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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	lord_n	parliament_n	time_n	3,250	5	3.6307	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25380	A gentle reflection on the modest account, and a vindication of the loyal abhorrers from the calumnies of a factious pen by the author of the Parallel.	Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.; Andrews, John, fl. 1734-1735.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3121; ESTC R9495	25,676	20

many Covenants and how improbable it is that those who enter'd into a League to fight against Charles the First should associate themselves for the preservation of the Second But these are but such Arguments I confess as the Schools call â probabilibus that which makes it demonstrably plain are the Shifts your Party use to avoid the Imputation whose Answers when they are question'd about it are like those of conscious Criminals full of Distraction Sometimes they fancy the truth of its being found not plain enough and then they deny the Matter of Fact then they begin to distrust that Refuge and stand up for its defence backing it with a President in Queen Elizabeth's time and pray my Lord Would you not take the young Bear to be the Whelp of such a Dam if you found her licking the little unform'd Monster into shape Then for its being found in the Closet we have a plain positive Oath and that of a very credible Witness The Keys sworn to be deliver'd by your Earl s own hand his Servants by when the Papers were put up and the Bag seal'd And sure his vigilant Domesticks would never suffer their Master to be so grosly abus'd had they put up other Papers than were found and brought Treason in their Pockets when they came to search for it My Lord It was the same poor defence Colledge made to the finding his treasonable Ballads and when nothing else could confront the Evidence it was insinuated as if they were laid there by the Searchers And you would do well to use some better Arguments for so great a person whom you would prove innocent than they did for a rascally Joyner whom all impartial people thought guilty But nothing makes it more unquestionable than those poor Shifts you use in questioning it You say Gwin dares not swear it and any one by what you say there to the contrary would swear you don't deny it and all your Argumentations look so conscious and guilty that they betray the very Cause they pretend to defend Among Heads that have but one grain of studied Logick or natural Reason 't is alway presum'd that nothing can be like it self and what-ever has any Reference must have another Extream to which it may refer and then what need of all this Comparison and Similitude if there be nothing found with which you would compare it What need has your Lordship to talk of Queen Elizabeth's Association as a Parallel if nothing since has been contriv'd like it by your Friends and Associates But you will say There has been a pretended one put upon you Then my Lord let me ask you Would you take all this pain to justifie a piece of Treason forg'd by your Enemies Did any of your Party write in favour of the Papers found in the Meal-Tub If these are your Measures and best Politicks what better Encouragement can there be for Shams and Forgeries than by writing Panegyricks and favourable Parallels on those Treasons of which you are suspected and accus'd You very civilly will allow his Majesty a Prerogative to call a Parliament but like the curs'd Cow that gives a little good Milk which she presently kicks down with her heels or Mr. H-t that defends the Bishops in his Book and blows them up in the Post-script your next Lines talk of having them conven'd frequently and sit usefully that is indeed whensoever your selves please and as long as your Faction shall think fit or till Grievances are redress'd and the Bill of Exclusion pass'd But for these Matters I may with better Authority use your own words in the business of the Charter Assure your Lordship It will be long before it be done But I would fain have you fix my Lord that indefinite Term of Frequent Parliaments Is your Lordship for Triennial ones again The Consequences of that were too fatal to expect such another unreasonable Grant And besides it is not above a twelve month since that your Lordship had one and that to your Mind too and therefore as yet no Reason to complain But if great Emergencies as you say shall determine the Prince to convene his States sure you may give him and his Council leave to judge whether they are really so or not Otherwise Dr. Oater's Quarrel with the Scotch Knight or the Disappointment of the City-Feast may by some be thought Matter of great Emergency and worthy the Consideration of a Parliament neither will the People my Lord as Things stand now be all of your Sentiments in thinking his Majesty's Friends and Counsellors humble Tories stupid Fools or designing Villains the best opinion you can have of them for not advising his Majesty as you think fit to call a Parliament We know those that gave worse Advice both for the Kingdom and all Christendom beside those that in their best regreted the Success of their own Councels and maliciously took now and then a few good Measures lest others should do it for them I can't apprehend my Lord what that distance of Time is in which without a Parliament our Liberties would expire and our selues on a sudden be shackl'd into Slaves We han't seen one for a whole year and perhaps may not for another and yet after many expir'd I dare swear our Magna Charta will be still the same though your City-Charter may not We will allow you Parliaments to be the Subjects Birth-right but then I hope we are not born to all sorts of Parliaments that Position my Lord would make you put in for a Right to that in Forty one since by special Act declar'd Traitors Your Lordship proposes by way of smart Interrogatory Whether the King's Prerogative in appointing the day will deprive us of the Right of having them in such a time and his Power of dissolving can render them useless to us I confess to men of your own Principles and Sentiments 't is impossible to answer them for such are resolv'd to take it for granted that the not letting them sit when they please is a deprivation of the Right of the Subject and the dissolving them when the King pleases is that which makes them useless whereas there are as great Men and as good Head-pieces who think the quite contrary And that his Majesty's appointing the day is the only Security we can have for their Sitting Perhaps without it we might have a Convocation of Rebels but not a Parliament a major part of Members treasonably associated but never an House of Commons lawfully assembled And then in this Case also differing so far from your Opinion that they think the only thing that can make them useful is the King's Power to dissolve them I confess to men that make an House of Commons to patronize all their Irregularities to countenance all those gross Abuses they put upon the Government to such a Dissolution is a useless thing indeed and deprives them of the making an honourable Assembly a pretended Abettor of all their scandalous Actions