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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	2,755	5	3.1272	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60806	Some modest reflections upon the commitment of the Earl of Shaftsbury, arising from the late indictment against Mr. Stephen Colledge		1681 (1681)	Wing S4524; ESTC R16525	7,441	5

is none in the world that he hath that known esteem for and in whose service in consistency with his Loyalty to his Prince he would so soon sacrifice himself and all that he hath as the Duke of Monmouth And so far do all men judge him from using such ignominious expressions as he is accused of concerning that great Personage that they verily think had any of the Witnesses used that Language of his Grace in Colledges hearing he would have taught him better manners though with the hazard of his life But the Papists are so accustomed to asperse and slander this Duke in the most ignominious Terms that they cannot forbear the fathering base and reproachful Calumnies of him upon such who would not forgive themselves the Crime of having a low or diminishing thought concerning him But the Design of making this accused person speak thus vilifyingly of his Grace is too obvious not to be discerned and so silly that every Apprentice Youth laughs at it The Popish Party finding that the Duke is sincerely and unchangably fixed for the Protestant Religion and that thereupon he hath a great and deserved room in the hearts of all true Englishmen they would fain endeavour to perswade him that the People do despise and scorn him thinking that if any thing could this would make him less Zealous for the Protestant Doctrine and Worship But they will find themselves deceived for as nothing can abate his love to the Established Religion so the extraordinary respect which the People do Universally bear him upon this account is neither to be lessened towards nor alienated from him But when we advance a step further and find this pretended Plot to be no less than a National Conspiracy to destroy a Prince whom they so unanimously restored to the Throne of his Ancestors a few years ago we shall find cause to disbelieve every word concerning it and to pity the folly and simplicity of those that have endeavoured to abuse his Majesty and his Ministers with so ill contrived a Sham. For according to the Evidence which Smith and others gave in Court it is no less than a Plot wherein not only City and Country but the very Parliament are all embark't and engaged But as the naming and interesting the Parliament in a Conspiracy is enough to satisfie any reasonable man that there is none at all so it enlightens us upon what Motive and Inducement all this is invented and contrived For the Papists knowing the Villanies which they are Guilty of and being sensible of the Dangers they are lyable unto from the Justice of a Parliament whensoever one meets and continues to sit they have therefore no other course to steer but to render Parliaments suspected to his Majesty that he may call no more Accordingly after they had hired a company of rascally scriblers to desame Parliaments especially the House of Commons they now assume the impudence openly to arraign them of a Treasonable Design of Deposing the King and altering the Government But the fellowes whom they had suborned to this purpose tho' they had the Villany to become instruments in so black an undertaking yet they had not the wit to conceal it till it was ripe to be vented and improved For besides that one had the boldness in a late Pamphlet to advise the King to reign Arbitrarily Smith that famous Witness is known to have given out some time ago that he would spoil our Parliaments But the suffering Mercinary Persons to speak and write of Parliaments with that Impunity they have done of late is enough to detect and betray the whole project and design to every rational man And can any one think that if there were such a Conspiracy wherein so many Persons of Quality Power and Estates were engaged that his Majesties Guards would be able to prevent their executing whatsoever they intended Or can any man imagin that it is for the Kings safety and Interest to have the generality of his People brought to believe that he entertains such an opinion of them as that they are United in a Conspiracy against his Person and Government Were not the King safe through the room that he enjoys in the hearts of his People and did not they apprehend themselves protected by their own Innocency what Smith said in the Face of so great an Assembly as was at the Old-Baily on Friday last and with so much impudence that it plainly appeared to be spoken upon Design were enough to blow up the Peace of the Nation and to throw us into blood in four and twenty hours But the place where this Plot of seising the King was to have been Executed does further assure us that all this is meer Fiction and Romance and that there was no such thing ever thought of For as it was impossible that any number of Men proportionable to such an undertaking could go to Oxford without being seen and observed so it is very well known that the Town was much emptier than could have been expected considering that together with the whole Court the great Council of the Kingdom was there Assembled And instead of the Members being accompanied with a Train suitable to such a Design they denied themselves the having those menial Servants with which they are usually attended else where 'T is true that some Gentlemen were honoured with the company of their Friends some part of the way thither but it is as true that the Persons who paid them that respect returned quietly to their Habitations after they had discharged that piece of Civility which they owed their Representatives And whereas it was Sworn that they rode Arm'd and with led Horses and that this was in order to apprehend the King I shall take the liberty to say that the Person who made such an Inference deserved a Reprimand in the open Court Shall the Witness Smith ride out of Town accompanied with two Servants martially accoutred with Fusees and Pistols as he did on Sunday last And shall not Lords Knights and the best Gentlemen in the Kingdom be allowed to travel with a Sumpter Horse and a man or two with Carbines but there must be a Conspiracy to destroy the Government But though some men have both lost their Discretion and made Shipwrack of their honesty in obtruding so false and nonsensical a Story upon the Nation yet are those whose Wit and Understanding have not so far forsaken them but that they can see through all this and whose Integrity will guide and oblige them to judge impartially For is it to be apprehended that they could entertain a purpose of seising the King at Oxford who were so afraid of venturing themselves thither and so importunate with His Majesty that the Parliament might have sat at Westminster Alas instead of harbouring any thoughts of attempting upon the King or others they were apprehensive that the Papists had some design to be Executed there against them Was it ever known that when a Conspiracy was so