Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	abbot_n	bishop_n	duke_n	1,035	4	5.9562	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85713	The sage senator delineated: or, A discourse of the qualifications, endowments, parts, external and internal, office, duty and dignity of a perfect politician. With a discourse of kingdoms, republiques, & states-popular. As also, of kings and princes: to which is annexed, the new models of modern policy. / By J.G. Gent.; De optimo senatore. English	Goślicki, Wawrzyniec, 1530-1607.; Grimefield, John,; J. G., Gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing G2027; Thomason E1766_1; ESTC R10030	85,759	226

the time was somewhat changed yet not given to a multitude for till the State returned to the Basis and foundation of Government Monarchy Senators were elected by Consuls Censors Dictators or Chieftains In all which Elections till the time of Augustus there is no mention made of lots but the Fame Family Order Office before born riches and possessions were most of all considered and respected Now since there is no earthly possession but comes far short of Vertue for excellency in the choice of Senators that must be chiefly look'd upon because they are reputed Defenders of the Law Moderators of Liberty and Conservers of a Kingdom And as the Republick or Kingdom is oftentimes infected by the vice and impiety of Magistrates so is it antidoted corrected and repaired by their vertues Such are the People of every Country as are the Manners of their Governours and the Subjects are apt to Ape the Customs and Constitutions of their Prince It was well said of one That the change of Princes Lives and the alteration of Manners in Magistrates would also work even to a mutation of the Customs Institutions and Rights nay of the Kingdom it self And to deal really with you evill Princes are very much to be blamed not in that they themselves are guilty of any crime for it is a Maxim in our Common Law That the King can do no wrong but that thereby the Subjects are prone to be feduced and led away to the same exorbitancies which may justly be so termed in them though not in a King And indeed how can it enter within the lists of possibility for a man to perswade other men to be vertuous when he himself is vicious The Romans derided Scylla who though a man infinitely debauched and wholly given up to licenciousness did nevertheless admonish and stir up others to Sobriety Temperance and Frugality And who would not blame Lisander though he swam in a contrary stream yet he allowed and gave toleration to the Citizens for those vices which he himself abstained from and abhorred But Lycurgus deserves commendation because he never imposed the observation of that upon any man which he himself did not first of all diligently follow Yet in a free-State if any such there be it hath been observed they have been directed by the suffrage of chance This order of Election is observed by that Virgin Venice The like institution Solon authorized among the Athenians for the choice of the five hundred Senators For out of every Tribe were so many elected as were thought to deserve that dignity whose names were put into a Pot and into another as many Beans the one half white and the other black now so many as hapned upon the white were pronounced Senators and those that chanced to light on the black were repulsed and dismissed which made Thucydides to call that Senate Senatum à Faba Besides it was observed among the Romans what Office he had born before his Election and with what fidelity he had discharged himself of his duty for they made choice of their Senators out of that number of men only that were by them styled Patres which was as it were the Nursery of Counsellors that so they might be known to be men famous for some publike exploit or renowned for their Wisdom and Gravity Among us those that sit in Parliament obtain that Dignity three manner of waies First By reason of their Tenure Secondly By vertue of Writ and Thirdly By vertue of Office Per Tenure are these Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Dukes Marquesses Earls and Barons And these are summoned to appear before the Parliament in the space of 48. daies They that come in per Breve or by Writ are these Knights of the Shires Burgesses Citizens Barons of the Cinque-Ports and the King's Council There come also per Breve directed to the several Deans and Arch-Deacons of this Kingdom two several Proctors of the Clergy for every several Deaconry Arch-deaconry and these Proctors of the Clergy are elected by the Clergy There come hither per Service or by vertue of Office The Chief Crier of England The Chief Usher The Chancellor The Treasurer The Chamberlain and Barons of the Exchequer The Justices of either Bench The Steward of England The Porter Grooms and all tyed by service to be here done The Stewards Office was to place the Lords the Porter used to see there be but one door to enter in and go out at And every one of the above-mentioned Officers hath had his several Charge respectively Thus have you had a description of our Sage Senator of all the qualifications that tend to his accomplishment his Duty Dignity and Office displayed and laid open the rewards due unto and conferred on him the ancient Customs of the Romans and Grecians touching this particular their election and choice as also their manner of sitting in Parliament among us how and by what means they obtain the Senatorship or title of Parliament-men according to our modern styles who were so termed because every Member of this High and most absolute Court of Justice in England from which there is no appeal to any other for redress should sincerely and discreetly Parler la ment as it is in the old Norman French that is freely express their minds for the benefit of the Kingdom Nor are the Laws of this Island only and the Liberty of the Subject conserved by Parliament but those of all well policied Kingdoms Countries else in Europe The Germans have their Diets The Danes and Swedes their Riicks Dachs The Spaniard calls his Parliament Las Cortes And the French have or at least should have their Assembly of the three States though it be now in a manner grown obsolete because the authority thereof was by accident devolv'd upon the King it will not be altogether impertinent to give you a succinct account of this memorable alteration which hapned as followeth When our Nation had taken such large footing in France that they advanced as far as Orleans and had forced their then Soveraign to fly to Bourges in Berry for sanctuary the Assembly of the three States not being able to convene during these pressures in full Parliament because that by those invasions the enemy made into the very bowels of the Kingdom the Country was altogether unpassable so that the power that was inherent in the Parliamentary Convention of enacting Laws assessing the Subject with Taxes subsidiary Levies and other Impositions was transmitted to the King during the rage and fury of that war only which proving of long continuance that entrusted Authority began to grow habitual and could never hitherto be taken from him so that his Edicts stand in lieu of Acts of Parliament Out of these foregoing premises this Conclusion may easily be deduced That the principal Fountain whence the King derives his happiness and safety is the Parliament It is the great Conduit-Pipe which conveys unto him his Peoples bounty and gratitude the truest