A discourse of monarchy more particularly of the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland according to the ancient, common, and statute-laws of the same : with a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of His Royal Highness James Duke of York.
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- A discourse of monarchy more particularly of the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland according to the ancient, common, and statute-laws of the same : with a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of His Royal Highness James Duke of York.
- Author
- Wilson, John, 1626-1696.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by M.C. for Jos. Hindmarsh,
- 1684.
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- Subject terms
- James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701.
- Monarchy.
- Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession.
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"A discourse of monarchy more particularly of the imperial crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland according to the ancient, common, and statute-laws of the same : with a close from the whole as it relates to the succession of His Royal Highness James Duke of York." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66571.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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To the most Honorable JAMES Duke of ORMOND, &c. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
May it please your Grace,
IT was a saying of the late Earl of Ossory (Lord Deputy of Ireland (your Son) at what time he deliver'd up the Sword of that Kingdom to the Lord Lieutenant Berkeley) Action is the life of Go∣vernment: Common experience tells us, Usefulness, is the end of Action, and without which (like a Glass-eye to a Body) a man rather
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takes up a room, than becomes any way serviceable. The sense of this, put me on those thoughts, I here∣with present your Grace, and un∣to whom more fitly, than to a Person, in the defence of which, few men sate longer at Helm, or suffer'd more; You, that hung not up your Shield of Faith, in the Temple of Despair, and never seem'd more worthy of the great place you now fill, than when far∣thest from it. Nor am I in the so doing, without some prospect of advantage to my self; in as much, as if the censuring Age, shall han∣dle me roughly on this account, under your great Patronage, I shall fight in the Shade.
And now (my Lord) I was just breaking off, when it came into my head, that I had, in some of
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our late pieces, found Sir Edward Coke, often quoted, especially, to the defence of those Notions, which had better slept in their for∣gotten Embers; and therefore I thought it not altogether forein to the matter, that I us'd the words of S. Peter (2 Pet. 3.16.) touch∣ing S. Paul's Epistles, In which (saith he) are some things, hard to be under∣stood, which they that be unlearned, and unstable wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction: I have purposely made use of him in many places, as an high Asser∣tor of Monarchy, and Preroga∣tive; Those that find him other∣wise,
—Habeant secum, serventque—Or let him lie indifferent, my Ar∣gument depends not singly on
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him: which I humbly took leave to advert, and am,
May it please your Grace, Your most Obedient, Obliged, humble Servant, John Wilson.