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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	people_n	subject_n	12,053	5	6.8171	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74174	King Charles his speech to the six eminent persons vvho lately arrived at Brussels, to treat vvith his Majesty touching his restoration to the royal throne and dignity of his father.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1660 (1660)	Wing C3608; Thomason 669.f.24[36]; ESTC R211744	1,755	1

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE KING CHARLES His SPEECH to the Six Eminent Persons vvho lately arrived at Brussels to Treat vvith His MAJESTY touching His Restoration to the Royal Throne and Dignity of his Father Gentlemen and Loving Subjects HAving notice of your so sudden Applicaaion to us by an Overture from several of Our good Subjects it hath been Our diligent Care to provide for your entertainment in so Honourable a way as might stand with the Credit of Our Royal Person according to Our Ability in this place of Our sad and tedious Exilement And being deeply sencible of the Calamities and miseries brought upon Our poor Subjects by the late unnatural War We hold it Our duty to use all possible means I joyn with you the Messengers we hope of a true Peace between Our self and all Our Loyal Subjects and that by you the Instruments imployed in behalf of Our Kingdoms there may be wrought such a perfect Union and conjunction between Our Self and Our People who professe to be so sincerely affected with the same Pious desire of the Publick good as may God giving the successe produce a right understanding between Our Self and you to make up all thpse great and innumerable Breaches between Us and Our Loyal Subjects which by a misunderstanding have been planted and long continued betwixt Us and them And wherers we do understand that you have undertaken this great Work to Treat with Us we shall adhere to any Propositions that may conduce to the Glory of God and the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Just and inseperable Right of the Crown and the Priviledges of a Free and full Paaliament Elected by the Free consent of Our People and to the Just Rights and Liberties of our Subjects And that to the end a Treaty tending to Peace may not as formerly be founded on the blood of Our good Subjects We cannot indeed acquaint you with the inexpressible joy that We are sencible of to finde Our poor distressed and distracted Kingdoms in some hopes of Settlement and Restoration of its pristine Glory by the Establishing of Our Self which we know and are Confident is the earnest desire of all our Loving Subjects being now at last unvail'd whereby they see cleatly the cruelty of those Task-masters who aspers'd Us their lawfull King with the name of Tyrant and have themselves destroyed Our Estates with the Estates of several of Our good Subjects to maintain their Violences inrich themselves with the ruins of Our good People and overthrow Our Royal Prerogatives and the ancient Fundamentall Lawes of Our Kingdoms Whereas it hath been publikely declared to Our good People which your selves cannot be ignorant of that Our intent was to come over with Forreign Force thereby to corrupt the good opinion of Our Loving Subjects We do professe from the bottom of Our heart it was never Our thought to take any such course to regain Our Right and settle Our Self in the Royal Throne and Dignity of Our Father but what We might in Justice both according to the Lawes of God and nature prosecute for the recovery of Our own Birth-right To which end and purpose we hope you are here through Gods blessing safely Arrived and that not onely to restore Our Self but to powre Balm into the wound of Our three Kingdoms Though indeed the Innocent blood of our Royal Father is a great grief to Our Self yet the desire of Revenge is so far from Our heart that We shall leave it to him who is the Just Judge of all both in Heaven and Earth Our chiefest aim being onely to endeavor what in Us lies to Compose the difference between Our Self and you who are employed in the behalf of all Our good Subjects according to the Instructions you have received so far as may stand with Gods glory and the Honour and Safety of Our Self to which end and purpose we have already provided several Peaceable Propositions which will be presented to your hands an this present happy and we hope successfull meeting Who knowes but that the Divine Providence hath sent you to Us that you by Our Royal Assent to your happy endeavours may be made the joyful Instruments of a well-grounded Peace and of restoring Religion to its purity the Church to its Rights Our Self to Our Royal Prerogatives the Lawes to their Channel and Our good Subjects to their Liberties All which if you resolve to joyn with Our Self in performance of may Crown Our Kindoms with eternal Honour And since it is manifest by the Laws of God of Nature of Our Kingdoms and of Humanity that the Government of the Kingdom is due to One why not to Our Self by Birth your Countryman by Education a Protestant by profession and actions your Pious Prince and by his gracious Compliance confident in your Loyalty and Obedience Let Us truly make a Covenant with Heaven Religion and Justice and we may soon make up all the breaches of dissention in Our Kingdoms by an happy union Brussels March 18. ANWERP Printed Cum Privilegio 1660. March 26.