Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	crown_n	king_n	richard_n	3,753	5	8.8517	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46455	The speech of King James the I. to both Houses of Parliament upon his accession to, and the happy union of both the crowns of England and Scotland, regally pronounced, and expressed by him to them, die Jovis 22th. Martii 1603.; Speeches. 1604-03-22.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1689 (1689)	Wing J144; ESTC R220721	13,401	12

THE SPEECH OF King JAMES the I. TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Upon his ACCESSION to AND THE HAPPY UNION Of Both the CROWNS OF ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Regally Pronounced and Expressed by him to them Die JOVIS 22 th Martii 1603. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily 1689. TO THE READER THE Inducement to the Publishing of this worthy Speech is no other than to intimate to the World the disrelish that so Learned a King had against the Impious Faction of Jesuitism and Popery both which have always been look'd upon as the Enemies of our Peace and Vnanimity so that it pleased God to appoint him in a great measure to make us Happy in our Pious and now well secured Reformation Die JOVIS 22 th Martii 1603. This Day the Speaker Elect with a great Number of the Commons returned again to the usual place and did there repose themselves until his Highness being Ascended his Royal Throne in the Upper House did send unto them which about two of the Clock in the Afternoon he was pleased to do and Mr. Speaker with the rest of the Commons coming into the Kings Presence his Majesty took occasion to Repeat the Effect of his former Speech delivered the first Day with Excuse of the mistaking upon Monday precedent His Majesties Speech was to this Effect IT did no sooner please God to lighten his Hand and retent the Violence of the devouring Angel against the poor people of this City but as soon did I resolve to call this Parliament and that for Three chief and principle Rea●ons The first whereof is and which of its self although there were no more is not only a sufficient but a most full and necessary ground and reason for the convening of this Assembly The first Reason I say is That you who are here presently Assembled to represent the Body of this whole Kingdom and of all sorts of people within the same may with your own Ears hear and that I out of mine own Mouth may deliver unto you the assurance of my due thankfulness for your so joyfully and general Applause to the declaring and receiving me in this Seat which God by my Birth-right and Lineal descent had in the fullness of time provided for me and that immediately after it pleased God to call your late Soveraign of blessed Memory full of days but fuller of immortal Trophies of Honour out of this transitory Life not that I am able to express her Words or to utter by Eloquence the vive Image of mine inward Thankfulness but only that out of mine own Mouth you may rest assured to expect that measure of thankfulness at my Hands which is according to the infiniteness of your deserts and to my inclination and ability for requital of the same Shall I ever nay can I ever be able or rather so unable in memory as to forget your unexpected readiness and alacrity your ever memorable resolution and your most wonderful conjunction and harmony of your hearts in declaring and imbracing me as your undoubted and lawful King and Governour or ●hall it ever be blotted out of my mind how at my first Entry into this Kingdom the people of all sorts Rid and Ran nay rather Flew to meet me their Eyes flaming nothing but Sparkles of Affection their Mouths and Tongues uttering nothing but Songs of Joy their Hands and Feet and all the rest of their Members in their Gestures discovering a passionate Longing and Earnestness to Meet and Embrace their New Sovereign Quid ergo retribuamur Shall I allow in my self that which I could not bear with in another No I must plainly and freely confess here in all your Audiences I did ever naturally so far mislike a Tongue too smooth and ●iligent in paying their Creditors with Lip payments and verbal thanks as I ever suspected that sort of people meant not to pay their Debtors in more substantial sort of Coin and therefore for expressing of my thankfulness I must resort unto my other two Reasons of my convening of this Parliament by them in Action to utter my thankfulness both the said Reasons having but one ground which is the deeds whereby all the days of my Life I am by Gods Grace to express all my thankfulness toward you but divided in this That in the first of these two mine Actions of thanks are so inseperably conjoyned with my person as they are become in a manner individually annexed to the same In the other Reason mine Actions are such as I may do or leave them undone although by Gods Grace I hope never to be weary of the doing of them As to the first it is the blessings which God hath in my person bestowed on you all wherein I protest I do more glory at the same for your Weal than for any particular respect of mine own reputation or advantage therein The first then of these blessings which God hath joyntly with my person sent unto you is outward peace that is peace abroad with all Foreign Neighbours For I thank God I may safely say that never since I was a King I either received wrong from any Christian Prince or State or did wrong to any I have ever prais'd God yet kept Peace and Amity with all which have been so far tied to my person as at my coming here you are Witnesses I found the State Embarqued in a great and tedious War and only by mine Arrival here and by the peace in my person is not Amity kept where War was before which is no small blessing to a Christian Common-wealth for by Peace abroad with our Neighbours the Towns flourish the Merchants become Rich the Trade encrease and the people of all sorts of the Land enjoy free liberty to exercise themselves in their several vocations without peril or disturbance not that I think this outward Peace so unseperably tied to my Person as I dare assuredly promise to my self and to you the certain continuance thereof But thus far I can very well assure you and in the Word of a King promise unto you that I shall never give the first occasion of the breach thereof neither shall I ever be moved for any particular or private passion of mine to interrupt your publick Peace unless I be forced thereunto either for reparation of the Honour of the Kingdom or else by necessity for the Weal and preservation of the same in which Case a secure and honourable War must be preferred to an unsecure and dishonourable peace Yet do I hope by the experience of the by past blessing of Peace which God hath so long ever since my Birth time bestowed upon me that he will not be weary to continue the same nor repent him of his Grace towards me transferring that Sentence of King David's upon his by past Victories of War to mine of Peace That that God who preserved me from the devouring Jaws of the Bear and of the Lyon and delivered them into my Hands shall now