger of our State ( as past experience may teach us ) finally they shall have power to dissolve and unhing our Church , by depriving Her of all means necessary , for establishing and preserving of Order and Discipline without which no Society can subsist . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: crown; government; king; laws; man; nation; power; prerogative; religion; states cache: A26677.xml plain text: A26677.txt item: #5 of 34 id: A28359 author: Bland, Peter, of Gray's Inne. title: A royall position, whereby 'tis proved, that 'tis against the common laws of England to depose a king: or, An addition to a book, intituled, Resolved upon the question: or, A question resolved concerning the right which the King hath to Hull, or any other fort of place of strength for the defence of the kingdom. By Peter Bland of Grays-Inne, Gent date: 1642.0 words: 3744 flesch: 52 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A28359 of text R210829 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B3163). no A royall position, whereby 'tis proved, that 'tis against the common laws of England to depose a king: or, An addition to a book, intituled, Bland, Peter, of Gray's Inne 1642 3600 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 B The rate of 6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: king; kingdom; law; parliament; power; text cache: A28359.xml plain text: A28359.txt item: #6 of 34 id: A29939 author: Brydall, John, b. 1635? title: The absurdity of that new devised state-principle, (viz.) that in a monarchy, the legislative power is communicable to the subject, and is not radically in soveraignty in one, but in more in a letter to a friend. date: 1681.0 words: 5028 flesch: 61 summary: And therefore you may read , that Henry de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick for the singular favour that King Henry the Sixth bare to him , Crowned him King of Wight : And thereupon whatsoever a King of this Land Grants to his Subjects , or to any other that is essentially in the Crown of this Kingdom , that is to say , rally annexed to the Person of a Man , as he is King of England , as that the parting with it , makes him to be no King , or a less King than he ought to be in Dignity or Royal Power the Grant is void , the Grant how large soever , It must be understood with this Limitation , Salvo Jure Corona . keywords: commons; consent; houses; king; laws; lords; parliament; power; tcp; text cache: A29939.xml plain text: A29939.txt item: #7 of 34 id: A32131 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: His Majesties speech to the gentlemen at Yorke on Thursday last, being the 12. of May, 1642. date: None words: 1038 flesch: 73 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32131 of text R225725 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2806). The rate of 32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: parliament; text; yorke cache: A32131.xml plain text: A32131.txt item: #8 of 34 id: A34709 author: Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631. title: Cottoni posthuma divers choice pieces of that renowned antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet, preserved from the injury of time, and exposed to publick light, for the benefit of posterity / by J.H., Esq. date: 1672.0 words: 72103 flesch: 70 summary: we may rather expect from our own domestick faction , if they grow too furious , they will rather follow the example of Rome in her growing ; that held it equally safe , honourable , and more easie , dare Rege●● , th● sub●ugare Provincian ; considering the po●er they have their hands , then to gi●e any friendly Assistance to serve the present condition of our State. Thus Ethelwald appealed against Earl Leofrick From the County and generale Placitum before King Ethelred and Edgira the Queen , against Earl Goda to Eldred the King at London , Congregatis Principibus & sapientibus Angliae . keywords: act; advice; anno; answer; apud; authority; ballium; bishop; body; cause; charge; charter; church; claus; command; commodities; commons; councel; course; crown; cum; day; death; desire; divers; doth; duke; edward; edward 3; emperor; end; england; english; est; france; french; general; gold; good; great; hand; hath; henry; honour; house; ill; john; justice; king; kingdome; lands; law; laws; let; lib; life; like; london; lords; majesty; man; marriage; master; merchants; money; new; non; oath; opinion; original; ought; parliament; party; peace; peers; people; persons; petition; pope; power; present; princes; pro; process; profit; publick; queen; qui; quod; realm; reason; record; regis; regni; religion; respect; rex; richard; right; rome; rot; saith; second; self; sheriff; silver; sir; spain; state; statute; subject; things; time; trade; way; wealth; work; writ; year; ● ● cache: A34709.xml plain text: A34709.txt item: #9 of 34 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: 1642.0 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 cache: A34717.xml plain text: A34717.txt item: #10 of 34 id: A34726 author: Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631. title: A treatise, shewing that the soveraignes person is required in the great councells or assemblies of the state, as well at the consultations as at the conclusions written by Sir Charles Cotton. date: 1641.0 words: 3755 flesch: 71 summary: This use under King H. 3. needeth no further proofe than the Writ of Summons , then ( as some report ) framed , expressing both the Kings mind and practice . Of H. 8. memorie hath not been curious ; but if he were not often present , peradventure that may be the cause of the disorder , which the learned Recorder Fleetwood in his preface to the Annalls of E. the 5. R. 3 H. 7. & H. 8. hath observed in the Statutes made in that Kings dayes : for which cause hee hath severed their Index from the former ; and much lay in the will of Wolsey , who was ever unwilling to let that King see with his owne eyes . keywords: hee; king; lords; parliament; presence; sir; state; text; yeare cache: A34726.xml plain text: A34726.txt item: #11 of 34 id: A36115 author: Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616. True difference betweene Christian subjection and unchristian rebellion. title: A discourse upon questions in debate between the King and Parliament. With certaine observations collected out of a treatise called, The diffrence between Christian subjection, and unchristian rebellion. date: 1643.0 words: 8432 flesch: 42 summary: What the priviledges of Parliament are , i● another great question , i● under the tearme be comprised the King , the Lords and Commons , the question may be better made , what is not within the power and priviledge of Parliament , for 't is on all hands confessed that the common-wealth may di●pose of it selfe ; but if the King be divided from them , what are then priviledge● ? truly none at all , if they cannot make a t●mporary provision to ●ave themselves without the Kings licence ; for take away safety , and priviledge is gone ; If they be safe , yet if it be better knowne to their adversaries then themselves , and that the continuance be at disc●et●on and good pleasure of another , if any be a more competent Iudge of their safety then them●elves they have no priviledge at all , say what they will . Nor can it possible be that both houses have power to preserve the body of the kingdom which they repres●nt , if there not be an inherent e●sentiall and underived authority in ●h●t assembly to preserve it selfe ( ●is granted in the P●inces minority , absence , or incap●ssity to gove●ue , the power to preserve and provide for the state , rests in the great counsell , and their diligates , doubtlesse the case is the s●me , if it be on like manner granted that the P●ince is divided from the body of his people ●y evill counsell ( to prove if the counsell be good or bad , examine the legali●y , it appeares in his Maiesties expres●es : and that of most remarke , is to declare law ( which being denied to the great counsell , must needs be taken to reside in the King and his privie counsell ) To have sole managing of the arms of the kingdome . It hath beene the generall beliefe of this Nation ( ●pon what reason I cannot judge ) that the designe of his Majesties late father King James was to wynde up this government ●o the height of France , the better to ho●d correspondence with forraig● Princes , whose power encreasing their riches , and both together their reputation , it was a shame to be left behind , but finding the times averse , and being the best Astrologer in the world what the successe should be of ●i● owne actions , he betooke himselfe to the ●atisfactions of his age which he could acquire , and left the complement of this to his Majestie that now is● in whose person were concurrent a title indubitable , setled by a succession , and the activitie and glory that is insepa●able to youth , and the fresh assu●ption to the Throne of three Kingdoms . keywords: government; hath; king; kingdome; lawes; majestie; parliament; people; power; prerogative; princes; text; time; wealth; ● ● cache: A36115.xml plain text: A36115.txt item: #12 of 34 id: A37240 author: Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. title: The question concerning impositions, tonnage, poundage, prizage, customs, &c. fully stated and argued, from reason, law, and policy dedicated to King James in the latter end of his reign / by Sir John Davies ... date: 1656.0 words: 32013 flesch: 58 summary: So Kings were no sooner made by the Law of Nations , but presently the same Law , cum creatus fuerit Rex ei omnia regalia conceduntur , & competit omnibus Regibus jus imponendi quantum habet Regalia , saith Baldus , Vectigalia introducta sunt à jure , &c. which is the Law of Nature or Nations , Ideo non otiosa sed favoralia , saith another Doctor , did annex this Prerogative to their several Crowns , Vectigalorigine ipsa jus Caesarum & Regum partimoniale est , saith another , Inhaeret Sceptro saith another and therefore when our ancient British Kings took up Customes for Merchandizes transported into France , as Strab● writeth , Britanni vectigalia tollebant gravia earum rerum quas brevi traject● in Galliam importabant ; shall we presume they did it by Act of Parliament ? Hereupon by the same Law of Nations , Tributes and Customes became due to the King or Prince to maintain him in his place of Government , quasi Ministerii sui stipendia , saith the School-man , Deo Minister est tibi in bonum ideo & tributa potestas , saith Saint Paul , and all these things , namely Property , and Contract , and Kings , and Customes , were before any positive Law was made ; then came the positive Law , and limited the Law of Nations , whereas by the Law of Nations the King had an absolute and unlimited power in all matters whatsoever . keywords: act; answer; chap; charter; commodities; crown; customes; divers; doth; duties; edw; england; goods; grant; great; hath; impositions; king; king doth; king edw; law; law doth; law merchant; like; merchandizes; merchants; nations; parliament; pence; people; power; prerogative; princes; reason; rot; saith; set; shillings; subjects; time; trade; turris; wooll cache: A37240.xml plain text: A37240.txt item: #13 of 34 id: A42629 author: Georgeson, P., Sir. title: The defence of the Parliament of England in the case of James the II, or, A treatise of regal power and of the right of the people drawn from ancient councils ... and more especially the ordinances of the doctors of the Church of Rome ... : wherein is demonstrated that the Holy Scriptures are so far from being contrary, that they do even assent thereto / written in Latin by P. Georgeson, Kt. ; translated by S. Rand. date: 1692.0 words: 23225 flesch: 49 summary: And indeed if any one , who is not prejudiced , shall peruse Ecclesiastical History , he stall find , that the primitive Christians , who were eminent for Authority and power , did no less exercise it , than those now a dayes : besides the Christians of the first th●ee Cent●ries did not stop the cariere of Tyrants by force of Arms , but by their Christian and vertuous Piety ; not that God would have them divested of that authority the Law of Nature granted to all Nations , but it so seemed good to his Wisdom , that he might instruct all Nations , that Christs Kingdom was Spiritual , and that the World was to be brought under his dominion only by Spiritual Warsare ; but when the World was subdued to Christ , the Church scattered ●ar and wide over the face of the whole Earth , then it became very like to the Net in the Gospel , that inclosed abundance of good and bad Fish . First , Th●t the King is obliged by an Oath not to permit the Catholick Faith to be violated or infringed ; the other is , That in case he shall be found a violator of this same p●omise , that he shall incur the censure of Anathema , lie and all his complices and adherents . keywords: authority; church; david; doth; god; good; government; hath; king; kingdom; law; laws; lord; man; nations; nature; people; pope; power; princes; reason; regal; religion; right; saith; saul; subjects; things; ● ● cache: A42629.xml plain text: A42629.txt item: #14 of 34 id: A46343 author: Gentleman of Oxford. title: The judgment and doctrine of the Church of England concerning one special branch of the King's prerogative, viz. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London. date: 1687.0 words: 8999 flesch: 62 summary: in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London. in dispencing with the penall laws / asserted by the most reverend father in God, the lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher, the right reverend fathers in God, the lords Bishops Sanderson and Cartwright, the reverend doctors, Sir Thomas Ridley L.L.D., Dr. Hevlin, Dr. Barrow, Dr. Sherlock master of the temple, Dr. Hicks, Dr. Nalson and Dr. Puller ; and by the anonymus, author of The harmony of divinity and law : together with the concurring resolutions of our reverend judges, as most consonant and agreeable thereunto ; in a letter from a gentleman of Oxford, to his friend at London. keywords: church; england; god; hath; king; laws; man; people; power; prerogative; reverend; sir; soveraign; supream cache: A46343.xml plain text: A46343.txt item: #15 of 34 id: A52855 author: Neville, Henry, 1620-1694. title: Plato redivivus, or, A dialogue concerning government wherein, by observations drawn from other kingdoms and states both ancient and modern, an endeavour is used to discover the present politick distemper of our own, with the causes and remedies ... date: 1681.0 words: 58679 flesch: 41 summary: I cannot resolve you that , but this is certain , they have never endeavoured a Cure , though possibly they might know the Disease , as fearing that though the Effects of a Remedy would be , as was said , very advantagious both to King and People , and to themselves ; yet possibly , such a Reformation might not consist with the Merchandize they make of the Princes Favour , nor with such Bribes , Gratuities and Fees as they usually take for the dispatch of all Matters before them . This Gracious Offer had the fatality to disguist one of the best Parliaments that ever Sate , and the most Loyal ; so that laying it aside , they fell upon the Succession , the only thing they had then left , and were soon after Dissolved , leaving the Kingdom in a more distracted Condition than they found it ; and this can no way be composed , but by mending the Polity , so that whoever is King cannot ( be he never so inclined to it ) introduce Popery , or destroy whatever Religion shall be established : as you see in the Example of the Dutchy of Hanover , whose Prince some fourteen Years since , was perverted to the Roman Church , went to Rome to abjure Heresie ( as they call the truth ) return'd home , where he lived and Governed as he did before , without the least Animosity of his Subjects for his Change , or any endeavour of his to Introduce any in his Government or People , and dying this last Spring , left the Peaceable and undisturbed Rule of his Subjects to the next Successor , his Brother the Bishop of Osnaburg , who is a Protestant , and this because the Polity of that Dukedom has been conserved entire for many years , and is upon a right Basis : and if our Case were so , we should not onely be out of danger to have our Religion altered ( as I said before ) whoever is King , but should in other things be in a happy and flourishing condition . keywords: case; commons; country; discourse; doct; eng; england; france; gent; gentleman; god; good; government; hath; house; interest; king; kingdom; lands; laws; majesty; man; matters; new; parliament; people; persons; power; pray; present; prince; property; reason; religion; right; sir; state; thing; time; ven; war; way; world cache: A52855.xml plain text: A52855.txt item: #16 of 34 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: 1664.0 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; ● ● cache: A54689.xml plain text: A54689.txt item: #17 of 34 id: A54862 author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. title: A vindication of the King's sovereign rights together with A justification of his royal exercises thereof, in all causes, and over all persons ecclesiastical (as well as by consequence) over all ecclesiastical bodies corporate, and cathedrals, more particularly applyed to the King's free chappel and church of Sarum, upon occasion of the Dean of Sarum's narrative and collections, made by the order and command of the most noble and most honourable, the lords commissioners, appointed by the King's Majesty for ecclesiastical promotions : by way of reply unto the answer of the Lord Bishop of Sarum, presented to the aforesaid most honourable Lords. date: 1683.0 words: 38199 flesch: 74 summary: AAron , Page 304 Abbendone , Edmund de , Page 291 Abendon , Richard de , Page 331 — William de , Page 285 , 326 Abingdon , John de , Page 311 — William de , Page 298 Abney , John , Page 244 Abbot , Robert , Page 276 Abraham , Page 291 Abyndon , John de , Page 327 Adam , Page 288 , 304 Addison , Lancelot , Page 332 Adelelmus , Page 304 Aermyn , Richard de , Page 289 Aiscough , William , Page 274 Akkeburne , Lawrence de , Page 273 St. Albano , Elias de , Page 289 Alchmund , Page 270 Alcock , John , Page 310 Alchorn , Edward , Page 236 Aldhelm , Page 269 Alexander , Page 294 Alfar , Page 271 Alfius , Page 270 Allfftan , Page 271 Alfred , Page 270 Alfrick , Page 271 Alfwold , Page 270 Allix , Peter , Page 294 Alleston , Robert de , Page 301 Alnewyke , William , Page 294 Albert , Joseph , Page 138 Andrews , Nicholas , Page 328 Andrew , Ric. Page 296 , 321 Arche , Richard , Page 293 Arena , Andreas Ammonius de , Page 322 Arundel , Francis , Page 258 ... John , Page 312 , 314 Ashley , Anne , Page 57 ... ... Gertrude , Page 54 ... Margaret , Page 55 , 58 Asser , .... keywords: anne; bishop; canons; cap; castle; cathedral; chappel; chapter; church; close; coke; common; composition; dean; ecclesiae; edward; elizabeth; england; fol; founder; good; hath; hen; henry; john; john page; jurisdiction; king; law; lord; lordship; man; men; non; osmund; page; page ibid; parliament; pope; power; prebends; prerogative; richard; right; robert; roger; royal; sarum; self; sir; sovereign; statute; thing; thomas; thomas page; time; william; william page; words; years cache: A54862.xml plain text: A54862.txt item: #18 of 34 id: A56187 author: Parker, Henry, 1604-1652. title: Jus populi, or, A discourse wherein clear satisfaction is given as well concerning the right of subiects as the right of princes shewing how both are consistent and where they border one upon the other : as also, what there is divine and what there is humane in both and whether is of more value and extent. date: 1644.0 words: 28651 flesch: 51 summary: For t is not by us questioned whether powers are from God or no ; but whether they are so extraordinarily from God , as that they have no dependence upon humane consent . T is true it proved afterwards fatall to Lot , that he did disjoyne from Abraham , and it had been farre more politick and advantagious for both of them perhaps , if they had incorporated one with another : but the question is not whether it was prejudiciall , or no , to esteeme the priviledge of an Independent liberty before the many other fruits and advantages of a well framed principalitie : but whether it was sin against God , or no , and a transgression against the constitution of power , to pursue that which was most pleasing , before that which was likely to prove more commodious . keywords: answer; bee; condition; consent; doe; empire; end; father; god; gods; good; government; hath; jurisdiction; kings; law; liberty; lord; man; meer; men; nations; naturall; nature; nay; non; order; people; power; princes; publick; reason; right; roman; rome; rule; self; slaves; state; subjects; text; things cache: A56187.xml plain text: A56187.txt item: #19 of 34 id: A59386 author: Sadler, John, 1615-1674. title: Rights of the kingdom, or, Customs of our ancestors touching the duty, power, election, or succession of our Kings and Parliaments, our true liberty, due allegiance, three estates, their legislative power, original, judicial, and executive, with the militia freely discussed through the British, Saxon, Norman laws and histories, with an occasional discourse of great changes yet expected in the world. date: 1682.0 words: 69723 flesch: 65 summary: and in the 14 th . of that King ; his Aides were remitted by Parliament , because ( for his Wars ) he had taketh other Assistance than was due by Law ▪ which was much excused by himself , and divers other Kings . RIGHTS OF The Kingdom , &c. TO see the Kingdoms Rights , the Laws and Customs of our Ancestors , concerning King and Parliament ; that we may know their Power and Priviledge , their Duty and their Limits , &c. and how our Fathers did commit the power of making Laws , and judging by those Laws ; and how they made us swear Allegiance to our King ; what power they gave him over us ; and what they did not give him over any of his Subjects ; how we should behave our selves &c. keywords: act; acts; alfred; allegiance; ancestors; angliae; authors; babylon; barons; bishop; book; british; case; charter; church; commission; common; concilio; consent; council; county; court; crown; cum; customs; divers; doth; edgar; edward; election; england; english; est; fealty; free; god; good; grand; great; hath; henry; house; hoveden; huntingdon; judges; judgment; justice; king; king alfred; king edward; king henry; king william; kingdom; late; laws; life; lords; malmsbury; man; matthew; militia; mirror; monk; nature; nay; need; new; oath; ought; paris; parliament; peace; people; person; phrase; populo; power; quod; reason; record; regis; regni; return; rex; right; rome; saith; saxon; sea; second; seemeth; self; sheriff; speak; statute; things; thought; time; totius; vel; way; westminster; william; world; writ cache: A59386.xml plain text: A59386.txt item: #20 of 34 id: A64193 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: A plea for prerogative, or, Give Cæsar his due being the wheele of fortune turn'd round, or, the world turned topsie-turvie : wherein is described the true subjects loyalty to maintain His Majesties prerogative and priviledges of Parliament / by Thorny Aylo, alias, John Taylor. date: 1642.0 words: 2392 flesch: 66 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: doth; hath; peace; prerogative; religion; tcp; text; wheele cache: A64193.xml plain text: A64193.txt item: #21 of 34 id: A74222 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: His Majesties speech to the gentry of the county of Yorke, attending his Majestie at the city of Yorke, on Thursday the 12th of May, 1642. date: 1642.0 words: 1052 flesch: 72 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74222 of text R210532 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[20]). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74222) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160733) keywords: england; text; yorke cache: A74222.xml plain text: A74222.txt item: #22 of 34 id: A78644 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: His majesties ansvver to the humble petition of the gentlemen, free-holders, and ministers of the countie palatine of Chester delivered to His Maiestie at York the seventh of May, 1642. At the court and York 9 May 1642. His Maiestie hath given me expresse command to give you this His answer to your petition. date: 1642.0 words: 1120 flesch: 62 summary: And His Majestie observes very well , that this Petition is not like others , which by an untimely Zeal , have desired Him to return to His Parliament ; You onely desiring Him there to reside , where with more conveniency and security He may consult with His great Councell , then by going into Ireland : His Majestie being confident , That your well weighing of His Answers concerning that subject , hath been the cause that you have not imitated some few other Countreys in that particular ; And that you have well considered the Rebellious Affront offered to Him at Hull , by a hostile opposition of His entrance ; and therefore beleeves that the same Reason which made you , at this time expresse your tender care of His Person , and the former good expressions you made of your Loyalty and right-set Affections to the good of the whole Kingdom , may sooner induce you to Petition the Parliament to apply themselves to a right understanding of His Majesties wayes and intentions , and to do Him Iustice for that Affront , then make you to preferre any such ill-grounded Petition . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78644 of text R210530 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[18]). keywords: petition; text; york cache: A78644.xml plain text: A78644.txt item: #23 of 34 id: A78762 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: His Majesties declaration to the ministers, freeholders, farmers, and substantiall copy-holders of the county of Yorke Assembled by His Majesties speciall summons, at Heworth Moore, neere the city of Yorke; on Friday, the 3. of June, 1642. date: 1642.0 words: 1809 flesch: 62 summary: And for the prevention of any innovated power over you , you shall have Vs here to govern you , and the Souldiory to protect you in Peace , and to relieve you against all oppressions ; for that , as we have told you before , must arise from some great violation ( which We hope God will prevent ) and not from this preparation of our Subjects . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78762 of text R210592 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[34]). keywords: majesties; peace; text; yorke cache: A78762.xml plain text: A78762.txt item: #24 of 34 id: A78856 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: A letter sent from the Kings Majestie to the Lords of His privie councell of the kingdome of Scotland. date: 1642.0 words: 1118 flesch: 72 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78856 of text R210539 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[27]). 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Robert Young, His Majesties printer for the kingdome of Scotland, London : [1642] At bottom of text: keywords: kingdome; scotland; text cache: A78856.xml plain text: A78856.txt item: #25 of 34 id: A78867 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: His Maiesties letter to the maior of Kingston upon Hull, 25. of Aprill. 1642. To our trusty and welbeloved, the major, aldermen, and burgesses of our towne and port of Kingston upon Hull. date: 1642.0 words: 1539 flesch: 63 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78867 of text R210517 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[11]). Sovereign 1642 1160 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 B The rate of 9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: hull; kingston; text; town cache: A78867.xml plain text: A78867.txt item: #26 of 34 id: A79015 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King A proclamation forbidding all His Majesties subjects belonging to the trained bands of Militia of this kingdom, to rise, march, muster, or exercise by vertue of any order or ordinance of one, or both houses of Parliament, without consent or warrant from His Majesty, upon pain of punishement according to the laws. date: None words: 1290 flesch: 62 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79015 of text R210579 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[31]). We do therefore by this Our Proclamation expresly Charge and Command all Our Sheriffs , and all Colonells , Lieutenant-Colonels , Serjeant Majors , Captains , Officers , and Souldiers belonging to the Trained Bands of this Our Kingdom , and likewise all High and Petty-Constables , and other Our Officers and Subjects what soever , upon their Allegiance , and as they tender the Peace of this Our Kingdom , Not to Muster , Leavy , Raise , or March , or to Summon , or Warn upon any Warrant , Order , or Ordinance from one , or both Our Houses of Parliament ( whereto We have not , or shall not give Our expresse Consent ) any of Our Trained Bands , or other Forces , to Rise , Muster , March , or Exercise , without expresse Warrant under our Hand , or Warrant from Our Sheriff of the County , grounded upon a particular Writ to that purpose under Our great Seal . keywords: bands; kingdom; subjects; text cache: A79015.xml plain text: A79015.txt item: #27 of 34 id: A79017 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King. A proclamation forbidding all levies of forces without His Majesties expresse pleasure, signified under his great seal, and all contributions or assistance to any such levies. date: 1642.0 words: 2717 flesch: 50 summary: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. And that by the Oath of Ligeance at the Common Law ( which all persons above the age of twelve yeers are , or ought to be sworn unto ) they are bound to be true and faithfull , not to the King onely as King , but to Our Person as King CHARLES ; and to bear Vs truth and faith of Life and Member , and earthly Honour ; and that they shall neither know nor hear of any ill or damage intended to Vs that they shall not defend . keywords: forces; king; parliament; subjects; text cache: A79017.xml plain text: A79017.txt item: #28 of 34 id: A79035 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: By the King. A proclamation to inform all our loving subjects of the lawfulnesse of our commissions of Array, issued into the severall counties of our realm of England, and dominion of Wales, and of the use of them and commanding them to obey our commissioners therein named, in the execution of their said commissions. date: 1642.0 words: 2195 flesch: 51 summary: And accordingly we have heretofore awarded Commissions of Lieutenancie into the severall Counties of this Our Realm , for the governing and exercising of the Souldiory and Trained Bands there , like as Queen Elizabeth and Our dear Father , both of happy memory , had done before Us . Which power of granting Commissions for the defence of Us and Our Kingdom , as it is inherent in Us , and inseparable from Our Crown , so it hath been warranted by Presidents of the like Commissions in all Ages , both before and since the grant of the great Charter by King Henry the third , down to the very time that Commissions of Lieutenancie were granted , and was agreed to be legall even by the two learned Judges , Sir George Crook , and Sir Richard Hutton ( amongst all the rest ) in their Arguments , which concluded on the Subjects part in Our Exchequer-Chamber in Master Hampdens Case , as by the same ( now since printed ) may appear , together with divers particular Records in severall Ages therein mentioned , to which many more may be added . keywords: array; commissions; england; subjects; text cache: A79035.xml plain text: A79035.txt item: #29 of 34 id: A82650 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: The declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled concerning the Earl of Stamford and others his assistants; whom the King proclaimed traytors for executing the ordinance of the militia. date: None words: 911 flesch: 63 summary: WHereas Henry Earl of Stamford was by Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament appointed Lord-lieutenant of the County of Leicester , and by the Order of both the said Houses the Magazin of the said County was delivered into his hands to be removed or disposed of as he should thinke fit for the safety and defence of His Maiesty and the County ; In obedience whereunto the said Earle did take the said Magazine and did place a great part thereof at his house at Bradgate under safe guard , and the residue thereof at a place in the Newarkeneere the Towne of Leicester ; For the doing whereof the said Earle , and also William Sherman , William Stanley , John Norris , and William Reynor , upon pretence of being Afsistants to the said Earle , and all other his Adherents , were without all colour of Law , and against the rights and liberties of the Subiect proclaimed traytors , which as concerning the said Earle being a Member of the House of Peeres , is a high breach of the priviledge of Parliament : Be it therefore declared by the said Lords and Commons , That the said Earle , William Sherman , William Stanley , John Norris , William Reynor , nor any other of the parties which were assisting of the said Earle in the Premises , have done any thing herein but according to their duties , and in obedience to the commands of both Houses of Parliament ; and that therefore the said Earle and all other the said persons his assistants and every of them shall and ought to be protected by the power and Authority of both Houses of Parliament . And the said Lords and Commons do hereby forbid all Sheriffes , Majors , Bayliffes , Constables , and other His Maiesties Officers and Subiects whatsoever , any way to arrest , impeach , molest , or trouble the said Earle , William Sherman , William Stanley , John Norris , William Reynor , or any other of the said persons ( so assisting to the said Earle ) either in their persons , goods , or estates , for , or by reason of the premises without the Authority or consent of both Houses of Parliament . keywords: parliament; text; william cache: A82650.xml plain text: A82650.txt item: #30 of 34 id: A82763 author: England and Wales. Parliament. title: Die Jovis. 12 Maii. 1642. The declarations of both Houses of Parliament. date: 1642.0 words: 782 flesch: 72 summary: THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do declare , That they are resolved to maintain those Lords and Gentlemen , Committees of both Houses of Parliament , residing at York , in those things they have done , and shall furher do in obedience of their commands for the preserving the peace of the Kingdom . The Lords and Commons do declare , That if any person whatsoever shall Arrest , or imprison the persons of those Lords and Gentlemen , or any of them , or any other Member of either House , that are , or shall be imployed in the service of both Houses of Parliament ; or shall offer violence to them , or any of them , for doing of any thing in pursuance of their commands , or the instructions of both Houses , given unto them , shall be held disturbers of the proceedings of Parliament , and publike enemies of the State . keywords: parliament; text cache: A82763.xml plain text: A82763.txt item: #31 of 34 id: A82903 author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. title: A new declaration from both houses of Parliament, die Martis, May 17, 1642. date: None words: 1352 flesch: 69 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82903 of text R210538 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[26]). 109 F The rate of 109 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. keywords: england; parliament; text cache: A82903.xml plain text: A82903.txt item: #32 of 34 id: A85738 author: Grosse, Robert, D.D. title: Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647 date: 1647.0 words: 19360 flesch: 75 summary: For hence it is that S. Peter calleth a King , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the ordinance of man : which is not so to be understood , Causally , as if it were excogitated or invented by men ; but Subjectively , because it is exercised by men ; and Objectively , because it is versed about the government of humane society ; and then Finally , because it is constituted by God for the good of men , and the conservation of humane policie . For the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} doth recall us to God , as to the first Author of authority : and although Kings are created by men , that is , erected , anointed , and inaugurated by them ; yet the first Creator of Kings is God , to whom all creation doth appertaine , and from whom all power doth come . keywords: command; doe; doth; god; good; hath; himselfe; honour; king; law; laws; lord; man; men; non; obedience; people; power; princes; saith; subjects; things cache: A85738.xml plain text: A85738.txt item: #33 of 34 id: A85800 author: H. G., B.L.C. title: Englands present distractions. Paralleld with those of Spaine, and other forraigne countries, with some other modest conjectures, at the causes of the said distempers, and their likeliest cure. / Written by a loyall subject to His Majestie, and a true servant of the Parliament, in vindication of that aspersion cast upon them, for declining His Majesties royall prerogative, or seeking to confine it to limits. By H. G. B. L. C. date: 1642.0 words: 2917 flesch: 46 summary: By H. G. B. L. C. H. G., B.L.C. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85800 of text R19139 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E126_19). Imperfect: significant loss of text on p. 5. Annotation on Thomason copy: novemb: 5th. keywords: distractions; english; king; parliament; people; power; present; spaine; text cache: A85800.xml plain text: A85800.txt item: #34 of 34 id: A96861 author: Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn. title: Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne. date: 1650.0 words: 24062 flesch: 28 summary: And no doubt but Kings were so crafty as to perswade them No King , no Bishop , heretofore , to heighten their zeal to the Royall cause , as Prelats of late have stiffened them with No Bishop , no King , in obstinacy for Prelacy ; yet these later have been Prophets against their wils , at their fall , who in their jollity had little or no will to be Preachers , and were so effectuall in their doctrine , that they confirmed their calling to be jure divino , though Scripture was never so clear against it , in the Royall conscience , to whom a Crown and Scepter must appear most sacred . And yet let us but look a litttle further than the gilded , and embroydered superficies , and we shall perceive that these Lordlings estate was but even by so much more free , and happy than the Commons , by how much that King of Cypresses condition was bettered , when his Iron shackles and chains were converted into silver fetters : they enjoyed a little more gaudie servitude , and to speak to the capacity of our Countryman were as the Fore-horses in the teame , which though they weare , the Feather , and have the Bels about their eares , yet must draw themselves as well as those that follow ; nay and if they did seem unwilling to lead , they were sure to be lash'd by the Royall Carters till the bloud came , and have their gay trappings to boot pul'd over their eares : and this the wise and generous of them knew , and often endeavoured to remedy , but were still prevented by the envy and jealousie one of another , which was created and cast in among them by their Kings , as partly will appeare in the following story . keywords: ancestors; barons; brother; cause; earl; england; english; god; good; hath; henry; king; kingdom; legat; liberties; liberty; like; london; lords; marks; money; nation; non; norman; oath; oxford; parliament; people; pope; power; royall; set; strangers; text; time; tyranny; tyrants; year cache: A96861.xml plain text: A96861.txt