Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	place_n	time_n	write_v	2,965	5	5.2112	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11806	Vox populi, or Newes from Spayne translated according to the Spanish coppie ; which may serve to forwarn both England and the Vnited Provinces how farre to trust to Spanish pretences.	Scott, Thomas.	1620 (1620)	STC 22100.2; ESTC S100489	19,312	28

houses for Priests holy vestments bookes beades crucifixes and the like religious appurtenances I haue caused the execution of their office to be slackned that so an open way may be given to our spirituall instruments for the free exercise of their faculties And yet when these Pursevants had greatest authoritie a small bribe in the Countrey would blinde their eyes or a little greater at Court or in the Excheaquer frustrate and crosse all their actions so that their malice went off like squibs made a great crack to fright childreÌ„ and new borne babes but hurt no old men of Catholique spirits And this is the effect of all other their courses of proceeding in this kinde in all their iudiciall Courts whither knowne catholiques convicted as they stile them are often summond and cited threatned and bound over but the danger is past assoon as the officer hath his fee payd to him then the execution goeth no further Nay upon my conscience they are glad when there are offenders in that kinde because they are bountifull and the officers doe their best to favour them that they may increase and so their revenue and gaine come in freely And if they should be sent to prison even that place for the most part is made as a Sanctuary to them as the old Romanes were wont to shut up such by way of restreint as they meant to preserve from the peoples fury so they live safe in prison till we haue time to worke their libertie and assure their lives And in the meane time their place of restraint is as a study unto them where they haue opportunitie to confer together as in a Colledge and to arme themselves in unity against the single adversary abroad But quoth the Inquisitor generall how doe they for bookes when they haue occasion either to write or dispute My Lord replyes Gondamor all the Libraries belonging to the Romane Catholiques through the land are at their command from whence they haue all such collections as they can require gathered to their hand aswell from thence as from all the Libraries of both Vniversities and even the bookes themselves if that be requisite Besides I have made it a principall part of my imployment to buy all the manuscripts other ancient and rare Authours out of the hands of the Heretiques so that there is no great Scholler dies in the land but my Agents are dealing with his bookes In so much as even their learned Isaack Causabons library was in election without question to be ours had not their Vigilant King who foresees all dangers and hath his eye busie in every place prevented my plot For after the death of that great scholler I sent to request a view catalogue of his bookes with their price intending not to be out-vyed by any man if mony would fetch them because besides the damage that side should haue received by their losse prosecuting the same story against Cardinall Baronius we might haue made good advantage of his notes collections castigations censures and criticismes for our owne party and framed and put out others under his name at our pleasure But this was foreseene by their Prometheus who sent that Torturer of ours the Bishop of VVinchester to search and sort the papers and to seale vp the â—tudy Giving a large and princely allowance for them to the â—elicks of Causabon togither with a bountifull pension proâ—ision for her and hers But this plot fayling at that time hath of ever done so Nor had the Vniversitie of Oxford so triumphed in their many manuscripts given by that famous Knight S. Thomas Bodly if eyther I had been then imployed or this course of mine then thought upon for I would labour what I might this way or any other way to disarme them and eyther to translate their best authours hither or at least to leave none in the hands of any but Romane Catholiques who are assuredly ours And to this end an especiall eye would be had upon the Library of one S. Robert Cotton an ingrosser of Antiquities that whensoever it come to be broken up eyther before his death or after the most choice and singular pieces might be gleaned and gathered up by a Catholique hand Neyther let any man thinke that descending thus low to pettie particulars is unworthy an Ambassadour or of small avayle for the ends we ayme at since we see every mountayne consists of severall sands and there is no more profitable conversing for Statesmen then amoÌ„gst schollers their books specially where the King for whom we watch is the King of Schollers and loves to live almost altogether in their element Besides if by any meanes we can continue differences in their Church or make them wider or beget distaste betwixt their Clergy and commoÌ„ Lawyer who are men of greatest power in the land the benefit will be ours the consequence great opening a way for us to come in betvveene for personall quarrels produce reall questions As he was further prosecuting this discourse one of the Secretaries who wayted without the chamber desired entrance and being admitted delivered letters vvhich he had nevvly received from a Post directed to the President and the rest of the Councell from his Catholike master the contents whereof vvere to this effect Right trusty vvelbeloved Cousens and Counsellors we greete you wel Wheras vve had a hope by our Agents in England and Germany to effect that great vvorke of the Westerne Empire and likewise on the other side to surprize Venice and so incircling Europe at one instaÌ„t infolding it in our armes make the easier roade upon the Turke in Asia and at length reduce all the vvorld to our catholique commaund And whereas to these holy ends vve had secret and sure plots and proiects on foot in all those places and good intelligence in all Courts Know now that vve haue received late and sad newes of the apprehension of our most trusty and able Pensioner Barnevelt and of the discovery of other our intendements so that our hopes are for the present adjourned till some other more convenient and auspicuous time We therefore will you presently upon sight hereof to breake off our consultation and repaire straight to our presence there to take further directions and proceed as the necessity of time cause should require With that his Excellencie and the whole house strook with amazement crost their foreheads rose up in sad silence and brake off this Treaty abruptly and vvithout tarriance tooke horse and posted to Courte From vvhence expect newes the next fayre vvinde In the meane tyme Let not those be secure vvhom it concernes to be rovvsed up knowing that this aspiring Nebuchadnezzar wil not loose the glorie of his greatnes who continueth still to magnifie himselfe in his great Babel untill it be spoken thy kingdome is departed from thee Dan. 4.

fully Iesuited upon any forreigne invasion would rather take part with their owne King though a heretique then with his Catholique Majestie a stranger The Ambassadour desired him to be of another minde since first for the persons generally their bodies by long disuse of armes vvere disabled and their mindes effeminated by peace and luxury far from that they were in 88. when they were dayly flesht in our blood and made hearty by customary conquests And for the affectioÌ„ of those whom they call Recusants quoth hee I know the bitternes of their inveterate malice haue seeÌ„ so farr into their natures as I dare say they will be for Spaine against all the world Yet quoth hee I assure your Honours I could not imagine so basely of their King and State as I haue heard them speake Nay their rage hath so perverted their judgements that what I my self haue seen and heard proceed from their King beyond admiration even to astonishmeÌ„t they haue slighted misreported scorned and perverted to his disgrace and my reioycing magnifying in the meane time our defects for graces Here the Duke Pastrana president of the Councell for Italy steps up and sayd he had lately read a booke of one Camdens called his Annalles where writing of a treaty of mariage long since betwixt the English Elizabeth the french Duke of Andiou he there observes that the mariage vvas not seriously inteÌ„ded on eyther side but politickly pretended by both States counterchangeably that each might effect their owne ends There quoth he the Englisch had the better and I haue some cause to doubt since they can dissemble as vvel as wee that they haue their aymes underhand as we haue and intend the match as little as we doe And this quoth he I beleeue the rather because their King as he is wise to consult and consider so he is a constant master of his word and hath written and given strong reasons against matches made vvith persons of contrary religions which reasons no other man can answere and therefore doubtlesse he wil not go from or conncell his sonne to forsake those rules layd down so deliberately Your Excellency mistakes quoth the Ambassadour the advantage was theÌ„ one the side of the Englisch because the FreÌ„ch sought the match now it must be on ours because the English seeck it who will grant any thing rather theÌ„ breake off and besides haue no patience to temporize and dissemble in this or any other disigne as the French haue long since wel obserued for their necessities will giue them neither time nor rest nor hope els where to be supplyed As for their King I cannot search into his hart I must beleeve others that presume to know his minde heare his words and read his writings and these relate vvhat I haue delivered But for the rest of the people as the number of those that are truely religious are ever the least and for the most part of least accompt so is it there where if an equall opposition be made betwixt their truely religious and ours the remainder which wil be the greatest number will stand indifferent and fall to the stroÌ„ger side where there is most hope of gaine and glorie for those two are the gods of the magnitude the multitude Novv these see apparantly no certain supplyes of their wants but from us Yes quoth the Duke for even now you sayd the general state loathing this match vvould redeme the feare there of with half of their estates It is theaefore but calling a Parliament and the busines were soon effected A Parliament quoth the Ambassadour nay therein lies one of the principal services I haue done in working such a dislike betwixt the King and the lower house by the endeuor of that honourable Earle and admirable Engine a sure servant to us and the catholike cause while he lived as the King will never indure Parliament againe but rather suffer absolute want then receive conditionall relief from his subjects Besides the matter was so cunningly caried the last Parliament that as in the powder plot the fact effected should haue been imputed to the Puritans the greatest zelots of the Calvinian sect so the proposition which damde up the procedings of this ParliameÌ„t howsoeuer they were inveÌ„ted by Romane Catholiques and by theÌ„ inteÌ„ded to disturbe that session yet were propounded in favor of the Puritans as if they had beeÌ„ haÌ„mered in their forge Which very name and shadovv the King hates it being a sufficien aspertioÌ„ to disgrace any person to say he is such a sufficient barre to stop any suite utterly to crosse it to say it smels of or inclines to that partie Mareover there are so many about him who blovv this cole fearing their owne stakes if a Parliament should inquire into their actions that they use all their aÌ„t and industrie to withstaÌ„d such a councell perswading the King he may rule by his absolute prerogative without a Parliament and thus furnish himself by warying with us and by other domestick projects without subsidies when levying of subsidies and taskes have been the onely use princes haue made of such assemblies And wheras some free mindes amoÌ„gst theÌ„ resembling our Nobilitie who preserve the priviledge of subjects against soveraign invasion call for the course of the common lavve a lawe proper to their nation these other tyme servers cry the lawes down and cry up the prerogative wherby they prey upon the subject by suites and exactions milk the estate and keep it poore procure themselves much suspition amoÌ„gst the better more judicious sort hate amoÌ„gst th' oppressed commons yet if there should be a Parliament such a course is taken as they shal never choose their sheere Knights and Burgesses freely who make the greater half of the body thereof for these being to be elected by most voices of Freeholders in the countrey where such elections are to be made are caried which vvay the great persons vvho haue lands in those countries please who by their letters command their tenants followers and friends to nominate such as adhere to them and for the most part are of our factioÌ„ and respect their owne benefit or grace rather then their countries good yea the countrey people themselves will every one stand for the great man their Lord or neighbour or master vvithout regard of his honesty wisdome or religion That which they ayme at as I am assured of by faithful intelligence is to please their laÌ„dlords to renue their lease in which regard they will betray their Countrey and religion too elect any man that may most profite their particular Therefore it is unlikely there should ever be a Parliament impossible the Kings debts should be payd his vvants sufficiently repaired and himselfe left ful handed by such a course indeed as it is generally thought by any other course but by a mariage with us For which cause whatsoever proiect we list to atteÌ„pt enters safely at

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