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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	subject_n	4,732	5	6.6515	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25235	The Ambitious practices of France, or, A relation of the ways and methods used by them to attain to that supreame grandeur as also, the secret intrigues of the French king's ministers at the courts of most of the princes and states of Europe : with remarks thereupon, and some reflections on the interest of those princes.		1689 (1689)	Wing A2949; ESTC R8728	42,003	71

desir'd him that the eldest of his Family might be ever called Saladin that Posterity curious of knowing why they bore so extraordinary a name among Christians might know at the same time the generous Action he had perform'd Those of that Family have been careful to remember the request of Saladin to their Ancestor All the Eldest of that Family have successively after one another taken the name of Saladin so that the Count D. Estages who is the Eldest of that Family is still at this day called by that Name If I might be allowed to make any reflections upon this matter it would be no hard task for me to prove that the present Age is very different from the former Heretofore a Christian kept his word with a Turk and now a most Christian King does not keep his with his Father in-in-Law At this day the Descendants of a Christian are called Saladin because their Father promised it to a Turk and now a most Christian King neither minds the Word which his Predecessors gave their Subjects of the Reformed Religion nor that he himself has given them At this day the House of Anglure which is only the Family of a Gentleman derives all its Glory from that their Forefather executed the promise he had given a Turk and now the House of France which is the most August House of Europe derives all its glory from infringing an infinite number of Edicts which it has granted to Christians But to return unto my Subject the French King grounding himself as I have said upon his imaginary Pretensions and upon the Parliaments not having ratified the Treaty of the Pyrences resolv'd to break the Peace and carry his Arms into Flanders Mean while as I cannot proceed on farther without first giving an account of the Authority of this Parliament for fear some should judge its Power extended as far as that of another Country it is convenient that it be known that the least Order of Council Cashiers all Acts of Parliament and that its Power is now so limited that though the matters in hand be only the interests of private Persons the Council does often attribute to it self the taking Cognizance of 'em and thus makes a mock of all the Parliament could Decree Nevertheless its Authority was formerly very great nay and it 's not long since that it was to so high a Point that it was look'd upon by all with Admiration I mean the time of the Kings Minority but that time is now so much chang'd that a man may say there 's now no knowing the Parliament again And even in that time I mean the time this Manifest appear'd in the King had stript it of all its Priviledges had banish'd all those Members out of it who were suspected by him because they stood well affectioned to the publick good and to say all in a word contemn'd it to that Degree as to go to it no otherwise than in great Boots and with a Cane in his hand Nay he plum'd it of its very name as well as the name of all the other Tribunals For to shew that none but he was Master he caused an Edict to be issued forth by which neither the Parliament nor the great Council nor the Chamber of Accounts nor the Court of Aids ought thenceforward to be called more than the Superior Courts whereas before they were called the Soveraign Courts Nay and he had publish'd another Edict too which seem'd to me still more injurious for whereas when there was a design of any new Subsidies or of some other Innovation in the State he was used to go thither in Person to have his Edicts verifyed he had ordered the Parliament to verify them upon a meer Note under the Privy Signet which he most commonly sent by a Foot-man so as that this August Tribunal which had been instituted formerly as a Man may say to be the Mediator between the People and the King and to save the one from the Tyranny of the other was it self oblig'd to buckle under his will and pleasure for there was no more talking of making Remonstrances which those of the same Company formerly made to stir up Kings to have compassion of their People And if any were allowed to be made they were only such as were stufft with Flatteries and Dissimulation and just as certain Fathers make their Children sometimes kiss the Rods wherewith they come to Chastise them in like manner were the People who are the Kings Children or at least who ought to be so to thank the King by the mouth of their Magistrates for all the Imposts he lays upon them to satisfy his Profusions Nevertheless it was upon the Authority which the Parliament had in the Kingdom that the King laid the Foundations of an approaching War as I have already said In effect the King of Spain being dead there straight appeared a small Tract under the Name of the Rights of the Queen in which it was endeavoured to be prov'd that the Renunciation which the King had made to his Rights by the Treaty of the Pyrenees was Null seeing the Parliament could never be brought to verify the Treaty That though this Renunciation were good which however they were far from granting it could not always subsist by reason of the Dauphin who had not yet Ratifyed it and yet who had the greatest Interest therein as being one day to be his Mothers Heir In fine this Treatise was only filled with trim words and few reasons For to begin with the first true it is the Parliament was us'd to verify what passed most remarkable in the Kingdom but that this was absolutely essential is what I deny and which I shall endeavour to disprove For Example if a Marriage of a King be concluded with a Princess the Parliament has nothing to do in the Contract and we do not find it was suffered to take Cognizance of that of Henry the Fourth with Mary of Medices and to start a matter still of latter Date of that of the Dauphin with the Dauphiness And yet in this occasion the thing perhaps was of as much moment as the Renunciation which the King made by the Treaty of the Pyrenees Yes but may be one or other may tell me that the species is very different for a Treaty of Peace is concern'd in establishing the repose of the People whereas a Treaty of Marriage only regards the establishing the Society of two Persons I 'le own with them that their reason is specious but easy to refute For if it be upon the account of the Interest of the People that the Treaties of Peace ought to be Ratified by the Parliament why does it not also verify Treaties of War as well as Treaties of Peace They will needs have that a Treaty which banishes War and brings back repose into a State instead of Troubles and Confusion which reign therein are subject to verification and will not allow that a Treaty of War which must banish