Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	father_n	king_n	servant_n	3,226	4	6.7708	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35641	The case of several of His Majesties subjects in Ireland, commonly called protectees most humbly offer'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1698 (1698)	Wing C985; ESTC R23911	8,901	26

Prosecution these Young Women are expos'd to the lowest Wants and to almost a Necessity of being forc'd upon the vilest Courses There are of these others whose Fathers happen'd to be of King James his Menial Servants and consequently the more oblig'd not to abandon their Master in his adverse Fortune and altho' the Paternal Estate is in some or most of these Cases secur'd to the Mother and Children after the Fathers Death yet in the mean time they are both left destitute of any means of Subsistance There are some who never bore Arms in Ireland but retir'd soon into France and pass'd their Time in an absolute Privacy there without any Dependance upon or Relation to the late King James and yet by Outlawrys and Attainders incurr'd in their absence they and their numerous Families without any sort of Provision are for ever excluded Lastly there are of these some Eminent Persons who now and heretofore have deserv'd well of the Crown of England who being placed in Foreign Governments by K. Charles the Second continued notwithstanding the late Revolution in the faithful Discharge of their Duty and effectually imploy'd their Fortune and Credit in support of the English Rights and Sovereignity abroad and being now return'd home find themselves incumber'd with empty Titles and what else they were to have deriv'd from their Ancestors swallow'd up in the common gulf of Forfeitures and no sort of Support or Provision left for them It is here again to his Glory to be noted that such of these as had Friends in Credit enough to lay their Case before his Majesty had the effects of his usual Bounty and Clemency and it is not to be doubted but that upon a fair and equal Representation his Clemency would extend to all the rest and out-go all his Royal Predecessors And not only in their Reigns but during the Oppressions of the late Civill Wars the Widows and Orphans of the then reputed Offenders were so provided for as not to fall into too low and abject a Condition and even such of the Delinquents themselves as then term'd who stay'd at home were so far consider'd as that they and their Posterity were upon a general Rule set up reprized in one Province in some proportion to what they had lost in another I cannot fear to be so misunderstood as from this Relation of what was then done to intend any reflection upon the best of Governments I mention this Christian Moderation practic'd in the worst of Times from thence only to insinuate how much more may be hop'd for from so excellent a Constitution how conformable it may be found to the practice of the like good English Kings and Parliaments beretofore to set up Rules and Qualifications by which to censure Men and Actions by which so far to distinguish the Time and the Behaviour of Men as to propound some Measure of Punishment upon which such as by their being unactive in the War or early Repentance and Return to their Duty or other moving Circumstances may have qualify'd themselves for some Degree of Mercy may artone to the publick for their Offences Having thus far taken the Liberty to point at some moderate Expedients I hope I may without Offence humbly offer to Consideration that those who were then in that Kingdom of what Judgment or Inclination soever were upon the Principle of Self-preservation under an apparent Necessity of submitting to the then prevailing Power that the then late King was in Person there at the Head of such Troops as could enforce their Obedience that how clearly soever the great Turn of those Times was grounded upon right Reason and Religion yet there were numbers of wise good and learned Men even in England where by the King 's having withdrawn himself the Matter seem'd less doubtful who remain'd for some time unresolv'd as to their Duty upon that Conjuncture They are often the more lasting that are the more slowly Receiv'd Impressions and they who took time and pains to convince themselves of their Obligation to submit upon this great Occasion will perhaps prove as faithful as they who more readily apprehended their Duty and assented to what was done I shall not tho' I mean all possible Deference towards the present Establishment presume to dwell upon this Argument for fear of being thought beyond my Intention to make other use of it than in Mitigation only and if upon what is here humbly offer'd and what more may occur to so Great and Wise an Assembly in extenuation of their Faults they shall nevertheless be adjudg'd unworthy any favourable Compromise I think I may so far denounce against them as that in Addition to their own the Sins of their Fathers are upon them and that their Kingdom is not of this World FINIS