Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	lord_n	people_n	2,163	5	4.6392	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80064	Colchesters teares: affecting and afflicting city and country; dropping from the sad face of a new warr, threatning to bury in her own ashes that wofull tovvn. Faithfully collected, drawn out into a moderate relation and debate, humbly presented to all free-born Englishmen; by severall persons of quality. Who much doubted and desired to see the truth in the mist of various relations obscuring the same, but now convinced by their own eyes, doe conceive themselves bound to give out this brief narrative, to satisfie all unprepossessed civil and moderate men, and good Christians, who truly love Jesus Christ, their King, city, and countrey, and sincerely desire the settlement of peace and truth.		1648 (1648)	Wing C5018; Thomason E455_16; ESTC R205022	14,009	16

consideration giving is the evill of sinne to burn and so more to be avoided then the former Secondly their not giving warning before they burne usually unlesse they can get some thing of the Masters of the houses to save them and then presently to set fire to them and runne into the Town and cry out that the round heads fire the Town and we think that he that is the Master of cruelty is the very father of lies Thirdly they have entred Covenant with severall in East-street not to fire and taken money some say 14. l. some 15. and some 40. l. into their hands and then presently have fired the same houses themselves and lay the fault upon the round-heads nay they were demanded whether they would fire or no and did promise if so to discover it and were offended that the man should aske any more when they had promised him warning thereof and yet did fire it presently without warning notwithstanding They come out and plunder every day as farr as they dare those people who stay in their houses in hope to prevent fireing they force many to sweare that they have no more mony or else they will kill them within c. Nay they seized on one Mr. Hughes took his money and swore God dam me the rogue hath more mony and swore againe that if hee would not sweare by the same oath God dam me that hee had no more money that hee would presently kill him and so Mr. Hughes denying in a trembling troubled state still would not sweare the Souldier drew his sword and Mr. Hughes went mad thereupon They come out of the town fain themselves Roundheads get what will be had by fair or foul means take persons or goods that may be serviceable to them and fire the rest and these things many more of this nature are acted daily before the eys of hundreds against hundreds of families to the undoing and the disinhabiting of above six hundred Families in the suburbs of that woefull Town for so many were given in to bee ruinated at the least besides many thousands in the Suburbs and Country dis-inabled yea and in the City damnified and having Estates there are almost undone by losse already sustained in that place and the Lord knowes when the fire of his wrath and their burnings shal cease too As for those outrages committed in the Town we have them but by credible report yet because divers agree in the reports we think fit to name them but only thus the Inhabitants are much straightned in their provisions as it may be a two penny or three penny loaf in a family of course bread per diem and if any complaine for want they are checkt and told that they must not complaine until horse flesh be worth nine pence or ten pence the pound reply was made by one hearing awoman complain for food for her self and her child God dam me That child would make a great deal of good meat well boyld First Much filthinesse might be named of women attempted some forced others shreeking crying flying and sometime scapeing sending their husbands out forcibly and fall on their wives in their absence Secondly all persons and sorts seem to be tainted till it come to their Ministers one of them breaking three or four locks to come by a woman and shee no way to escape but by shriking and crying out nay Sir Charles Lucas himself had insnar'd a woman if my Lord Goring had not come in and cald upon him to goe to one of the Forts as a fitter place for him then there for said hee your Gunner is proved false he went away and the woman came away fled over the wall told her neighbour this story and that if this providence had not happily fallen in shee could not have escaped his hands but with dishonesty or death the most memorable is the answer of a gentlewoman who if shee did not yeeld had a Pistoll set to her breast yes saies shee I shall cheerfully imbrace your Pistoll and my death but not you Thirdly as for violence in their temporall rights their guests are Masters and Masters of Families in all they have are their slaves and are at their disposing so that if any stir presently a word and a slash nay inhumanely a maid seeing some injury offered to the person and goods of her Mistris in defending her Mistris hath her fingers tyed light matches put to them and burnt her fingers to the stumps All which and more if we tooke delight in this element are daily acted beside those heavy trialls laid on women with child and others newly brought a bed they and their children and all they have driven into some field or backsides or streets where they ly open to bullets to dash them theirs in peeces every moment How sad a spectacle it is to see goodly buildings well furnished houses and whole streets to be nothing but ruinous heapes of ashes and both poore and rich now brought almost to the same wofull state to see fick people scarce able to stand upon their legges and women some presently upon their delivery some ready to be delivered Infants in their Mothers lappes and some hanging on their Mothers breasts all turned out of harbour and left helplesse to lye on the cold ground to see poore and rich men late of good quality now equall to the meanest toyling and sweating in carrying some mean bed or other away or some inconsiderable houshold stuffe out of the burning all of them with wailing weeping gastly countenances and meager thin faces shifting and flying in distraction of mind they scarce know whither to heare the lamentable cries of people comming from the Towne old young women children poore and rich lying before and crying unto the Generalls guards to passe and bewailing their folly in entertaining such guests as now will bee sure to provide for themselves and leave the Town People especially if there be the face of Religion or civility on them to shift for themselves we professe we have heard some souldiers in their returnes from the Guards rejoycing to bee out of the mournfull ditty of people desiring to passe the Guards but not permitted because then the souldiers would easily drive away the Inhabitants from their owne houses and support themselves the longer by that provision which is left The Lord make their hearts sensible of that smart whose hands are so fild with cruelty to others for God knowes the worst we wish to those that are our adversaries if not implacable foes to Jesus Christ is that God would change their mindes humble their hearts and save their soules from the certain issue of this their rage wrath to come The Lord also bring the hearts of that people in and about the Towne to a true sight of the cause wherefore this great wrath is come upon them we judge not but remember 2 Chr. 36.16 that amidst the many other provocations that the immediate cause of Jerusalems