Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	good_a	great_a	think_v	2,784	4	3.9729	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85750	A treatise of the antiquity of the commonwealth of the Battavers, which is now the Hollanders first written in Latin by Hugo Grotius, advocat fiscall of Holland, Zealand, and Westfriesland, &c. And afterwards translated into the Netherlandish Dutch, and perused by the author himselfe. And now again translated out of both the Latin and Dutch, into English, by Tho. Woods, Gent.; De antiquitate Reipublicae Batavicae. English.	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Woods, Thomas.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1649 (1649)	Wing G2127; Thomason E1303_2; ESTC R202252	40,326	171

they sought to make the Liberty of the Netherlands very hatefull And on the contrary to demonstrate how that the Cities in Italy and the Countreys of America and the West-Indies in such and such manner were kept in subjection with their Garrisons and that there was an absolute obedience without any limitation At what time as the warres in France ending and King Philip being requested in behalfe of the States that hee would draw the Garrisons of the Spaniards out of the Countrey which reasonable request of theirs hee took very hainously and in ill part and being returned againe into Spaine from that time for the most part after never permitted the publike affaires of Holland nor of the Netherlands to be governed by the Lords that were the Inhabitants and borne in the Countrey whereof according to old custome the principall and permanent Councel of the State of this Land did ever consist but by the resolutions which were concluded in Spaine leaving heere the Cardinall Granvell to bee the executioner of the Spanish Precepts The matters concerning Religion were brought to that passe that although it had bin a matter of great offence to have beleeved any otherwise then the Pope of Rome should thinke convenient yet neverthelesse a good Prince should not have atempted to have punished the same in regard of the great multitudes of those that might be accused therewithall from whose consciences that Religion of what sort soever it might be would never by no feare have been extinguished or qualified For this occasion the principall Lords and also the chiefest Cities and Provinces made their Declaration that neither their traffique nor yet the common tranquillity of the Land could bee maintained unlesse those corrisive Commissions concerning the Religion were lenified and mitigated the which was so farre contrary to his minde that King Philip should follow their counsell therein that hee contrary thereunto ordained that such a search and inquisition should be made even to the very secret motions and cogitations of the heart and that after a very new strange and unusuall manner of proceeding the like whereof was never heard before in such manner as if it had been against those Jews or Mahumetists which shelter secretly in some parts of Christendome and is practised in Spaine To this end and purpose were there here and there new Bishoprickes erected and distributed with great contradicting and in despite of the States without whose consent in former time the Clergy-men might not bee augmented considering now that all this without all doubt tended to the great confusion of the publike affaires and first of all those Lords that were in the Councell of State and afterwards a great number of noble personages assembling to this end and purpose under whom also was the Lord of Brederode descended of the Family of the Princes of Holland who did both counsel and entreat that they should proceed unto that remedy the which in former times was very often used in matters of lesse moment viz. to a Convocation of the Generall States although King Philip before his departure and at his departure had excessively commanded to hinder the same that there might be no Convocation of the Generall States from hence there arose an uprore not by any common consent but by the enterprise of some certaine particular persons of the poorest and common people about the taking away of the Images out of the Churches in regard that it was a high trespasse and sinne to make supplication and intercession unto them And after that this uprore was pacified by the authority of the principall Lords it pleased the King of Spaine and the Spaniards under the pretext of this one inconsiderate particular contrary to all right and reason to charge the whole Nation generally with the offence of Rebellion whereupon the Duke of Alba was sent with a very rigorous Commission to take possession of the absolute Soveraignty being naturally a very rigorous man as all Germany can testifie he very openly published that both the States Cities and People of the Netherlands and every person in particular had forfeited all their priviledges and that from hence forward they were to expect no other Lawes but what it pleased the King to command whereof he himselfe was a sufficient testimony that the Lawes were abolished he being a stranger and none of the Princes blood and yet neverthelesse against all right and custome was sent to possesse the generall Government The judgement of matters was also withdrawne from the lawfull and ordinary Colledges and by the erection of a new Judgement Seat or Bench where the matter of Lesae Majestatis or the abusing of His Highnesse should be decided by the Spaniards and by their adherents such as made themselves slaves unto the Spaniards having gotten under their power not only the lives but also the goods of all the inhabitants whereof not onely many thousands of the common people were executed but also the very Earles themselves of Egmond and Horne being condemned by false accusations were forced to present their necks to the violent stroak of the Hangman William Earle of Nassaw Prince of Orange being one of the chiefest Lords of the Netherlands with divers others were banished of wch persons Egmond had his Earldome in Holland and the Prince of Orange was Governour of Holland The Marquesse of Berghen and the Lord of Montignie who had carried the Requests and Remonstrations of the people and of the States into Spaine were both made away the one being openly executed and the other according to common report poysoned Thereafter according to the custome of all those that will bee Dominators the Cities were planted with Spanish Garrisons or else Cittadels and Castles built therein Moreover and above to the end that this Nation which before to this present time had been a free people might the more openly publish their slavery by maintaining and providing for themselves food and rayment they were inforced at that time by the terrible threatnings of their Deputy to bring up the twentieth penny at the sale of every house or parcell of Land and every tenth penny of all Moveables which their Princes themselves in former times were accustomed to Then the Fidelitie and the Liberty of those people were long contending with each other but in regard it was not possible to endure any longer the oppression of their Lawes and they setting at nought of the States and the Governement which had continued so many hundred yeeres and that the Libertie of their posteritie could not longer bee maintained then the States of Holland unto whom appertained the protection as well both of the Lawes as also of the generall and their owne particular Rights in the yeere 1572. upon the 19. of Iuly in the Assembly at Dordrecht consisting of certaine Nobles and of the Deputies of the greatest part of the Cities according to the example of their Fore fathers who tooke up Armes against the Romanes when as they pressed to bee