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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	put_v	scotland_n	2,903	5	8.5031	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44949	Humanum est errare, or, False steps on both sides		1689 (1689)	Wing H3364; ESTC R26810	12,889	12

opinion for Abdication upon a constrained absence of the King and after that for his Deposition and the Electiveness of the Crown that They all know and ever have asserted for Law cannot be legally done by the Government of England which Contradiction over-throws all the Proceedings of their Learned Predecessors and sets the Law with its heels upwards VIII That the Prince should send his Secretary to the Judges upon the opinion of private Lawyers that the Kings absence was an Abdication peremtorily to forbid the Term which gives Judgement anticedent to the Resolution of the Convention that the Kings Retreat was an Abdication tho at the same time the rest of the Government went on in the Kings Name IX That the Convention did not in the first place assert all Power was in the People of England that They where the people of England and what they did was the Agreement of the people of England and upon that assert their power to Make Limit Alter Depose and Punish Kings when they see Cause and that in persuance of this power they made the present Alteration and that it was both lawful and a duty to do what they had now done else whatever good may be got to the publick by the present Change They that make it are obnoxious and those that shall imitate it in after time do it at their own peril X. That They did not mend the Constitution as well as seem to Restore it from its abuses at least as to the Choice Session and Power of Parliaments such opportunities as this seldom coming into the Peoples hands Had we had our Annual Parliaments Setled the Negative Voice Restrained a Commitee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament the Revenue Appropriated all Eminent Offices had upon good Behavour and Election of Members to Parliament secured the Work might have deserved a better Character XI That They did not first determine the Disputable Elections before they went upon any thing of moment there being near one Hundred and some say by very soul play and that at no other time of day things were carried more grosly Debauching the Electors Adjourning the Poles suffering false Poles Lords appearing to Influence the Elections all which former Parliaments thought Intolerable But that which encreases the error they Chose a Speaker out of those that had the Disputable Elections and of the worst sort too being against the Choice of the People and that Charter that they pretend to Restore And they that know how much the Chaire guides that House and who it is that is in it and his Circumstances and by what Interest he came there are ready to render it a Capital Blemish in the Convention it self XII That They proceeded to chuse a new King before they had proved the Crimes laid to the Charge of the old King or without so much as giving him the Refusal upon the terms of Restoring or Amending of the ancient Constitution of the Realm in Case he were not found guilty of those vile imputations of which as it makes People think him now clear because he would not have been spared if he had been guilty so they begin to esteem it the least piece of Justice to him that he should not loose his Kingdoms because he has been accused falsly XIII That They Voted he had broke Faith with his People and did not prove in what which leaves all in the dark If his Breach of Faith be Violating his Corronation Oath that Breach cannot un-King him unleass that Oath made him a King and that it did not because he was King the very Minute his Brother dyed He was so reputed in Scotland where he was never Crowned and his Brother acted as such from the Death of his Father and it was almost a Year after his Restoration before he took the Oath This is obvious to all and but the natural consequence of an Hereditary Monarchy where the King never dies XIV That They should make the Prince of Orange King without either Oath or Corronation which in an Elected King are the Seals and Sacraments of Kingship to the People and without which some question if there can be any Allegience due from them XV. That the Prince considering his respectful terms to the King in his Declaration would accept of such a Choice without so much as inspecting the Right of the pretended Prince of Wales because the aforesaid Declaration allows him to be such till he be disproved and since he is not so every body will conclude him too young to be guilty of faults to the Nation that can make him deserve to be Excluded as now he is XVI That admitting there was no true Prince of Wales he could let the flattery of the Convention carry him to overthrow the order of the Line in setting his Wife and Sisters Right aside after what he had said in his Declaration of the Title of his Princess being the great reason of his medling so publickly in our English affairs The danger of such a latitude is that we teach the Instruments of our Ambition what to do to our prejudice when it is for their Interest or Revenge by the same morrals that we use them to our advantage But this is not all XVII That He would think of taking upon him the Kingship here before he had Reduced or Secured the three Kingdoms from a Division of Interest is as extraordinary for by looking after that personal Dignity in England he has left Scotland and Ireland naked so that King James is before-hand with him in one if not in both Kingdoms by which neglect he has put the Labour Oar upon himself and delay'd his Affares to a dangerous after-Game And this will in all probability quickly have its Effects here and hath already now the News of his Arrival in Ierland may be relied upon For many that would have followed him all the World over as Prince of Orange their Protector from the danger of Popery relish his affecting his Fathers Crown very unpleasantly and those that consider the Civil-Wars it will immediately involve these Nations in and the Desolation and Misery that must follow as the Price of a new King think they have an hard Bargain without the Six Hundred and odd Thousand Pounds that they are to give the Dutch for helping them to it to save themselves yet it might have been a tollerable Rate for saving of three Kingdom but too much of all conscience to hire any Man to take them away for himself XVII That the Convention should offer to sit without taking the Test when that was the Jealoufie that was had of the King as the fatalest thing that could befal the Government in his time For it is reasonably argued if the Convention had Power to make a King they must have had Power enough to Constitute some Body to administer the Test without which if no legal Parliament could be held nor no one

Diligent and Wise Man. A saying of his Brothers had been of use to him now Don't loose a Sheep for a hal-fpenny worth of Tar The Twentieth part of what it cost him to prepare an Opposition here would have stopt them there which instructs us that good Husbandry ill placed is sometimes the dangerousest thing in the World. XIII That the Parliament that was to have sat in November was suffered to be interrupted and that the Charters that were Returned at last had not been Restored when the Declaration for the Session of that Parliament was published which teaches us that it is equally dangerous to change and to change too late and perhaps something of both conspired to the Kings fatality XIIII That he would never be perswaded to new moddle his Army when all the World saw the influemes they were under must render them useless and dangerous to him in a case of extremity Had that Army had but new Officers or had the old ones been changed in their commands it had been impossible but the attempt against him must have proved vain and successless Wich shows us the Mischief of an unreasonable confidence for he built his assurance upon private passion or an opinion of Gratitude against interest and judgment that could not but tell him that it was as easie catching Hares with Lobsters as defending a cause by instruments that are heartily against it XV. That upon notice of the Dutch Fleets passing by Dover there were not some Light-horse and foot mounted dispatched westward to watch their motion and obstruct their landing then which nothing is now allowed to have been more easy and that a due reflection upon the action would even then have given leisure enough to have thought of But when the Army did march it seems an error to many that He did not march with it and that to Exeter it self before any went into the Prince but that he let them halt at Salisbury to take time to think better how to desert and betray him which shows too much confidence and yet not enough of resolution XVI That he did not Treat Earlier when they were Humbler in their hopes or not treat at all but possess himself of the City of London and let the Writs proceed for a Parliament and put the invaders upon proving those impious Crimes that could only rob him of the affections of his Subjects and render him unworthy of raigning over them and which as we see now must certainly have procured him the best of tearms by satisfyng his jealous People he was not guilty and so turning the difficulty upon his Enemies Or lastly that he did not timely March off with that part of his Army that was willing to follow him both of English Scotch and Irish for Scotland which had secured that Kingdom as entirely to him as Tirconel has done Ireland and with the Forces of both Kingdoms which it had been easie to joyn have Treated or Fought his way back again But this plainly tells us that when Men are disordered in their minds by ill success they hardly chuse what is best for themselves and when they do so it often happens they press it too feebly to recover themselves He thought all lost and so He lost all upon that bottom yet we must say Peace and Plenty filled his short Raign and that he fell by the faults of others rather then his own Secondly False Steps on the other Side 1. THat before the Prince of Orange ever undertook to Invade His Father He did not make some Publick Protest against his Conduct in reference to the security of the Protestant Religion and the Right of his Princess and the rest of the Protestant Royal Blood It is good to leave People without just excuse as it is to accept only of just occasion of advantage II. That the Memorial the Marquess D' albaville was ordered to give into the States and which as late as it was came to their Hands near a Month before the Prince Sailed for England was not imbraced and improved by the States to that good Vnderstanding and firm Alliance that it gave a plain handle for especially since nothing else seemed to have been the meaning of the States in Lending the Prince their Forces by Sea and Land if they meant what they said in their Memorial they gave to all the Forreign Ministers at the Hague Some think this might have proved a quicker and therefore a better Security to Holland then our present Friendship and with much less Confusion and Consumption to us Others are more malitious and say the Dutch had rather hazard all with France then not spare us this King that was so near being One there and that at any time the Dutch have the good nature To take a Thorn out of their own Foot to put into their Neighbours III. That the Prince being Landed at Exeter He did not send then a Copy to the King of his Declaration in order to satisfie Him of the Reasons and end of his coming and for prevention of Blood to have intreated Him to think of those legal Methods by which the Grievancies complained of might receive their proper redress This had looked both just and decent and thus Things would evidently have preceeded all personal Interests For hardly any body but was on the side of a Reformation to a degree Just and Reasonable IV. That He stayed too long at Exeter if He was not sure of gaining His point without Fighting for it was in the Kings power to have Cut of all Intercourse between Him and those He expected should joyn Him. V. That He admitted of a Treaty at Hungerford after taking no notice for three Weeks that there was such a thing as a King in England and refused One at Windsor when the tearms grew extreamly on His side and every thing lay nearer to a good accomodation for four days could make no difference if the thought of being King was not in his Head and if it were a Treaty could not be sincerely held upon other points VI. That the King was sent for back when he was stoped and that he was Dislodged and let go after he returned For he could not be sent for back but as a King or Criminal not as a King for he was soon Dislodged by anothers Command and not as a Crimenal it seems for then he would not have been left at liberty to go away which shews that they that sent for him back did not know their Lesson till Saturday night at Windsor and that nothing is a better proof that there was no Proof against him about the matters usually suggested then that He was let go so quietly and knowingly as if all this great undertaking had not been to mend him but to get him out of his Kingdom tho we were told and therefore thought and expected other things VII That those Lawyer 's that were against the Dispensing Power out of meer Tenderness in Law Points could give their