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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	great_a	justice_n	king_n	1,506	5	3.4849	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33049	Nature's paradox, or, The innocent impostor a pleasant Polonian history, originally intituled Iphigenes / compiled in the French tongue by the rare pen of J.P. Camus ... ; and now Englished by Major VVright.; Iphegène. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Wright, Major (John)	1652 (1652)	Wing C417; ESTC R3735	325,233	390

esteem or value with that Nation Neither is less exploded there this saying of an imprudent Empress That nothing was unlawfull for Kings to act if it but pleased their humor For in that Kingdome whatsoever concerns the Power Family and Function of the Monark it is all so regulated that Hee cannot deviate or out-strip his bounds in the I east without drawing upon himself suddain Rebellions and most formidable Combinations The reason thereof proceeds from this respect that among those People who are as free as fierce and no less generous then haughty the Kings are Elective Succession having no interest in that Crown unless a Son by his vertuous deportments and valorous Actions render himself worthie with the approbation of the Orders to ascend into the Throne of his Progenitors From this libertie which the Polonians have of electing their Monark ariseth this Restriction of the Royall Authoritie within such confined tearms and limitations that it is no more possible than lawfull to exceed them without altering the Harmony of that Direction which hath there been establish'd beyond the reach of humane Memory and exciting in the State Revolutions or rather Convulrions of most dangerous consequence It is to be observed that the Ecclesiasticks and the Nobility only have votes at these Elections the third Order which is the Common People is excluded and must receive for their King him that is lawfully chosen according to the form and custome of the Country by the other two Orders Who after the Election though they leave to the King the honour and prebeminence in all things rendring him the homage and reverence that 's due to a Sovereign and all those whom the hand of Providence hath raised that high Dignity reserve to themselves however the power of governing and administring Justice by which Kings reign and by which they maintein the Regencie of their Kings and Lawes As for the Ecclesiasticall State That hath its Policie apart which particularly regardeth Spirituall Affairs and the Conduct or Cure of Souls And the Secular which concerneth Politicall matters as the exercise of Justice aswell Civill as Criminall and the administration of Government and Military functions is chiefly in the hands of certain great Officers named Castellains Palatines who are little Sovereign Lords or Petty Kings every one in his own Territorie For instance The Castellains are those who have Lands Citties Burroughs Villages and Seignories under their subjection as for matters concerning Justice and their Authority is so great that their Jurisdiction is without Appeal Moreover in case of troubles they have power to levie Forces impose Taxes raise Monie to pay and beare the charges of their Miltitia and do other Actions in this nature which in other Monarchies are reserved only to the Sovereigntie The Palatines are like Governours of Provinces but they are so absolute in their Governments that they command the Castellaines and the People at their pleasure exact Tributes press Souldiers appoint quarters give Commissions in a word they are like petrie Kings in their Palatinates such suddain and exact obedience is rendred them so Supream and uncontroulable is their Power Insomuch that the King to return to the Proverb before mentioned commanding as King over the Palatines and Castellains is in this consideration called KING OF KINGS that is of the Palatines who are in effect petty Kings and LORD OF LORES that is of the Castellains who are like little Princes The History which I am about to relate obligeth me to represent this form of Government as being the Basis and principall foundation thereof by reason of the Power almost Tyrannicall of one of these Palatines who shall appear upon this Scene we are now opening and who would seeme strange nay altogether extraordinary to the Reader that should fancy to himself a Country ordered according to the Rule and Policie of FRANCE or SPAIN where the Monark being more absolute the Authority of Governours is much lesse not unlike to that of the meaner Lights of th' Heaven which have no light or luster before the Sun of Sovereigntie whereas on the contrary in Polonia the Palatines do execute their Charges and exercise their Jurisdiction in the presence of their King as if their Authority depended rather on Monarchie then on the Monark nothing being able to make them be deposed or dispossessed of their Commands but State Crimes which make them lose their Dignities with their Lives Under the Reign of him that preceded MONSIEVR of France then Brother to CHARLES the IX and Duke of Anjou and who was afterwards HENRY the III. of France having forsaken the Crown of Polonia A certain Lord Castellain by name Rosuald who though not descended of very antient Nobility nor much in favour with Fortune for matter of estate was elevated for his valour to the Palatinate of Podolia Governments and great Offices are like Vessells full of liquor whereinto if you cast a spunge though ne're so dry and hard it will presently be filled and pierced through Rosuald was so able and understanding a Man that without oppressing much his Subjects or exacting any thing in his Province that might render him any way odious or blameable by subtile and probably lawfull means he became so rich that Peace by vertue of his mediation and good conduct reigning among all the families where hee introduced Concord Abundance entred within his Territories insomuch that it might be said of him That Glorie and Riches were in his House That his Garners sunk under the burthen of Corn his Cellers were overflowed with Wine That out of the very stones burst Rivulets of Oile That his Coffers were not capacious enough to contein his Treasures In sum That hee was one of the most opulent Palatines in Polonia But the inexorable Parca that pardons no body and who being blinde cut 's the thred of life when she pleases without distinction of Age Condition or Sex stopped the course of this Noble-man's dayes in the full Current of his Prosperitie at such years as but just passing out of Virility hee saluted only the first and freshest time of Old-Age by an unexpected accident which made him bring Death with him home from Hunting His Lady who was then big with Child though otherwise verie chast and vertuous yet a woman that is to say as litle capable of constancie as a Reed of steadiness suffering her self to be transported by the excess of an inconsolable sorrow precipitated her deliverie in the seaventh Month and after a Son which she had brought forth into the World but one yeare before She was made a Mother at this second and last labour of a Daughter which had life but by her death For whether her grief and conceding anguish hastned the birth of the Child or whether because her Body was no less cruelly afflicted with the Pangs of her Travell then her mind for the loss of her Husband the Daughter remaining with the living layed her Mother among the Dead leaving these