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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	earl_n	henry_n	sir_n	22,904	5	6.1717	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34079	The Protestant mask taken off from the Jesuited Englishman being an answer to a book entituled Great Britain's just complaint.	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1692 (1692)	Wing C5484; ESTC R22733	44,472	73

of George Duke of Clarence all of the House of York to whom the Right of Succession certainly belonged yet Henry was crowned in October 1485 and assumed the Crown in Right of the House of Lancaster Bacon 's History of Hen. 7. p. 6 11 and when he did marry the Heiress of York he would not suffer her Title to be mentioned nor allow the Parliament to settle the Crown any further than on his own Heirs So that here were four or five Persons excluded at his assuming the Crown and no Care taken of them in the Settlement afterwards Yet still the Monarchy remained Hereditary His Adversary did not instance in Edward the Third Page 23. because the only Breach then was in the Person of the reigning King but then he was worse dealt with than the late King being forced to resign first his Crown and soon after his Life and to thank his Deposers for declaring the next in Succession King But in Henry the Fourth's Case there were great Breaches made which he would conceal by saying King Richard the Second left no Son and by falsly affirming Henry was the next Heir because the Pretences of the House of York were not yet set on foot But the Truth is King Richard's right Heirs were the Mortimers descended from a Daughter of Lionel Duke of Clarence elder Brother to Henry the Fourth's Father And Edmund Mortimer Earl of March his Brother Sir Roger his Sister Ann by whom came afterwards the true Title to the House of York and Elianor were then and long after all alive and utterly excluded when Henry assumed the Crown though the Bishop of Carlisle in open Parliament declared that Edmund aforesaid was true and undoubted Heir to the Crown So that here was the reigning King deposed and murdered a remote Branch of the Royal Family advanced and four Princes of the Blood with their future Issue excluded from their Right and kept out for three Reigns Which is a much greater Breach than is now and our Author's Outcry for a Parallel shews his Ignorance or his Dishonesty We can shew him Acts of Parliament which have not only excluded the Collateral Line but the right Heirs even when they were not as it is in our Case of a Religion different from the established one and inconsistent with the Safety of England In short Page 24. considering the Reason and Necessity our Revolution hath made the least Breach that ever was made in such a Change The late King was not deposed but deserted us his next Heir the present Queen of whom there is no doubt was put into the Vacant Throne and the Crown settled Hereditarily upon her and her Sister and their Heirs successively there is no Breach made at all except one Contingency happen and if it do 't is Personal Temporary and highly-merited and if greater Breaches never made this Monarchy Elective this lesser one cannot do it The Succession is taken due Care of in the right Line as the Convention believes and settled on the true Heirs so that they were no Republicans but true Friends of the Old English Monarchy which the People of England I hope will never change for French Slavery the certain Consequent of that Restauration into which he would decoy us The next Bugbear he sets up to fright us into Rebellion against the present King is the Fear that the Title of Conquest should alter the Government But by the way since the late King cannot return but by Force is there not more danger that he proving victorious should urge this Title in prejudice of our Liberties who was so arbitrary when he was here And if so we leap out of the Frying-pan into the Fire by his recovering his Throne King William I am sure never pleaded this Title nor do either of the Authors he cites maintain that he conquered the People of England though in Fact he did conquer the late King We freely submitted to him and he as freely swore to govern us by our Laws Which one Observation spoils all his impertinent Declamation upon the Mischiefs of Conquest viz. Slavery Loss of the Subjects Rights and Properties and Change of Laws c. Sure he is dreaming of some wretched Country conquered and ruled by the most Unchristian King Our Prince treats his very Enemies who stay here better than King Lewis doth his own Subjects and the Conquest those Authors speak of relating only to the late King is very consistent 1. with the Prince's Declaration 2. with the Convention settling the Crown on him and 3. with our Rights and Freedom When the Prince put out his Declaration Pag. 25. he could not foresee King James would finally refuse to call a Parliament or that he should first resolve to fight and being conquered to fly rather than to treat He brought no more Force with him than sufficed to protect himself and the English who joined with him in requiring their Grievances might be redressed which shews he did not aim at Conquest Yea when the late King's Army was routed and disbanded he yielded to treat according to his Declaration which shewed no Design to take advantage as a Conqueror And when the late King fled from this Treaty he did not meddle either with the Administration or the Crown till they were successively offered him by those who represented the People of England and he granted them all their Liberties at first and since he hath had Power he hath redressed all the Grievances which the Trouble his Enemies give him will permit him to help nor hath he refused any Acts of this kind which the Parliament hath offered him So that as far as he could then foresee his Promises in his Declaration and his Actions do agree He might safely say he came not for the Crown but did not say he would not accept it if there were no body else to wear it or if it were freely offered him And as to the Convention's Gift they and King William believe after the Throne was vacant that they ought to have declared his Wife's Hereditary Right As to himself he will own that the Crown was the just Gift of a free and grateful People who so little believe his having infringed their Liberties as Conquerors use to do that I dare say if it were needful the Parliament would add any further Confirmation to his Title Nor will the Body of the English Nation suffer a Mercenary Pen hired with a few Luidores to alienate their Affections from so kind and gracious a Prince who perhaps might have seized the Crown by his Power but chose to accept it in his dear Consort 's Right and as a Reward of his personal Services and never did bear himself like a Conqueror or treat us like a conquered People His Declamation upon the woful Condition of a Conquered Nation the Value of our Liberties Page 26. and the Zeal other People have shewed and we ought to shew to shake off Slavery and