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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	abhor_v	able_a	know_v	13	3	3.1804	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78328	A true coppy of a bold and most peremptory letter, sent to the Honourable Earle of Salisbury, / by A. B. C. &c. To mittigate his prosecuting of recusants.	A. B. C.; Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612. Answere to certaine scandalous papers, scattered abroad under colour of a Catholicke admonition.	1641 (1641)	Wing C13; Thomason E172_12; ESTC R14669	1,427	7

A TRVE COPPY Of a bold and most peremptory LETTER SENT To the Honourable Earle of Salisbury By A. B. C. c. To mittigate his prosecuting of Recusants LONDON Printed by B. ALSOP dwelling in Grubstreet 1641. A true Copy of a Letter c MY LORD Whereas the late unapproveable and most wicked designe for the destroying of his Majesty the Prince and Nobility with many others of worth quality attempted through the undertaking spirits of some more fyery and turbulent then zealous and dispasionat Catholicks hath made the generall state of our Catholick cause so scandalous in the eye of such whose corrupted Judgments are not able to fan away and sever the fault of the Professor from the possession it self as that who now is found to be of that religion is perswaded at least in mind to allow though God knoweth as much abhorring as any Puritane whatsoever the said former most inhumane and barbarous proiect And whereas some of his M●jesties Councill but especially your Lordship as being known to be as the Philosopher termeth it a primus motor in such uncharitable proceedings are determined as it is feared by taking advantage of so fowle a scandall to roote out all memory of Catholicke religion either by sudden banishment Massacre imprisonment or some such … table ●●●ations and pressures and p●r●●●s by decreeing in this next Parliament some more cruell and horrible lawes against Catholicks then already are made In regard of these premisses there are some good men who through their earnest desire for continuing the Catholick religion and for saving of many soules both of this present and of all future posterity are resolved to prevent so great a mischiefe though with a full assurance aforehand of the losse of their dearest lives you are therefore hereby to be admonished that at this present there are five which have severally undertaken your death and hath vowed the performance thereof by taking already the blessed Sacrament if you continue your daily plotting of so tragicall Stratagems against Recusants It is so ordered that no one of these five knoweth who the other foure be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by shot and so who in order shall fellow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other then assurance of death yet it will willingly be embraced for the preventing of those generall calamities which by this your transcendent Authority and grace with his Majesty ●e threatned unto us all and indeed the difficulties herein are more easily to be digested since two of the intended Attempters are in that weake state of body that they cannot live above three or foure moneths The other three are so distressed themselves and their friends ●as that their present griefes for being onely Recusants be much dull all apprehension of death None to be blamed in the true censuring of matters for the undertaking hereof For wee protest before GOD wee know no other meanes left us in the world since it is manifest that you serve but as a match to give fire unto his Maiesty to whom the worst that we wish is that he may be as great a Saint in Heaven as he is a King on Earth for intending all mischiefes against the poore distressed Catholicks Thus giving your Lordship this charitable admonition the which may perhaps be necessary hereafter for some others your Inferiours at least in grace and favour if so they runne on their former inhumane and unchristian rage against us J cease putting you in minde that where once true and spirituall resolution is there notwithstanding all dangers whatsoever the weake may take sufficient revenge of the great Your Lordships well admonishing Friends A. B. C. c. POSTSCRIPT IT may be your Lordship will take this but as some forged Letter of some Puritanes thereby to incense you more against Recusants But we protest upon Our Salvation it is not so neither can any thing in human likelyhood prevent the effecting thereof but the change of your course toward Recusants FINIS