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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	know_v	lord_n	write_v	2,857	5	5.3193	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56733	Nevil Payn's letter, and some other letters that concern the subject of his letter With short notes on them; for the clearer informaton of the members of Parliament: in order to Nevil Payn's tryal. Licens'd, July I, 1693. Edw. Cooke.	Payne, Henry Neville, fl. 1672-1710.	1693 (1693)	Wing P891; ESTC R220466	15,800	34

to me a poor miserable Stranger so persecuted that if God had not raised me such a charitable Friend as your self must have languish'd in this unprecedented Restraint without knowing how to cry for Help and have been heard except by that God himself who has inspired you with so much Charity as thus to be concerned for me May it be His blessed Will that I may live to shew I would be sufficiently Grateful if I could And in the mean time accept my worthless tho hearty Thanks for all their Favours and most particularly for giving Mr. James Smith these too frequent Troubles he can inform you fully of my present Condition And by him I have sent an Order for paying the next or any other Money may be sent for me to your Ladiship having also received by him from you Twenty Dollers Follows another Original Letter of Mr. Paynes wherein three several times the word Write is spelled Wright H. Honoured Madam I Have had two Biles broke out upon me on each Wrest one and either they occasioned a Feaver or a Feaver occasioned them so that it was impossible for me to put Pen to Paper the last Week But now I thank God I much better tho it is very painful to me to Wright I had your good Cheece and all you sent per Carrier safe and must desire you to send me five Pounds in by him this time I wish too you would be so kind to see the Governour from me and thank him for all his Favours which indeed are many He promised to speak to Mr. Johnstone from me and as he finds him I shall Wright or not Wright to him For I have all my Life-time avoided making Court to no purpose Therefore beg you would by any means get the Secretary inquired into how he is instructed concerning me As also take Advice whether I should apply to Parliament or no. I protest I can hardly hold my Pen to thank you for all Favours and to present my Service to all Friends therefore pardon me that I abruptly am forced to say Dear Madam adieu Letter from the Lady Largo 4 May 1693. PAyn's Letters is like to bring Trouble to severals the poor Woman that took care of him is like to suffer severely she is forced to flee I fear Coats Trouble will be unavoidable tho it 's brav'd out as yet Another of hers 9 May 1693. NOw to come to your own private Concerns I believe your Man Coats will be imprisoned for his Bills there 's uncustomed Goods that will break him and he cannot go out of the way since all the Partners would suffer so he must appear every day on the Change but God knows the Disquiet he suffers for tho they do not yet know the Goods to be his yet being in their Hands it 's certain they will know And be the worse he will not write to his Factor for all Letters are opened and that may hazard the breaking of his Credit But he begged that I might tell Mr. Best his Condition that so he might inform and advise Letter from London taken upon the Lady Largo's Women dated 9 May 1693. I Am informed the Duke of Gordon is an Enemy to David and speaks meanly of our Relation which I am unwilling to believe The Differences betwixt the Duke of Gordon and my Lord Melfort and how ill satisfied he is with the Usage he met with from the late King is well known Payne in his Treatise in Answer to King's Book written with his own Hand and seised in his Chamber speaking of Sir Philem-O-Neal says a blacker and more hellish Sole never animated a Human Body FINIS It 's plain enough that this Letter was written from London (a) Payn. (b) Melfort's Letter to Payn was delivered by Mr. James Smith Son to Mrs. Smith (c) The late King (d) Who she is is no Mystery (e) Queen (f) This Paragraph and the enclosed Letters show the time in which this Letter was written tho it be not dated (l) Because the Fleet only and not Money alone could hinder a Descent in Scotland (m) That is the Letter C which is from the Nephew Mr. Payn whose Letter is to his Aunt too (n) It appears elsewhere who Mrs. Mowet is and that it is a man and no mean man (o) That is in Prison see the beginning of the Letter C. (p) That is one under the Name of Gray the Writer of the Letter B and of the Letter D and E apparently an English-man (q) That is Mary Brown as will appear by the Cover to to the Letters D and E. (a) No doubt the late Archbishop of Glasgow who being then Prisoner in the Castle of Edinburg had leave from the King to retire to Holland (a) That is it seems one to himself (b) It is plain the Letter has been written to Mary Brown (c) That is Mrs. Smith Mary Brown's loving Mother (d) Macgill my Lord Melfort's Page confesses that he brought Letters from his Master to two Noblemen under the Name of Balfour Mrs. Ford owns that she received the Letters from him and delivered them to Mrs. Smith who absconds It seems too otherwise clear enough who Balfour is and that he and Mrs. Mowet are one (e) That is the News mentioned in the Letter A. and the putting in of the new Agents mentioned in the Letter C. to wit the Advocate and Justice Clerk which was done in the end of Mr. Jonstoun's Month a Week or two before the date of this Letter (f) That is Scotland which shews he was then in the North of England (g) That is in London (h) That is their common Aunt at Paris (a) Payn writes to the same Aunt (b) That is change his open Prison of Blackness for close Prison in Stirling Castle The King had ordered this on the 14th of November The Councils Order is on the 29th and was given out on the 1st of December two days before the date of this Letter he was actually sent to Stirling on the 6th (c) He had been close Prisoner before in Edinburg Castle (d) This Name is in several other Letters (e) The late King (f) He himself for he writes to his Aunt (g) It 's known they neglected to send him money (h) His Phanatick Humour in Letter A. (i) It 's known that in the late Reign Melfort was his Enemy (k) This word is thus spelled in other Papers of Payn 's Hand-writing lately seized in his Chamber (l) Mrs. Mowet and Melfort begin to be reconciled and so Payn hopes to be reconciled with Melfort too It 's plain Mowet is a man and a man of Note (m) Mowet and Little-John here are Balfour and Little-John in Letters D. E. and their reconciliation there as here is the foundation of all It s known who among the disaffected Party were reconciled this last Winter (n) See in Letter E. I thank God c. (o) That is the Invasion see trade Letter E. (p) The King The Commissions for