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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	subject_n	3,349	5	6.8187	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91834	Albania or, Certaine concernments of Great Britanny. With an explication of the present state thereof; truely represented under the faigned person of Albania. / By George Raleigh.	Raleigh, George, b. 1600?	1641 (1641)	Wing R150; Thomason E179_16; ESTC R7782	47,700	65

issue doe faile commonly I suppose your Majesty would not desire to be King of such a base and slavish-minded people as were carelesse observers or wilfull neglecters of those just Ordinances and Priviledges under which the Kingdome hath beene so long time happy and prosperous for as those Princes are accounted Tyrants that rule onely by compulsion of the Subjects against the Lawes so may those Subjects be esteemed no better than Asses that beare any burthen is laid upon their backes it is much to be suspected that such as love innovations and attempt change of governement may by the same reason be drawne in time to dislike of the Governors themselves When we are in a good and sure way it is safe keeping in it for those by-pathes which we conceive to be nearer are hard to finde and more dangerous and the policy is neither commendable nor profitable to learne the hurt of ill counsell by experience Now the way to maintaine the Kings Prerogative the greatest Prerogative of a King is the preserving of his Justice and to keepe on foot the Liberties of his Subjects is by that generall Councell as now by your Majesties gracious favour happily met together of the whole Land presented in some particulars for that end and that this hath beene the readiest way of providing convenient supplies for the Princes occasions and necessities for redressing the Countries grievances and punishments of capitall Offenders neither can there be any other meanes devised whereby to levy greater summes of money for the Kings use more speedily or with like chearefullnesse and in such manner that no person shall have just cause to complaine or be so impoverished but upon another occasion shall be able and willing to give againe whereas whatsoever others project or perswade to the contrary taxes and impositions enforced on the Subject in an extraordinary manner and way are experience too well sheweth it unwillingly and but in part with a great deale of murmur and grudging from those which are least able to beare extorted For there is not the least Worme but being trodden upon will turne taile though he may not nor dare make resistance and every man in a common tumult will seeke to shift his Coller and the weaker must of necessity goe to the Wall and men when they are driven to extremities will be swayed more by passion then reason and there is hard reclaming of affection by force when it is once alienated Whereupon the common enemy taking or making occasions will cast in his hooke and fish in those troubled waters all which this general Assembly may happily prevent whereby the heart of the Prince and peopleunited in the adamantine linkes of reciprocall affection things hereafter will goe on in so faire and loving manner that each part shall hold it selfe well satisfied and no privie traytor or open adversary whatsoever dare to practise against such combined forces And this most excellent Prince is the main end that drawes all true hearts upon their knees to beg of your Highnesse that as you have honored this Assembly of your subjects with a happie beginning and profer of much favour by the encouragement of your gracious presence and promises so you would be pleased notwithstanding the importunities of any opposition to give it the rights appertaining to the same and suffer it to have such a peaceable progresse that your subject may be able to expresse the true intention of his desire and manifest the sincere affection of his heart in willingly performing what shall most stand with your Majesties Honour and safety of the Kingdome But if under the pretext of loyalty which cannot be imagined in hearts of such unstained Religion there were harboured in any of this Assembly a desire to bring innovations into Church or Commonwealth if they did seeke to derogate any thing from your Majesties honour or just prerogative to advance their owne liberties by exemptions from their ancient dues or to bring in or allow of any other kind of governement and authority Civill or Ecclesiasticall that might counterchecke or diminish from the Royall dignity of the Crowne if they did seeke to monopolize any commodity for their particular advantage had any project that did ayme at any private end and not concurre with the good of the generall State if their grievances were fained or pretended which they could not manifestly prove or were not too sensible of could they pitch upon any other course or way whereby your Majesties desires might be satisfied wants supplyed and their grievances eased neither the sorrowfull Albania true meaning Veridicus or any other subject that had the least sparke of reason or were well in his wits would at this time insist in any needlesse and unjust petition to so Gracious Majesty and rejoyce to have induced the meanes of his Countries misery together with the certaine ruine of himselfe and his posterity But when is shall be proved to be otherwise how much are they in blame and what enemies to the State I would sad experience did not witnesse it which imputing the fault where is none have beene the hinderance of the proceedings and causes of the late dissolutions of this Assembly whereby their actions might not be brought in question a child may tumble a stone into a well which a multitude of strong men shall hardly be able to draw out and thereupon the opportunities of preventing the dangers and expences which have since followed have beene omitted with other inconveniences so fast comming on that your Majesty is as it were now enforced upon this course in much strictnesse of time and turbulencie of businesse that the wisest under standings tremble to thinke what will be the issue if this assembly have no better successe than formerly In the meane while if such mean well as are suspected of this notorious injury done to their King State I can accuse none but sure there cannot be smoake without fire mee thinkes they of all other should desire the tryall of a Parliament that so they may be cleared from these foule aspersions and their innocence manifested by a more generall vote and their accusers censured and upon this ground was that worthy resolution of Leonissa observable that if any man complained unjustly against a Magistrate it were reason he should be severely punished if justly she was Queene of the small as well as of the great and hereby also shall the true authors be the sooner discouraged and for example receive their condigne punishment who although in way of excuse may pretend your Highnesse allowance for their doings yet while they principally sought the accomplishment of their owne designes with the dishonour of their Prince and those it is a mixime in Policie that respect not their Princes honour cannot be well said to love his person their actions can no way be justifiable since those favourites that turn Apostates to due obedience and abuse a favour afforded to them to the injury of the Giver do

too much undervalue their Prince and are of all ungratefull persons the worst and deserve the highest of punishments And by the discovery of these offenders your Majesty shall reape a double benefit First a freedome from ill counsell and practises with the gaine of sounder hearts and advises Secondly a reunion of your subjects hearts and affections to which for your Majesties safety the devises of all the Projectors in the world are nothing comparable and in this regard the desire of a learned valiant Prince in his time was no lesse truly royall than memorable in that hee had rather be master of his subjects hearts than their goods and Lord of their affections rather than a Conquerour of his enemies dominions and besides this your Majesty shall assure all doubting spirits that you are more led in your resolutions by judgement than passion and that you can make use of ill instruments no farther than to worke out good effects by them that your favour is swayed according to desert that your deeds shall be effectuall as your promise hath been gracious and hereby their grosse stupidity to the dispiriting and terrour of other like as thought to manage all the affaires of the State with such an high and absolute hand and in the meane time to dance in a net undescryed unpunished shall more plainly appeare and the difference will be made evident betwixt such as counsell for their owne ends and relations and others that do it meerly out of duty without other respects Now what farther benefit will accrue to the Kingdome by demonstration of your Majesties regard to the love and desires of your peoples request and how your Highnesse prerogative can be no wayes abridged your Exchequer more plentifully furnished your honourable intentions according to your owne expectation accomplished your friends and well-wishers comforted your enemies domestique and forraine discouraged time will shortly bring to light with most infallible evidences But I feare in so farre pressing my message I have forgot to whom I speake and the person I was to represent the distresse of Albania dread Soveraigne hath caused this excesse of speech wherein if I have beene impertinent in any extravagances or too tedious with needlesse tautologies I hope your Majesty will gratiously pardon these errours of love duty and your humble vassall shall ever pray for the prosperity of your long and peaceable Raigne on earth the enjoyment and felicity of an endlesse Raigne in Heaven both which hee that is onely able the Lord Almighty for his Sonnes sake graunt unto you for his Glory the Churches good and your Majesties eternall comfort Veridieus having in this free manner delivered the desires of Albania to her Soveraigne thought she would not be satisfied except her sister Vnita were somewhat expostulated with by him concerning her arrivall at this time and in such manner but understanding her desire was not to treat with or deliver the intentions of her mind to any but the generall assembly he saw his labour would be needlesse yet howsoever whiles he had pen and paper at hand he wrote to her and her associates briefly and plainly to this effect Unconquered Vnita and yee my brethren of the North for so I may now presume to call you what a joy to all true hearts is it to find that the report of sinister affections towards the common good is found a lier and that your intentions are hit herto justified by your loyalty and fidelity towards the safety of your Prince and the welfare of both Kingdomes the enemies whereof as they have shewed their selves malicious so much more treacherous in their designes than they could with all their inventions impute to others by any of their forged calumniations Good Lord what a plot of mischiefe had they hammered out upon the anvill of their subtile devises to make us to misunderstand and misconstrue each others words and actions so that if the never failing mercy of God had not in the very moment of danger interposed it selse to the preventing of what was intended wee had barbarously sheathed our swords in each others bosomes and bathed them in the blood of our nearest friends to the unspeakeable griefe of Verana and long expected joy of Idolana Alas it was farre from the thought of Albania ever to conceive that her sister Vnita would presume to come neere the presence of her Soveraigne with a petition in one hand and a sword in the other without the extreme necessity of his Majesty and his Kingdomes good enforcing it neither could shee beleeve that Vnita sought to have the person of their joynt Liege under her absolute power that his word might be wholly at her command neither could shee endure to heare with patience that shee would prove so unjust as to covet some place of abode for her greater ease in her sisters possessions but she is yet confident and alwayes hath beene of the mind that whereas shee hath surprised Townes and Castles fortified them with strong defences it is more for the security of her retreat in safety than for any enjoyment after her just desires are satisfied neither can Albania any wayes blame her demand of reparations for the wrongs and injuries shee hath sustained against those that have beene the maine cause thereof as being now discovered to be the sole incentives of all the troubles in Church and Common-wealth that have unhappily of late fallen out to the disturbance of the blessed Iland in both Kingdomes How faine would they have caused the abused parties to fasten upon this beleefe that Vnita by taking up armes and comming in this warlike manner since by their cruell plots there was no other way left open for admittance had manifested an open rebellion against her Prince whiles the event hath hitherto published that her prime accusers have beene the great offenders by whose wicked contrivances both Albania Vnita were for a time hood-winked and by a way which they least suspected or dreamed alike endangered to have falne headlong into an inevitable ruine of life estate religion and all together A cunning devill thus to turne Angell of light and under the colour of religion and justice politiquely to undermine the state of the Church and the liberty of the subject by its owne meanes and instruments to betray the Court with insinuations of new projects to defile the Temple with superstitious ceremonies and the pulpit with new doctrines and strange opinions to breed jealousies betwixt a most loving Prince and his loyall people by breach of Parliaments and perverting of justice and having thus put all things into a generall confusion like the fish Sepia that blackes the water to blind the fisherman to thinke to escape undiscerned unavoided But thankes to the Almighty through his providence the net is broken and wee are delivered it is through his great mercy and not our foresight that the common enemy who stood waiting when the mine for our destruction would be