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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	able_a	king_n	prince_n	336	4	5.3382	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95011	A true copy of a speech made by an English colonel to his regiment, immediately before their late transportation for Flanders at Harwich		1691 (1691)	Wing T2633A; ESTC R185628	11,235	12

his little Army who never wanted their Pay during his whole Reign and such a Lover of a Sea-man that he would even have lived among them with whom he had ventur'd his Life to vindicate the Honour and Interest of the English Nation against these very Dutch who are now by the goodness of our King our intimate bosom Friends and something more than Fellow Subjects They will say moreover That he put no such heavy Tax masters over us nor opprest the poorer Trades with intolerable Excise nor forc'd us to redeem our Heads over and over again at a Price more valuable to him than the rest of our whole Bodies That he would never introduce the French Mode which we say he always favour'd of wearing Sabots or wooden Shoes no nor the Dutch Fashion of woollen Mittins instead of Gloves through the excessive Tax put upon all Sorts of Leather nor yet forbid us the old English use of pouder'd Beef and Pork by raising the Price of our old English Salt In a word That he would never have swept away all our English Liberties and Properties at once with the Dutch Broom of a General Excise nor our Native Privileges and Birth-rights by an English Bill of as General a Naturalization Others will tell you That he was Careful and Provident especially in refitting and augmenting his Fleet which is the Honour and Security of the English Nation That he studied the Honour and Interest of England and had he staid till now among us would have secur'd to us the whole uninterrupted Trade of Europe which the Dutch foresaw fear'd and have prevented and moreover would have been the only Potentate that could have put a Stop to the excessive Power of France That he always promoted an impartial Liberty of Conscience in Matters of Religion to those who would live Quietly and obedient Subjects to the Civil Government This they say the Dutch also foresaw and the ill Consequences which it might bring upon them and therefore oppos'd it underhand in the Reign of King Charles the Second and turn'd it among other things to the Ruin of his Brother They will tell you he was easy of Access even to the meanest of his Subjects and had a due Regard to his Nobility and they will affirm to you by many undeniable Testimonies as they pretend that his Authority and Presence in Ireland chiefly protected the Protestants there from the Violence of their Irish Enemies notwithstanding a Famous Divine hath written largely to the contrary But then they proceed to Justify all they have said by the Effects of that Cause which they are so industrious to promote and then they tell you That the Nation was never so Rich and in such a height of Prosperity as during his Reign That our Trade and our Merchants were in a most flourishing Condition That the Taxes were not felt by us or known to us That all manner of Provisions especially Bread were cheap and plentiful That the hands of the poorer English Manufactorers were in constant Employment That we had no Apprehensions or Pretence of War whilst he kept to the Treaty of Nimegen as they say he did and was obliged to do That he really and sincerely intended and studied the Good and Prosperity of his People which nothing so much prevented as our own unreasonable Fears and Jealousies and that those were maliciously aggravated and promoted by such as had resolved to make themselves great under this Government at the Expence of his and our Ruin and a great deal more to this Purpose Then they come to the Crimes Objected against him and they tell you in short That as to some publick but insignificant Favours granted to some of his own Religion he was over-rul'd in that point by the treacherous Advice of some of his Protestant Favourites who betray'd him after they had by their own false Councils first exposed him and then left him And as to those greater and villainous Crimes which they tell you his Soul abhorred they say That he was most unjustly irregularly and impiously Accused and as a Confirmation and strong Argument of this Truth which they affirm they say further That had he been Guilty of any one Article nothing could have been more absolutely necessary for the Honour and Justification of the English Nation and the Severity of those very Persons who gain'd most by this Revolution than to have proved the late King James Guilty of all or any one single Article of that Nature objected against him which yet to this day they have not been able to do nor will or in truth can do to the Worlds End And lastly they conclude with the Violences and Indignities put upon him as his Imprisonment in his own Pallace and else where under Foreign Guards turning out of his own Pallace and Royal Bed too at such an unseasonable time when an English Gentleman would scarcely have disturb'd his Vale de Chambre The Execrable Insolence of his own Subjects by beating and striking at him and using such Irreverences towards him as greater were not offer'd to his Royal Father and such as would have been severely punished under his good Government had they been offer'd by any English Man to a Mogan Foot Man Many things more they tell of him which I have not Patience to relate and in short they would make him falsly appear what our most gracious King really and truly is which I am so far from believing that I persuade my self there are not two Princes in Europe more opposite in all manner of Qualifications than our present King William and the late King James Now Gentlemen and fellow Soldiers you must take a great care not to believe what I have reported concerning the late King James Nay it is absolutely necessary that you should obstinately disbelieve it all for it might possibly make you Relent and insinuate a certain Softnefs and tender Repentance into your minds which would above all things debauch that Loyalty which I would confirm to you And some may say if all this should be true Why then besides many other Violences do we draw our Swords so eagerly against that only Prince who is willing and able to Protect and give Bread to our Poor Exil'd Wronged Master Conies have Burrows and Foxes have Holes where to hide their Heads but our late poor King and the Son of a King Martyr'd for the good of his People is still Persecuted by his own English Subjects through the Sides of that Prince who hath so much Royal Charity and Generosity as to protect the Declining Shipwrack't Injur'd Exil'd Unfortunate Life of our Late Lawful Gracious English King But to conclude if all that hath been spoken were unsaid any even unthought yet there remains still one Consideration hitherto untoucht which of it self is more than sufficient to elevate your Noble Courages and fix you in the very Center of Love and Loyalty In short we are now by the Care and Goodness of our King