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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	robert_n	4,365	5	8.8677	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57453	An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.; Van Hove, Frederick Hendrick.	1693 (1693)	Wing R169; ESTC R8443	18,952	88

Vortigern to establish the Kingdome in his own Line and as he thought to strengthen himself with these Strangers took to Wife Renix the daughter of Hengist his own Wife living and by his dotage on her being a beautiful Lady who knew to take the advantage of his love gave the Saxons those Preferments in the State as the Brittons neglected by him soon became a prey unto them This Alliance and the Fertility of the Land letting in so many of this populous and Warlike Nation that e're Men scarce perceived their danger they were undone And notwithstanding the Combination of the British Nobility with the deposing of Vortigern and Electing King his Son Vortimer a valiant Prince who gave them many stout Battles yet could they not prevail against the Saxons thus established but were forced to quit their Country and betake themselves to remote Mountains and Deserts leaving All to the Invaders Who after many Fortunes dividing the Land into seven Kingdomes extinguished both the Religion Language and even the Name thereof And in this Heptarchy it continued till Egbert K. of the West-Saxons An. 828. being three hundred fifty years after their Entrance subduing the other Kings obtained the whole Dominion to himself And to raze out the Memory of a Division Caused by an Edict the whole Kingdome to be called England of the Angles a people that possest the middle part of this Island Â§ 6. But neither he nor his Successors quietly enjoyed it For the Danes having been first called in to aid the King of Northumberland against the other Kings sorely infested the Land and combining themselves with the Welch and Scots prevailed so much that from the raign of King Britric Anno 387. they continued to afflict the same the space of two hundred fifty five years and in the End by the negligent and ill Government of King Ethelred whose Luxury and Oppression had made way for Division they got the absolute Dominion of the Kingdom and held it twenty six years by three of their Kings successively Canutus governed it twenty years and left it to Harold who raigned two years Canutus the second succeeded his Brother Harold and at a Banquet at Lambeth either by Surfeit or Poison died in the Second year of his Reign When streight the People of the Land by a sudden and general Massacre redeemed themselves from that odious Yoke of a Foreign Subjection which was held to be the Third Dissolution of this State But I cannot see how it should be so accounted seeing that this Canutus never altered the Government but embraced the same Religion maintained the Laws he found and added many Constitutions for the good of the Kingdom And to get into the People's affections he married Emma sometimes Wife to King Ethelred and daughter to Richard Duke of Normandy to whom for his better strength he had likewise given his Sister to Wife And then the short Time of the Government in the Succession of his two Sons seems not to have bred any great Alteration in the state of the Kingdome but onely in the Change of the person of the Prince and the preferment of his Nation before ours which by reason of the long foregoing wars were made incompatible of each other Â§ 7. But yet this gave the Cause to that great and last Mutation of State effected by the Norman For King Etheldred to make his party good against the Invasion of the Danes combined himself with Richard Duke of Normandy married his Sister Emma and by her had Issue Edward after King of England intitled the Confessor who with his Brother were there brought up out of the dangers of the Wars and by the assistance of the Duke reconveyed over after the death of the last Canutus and here invested in the Kingdom For which Offices of Kindness divers Preferments were in way of Gratification bestowed on the Normans as the Archbishoprick of Canterbury and other especial Places and Dignities Ecclesiastical in a manner throughout the whole Land which prepared an easier passage for the Invasion following when the death of this good King Edward without Issue to inherit left the Succession doubtful or else by the Iniquity of times made it seem so For Edgar surnamed Atheling sonne of Edward the Son of King Edmond Ironside had his Claim neglected Either in respect of his Youth which yet was no Barr to his Right or for want of Means and power to oppose against the ambition of others who having swaied the Fortune of the time under an easie-natured Prince had Opportunity enough to work for themselves Although the Worthiness of his Grandfather shewed in the Defence of his Country might seem to deserve to have his Issue remembred in their Right Â§ 8. But the Earl Godwin what in respect that King Edward had matched with his Daughter and what with his own Greatness and popularity having long managed the State of the Kingdome made the Ascent easie for Harold his Son to get up to the Crown and by Crossing the right Line of Succession called up Destruction and Misery both upon his own Race and the whole Kingdome For though Harold had a shew of Title as being the Son of Thira sister to Canutus King of England yet seeing all the Land had received an Oath upon the Massacre and expulsion of the Danes never to have any King of that Nation to raign over them it might seem no lawful Claim But yet the Favour of the people which both his person and Valour had gotten with the Necessity of the Time that required a Man of Spirit and Courage to undertake the burden of war and the Trouble which the World they saw was like to grow into cast it upon him with hope to keep out the Misery of a foreign Subjection and the Insolency of Strangers Â§ 8. But the whole Course of things being overcast and set for Storms and Alteration could not by any providence of Men be prevented Though this new King who is said to have crowned himself used all the Means that a wife and valiant Prince could do both for the well ordering of the State and all provisions for defence yet the disjointed Affections of Men tending to their private Ends and working several Wayes to get up to their Hopes either left the Ship of the State which contained them all to the mercy of the Waves and every Man cast to save himself where the greatest likelyhood of Mastery appeared or else distracted with the â—error of the approaching Mischief failed in their Spirits and courage to withstand it For the Diligence of Men becomes often dasht with their Fear in publick Tumults and with the very Cogitation of the Evil to come Â§ 9. And the first Man which began to afflict his new Government was his own younger Brother Tosty who for a former conceived Hatred was easily set on by the Duke of Normandy and Baldwin Earle of Flanders whose Daughter he had married to assail the Isle of Wight and

28. Where he was no sooner arrived but he heard that his Son was again Revolted Treated the Normans ill and renounced his Father's Soveraignty over that Province which caused his little Stay in England for that time but only to prepare for his Return into Normandy Whither passing he was by Tempest driven on the Coast of Spain and there is said to have Fought in Battle against the Sarasnis Afterwards arriving at Bourdeaux his Son Robert came and submitted himself the second time whom now he took with him into England to frame him to a better Obedience by imploying him here for a Season and then sent him back again with his Youngest Son Harry whom he more trusted into Normandy where he held himself quiet a while and gave his Father some small Breathing time to dispose of the Affairs of this Kingdom Â§ 29. But it was not long e're new Occasions of greater Troubles grew up which took by this means The two Princes Robert and Henry went to Visit and salute the King of France at Couflans where being seasted certain Days upon an After-dinner Henry wan so much at Chess of Louis the King 's eldest Son that he grew so far into Choler as he called him the Son of a Bastard and threw the Chess in his Face Henry takes up the Chess-board and strook Louis with that Force as he drew Bloud and had killed him had it not been for his Brother Robert who came in in the mean time and interposed himself whereupon they suddainely took Horse and with much a do saved themselves at Pontoise from the King's People that pursued them Â§ 30. This Quarrel arising upon the intermeeting of these Princes which is a thing that seldom breeds good Bloud amongst them reinkindled a Heat of more Rancor in the Fathers and set a mighty Fire between the two Kingdoms which made the first War the English and French had together whereupon followed many others For presently the King of France complots again with Robert enters into Normandy and takes the City of Vernon The King of England invades France subdues the Countrey on Xaintoign and Poitou and returns to Roan Where the third time his Son Robert is reconciled unto him which much disappointeth and vexeth the King of France Who hereupon Summons the King of England to come and do him Homage for the Kingdom of England Which he refused to do saying that he held it of none but of God and his Sword But yet offering to do him Homage for the Dutchy of Normandy it would not satisfie the King of France who was willing to make any Occasion the Motive to set upon him And again he invaded his Territories but which more loss than Profit In the End they conclude a little unperfect Peace together which held no longer than King William had recovered a Sickness whereinto by Reason of his Years Travel and Fatness he was lately fallen At which Time the King of France then Young and Lusty jesting at his great Belly whereof he said he lay in at Roan so irritated him as being recovered he gathered all his Forces entred into France in the Chiefest Time of their Fruits and came even before Paris spoiling and burning all in his way Where with Heat and Toil he fell into a Relapse returned to Roan and there made an End of his Wars and Life after he had held this Kingdom twenty years and ten Months Â§ 31. Now concerning his Government in Peace and the Course he held in Establishing the Kingdom thus gotten first he examines the English Laws which were then composed of Merchenlage Danelage and Westfaxlage Whereof some he abrogated and some allowed adding other of Normandy especially such as made for the Preservation of the Peace which most imported him to look unto And these Laws thus reformed he caused to be all Translated and and Written into the Norman Tongue hereby to draw the People of the Kingdom to learn that Language for their own Need that the two Nations might the better grow together and become one seeing a difference of Speech would continue a difference of Affections Wherein he attained not his Desire nor ever was it in the Power of any Conquerour so to do without the universal Extirpation of the Land-bred People Who being so far in number as they were above the Invaders both carry the main of the Language and also in few Years make them to become theirs that subdued them But yet upon these Laws thus Established by so prudent a Prince this free and Fierce Nation was so well held in Peace and Obedience as his Successors with some Abatement of Rigour and Prerogative have ever since continued a most Glorious Soveraignty over the same Â§ 32. And for that he would be well and certainly supplied with Treasure which his great Wars and Entertainments required he took a most provident Course for reforming the Fisque or Exchequer and the ordering and raising of his Revenues Endeavouring to make and know the utmost of his Estate And therefore he imployed a most discreet Choice of Men to survey the whole Kingdom and to take the Particulars of his own and every Man's Ability the quantity and nature of Lands and Possessions with the Discriptions Bounds and Divisions of Shires and Hundreds within the same And this was drawn into one Book and brought into his AErarium the Exchequer so called of the Table whereat the Officers sate before termed the Talce and the same intitled Doomesday-Book Liber Iudiciarius saith Gervasius the Judgement Book that was to decide all Doubts concerning these Particulars Â§ 33. All the Forrests and Chases throughout the Kingdom he took into his proper Possession and exempted them from being under any other Law than his own Pleasure to serve as Penetralia Regnum the withdrawing Chambers of Kings to recreate them after their serious Labours in the State where none might presume to have to do and where all Punishments and Pardons of Delinquents were to be Disposed by himself absolutely and the former Customes abrogated And to make his Command the more he encreased the Number of them in all parts of the Land and on the South-Coast dispeopled the Country for above thirty Miles space making of old inhabited Possessions a new Forrest Inflicting great Punishments for Hunting his Dear whereby he much advanced his Revenue which was the greatest Act of Concussion and Tiranny he committed in his Government And the same Course held almost every King near the Conquest For Henry the first proceeded with such Violence as to make a Law that if any Man killed the Kings Deer in his own Woods he should forfeit his Woods to the King But King Stephen having need of the Peoples Favour repealed that Law And in the End this Grievance amongst others after much Bloodshed in the Kingdom was allayed by the Charter of Forrests granted by Henry III. For other Possessions he permitted those which held them before his Coming to continue them quietly in

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