Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	4,625	5	5.7154	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61485	Florus Britannicus, or, An exact epitome of the history of England, from William the Conquerour to the twelfth year of the reign of His Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, now flourishing illustrated with their perfect portraictures in exact copper plates ... / by Mathew Stevenson, Gent.	Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5501; ESTC R18156	64,856	62

one hundred and thirty tall ships of Warre in which were nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety souldiers eight thousand three and fifty Marriners two thousand and eighty Gally-slaves two thousand six hundred and thirty great Ordnance and the 19. of Iuly 1588. they came in sight of England and were in hopes to devour it But by the valour of the English and the Dutch the Fleet was partly worsted partly hindered but especially by a Tempest that rose against it the Spaniard was disappointed of his hopes They often after fought by Sea in Portugall and the West-Indies doing and receiving much harm This great Tempest being blown over the Queen causeth a day of Thanksgiving to be proclaimed and rid Triumphantly to London Notwithstanding all this she had many troubles but strangled all in the birth and England was made the Receptacle of persecuted and afflicted men both from France and Holland by reason of the Wars there In the mean while Sir Francis Drake was sent into the West-Indies and the Earl of Essex to the Coasts of Spaine when after many Victories atchieved by each the Spaniards by the mediation of the French seek peace but the Dutch hinder it In the year 1598. Philip King of Spain died in the seventieth year of his age He aimed at great matters but was unfortunate in most of them whereupon it came to passe that the three Keyes of the Spanish Empire which his Father so called and willed him to keep diligently to wit Gulet in Africa Flushing in Holland and Cades in Spain were neglected The first taken in by the Turks the second by the Confederates of the United Provinces the third much impaired in its strength and impoverished by the English which his father foreseeing in his Life time admonished to make peace with the English and Dutch Anno 1599. died that Reverend and famous Divine Mr. Richard Hooker a man moderate temperate meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and left behind him a living monument of his reall worth his Book entituled Ecclesiastical Pollicy Then peace was confirmed between the Spaniard and the French but the English and the Dutch refused to be comprehended in it because they held it disadvantageous to their buâ—iness but making a Covenant with joynt Forces they invade Spain The Spaniard stirs up the Earl of Tyrone who made a great Rebellion in Ireland Essex was sent thither to subdue the Rebells and to make them conformable but he scurvily neglected an opportunity of conquering the enemy and beyond his commission treats with the Rebells concerning peace He was therefore called home and commanded to answer for his fault by his submission he found the Queens savour afterward prompted on either by shame or his ambition to the Kingdome he raised an Army and entered London and he purposed to have forced the Queen His Forces ran away from him and he was taken prisoner accused of high Treason and lost his head for it Charls Blunt was sent in his Place who in divers fights wonderfully subdued the enemy though the Spaniard had sent many supplies to relieve them in a set battel he overthrew Tyrone and the Auxiliary Spaniards and then made conditions driving them out of Ireland Tyrone afterwards when he had tried all wayes submitted and humbly entreated the Queens pardon In the mean time Richard Levison and William Monson with eight great Ships and some small ones went and wasted the Spanish Coasts and meeting the Spanish Fleet coming from America with abundance of wealth set upon them but was too weak being disappointed After that he master'd a great rich Ship riding at Anchor in Portugall and burning some lesser Ships returned with her to England At that time the Jesuits and Seminaries were banished At last the Queen died Anno 1602 having reigned 44. years 4. months was buried at Westminst ELISABET D. G. ANG FRAN. ET HIB REGINA FIDEI CHRISTIANAE PROPVGNA TRIX ACERRIMA Thus dy'd Elizabeth Did I say she dy'd Away my babling Muso away ye ly'd She is alive and ever so shall be Could England dote and lose all memory The Neatherlands yea France Spain would give All satisfaction that she still does live And shall untill unknown diseases vex The Vniverse into an Apoplex Of whom this Nation may with comfort say An Evening red foretold a morning gray Thus from the Briny Ocean of our tears The joyfull Venus of our Peace appears JAMES King of Great Britain France Ireland THE losse that England sustained by the death oâ— Queen Elizabeth was abundantly recompenced by her most worthy Successor King â—ames in the happy union of the two warlike Kingdomes England and Scotland He was inferiour to heâ— neither for Religion nor any thing else and by new rejoycings he extinguished that grief the Subjects had conceived for the losse of so dear a Mother to her Countrey He was a King the more happy because he obtained a Kingdom by lawfull succession that was no wayes embroyled with wars and tumults but setled in exceeding great peace But as the calmest weather is not secure from clouds so the affairs of Brittany though in a coâ—dition most peaceable were endangered by the malice and conspiracy of some male-contents â—he Ring-leaders were Henry Cobham and George his Brother Thomas Grey of Wilt-shire Walter Raleigh and others their purpose was to kill the King but newly Crowned to change Religion to raise Tumults to let in Forreigners a terrible design but this flame vanished into smoak the principall being either executed or condemned to perpetual imprisonment or had their parâ—ons granted to them but least peace should be disturbed by new wars he made peace with the King of Spain who was a sworn enemy to England it was solemnly confirmed by both In Northampton and Warwickshire new tumults arose first by Fines then by Iohn Reignold that led them but this faction was soon allayed and the Authors thereof severely punished In the mean time Frederick Count Elector Palatine came to London to marry Elizabeth King Iames his Daughter the marriage was solemnized with wonderfull pomp but all these joyes were overshadowed with Clouds of sorrow for on the sixt day of November 1612. Prince Henry departed this life various reports were spread abroad by the Vulgar as if indirect means had been used but his Physitians gave it under their hands that he dyed of a violent malignant Feaver Charls the Kings second Son succeeds him in the Principallity of Wales About this time that learned gallant and noble spirit Sir Walter Raleigh after 14 years imprisonment made addresses to the King to give him leave to visit the New found World in America to which he gave him liberty and a Commission under the great Seal to set forth Ships and Men for that service his reputation and merit caused many Gentlemen of Quality to adventure their persons and estates on the design many considerable adventures were performed though with great difficulty but especially that of

the Duke of Northumberland the Earls of Northampton and Warwick are indicted of high Treason she spared Northampton but Northumberland was beheaded abjuring that Religion he professed before in hope of pardon his body was buried by the Duke of Somerset his Capitall Enemy between Anne of Boloyne and Katharine who all had suffered the same death The rest persisted and did not renounce the Faith they had professed Iane afterwards with her husband and his two brethren Ambrose and Henry were all condemned to dye but Iane was reprieved for a while Then the Marriage was contracted between Mary and Philip of Spain whereat Wyat and others offended conspire lead an Army to London and are overthrown and executed The Queen enraged with the boldnesse of the subjects began seriously to consider how to punish the guilty Gilford husband to Iane was first beheaded then Iane her self within the Walls of the Tower with a wonderfull courage piety and Constancy had her head chopt off She was a Princesse for her learning and wisdome worthy of immortall praise It is reported that Morgan who passed Sentence upon her fell mad shortly after and cried Take away Lady Iane from me Then Suffolk was beheaded and the same day Wyat the cause of all these mischiefs for Iane had been pardoned had not he raised that furious tumult and enraged the Queen those that followed him some were punished and some pardoned Also Elizabeth was cast into prison by the means of Gardiner Bishop of Winchester without doubt her Life was at Stake had she not wisely answered to questions concerning her Faith They did severely at that time punish all those that were averse to the Romish Religion among whom was Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Ridley Bishop of London and Hugh Latimer Bishop of Worcester these refusing to abjure their Faith were burnt to ashes The Queens Marriage with Philip was now solemnized and Cardinall Poole being sent from the Pope all the Errors of the English are purged and they received under the Popes tuition The Fame was at this time that the Queen was with Child and for joy Te Deum was sung at Pauls and she released out of the Tower many Prisoners among whom were the Sons of the Duke of Northumberland who were condemned to lose their heads But all this hope vanisht when the Queens Conception proved to be but a Timpany The Queen restored to the Church all the Goods she possessed belonging to the Church and when she was told that by so great a bounty the Crown Lands would be much wasted she replied piously and prudently She preferred her souls health before all the worlds goods Philip in the interim went to Brussels to his Father Charls and obtained of him the Kingdome of Spaine and his other Dominions before his death then he returned to England then again he went to Callice to wage war with the French and staid upon that businesse above 18. months the English murmuring and the Queen lamentâ—ng his absence Thomas Stafford at that time was instigated by the French to make warre against the Queen and landing with an Army he wan York Castle but he soon was conquered and taken and beheaded at London and his followers were hanged Then the Queen sent Pembroke to assist her husband and won a great victory over the French but drawing too many Forces out of Callis the Duke of Guise assaulted and won it after it had been in the hands of the English two hundred years Guina followed it and so the English were cleane thrust out of all France The Queen was wonderfull grieved for the losse of Callis which together with her Dropsie put an end to her life in the year of our Lord 1558. the fifth year of her Reigne and the fourty third of her Life ELISABET D. G. ANG FRAN. ET HIB REGINA FIDEI CHRISTIANAE PROPVGNA TRIX ACERRIMA What means this Popish Fogg the Church to smother Where is the Queen should be a nursing Mother Edward preceeded thee in the same form That a bright Sun foreruns a blustering storme For Age and Sex all at the stake we see O burning zeal and frozen Charity If to deny the Tyranny you please Behold a Cloud of faithfull Witnesses No it were better to bethink with speed What Sackcloth such a world of ashes need But Madam were not these your own intents How have you suffer'd in your Instruments ELIZABETH Queene of England ELIZABETH Daughter to Henry the Eighth by Anne Boloyne succeeded her Sister Mary being raised from the Prison to the Throne By her Coronation the Papal authority fell again the second time all the Ceremonies Mary had brought in she abollished and reformed all according to rule of her Brother Edward Being she was of a flourishing age and Queen of a flourishing Kingdome it could not be but she must be sought to of many lovers Maximilian the Emperour the Kings of Spaine and Sweeden the Arch-Duke of Austria and the Duke of Angiers sent to woe her but all in vaine First because the Queen would not marry for at her inauguration the Condition was That she should marry no Stranger whereby there was hopes left to the Natives for so great a match The French and Scotch they hoped to prevaile much by reason she was a woman and of tender years whereupon they invade and spoile the English Frontiers The French King pretending Title to the Crown of England in right of his Wife Mary Stewart allyed to Henry the seventh but at last peace is confirmed betwixt Elizabeth the Scotch and French and all the Romane Catholicks are routed out of Scotland Mary when Francis was dead return'd for Scotland and made a firme agreement with Elizabeth but envy and ambition soon violated it and their sister-like concord to the ruine of Mary at last Mary takes to her husband Henry Darley and after Bothwell but discontents and warres arising she flees to Elizabeth in England who received her in her Arms She was at first liberally entertained but after moving dissention in England being a most bitter enemy to those of the Reformed Religion she was kept more narrowly For eighteen years she was kept in prison at last she began to riot in hope of the Kingdome and to lay snares for the Queens Life for which cause at the request of the severall Orders of England she was beheaded Also the Duke of Suffolk who privily sought to marry her suffered the same punishment Elizabeth in the mean time assisted those of the Reformed Religion in France Now fell out a warre between Philip the Second and the low Countreys in which Elizabeth assisted the united Provinces The Queen for this assistance was hated by the Spaniards who had before privately laid snares for her life but now he breaks forth into open warre for he raised a mighty Fleet from Spaine and other places it was the greatest Navy for Provision and Men that ever the Ocean bare and carried the presumptuous Title of Invincible It consisted of

a League concluded between England and Scotland and upon the discharge of some Scotch Lords Prisoners in the Tower of London a marriage was promised between Edward and the young Heir of Scotland which afterward was falsified and she married to the French King whereupon the Duke of Somerseâ— with a well provided Army enters Scotland and fought the Scots at Musselburgh and slew of them mâ—re than 14000 amongst whom besides the Lord Lohemore and the Lord Fleming fell almoâ—t all the young Nobillity of Scotland There were taken in fight Earl Huntley Chancellour of Scotland The Lords Hester Hobbey and Hamilton and 1500 more of good account possessing themselves of many strong Forts and Castles with abundant spoile and then betaking themselves homewards they not a little recreated the minds of the dejected Scots by their departure While these things thus fell out in Scotland there happened great alteration in the Ecclesiasticall State at home divers of the Kings Tutors being earnestly bent to a Reformation of Religion and especially the Lord Protector himself and it was therefore Resolved by the Kings Tutors and Counsell that whatsoever King Henry had enacted for the abrogating of the Popes authority should stand in full force and authority whereby the English Church became purged of Popery And what is very memorable the same day that Images and Superstition were thrown out of the Church news was brought of the great victory atchieved upon the Scots at Musselburgh The Popishly affected Stephen Gardiner and bloudy Bonner are committed to the Tower About this time fell out an unlucky difference betwixt the Protector and his Brother which proved the ruine of them both for they both lost their heads This Year Bishop Ridley preached before the King and in his Sermon took occasion to discourse of the necessity of Alms-deeds which the King earnestly attending and laying to heart sent for the Bishop after Sermon and entered into private communication with him causing him to set down in a chair and whether he would or not to put on his hat about relief The King to shew his wonderfull charity appointed severall Hospitalls to which he gave Lands to the value of 600 pounds per annum which had belonged to the Savoy and 4000 Marks a year in mony beside About the beginning of the next year the King fell into lingring sicknesse then into a Hectick Feaver whereof together with a consumption of the Lungs he died at length not without suspicion of poyson And now Northumberland began to devise how he might gain the Crown of England to his posterity he therefore imparts the businesse to the Duke of Suffolk requesting his eldest Daughter Iane to be given in marriage to his son Gilford Dudley then he takes upon him to perswade the King not only to disinherit his two sisters but also by Will to constitute his Cousin the Lady Iane Queen after him which accordingly the good King yeilded preferring the true worship of God before all naturall respects A few dayes before things were thus ordered King Edward not yet 16. years of age sent forth his blessed soul at Greenwich to wit the sixt day of Iuly when he had held the Kingdome under Governours six years five months and nineteen dayes shewing forth even in that tender age blossoms of vertue together with singular piety towards God constancy of mind love of right and an incredible study of Learning Not above three hours before he expired thinking no body had been by he uttered this Prayer Lord God deliver me out of this miserable and wreâ—ched life take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be done Lord I commit my spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy Chosens sake if it be thy will send me life and health that I may truly serve thee O my Lord blesse thy people and save thine inheritance O Lord God save thy chosen people of England O my Lord God defend this Realme from Papistry and maintain thy true Religion that I and my people may praise thy holy Name Soon after he cried out I faint I faint Lord have mercy upon me and take my spirit and so yielded up the Ghost The high and Mighty Monarch Edward the VI. by the grace of GOD King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defendor of the Earth etc To thee Great King it was a gain to dye Whose death was crown'd with immortality Nor does he erre whoever takes thee for Edward the Saint the Second Confessor Thou that in pious Paths so Even hast trod Art Enoch like translated by thy God Who as thy death does evidently show Lov'd thee too well to leave thee long below Whos 's every act the Vniverse convinces And is a pattern to succeeding Princes When thou of Popery didst the Temple purge Thy Scepter turn'd into thy Saviours scourge MARY Queene of England MARY so soon as she heard of her Brothers death posted to Framingham Castle in Suffolk to whom resorted divers Lords who had formerly compacted to preserve the Romish Religion Then she sent to the Senate of London that they should proclaim her Queen but the Lords in the name of all the people made answer That by the Testament of King Edward Iane was to succeed and they asserted that Maryes mother was divorced whereupon they fly to Arms. The Earl of Northumberland with a small Army marches against Mary but as he proceeds but slowly Maryes Forces increase mightily also Edward Hastings who was set with six Ships to prevent Maryes escape into France revolted to her by which losse the Lords and Londoners were not a little dismayed and grew at odds one with the other and the Londoners proclaimed Mary Queen and Northumberland when he was certain of his friends falling from him that he might not run the hazard alone calls a Counsell at Cambridge and himself for want of an Herauld proclaims Mary Queen of England c. casting his Cap up in token of joy But that did not at all help his Cause for the Earl of Arundell who a little before did not decline to venture his life for Iane now coming to Cambridge in Maryes name takes the Duke and Casts him into Prison he in vain intreating for his life Iane at the Command of the Duke of Suffolk her father when the Case was thus altered layes down the Ensigns of the Kingdome with much more cheerfullnesse then ever she took them up The Queen coming to London met her Sister Elizabeth with 1000 Horse and Thomas of Norfolk Edward Contener Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and Somersets Wife which she received into Grace giving them her hand to kisse Then entering upon the Church affairs she abollished those Bishops and Ceremonies that Edward had confirmed setting up others in their roome the people not a little offended at it and then she punished severely all those that were enemies to the Church of Rome In the interim

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