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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	drink_v	eat_v	53,672	5	7.9202	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91276	Mr. William Wheelers case from his own relation.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Wheeler, William, 17th cent, attributed name.	1645 (1645)	Wing P408; Thomason E25_8; ESTC R7646	9,605	12

divers spirits in antick forms appear'd to me in dances and one in the likenesse of a Cat kept neer my roome and for divers moneths removed not till I had acted all those parts over as they thought fit Some things I did as a Playstrer some as a Bricklayer some as an other Artist or Tradesman doing all things in all Arts whatsoever sometimes I was constrained to declare my Religion sometimes my affection to that Countrey and I could enjoy no quiet at all till I did obey in all Fifthly these charms most especially inforced me either to discover the secrets of my Profession and that ability and knowledge which was requisite to the finishing of my Works or else to use violence to my self by running my head against the wall or otherwise But in these two the mercy of God most admirably fortified me so that I did conceal my chief skill as knowing that then they would no longer let me live and whereas they had fixed nayls in the wall purposely for me to beat my head against I did knowingly avoid the same Sixthly some things were done by my hand at that time which no mortall man naturally could do much lesse could I being under lunacie for when they had set paper and pen and inke beside me I wrought half a quire of paper in an houre and drew some Mathematicall lines without Instruments as exactly as if I had had Instruments Seventhly whereas I was inforced to eat my own dung and drink my own water to sit stark naked in the bitterest frosty nights of Winter and to take some purgations when my body was empty and so could void nothing but blood upwards and downwards I yet overcame all these things and came off with life which I think none could have done that was not miraculously preserved as well as diabolically tortured Nine wofull Moneths of Martyrdome were now run out and yet the faculties of my memory and intellect were not wholly broken though much weakned and now Robinson and Palmer who during my imprisonment had conspired with Sir Robert Honywood to imitate my Works and usurp them as their own saw their skill failed and their hopes frustrated therein 140 li. or thereabouts had been disbursed by them in new assayes and in trials to perfect some Works begun by me and operate without me but all would not do and therefore t' was thought fit that I should be again inlarged and incouraged to accomplish those things which they could not Some things therefore upon my release I did bring to expedition and some Engines of my own which were of 100 guilders in their hands I did make serviceable and sold for a thousand guilders to an understanding Engineer one Captain Flood but I would not be induced to assist Robinson the Traytor in any of his Works or such as belonged to his confederates Being at liberty also I travell'd about in the Countrey to observe what imitations of my Works had been made and I found that in divers places they had attempted but not perfected the same yet at Leydon and some other places by my Inventions and the advantage of some of my Models taken out of my Trunks as aforesaid they had brought some Works to a good perfection even to a double improvement of what they had been before I was resolved therefore by one addresse more to Sir Will Boswell to make one further attempt in the reviving of my businesse and in order thereunto about March 1643. I put my self upon his friendly assistance as my utmost refuge and desired his favour to procure 10000 guilders for me but his conditions proposed were extreame and rigorous and no lesse then a totall forfeiture of all my fortunes was inwrapped in them Hereupon I plainly perceived it was absolutely impossible for me to grapple with so many disasters conspiracies injuries necessities in a strange Countrey having at Court in the City in the Countrey every where malicious subtle perfidious Enemies to crush my hopes and so in April following I set sail for England Since my arrivall here I understand vast debts are in my absence charged upon me in Holland the greatest part whereof were incurred by my sicknesses or wrongfull imprisonment or by Robinsons false accounts skores which He has wrongfully set upon my head or by other mens unjust pretences wherein I am condemned without being able to make defence or wage Law And now for these debts my Patent taken from me when I was in the Dulhouse all my right is by publick Order sold and disposed of as I hear For a further prosecution also of so dejected a helples a man lest I should hereafter recover breath or strength to rise again I am still pressed by Sir Wil. Boswell in his letters to Mr. Bullen here in Tower-street and to others of his correspondoes He still cuts me off from all hopes of future recrutes by disabling my credit vilifying my Works disparaging my abilities and depraving my intentions This being my hard Case truly stated and faithfully represented and since it appears hereby that as my past sufferings have been beyond the strength of such a man as I am so my future oppositiones are likely to transcend all ordinary resistance I make it my most humble submissive Request to the High and Mighty States That they will by a publick extraordinarie hand of Justice afford me a redresse and support suitable to the nature of my unequall'd grievances Two things I undertake to make sensibly demonstrable 1. That the Water-works in the Netherlands have been exceedingly improved to the great publick advantage of the united Provinces by my discoveries since the publishing of my Inventions in 1640. 2. That for the time to come if due incouragement and means may be allowed me I will by Gods assistance yet bring to further perfection and doubly advance the same Water-works as they are already improved and for a further addition also make a new discovery of some other Works and Engines which shall be of rare use and service to the publick in experiments of an other nature If these Overtures be thought worthy to be taken into consideration I desire the Conditions and proceedings thereupon may be managed with sufficient caution on both parts if these things seem of light credit yet thus far I have strived to be true to my own honor and to do right to a most honorable and faire Cause