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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	house_n	king_n	officer_n	2,496	5	7.4181	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31203	The case stated between England and the United Provinces in this present juncture together with a short view of those Netherlanders in their late practises as to religion, liberty, leagues, treaties, amities / publish'd by a friend to this commonwealth.	Friend to this commonwealth.	1652 (1652)	Wing C1204; ESTC R9758	41,734	57

was their due and what was forced from him that concern'd their Liberty and that he might recover all that the People of England had got of their own of him and his Predecessors at once by the Sword he set up his Standard at Nottingham bidding thereby defiance to the Parliament and the Laws of England whereupon the flames of War broke forth in every part and nothing but the levying of Arms and the sad calamities of War abounded in all parts of this Nation When the Parliament were thus enforced to wrastle with the powers of the King the Malignity and opposition of most of the Nobility and Gentry the whole Prelaticall and Atheisticall party the Court and Monopoly Dependants the name of a King which had then some awe amongst the people the Treachery and apostacy of many of their Members and Officers in Civil and Military Imployments The War of Ireland and the Powers of forraign Kingdoms who in point of Interest might be expected to ingage against them and that through the blood of the People and the hazards of War they were constrained to proceed for the obtaining of that Liberty which the King was in duty to have preserved From whom could they expect any affections but from the Dutch who in point of Interest being themselves a Commonwealth but even now torne out of the Jawes of Monarchy through a sea of Blood and millions of Treasure In point of preservation we being the Generations of those who took their Cause out of the dust and set it in the Throne and who ballanced always the late Kings envy and malice to that State themselves also having the designes of the Prince of Orange in their own Bowels working up towards the height of that Tyranny which the Enemies sword would have set up in England And in point of gratitude to those people who had chosen the Neatherlanders before their own safety in theirs and the Neatherlanders greatest times of danger were so deeply engaged One would think that their affections their bowels their money their force and their very souls should have been ready to be powred out for the Parliament whom God made formerly the very Instruments of their beeing and upon whom they might write the Foundation under God of their Prosperity at least that they should not maligne their Cause or advantage their Enemy But instead thereof their Envy to our Nation Malignity to our Cause assistance to our Enemy affronts and scorns to us and our friends in the day of our calamity have exceeded Shall I say any nay all our neighbours round about they became our enemies Treasury for Money their Magazine for Armes and Ammunition their Arsenall for Artillery and warlick provisions both by Sea and Land their refuge and shelter their place for counsell and advice and no doubt had publickly asserted our enemies interest had not the consideration of their great advantage in getting the Trade and Riches of England into their hands by our wars perswaded a seeming Newtrality Nor did these things satisfie them as if they thought they could never shew respect enough to our enemies and enmity to us Borrel and Raynswoold their Ambassadors in the year 1645. coming into England upon pretence of recōciling our differences besides other disservices in the then House of Commons assigned the Justice of the quarrel on the Kings side an unparaleld affront and every way unfit to be given by any especially by Forreigne States who were not concerned in our civill differences and which the Lords and Commons in Parliament then took notice of in their Declaration to the States Generall of those Provinces Afterwards Mr. Strickland our Agent had the Door of the States Generall shut against him for the space of about one year and a halfe and never admitted audience though at the same time Macdowell Agent for the King of Scots had admittance to whom when Dr. Dorislans was added he was assassinated in their Provinces and to this day not so much as a Warrant sent forth by the States General for the apprehending of those murtherers nor have they proscribed them their Dominions nor any thing done by them whereby their abhorrency of the Murther of a publick Minister might appear Nor have things rested here but when the Lord Saint Joh● and Mr. Strickland were lately sent over Ambassadors after the death of the Prince of Orange upon whom as a cause some of the former injuries against us were laid how were they affronted and endeavoured to be mischieved by Prince Edward who called them Doggs to their faces and Apsley who designed to strangle the Lord Saint John in his chamber to say nothing of all the abuses attempted upon them by the ungoverned multitude on their followers and the assaults on their houses and though they were some days in their power after complaints and demands of justice made yet were not secured and brought to justice or proscribed to this day which being added to the former affronts and injuries and the delayes in the treaty though it provoked not the Parliament to a demand of present reparation so tender have they alwayes been of a breach with them yet they so ill resented it that it was one reason wherefore they recalled those Ambassadors It will be too long to reckon up the severall supplies of Officers Souldiers Arms Ammunition Artillery Money Ships and Provisions that have been issued from those Countries for the assistance of the late King and the then King of Scots his son in their warres against the Parliament of England in England Scotland and Ireland particularly the 20000 Arms 26 Field Guns and 250 Barrels of powder shipt aboard two ships at Amsterdam for England when the King of Scots was lately at Worcester with his Army and at the said Kings desire Likewise the many intollerable injuries depredations and Murthers committed on severall of the English Nation as in the case of Amboyna sufficiently known to the world which was perpetrated even when the people were alive that saw what the English had done for them in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth and soon after a solemn Treaty and Agreement made of all differences between the Nations in those parts The many high Insolencies and affronts given this Nation at Sea in dragging the Colours of England under the Sterns of their ships after they had most injuriously taken their ships and goods from them and caneing the Seamen for being as they call'd it against their King some of this practised on severall English but the last Summer and the robbing of the English Merchants of their ships and goods at Sea to very great values Such things being fitter for a Volume then a few sheets of paper It will take up too much time also to particularize their late securing our ships and goods severall times that were within their coasts there being no cause given by us for such proceedings The marching of their Forces to their frontier Towns beating up of Drums for

Dutch for the fraught of the French Goods found aboard them without taking any of their goods at any time the contrary whereof our Merchants have found when as the Dutch have taken not only the Portugall Goods found aboard the English but such English Ships and Goods also without making of satisfaction to this day of which we have pregnant testimonie yet the searching for French Goods aboard their Vessels is so equitable and necessary that it is impossible unless we land Armies in France to have any reparation so long as the French may wholly manage their Trade in Dutch Vessels But to any rationall man this cannot be the cause of the late transactions of those people to us for first a long time before any Letters of Reprizall were granted they performed all those evil Offices aforementioned in the generall and since those Letters of Reprizall both on themselves and French for their sakes have been suspended their Admiral with his Fleet came to our Borders and whilst we lay securely in a time of friendship and Treaty came upon and assaulted part of our Navy as is formerly mentioned at large whereby it appears that as they formerly helped on our destruction so far as it concerned their profit and to lay us and our Liberties at the feet of a bloudy Tyrant so it is now their resolution as they are able to bring down this Nation to serve their Lusts and Cruelty and this as a reward for our saving of them from the sword of Spain and spilling our blood and money on the ground to lay the Foundation and secure the structure of their Riches and Prosperity The Blood of Amboyna shewed formerly how such things relished their Pallats and the clapping Captain Green and his men in Chains of late together with the outrages committed on our Ambassadors and several English people in their Territories their severall Arrests on our Ships and goods in their Ports and the late Engagement of Van Trump do now clearly demonstrate Though every weeks occurrences fild our ears with the noise of their preparations and the ranting and vile expressions against this State the abuse of the English there and their Ambassadors giving our Councell of State and Parliament Papers of their Resolutions of setting forth one hundred and fifty ships of War extraordinary which we might then very well conclude and have cause now to be assured were intended against us yet till those Papers came the Parliament moved not at all in any extraordinary preparations and then how requisit it was for this State to prepare for the security of their Seas and of that part of the ancient and undoubted Dominion of England let the world judge Yet so did they prepare as only to secure their own Right and what high time it was so to do the forementioned insolent and hostile behaviour of some of their ships to Captain Young for which the States gave one of the Captains a chain of gold and of Van Trump to our Navy whom they continue still in his Imployment thereby owning his late action is evident to all men It is worthy observation to consider unto what a height of Ingratitude Injustice and forgetfulness the pride of these men hath lifted them up It is not unknown to the world and to themselves though they would willingly forget it what was their condition when England first undertook their protection and what England hath done for them how they have permitted them to pass through their Seas to manage their Merchandise and required only their striking to our ships and Castles in acknowledgement of our Soveraignty And to fish in our Seas sometimes upon the requiring of a certain Tax sometimes freely and yet so bold are they upon our former Indulgence and condiscentions as to come up to our very dores and by treachery and force endeavour to snatch the Dominion thereof out of our hands though they cannot assigne one particular wherein the English hath designed or attempted any incroachment upon their Rights and Priviledges but have maintained them against all their opposers And no doubt but those men who with so much impudence and wickedness have attempted to dispoyle us of so antient and Indubitable a Right whereby our very defence for those Seas and our Ships are the outwalls and Bulwarks of this Island is endeanoured to be broken will also as they have oportunity labour to dispossess us of our Land Inheritance But as the former Kings of England took a severe course to chastise and cut off such luxuriant Exorbitances and as the Providence of God hath in their late Engagements given them a very great check so we doubt not but the Wisdom and Justice of the State through the assistance of God will so effectually proceed in the vindication of such wrongs as shall let them know what Right of ours they have encroached upon and by effectual ways perswading them from attempting such usurpations for the future What high time it is to take order with such men and reduce them to their proper bounds let the World judge and if that hereafter this State exerciseth a more strict Command over their own Jurisdiction in letting those men know at what rate they shall buy their Intrenchment on our Liberties they may thank themselves for such experience It is not the bare Complement of striking the Flag that hath been the occasion of these late contests as they would seem to pretend to gull and cheat well minded people as if so be for such a slight thing as the putting off a mans hat or the not putting it off were the ground of the late engagement or of what shall ensue thereupon In vain is such a snare as this set in the sight of England But it is the absolute and substantial Soveraignty of the narrow Seas which on our parts by such a deportment as the striking of the Flag or Topsail to our ships on those seas is required to be acknowledged and so hath been for many hundred years understood agreed unto and acknowledged by the Nations of Eruope which the Dutch by refusing to strike would deny A thing of such high importance that the former Kings would never endure but in their Commissions to their Captains at Sea commanded them to require obedience thereto by all or to fire sink or destroy them and which both Houses of Parliament in their Ordinance to that purpose commanded their Maritin Officers Now the Dutch refusing to strike do deny our Title and by their armed Fleets endeavour to take possession of our Inheritance therefore though to extenuate their hostility and cover their designes they would fain make the striking of the Flag a frivolous thing yet it is of as much concernment to us as the Dominion of those Seas and therin of our defence and the commodity of Fishing which those Seas yeeld in abundance and which themseves have found to be of so vast an advantage as that they know it to be the great staple