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A47023 A theatre of wars between England and France in all the kings reigns, from the time of William the Conqueror to the conclusion of the peace, on the 10th of September, 1697 ... : with a map of England and France on a copper plate / by D. Jones. Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720. 1698 (1698) Wing J934A; ESTC R43322 51,271 110

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surnamed Ceur de Lion was the third Son of Henry the II. but the Eldest when his Father died aged 35 years when he began his Reign the former part whereof was spent by him in the Wars in the Holy-Land William Longshamp Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England governing the Kingdom during his absence in this War he signalized his Valour to a wonder having first taken Cyprus in his way thither and at Acon in Syria so behaved himself that he became an object of Envy to other Christian Princes especially to King Phillip of France as you shall see hereafter where ever he went Terror was his forerunner insomuch that it grew common amongst those Eastern People to terrifie their Children with the apprehension of King Richard's coming in his return being driven upon the Coast of Dalmatia and thinking to pass home by Land incognito he was made Prisoner by the Duke of Austria who brought him to the Emperor Henry and was detained by him in Custody for a Year and five Months till he paid a great Ransom his unparallell'd Valour and Bravery was the occasion of this misfortune these and other Princes bearing him Envy especially the French King who invades Normandy during his absence which obliged Richard to make a Peace with Saladine for Three Years much to the disadvantage of the cause they fought for Phillip attacked Gisors and had it surrendred to him and many other Places and then hasted to lay Siege to Roan but found such a vigorous defence made by the Valiant and Noble Earl of Leicester that he was forced to quit his Enterprize and so returned into France On the 12th of March 1194. King Richard landed at Sandwich was recrowned again reduced the Kingdom entirely to his Obedience which was much divided because of his Brother John's pretentions in his absence and hearing the King of France had besieged Vernail he passed over into Normandy and arrived at Harfleur with 100 Ships full of Horsemen Armour c. the noise whereof so frighted the Monsieur that he left the Siege and went his ways whereupon Richard enters the French Dominions takes in several strong Places but the Noble Leicester had the misfortune to be taken Prisoner who afterward paid a great summ of Money for his Ransom and soon after ensued a Truce for a short time which was no sooner ended but Richard takes the Field possesses himself of the Castle of Brisen Novencourt c. the French King in the mean time besieging Albermarl whither Richard hastening to succour the Place a sharp Battle was fought between both Armies wherein the French prevailed chiefly upon the account of the English being wearied with their hard March But Richard had no sooner recruited and refreshed his Soldiers but he laid Siege to Miligio took it and burnt it down to the Ground whereupon ensued some overtures of Peace Albemarl in the mean time falling into the French hands and ran the same fate with Miligio Some three Years after Richard turned his Arms against the Barons of Poictiers that rebelled against him with prosperous success till at last besieging the Castle of Chaluz and having brought it to that extremity that he would grant no other Conditions but a surrender at Discretion he was shot in the left Arm out of a Cross-bow with an invenomed Dart by one Bartram de Gordon of which wound he died the 6th of April 1199. after he had reigned Nine Years and Nine Months and was buried at Fonteverard at his Fathers Feet The Causes were that while Richard went on so prosperously in the Holy Land the French King out of Envy and contrary to his Sacramental Oath invaded Normandy which forc'd King Richard to make peace with Saladine so much disadvantagious to all Christendom JOHN THe Brother of Richard who died without issue and youngest Son of Henry the II. succeeded his Brother to the prejudice of Arthur Geoffrey his Elder Brothers Son who was the real heir of Course This Arthur in right of his Mother was Earl of Bretagne in France so that by this exclusion England lost one of the best Provinces in that Kingdom and by advancing John to the Throne we not only lost almost all our Possessions in France but England it self became vassal to the Pope the Clergy of those times growing strangely bigotted to Rome and perverse to the King King John was in Normandy when his Brother dyed and though he wasted over into England with all possible speed to take Possession of the Crown and that his presence was so necessary here for to keep his new Subjects in their Obedience to him yet he could make no long stay for before a Year came about he was forced to return into Normandy again upon information that Phillip King of France had with a powerful Army made an irruption into Normandy who took the Country of Main and several other places from the English the Britons at the same time possessing themselves of the City of Angiers the Towns of Gorney Butenant and Gensoline Arthur doing also Homage to King Phillip for Anjou Poictiers Turain Main Bretaign and Normandy but soon after a Peace was concluded between the Kings and thereby many places confirmed to the French King that he had taken and others yielded up by John upon the account of his neece Blanch's Marriage with Lewis heir of France besides 30000 Marks in Silver paid to Phillip and all this to the great dishonour as well as detriment of the English Nation About two Years after this to wit the third of the Kings Reign one Hugo Brune a Noble Man of Aquitain raised a Rebellion against King John in that Province but he and his Adherents being unable to withstand John's Forces made complaint of him to Phillip of France whereupon he was summoned by the Nobles of France as Duke or Earl of Aquitain and Anjou to appear before the French King and to stand to the Judgment of his Peers which he refused upon which the Court adjudged him to be deprived of all his Lands which he or his Predecessors held of the King of France King Phillip forthwith raises a great Army invades Normandy takes in many Castles and a great part of the Country without resistance but Arthur Duke of Bretaign besieging the Castle of Mirable with Queen Eleanor then in it King John fell upon him there with such Force and Fury that he routed his Army and took Arthur and many others of Note Prisoners Arthur sometime after was sent Prisoner to the Tower of Roan and was there barbarously Murdered some said by King John's own hands but in all this time Phillip prospered in so much that in a very short space King John was in a manner despoiled of all the Lands he held in Fee of the Crown of France King John once and again made great preparations to recover his lost Dominions and had the good success to destroy the French Fleet and recover the Province of Poictou but his Domestick troubles both
A THEATRE OF WARS BETWEEN England France In all the Kings Reigns from the time of William the Conqueror to the Conclusion of the Peace on the 10th of September 1697. in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Gracious Sovereign K. William III. Containing The Causes of the War the Battels Sieges State Policies Naval Fights Treaties and the several Truces Peaces Concluded Leagues made and broken c. With a large Discourse of the Salique Law by which to prevent the Right of other Princes the French pretend to Exclude Females from Enjoying the Crown of France and many other Transactions between the two Nations both Publick and Private With a Map of England and France on a Copper Plate By D. Jones London Printed for W. Whitwood at the Rose and Crown in Little-Britain 1698. A Map of ENGLAND and FRANCE To the Right Honourable ROBERT Lord Viscount LISLE c. My Lord THe Topicks usually insisted upon to engage the Favours of the Great are those of Honour and Goodness of both which your Lordship has no common share and if upon others they have been so powerfully influential in Addresses of this kind Your Lordship will Pardon me if being carried with the same current I presume to commit this little Treatise to Your Patronage as to a safe Azilum sufficient to skreen it from all the assaults of Male-volence and if it be an Argument of Imprudence to range far abroad for that Good which is attainable nigh at hand my Vicinity to your Lordship will not only justifie this my Practise but should I have neglected the improvement of it upon this occasion as I would hardly be brought to forgive my self for being guilty of the grossest Folly so would it bear a Semblance of the highest indignity offered to Your Honour and of the basest diffidence of Your Goodness The Subject My Lord must be acknowledged to be of an Heroical Nature and therefore a fit entertainment to Heroick Minds and consequently cannot but be so to Your Lordship however the structure may have suffered through the debility of the Architect who yet has this humbly to offer to your Lordship and under Your Patronage to the World that Truth is the great standard I have endeavoured to fix my Eye continually upon having strenuously avoided all false Idea's of the actions of my Country and herein have done both the Enemy that justice due to them in their various conflicts with us and made it appear there was no need of any such prevarication in that True Glory has been no stranger to the English Arms through the series of many hundred years together and though things may not here be exposed in their Native Lustre and Excellency yet I cannot otherwise then perswade my self but they retain still their Native and Original verity But to dwell no longer upon the Products of my own Teeming Fancy I submit all to Your Lordships adequate Judgment and if in this my studied Brevity you meet with any thing grateful or divertive so as that it may conciliate Your Lordship's Good Opinion of me his highest ambition is gratified who begs leave to subscribe himself My Lord Your Honours most Humble and most devoted Servant D. Jones TO THE READER GReat and Various have the Actions been between England and France since the Invasion of the Normans Anno Dom. 1066. which makes September next just 629 Years but that the French Nation should make a Conquest of England hereby nothing is more manifestly untrue that People being a distinct Nation from the French who conquering that Province by main force from Neustria call'd it Normandia in the Reign of Charles le Simple whence by the way 't is worth the remarking what kind of Kings France hath often had and what sort of Epithetts their own Cronicles give them which stand upon publick Record to all posterity as Charles le Simple Charles le Chauve Charles le Gros Charles le Gras Charles le Phrenetique Philip le Long Lovis le Begue c. Now tho there have been many and mighty Quarrels War-like Encounters and Feuds betwixt England and France yet in the reign of the Saxon Kings the Historians make little mention of any but since England was joined as it were to the Continent by addition of Normandy there have been as frequent traverses of War as have happen'd between any two Nations for of those 28 Kings and Queens which have reigned here from William the First to William the Third now Regnant there have been but a very few of them free from actual Wars with France yet in so long a tract of time when the French were at their highest pitch of Power they never did nor had any adequate power to invade England 't is true that they took footing once or twice in the Isle of Wight but it quickly grew too hot for them And touching Lewis the French King's Son who did stay and sway the Scepter here about two Years whereof they so much vaunt That was no Invasion but an Invitation being brought in by the discontented Barons in England so that in a manner France was the Theater of the War between the two Nations down from William I. to the present time As for the great Battles which were fought from time to time 't is confessed by the French Historians themselves that the English were at most but half in number to them in almost all Engagements insomuch that by pure prowess and point of the Sword the English possess'd two parts in three of that populous Kingdom and how all came to be lost again will appear by the sequel of the Story but here I cannot omit one remarkable accident that was concomitant with the English Arms in France and that is that when the English were at the height of their conquests in that Kingdom the Pope came to reside at Avignon in France and there was a common saying which continues still in memory among the Vulgar Ores le pape est devenu Francois Christ est devenu Anglois i. e. Lo the Pope is become a Frenchman and Christ an Englishman which related to the marvelous Exploits and Successes the English had in that Kingdom which were such that Sir Walter Rawleigh speaking of the famous Punick Wars puts this Quaere If one should ask which was the valiantest the Roman or the Carthaginian one might answer the Englishman who performed greater feats of Arms then either of them insomuch that some foreign Authors give this Character of France that it was the stage whereon the English acted their valour so often 'T is true that in canvassing of Treaties in subtleties or shuffling the Cards and mental reservations they were mostly too hard for the English who naturally use down right dealing and real integrity but in point of performance of what was stipulated especially if the Article related to Money whereof we drew from them vast summs they seldom exactly performed the Capitulation of any Treaty as Foreign Writers observe