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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	government_n	great_a	king_n	7,085	5	3.5910	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90515	A messenger from the dead, or, Conference full of stupendious horrour, heard distinctly, and by alternate voyces, by many at that time present. Between the ghosts of Henry the 8. and Charls the First of England, in Windsore-Chappel, where they were both buried. In which the whole series of the divine judgments, in those infortunate ilands, is as it were by a pencil from heaven, most lively set forth from the first unto the last.; Nuntius a mortuis. English.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1597; Thomason E936_4; ESTC R203144	12,116	19

Ruine for if I had to deal onely with the English I could have kept them in obedience or have reduced them to it by the assistance of my faithfull Subjects both im England and in Ireland But the Scots fell off from me upon this account It was my desire that throughout all my Dominions there might not be onely the same form of faith but of Rights and Ceremonies and that the Liturgy of the Church of England together with the Surplice might be used by the Ministers of Scotland This I must confess I did by the perswasion of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whom I did reverence as a Patriarch which when the people of Scotland understood and perceived that it began to be put in practise they presently cried out that Papistry and the abomination of Rome began be introduced hereupon seditions began to increase which were much fomented by the Pulpits At the last the Scots were resolved to defend their Religion by Armes and as already I have made mention they invaded England and possessed themselves of New-Castle Henry It is cleerer then the noon day and you see all along what it is to govern by an Arbitrary power Charls Too late I perceive it but I do not yet understand wherefore those Calamities did not overwhelm you who did first practise it with so much constancy and so much cruelty Henry Ah Charls you are much deceived if you think me free from punishment punishment doth alwayes follow sin neither was there ever any one that hath got cleerly off and not payed for his Impiety Not to speak of the torments which I do now indure What pangs did I not feel within me whiles I was alive being perpetually scourged with rods of knotted steel by the three Beadles of Avarice Cruelty and Incontinency In the first place my Avarice was so unsatisfied that after I had overthrown three hundred and seventy six Monasteries and with one Edict taken away all their Goods and Lands one year was not fully expired before I oppressed my Subjects with greater taxes then before Being palate-taken by this first Morsell not long afterwards I brought into my treasury all the other Monasteries of the Kingdome it is not easy to comprehend how many how rich they were Whiles I made havock of these I did feed my Subjects with vain hopes that the goods thus gotten would so cram my treasury that they should never have need to fear any more Subsidies which news was so welcome to the people that they were greatly pleased and much applauded what I did But they were so deluded of their expectations that after this I exacted more upon them then all my Predecessors had done in five hundred years before After that I had Plundred and levelled to the ground about one thousand Churches and converted to my use the goods appropriate to them after that by force I had seized upon their gold their silver and consecrated vessailes and sold the brass the lead the stones and timber belonging to them and out of the Church of Canterbury alone had taken two great Chests so full of gold and precious stones that four men could hardly stir either of them I was driven to so extreame a penury that whereas at first by my Proclamation two ounces of brass were to be mixed with ten ounces of silver I afterwards gave order that two ounces of silver should be mighled with ten ounces of brass After this manner was I tormented by my Covetousness neither did I suffer less by my cruelty Secondly for the first 20 years before I exercised any violent arbitrary power no King before me did shed less blood In all that time there were but two Noble men that lost their lives but after that I began to show my self in my own colours I was as greedy of blood as I was before of gold and made a great laughter of all ages sexes and orders whatsoever and for no other trespass but that they opposed my pleasure Four Queens that successively had bin married to me did lose their lives either by the Axe or by a grief as fatall as the Axe I proscribed two Princesses two Cardinalls and the third who was not onely my Kinsman but at that time out of the Kingdome I did put to Death by the common Hangman 12 eminent personages who were either Dukes or Marquesses or Earls or the Sons of Earls two and twenty Barons and Knights sixteen Abbots and Priors seventy seven Priests and Religious men and others of a lower rank almost not to be numbred And in this so black a cruelty I was feared by none more then by the most faithful of my won friends as the Events of Wolsey Norris of the Family of the Bullens and of the Howards have declared Thirdly Moreover I did so prostrate my self unto Lust that after the divorse of my best and my first wife I saw no Lady handsommer then other with whom I not presently fell in love neither made I love to any whom I would not enjoy Was it not for the punishment of my sins that you and your Father were crowned Kings of England when I left nothing unattempted that I might hinder you from the possession of the Kingdom of England and by some heir of my own might confirm it in my own house Two wives I did drive out of my bed and two out of the World the fifth I caused to be ripped up alive being then in labour and full of her childing throwes that her child might be preserved adding to the cruelty these barbarous and inhumane words that Wives could more easily be found then Children I married the sixth wife and intertained thoughts of taking her our of the World when not long afterwards I was taken out of the World my self But in this great care of mine and iudeavour for posterity not any of my race lived threescore years after my Death It is true that a child of mine of nine years of age did succeed me in the Government but not well able to govern himself much less the Kingdome and who departed out of the World before he departed out of his nonage My Daughter Mary did afterwards receive the Crown but rejected the Religion of her Brother I might well expect to have had issue by her being five years Married to Philip the Catholick King of Spain but God the Revenger of so many Murders and abhominations committed would not that my Race should inherite the Land for he is not to be mocked neither doth his word fall upon the ground which saith For the sins of the Fathers the daies of the Children shall be shortned She therefore in a short time dying without issue the Kingdome is translated unto you It is true that my Daughter Elizabeth succeeded my Daughter Mary but being never Married she also without issue descended into the sleep of Death Thus do I find true what the Kingly Prophet did foretell me The seed of the wicked shall perish Psalm 37.