Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	city_n	king_n	lord_n	4,004	5	3.6249	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B15269	Letters conteyning sundry deuises touching the state of Flaunders and Portingall: written by Card. Granuelle and others, and lately intercepted and published.	Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, 1517-1586.	1582 (1582)	STC 19768; ESTC S101488	31,340	94

Farther although there were no other cause but the only electiō of the people of this Realme who for default of kings are by their decrees and ordinances to chuse others yet was it inough that your Maiestie entred the lande with an armie the controuersie not being decided for had your title bin neuer so good yet had you thereby vtterly lost it But I trust in god the whole will returne to such passe as your Maiestie for the enioying thereof will not damne your own soule but that it will in the ende fall agayne into the right Lords dominion notwithstanding he be now dispossessed thereof Your Maiestie must not think me past shame but a man damnified And I would to GOD that all kings had in their counsels free men deuoyde of ambition so shoulde not our R. Don Anthony haue fallen into that estate whereto great treasons haue cast him headlong neither your Maiestie into the great danger of the losse of your selfe and subuersion of all Christiandom besides if you be at the day of iudgement to giue accompt of the honors deathes pillages of so many men and of their libertie you can not sufficiently repent make amendes for that is already passed If your maiestie woulde but thinke vpon the houre of your death together with the euils that then will offer them selues to your view and remember that you are euerlastingly to suffer the paynes whiche you haue inflicted vpon the Portingalls perceiuing then howe neere the losse of all is vnto you Oh! howe woulde you turne aside from all that is past for at that time it will bee before your eyes Howe much better had it bin for you quietly to haue remained in your own realme to see your vassals in peace your selfe beloued of all Christians and obeyed of all your subiectes for in respect of that you haue done in Portingall not onely all Christian kings and princes but also the very barbarous nations do mortally hate you Consider howe many Innocents you haue with your weapons murdered thinke vpō the rauishments of so many widows and maydes bournings and lamentations as do cry to God for vengeaunce aginst you Remember how many wiues ar e separated from ther husbands through forced adulteries how many Churches are profaned and religion dishonored also into what slauerie you haue reduced the inhabitants of Portingal for that of all this and of more which you haue caused you shall giue accompt before God who will call you thereto with rigorous iustice as that the whole hath been perpetrated in a realme which God hath loued aboue all others in the world That which the inhabitāts of this afflicted realme doe endure is sufficient to let you know that they which are out of this bondage and heauie yoke do couet rather freely to dye in the warres then to fall into such slauery neither will I otherwise counsell the inhabitants of this I le least I shoulde both damne my soule and my honor should fall into lesse reputation thē nowe it is in For thereof I make suche accoumpt as I had rather lose all liues that it were possible to enioy then not to continue loyall to any king to whome I am sworne For to die well is perpetuall honor for the preseruation wherof I had rather perseuer in loyalty then feare the preparatiues of people shippes and munition wherewith your Maiestie doeth threaten me for I haue such a confidence in God that hee will fight for vs our ships The sea hauens of this Ilande together with the foretresses walles and trenches are ready for the munition yea and many pittes opened whereinto to cast those people that shall come to seeke vs who are not to haue any pardon by reason of such mischiefe as proceedeth of forgiuing them Your Maiestie are not to blame me for I haue sworne to R. Antony to defende this crowne for my K. and L. And the like I woulde haue done for for you in case I had been sworne thereto though not with so good a will For it is enough that he is king of Portingall But if I shoulde through mishappe fal aliue into your bondage for doing my duty you should put me to death neither the remembrance of my loyalty neither the fame of your crueltie and vniustice would euer perish I serue not Don Anthony for any benefite notwithstanding I may obtayne more of him then of any other K. But my loyalty consisteth in fulfilling my duety which causeth that such rewardes as by other then the K. of Portingall are promised can no whit mooue mee For beyond my duety there is nothing that can change my honor and loytie which I do more esteeme then all the kingdomes in the worlde whiche is the same that enuegleth manie Gentlemen Our Lorde God guide your Maiestie to your kingdome and restore Portingall to her right king and lord Don Anthony as all true and loyall Portingals doe wishe From this noble Citie of Angera in Iesus Christes I le of Tercera The superscription was To the K. of Castille from the gouernour of the Assorian Iles. Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Charde