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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	england_n	king_n	people_n	13,931	5	5.0853	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91832	Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a Lover of the Truth.	Raleigh, Carew, 1605-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing R149; Thomason E490_2; ESTC R206058	10,006	24

posterity deserving Princes in their own persons overthrown and cast out of their inheritance and according to humane reason very unlikely to repossesse it And for his own haereditary Kingdome who were a people famous in war and high in reputation they are become the most despicable conquered people upon the face of the whole earth They who within this twenty yeares looked upon themselves as conquerors of this nation they who in the last two Kings Raignes had all the power riches offices mariages wealth and greatnesse within their command in both Kingdomes are now ruined at home both in Kirke and State The former unto which by faire or foul play they endeavoured to model all the Reformed Churches of the West hath now no where a being And the latter subjugated to a forreign power All their great and Ancient Families of which they so much boasted even plucked up by the roots and those few remaining so poor as they can not shew their faces This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes but according to humane judgment much of this may be attributed to the greatnesse power and prodigality of that nation in their accesse to England whereby they became insolent and proud apted thereby for any undertaking and perchance for some falshoods and treacheries even to their own native Princes to King James his dying in distast with the Parliament to his often deserting the Protestant cause both at home and abroad And to his leaving the Crown poor and in debt whereby his Successor was often put to his shifts and forced to open the purs-strings of his Subjects whereby he shut their hearts towards him and encouraged them to demand such things as nothing but extreme poverty and necessity could enforce a Prince to grant But enough of this I shal only novv take notice of such aspersions as this Author is pleased to bestow on particular persons of honour and worth as if he meant throughout his whole book to make it his businesse to raile at good men and defend the bad And first we light upon Cobham and Raleighs Treason where in the character of Raleigh he allows him a grand enemy to the Spaniard and opposer of the peace yet immediately after believes him a conspirer with the Spaniard but tells us not in what particular he should have served him Fol. 284. he tells us that the seventh of Novemb. 1603 was the day of Raleighs arraignment and the Jury called to the Bar being a Middlesex Jury against whose persons he did not except T is true he did not for he knew not any one of their faces and being confident of his own innocence onely wished they might have honesty and understanding both which they wanted But there was appointed for him another Jury the foreman of which was Sir Michal Stanhope the next Sir Edward Darcy the next Sir William Killegrew all men of honour and near servants to the late Queen Elizabeth But these being found not for their turn they were all changed over night and those others put in their places The arraignment is in Print therefore I shall not trouble my self with the particulars of it I shall only demand why Cobham was not brought face to face to accuse Raleigh being under the same roof with him in so much that King James himself taking notice of it said that if Cobham could have said any thing against Raleigh they would have brought him from Constantinople to have accused him And I would fain know what it was that ever Cobham accused Raleigh of for yet I never could Likewise whether ever any man was condemned by a single witnesse and he not present neither And it is certain that letter of Cobhams under his own hand written the night before his tryal wherein upon his salvation he clears Raleigh from all manner of Treasons against the King or State is yet extant and was produced at a Committee of Parliament by Mr. Carew Raleigh But you may perceive the spleen of this Author to Raleigh in that he saith he tired the Court and Jury with impertinencies when as all other men present at his arraignment thought never man spake better for himself nay divers which came thither his enemies went away with pity and commiseration of his injuries and misfortunes and even Cook the Attorney himself being retired into a garden to take some ayre when his man brought him word that the Jury had condemned Raleigh of Treason answered surely thou art mistaken for I my self accused him but of misprision of Treason and this relation upon the word of a Christian I have received from Sir Edward Cook's own mouth And since we are now fallen upon this businesse we will take it all together and see what he saith concerning Raleighs last voyage and death though it happened 14 years after Fol. 459 and Anno. 1617 he tells us that Sir Walter Raleigh wearied with long imprisonment and having there spent his time well in the History of the World made his petition more passable to the K. whose love to learning granted him now at last his liberty and not long after gave him leave to wander after a design to the Western world where be had been in several Climats before Whereas it is well known King James forbad Sir Walter Raleighs book for some passages in it which offended the Spaniard and for being two plain with the faults of Princes in his Preface Sir William St. Johns and Sir Edward Villiers the 〈◊〉 of Buckinghams half-Brother procured Sir Walter Raleighs liberty and had 1500 livre. for their labour and for 700 li more offered him his full pardon and liberty not to go his Voyage if he pleased both which he refused and the rather because he was told by the Lord Chancellor Verulam who was no fool nor no ill Lawyer That his commission from the King under the great seal of England wherein the King made him General of his forces by Land and Sea and gave him Marshal law over his people was as good a pardon for all former offences as the law of England could afford him And for the aspersions which he lays upon his Voyage as that it was a trick only to get his liberty and that he knew of no Mine If so Raleigh was a mad man to hazard his life in such a long Sea journey and to expend above 10000 livre. of his own estate as t is well known upon oath he did vvhen he might have avoyded that trouble and stayd at home for the disbursing 700 livre. But it is most certain that Raleigh did really and truly believe in the mine and so did Kemish too upon good and just grounds having had a true trial of the ore and not with false and Chymical tricks as this trifling lyar would intimate But for the particulars of these passages and the true cause of the fayling of that Voyage I shall refer you to Sir Walter Raleighs own Apology now in print and to be had