Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	assemble_v	king_n	parliament_n	3,010	5	6.6498	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38820	Discourses on the present state of the Protestant princes of Europe exhorting them to an union and league amongst themselves against all opposite interest, from the great endeavours of the court of France and Rome to influence all Roman Catholick princes, against the Protestant states and religion, and the advantage that our divisions give to their party : wherein the general scope of this horrid Popish Plot is laid down, and presented to publick view / by Edmund Everard ...	Everard, Edmund.	1679 (1679)	Wing E3528; ESTC R176794	41,879	50

People and the true Protector of the Liberty of his Country who had Power to deal as an Arbitrator betwixt the King and his People and to regulate and decide all their differences and in truth the ancient Kings of France were no other to speak properly than the chief Captains General of their Realm and in the Palatine resided the Principal charges of the Estate as the Chancellour Constable and Admiral and it is very true that in this manner the Authority was very well parted betwixt the King and his People who were represented as for this last regard by the Palatine but Hugh Capet knowing very well by the consequence of what he and Pepin had done that the same Palatines might one day act the very same against their Successours he with dexterity suppressed the Office of the Palatine and annexed it unto the Royalty see here the manner wherein appears the first means whereby the liberty of Estate in France hath subsisted during the two first Races of its Kings suppressed and abolished by a Palatine himself in whose Person the third Race of those very Kings did commence whose Successours have reigned in a continued Succession unto this day But as Hugh Capet could not come to this Crown but with the satisfaction of all the Principal Members and especially those of his own degree this was the cause that the evil consequences which would have arisen from the Office of Palatine were not perceived nor redressed as the interest of State without doubt required and that he might take away all resentments thereof Hugh Capet being too subtle and refined a Politician to leave any suspicion in his peoples minds he made use of this contrivance to substitute the Sessions of the States General of the Kingdom under the name of Parliaments of which we find very little mention during the Reign of the Kings of the two first Races for in as much as the Deputies of the three Estates compose this Assembly it may seem at first view that Hugh Capet had not suppressed the Office of Palatine for other purpose then to diffuse all the Authority of this Eminent Charge upon the particular Members of the said Assembly but these good souls did not reflect that the Office of Palatine was perpetual and that the Session of the Parliament was only then held when the King had a fancy to assemble them albeit it is true that the States General of France if they were in possession would understand it otherwise notwithstanding by the consequence we may understand how dangerous it is to change under what pretence soever the Fundamental Laws of Estate let the appearances be never so specious that the same advantage is retained it being certain that they who have the courage or dexterity to modulize or conquer Sovereign Estates know better than any other by what Maxims their Successours may be enabled to maintain themselves therein for when the French first conquered the Gauls they chose a King out of the number of their Generals they also wisely devised as I touched above all that might hinder their Kings from ever becoming Tyrants Now in the Estates Generals or Parliaments consisted the second means whereby the publick Liberty in France did subsist so long as their Sessions were frequent but in process of time Lewis the Ninth having reunited the greatest part of the particular Principalities which were in France unto the Crown Charles the Eighth having accomplished that great Work by his Marriage with Anne the Heiress of the Dukedome of Britain these Princes believing and finding themselves above all accidents the assembling of the Estates General of the Kingdom hath been so long discontinued that at length all use of it hath been as it were quite lost and thereby the second means of maintaining the liberty of France through the whole extent thereof is vanished and dissipated as the former then the publick liberty was in a pitiful Estate until such time as the Reformation began to get footing in France for as the Reformation of Luther was doubtless the means of saving the German liberty so the Reformation of Calvin in France did not help a little to revive the dying liberty of that Estate Now by the following cruel and bloody persecutions wherewith the reformed were thereupon pursued in France the Head of that Party being inclosed in Rochelle and from thence giving life to the rest of the Party through the whole Extent of France it may be truly said that Rochelle in the defect of Palatines and General Assemblies with the rest of its Party did little less in France then what a pit or excellent Cistern of pure water doth in a dry and parched place in the times of greatest heat for the use of water being of an indispensable necessity for the service of life and these dry places in the most ardent heat being destitute of Fountains or Rivers as in the defect of these natural means we think our selves happy in the comfort of Cisterns though they be means extraordinary so of the like nature was the subsistence of the Protestant Party in France for the Palatines and Sessions of the States General in France by their total or tacite suppression being not able to sustain any longer the liberty of the State Rochelle and its Partisans as an extraordinary means so long as it subsisted did in one manner or other maintain this accidental Liberty which hath entirely disappeared since the reddition thereof so that at this day all France is wholly fallen into a domination purely despotick and to speak the truth being a Body sick of ill humours which subsisted by one only sort of nourishment and wholly excluded from it its death by consequent is inevitable As to the tacite interest which the greater part of other Powers of Europe might have had to oppose themselves against this rendition with as much vigour as Spain England Holland and France it self ought to have done if they had followed their true Interest for this they need only in the first place see into what Estate all the Potentates of Europe would have been reduced if the irruption into Holland had succeeded and if the Sovereign Lord of all things had not taken away their light and spirit from the Ministers of France after they had taken Utrich and Narden to make themselves Masters of the Town of Amsterdam which might have been done for some days more easily than the Commonwealth of the United Provinces could by means of this place alone preserved have recovered unto it self in a small time the possession of the greatest part of their conquered Estate In the second place we must examine what by the loss of the Liberty of the People of France this Monarch disposing absolutely as I have said before of the wealth and industry of all his Subjects is able to do and execute against all his Neighbours with relation thereto against all the Potentates of Christendom and by this Reflection all the Powers concerned to deliver