Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	good_a	king_n	lord_n	7,040	5	3.9036	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33736	Mr. Coleman's two letters to Monsieur L'Chaise, the French king's confessor with Monsieur L'Chaise's answer to Mr. Coleman, which the House of Commons desired might be printed : together with the D. of Y's letter to the said Monsieur L'Chaise, which sheweth what Mr. Coleman wrote to him, was by his special command and appointment.; Two letters to Monsieur L'Chaise	Coleman, Edward, d. 1678.; La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.; James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5046; ESTC R6884	16,534	28

to govern himself by and of those advantages vvhich a little money vvell managed vvould certainly have gained us I am affraid vve shall not be much better at the end of this Session then vve are novv I pray God vve do not loose ground By my next vvhich shall be ere long I shall be able to tell your Reverence more perticularly vvhat vve are like to expect In the mean time I most humbly beg your holy prayers for all our undertakings and that you vvill please to honour me so far as to esteem me vvhich I am entirely and vvithout any reserve Sir Most Reverend Father Your Reverences most humble and most obedient Servant A Coppy of his R. H. his Letter to L' Chaise about the time Mr. Coleman vvrote his long Letter 1675. THE 2d of June last past his Most Christian Majesty offered me most generously his Friendship and the use of his Purse to assistance against the designes of my Enemies and his and protested unto me That his Interest and mine were so clearly linckt together that those that opposed the one should be lookt upon as Enemies to the other and told me moreover his opinion of my Lord Arlington and the Parliament which is That he is of opinion that neither the one nor the other is in his Interest or mine and thereupon he desired me to make such Propositions as I should think fit in this Conjuncture All was transacted by the means of Father Ferrier who made use of Sir William Frogmorton who is an honest man and of truth who was then at Paris and hath held correspondence with Coleman one of my Family in whom I have great confidence I was much satisfyed to see his most Christian Majesty altogether of my opinion so I made him Answer the 29th of June by the same meanes he had made use of to write to me that is by Coleman who adrest himself to Father Ferrier by the forementioned Knight and entirely agreed to his most Christian Majesty as well to what had respect to the Union of our Interests as the unusefulness of my Lord Arlington and the Parliament in order to the service of the King my Brother and his most Christian Majesty and that it was necessary to make use of our joynt and utmost credits to prevent the success of those evil designs resolved on by the Lord Arlington and the Parliament against his most Christian Majesty and my self which of my side I promise really to perform of which since that time I have given reasonable good proof Moreover I made some Proposals which I thought necessary to bring to pass what we were obliged to undertake assuring him that nothing could so firmly establish our Interest with the King my Brother as that very same offer of the help of his Purse by which means I had much reason to hope I should be enabled to perswade to the Dissolving of the Parliament and to make void the designs of my Lord Arlington who works incessantly to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Hollanders and to lessen that of the King your Master notwithstanding all the Protestations he hath made to this hour to render him service But as that which was proposed was at a stand by reason of the sickness of Father Ferrier so our Affaires succeeded not according to our Designes only Father Ferrier vvrote to me the 15th of the last Moneth That he had communicated those Propositions to his most Christian Majesty and that they had been very vvell lik't of but as they contained things that had regard to the Catholick Religion and to the offer and use of his Purse he gave me to understand he did not desire I should treat vvith Monsieur Ravigny upon the first but as to the last and had the same time acquainted me that Monsieur Ravigny had order to grant me vvhatsoever the conjuncture of our Affaires did require and have expected the effects of it to this very hour but nothing being done in it and seeing on the other hand that my Lord Arlington and several others endeavoured by a thousand deceits to break the good Intelligence which is between the King my Brother his most Christian Majesty and my Self to the end they might deceive us all three I have thought fit to advertise you of all that is past and desire of you your assistance and Friendship to prevent the Roguerys of those who have no other design than to betray the Concerns of France and England also and who by their pretended service are the 〈◊〉 they succeed not As to any thing more I refer you to Sir William Frogmorton and Coleman who I have comanded to give an account of the whole state of our Affair and of the true condi●●●●of England with many others and principally my Lord Arlingtons endeavours to represent to you quite otherwise than it is The two first I mentioned to you are firm to my Interest so that you may treat with them without any apprehension FINIS Errata Page 1. line 6. for LE-CHEER read L'CHAISE and so where-ever you meet with that Name l. 〈…〉 Sir Germaine r. Saint Germaine and so throughout 〈…〉