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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	think_v	1,468	5	3.8318	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66618	The spirit of Quakerism and the danger of their divine revelation in a faithful narrative of their malicious persecution of Henry Winder and his wife as murtherers at the publick assize at Carlisle / by Henry Winder.	Winder, Henry.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2975; ESTC R31020	36,687	64

Assizes and received several long Letters from them and longer Discourses from all which he gave a full account of the whole Business of all their Revelations Accusations and miserable Events also of the Reputation of the party charged that he was always accounted a very faithful ju●● Man and that he had for a long time experienced him to be so the Gentlemen of the Jury having full satisfaction in these reports after a little Deliberation gave a Verdict for me and 200 Damages Easter Term. 26. Car. 11. the Writ of Enquiry was Executed and Judgment thereupon and afterwards Execution thereupon entered Rotulo 1578. where it may still be seen in Mr. Winford's Office in the Common Pleas as also all other Records in this Case hereafter mentioned Now Thomas Langhorn and his Wife had before this made sale of their Goods and were gone up to London but imployed John Mounsey of Patterdale to be their Attorney and Mr. James Bird of Browham now a Justice of Peace for the County of Westmoreland was B. W's Attorney At London they stayed about a ●ear When they came home we arrested them but they still were very obstinate and scorn'd to pay any thing to Prison they would go possess'd of their old ●●oud Error and so to Carlisle they went and remain●ed Prisoners almost Five Years practising their be●●●ed Passive Obedience and Glorying in it At length time and experience a little humbled them so that same Confessions they would make that they had done ●s wrong but none proportionable to the Heinousness of their Crimes yet my Wife being moved with natural Affection towards her Sister notwithstanding her former malignity against her did daily sollicite ●e to let them come forth which accordingly I did 〈◊〉 a very small part of my Damage they being a little more humbled at last to ask Pardon for I resolved till they made Submission or paid the Money there they should stay 't was not the Money I desired but their Repentance which in part I have now seen more than once I expected Note That this Mary Langhorn was formerly the Wife of John Dawson of Hutton-John after whose death she did at divers times express to H. Winder then a Widower her great Affection to him and desire to have him for her Husband but his Love was set on her young Sister Anne his present Wife so rejected Mary's Sollicitations which enraged her to that degree that ever after her anger was implacable However she took another Husband and in Prison she bar● him Twins a Son and a Daughter and to manifest her willful impenitence or immortalize her infamy● she Named one Innocent Prisoner and 'tother Ha●●less Sufferer so firm was her delusion yet tho' they could not in all this time chuse but have many Convictions seeing there was not from the beginning t● the end any one accident that might cause them t● hope for other reward than loss and shame Every thing contradicted their design had the understanding been awake or sound and clear but that and their conscience were perfectly stupifyed but at last sh● thaw'd a little for the Friends saw it dishonoure● them all This Mary lives yet in Helton and is quiet During their Imprisonment I brought my Action 1. Against Tho. Bradley and Margaret his Wife wh● lived in another Country and poor Skulking i● holes Term. paschae 26. Car. 2. I had an exigent against them and Mich. following actually out-law'd them Term. paschae 27. Car. 2. a Declaration against Bradley Term. Trin. 27. Ejusdem Regis I obtain'd Judgment and a writ of Enquiry At length I had them into Appleby Goal but some of their Friends got them out by a Trick so they run away and as I heard lived miserable poor I knew they were not able to pay so least they should die in Prison I took them up no more this is the Exit of the 2d couple of my accusers 2. I brought my Action against Edward Walker and his Wife he put in his appearance so the Cause came to Tryal at common Law at Carlisle When they saw I had proof sufficient to cast them they informed their Councel that I 〈◊〉 200 l. damage granted me before on the same accent and by this the Judge was moved thus to direct the Jury Gentlemen You see the plaintiff has ●oved sufficiently that this Woman hath spoken and ●●e such things as if proved might have taken any his Life but she makes no proof so that he must 〈◊〉 found damnify'd Yet because he hath had 200 l. ●●ted him before and because she is a Woman and ●e all have Wives you must be moderate in the damage Hereupon the Jury brought me in 10 l. Damage 〈◊〉 allowed me costs of Suit Term. Trin. 26. Car. 2. had this Issue entred Rotulo 495. Michaelmas following I obtain'd Judgment upon the ●●dict aforesaid and Execution against the Body of ●●●er and his Wife Trin. 28. Ejusd Regis a Scire Fa●● against Walker and then a Judgment thereupon Michaelmas following all which I again mind the ●●ious Reader that he may see with all my Decla●●●tions against them on Record in Mr. Windford's ●ffice Nothing would please Walker's Zeal but to be a ●●fering Witness too for the same glorious Cause so 〈◊〉 Prison I sent Him and his Wife where they staid 〈◊〉 cannot say till they were willing to pay me but ●ill a good Samaritan as they call'd him paid the Money and got them a Liberty without the License ●ho I think afterwards wished he had not so done ●●t they were not half Humbled nor would acknowledge it a Kindness nor repay the Money least thereby they should confess some Fault though so small a 〈◊〉 was easy for them to pay however at last they ●●ffer'd him to take it Spiritual pride it seems by this was still predom●nant in them they would not draw any suspicion u●on their infallibility and perfection and hence not 〈◊〉 jot more of Condescension could so obliging a pers●● obtain of these stomachful Friends I hope long 〈◊〉 Time and Experience if it has not yet will ma●● them wiser in all things and so bring them and 〈◊〉 Christians of different persuasions into a nearer Neighborhood and Union that as there is but one G●● there may be but one Faith one way c. I p●● God graciously discover to all my proud Enemy more of the Errors and grievous miscarriages for th●● had need like Peter or David to Weep bitterly a●● repent in Dust and Ashes and the good Lord pard●● them for they knew not what they did and s●● they knew not whom through the Grace of God I 〈◊〉 freely forgive them all As for the bloody Thre● of Destruction to come upon me and mine from 〈◊〉 Lord I find to my Comfort that the Curse caus● shall not come as they also may observe I know 〈◊〉 Blessings and Curses are not theirs to dispose of 〈◊〉 kept in wiser hands hitherto the Lord of his inf●● free Mercy