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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	holy_a	lord_n	1,489	5	3.6721	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05572	A copye of a verye fyne and vvytty letter sent from the ryght reuerende Levves Lippomanns byshop of Verona in Italy, and late legate in Polone, from the moste holy and blessed father Pope Paule the fourth, and from his most holy sea of Rome. Translated out of the Italyan language by Michael Throckmerton	Lippomano, Luigi, 1500-1559.; Throckmorton, Michael. aut	1556 (1556)	STC 15693; ESTC S4356	7,450	18

to make it suche a Councel as he counsailed laboured to be don at Trēt that is not to here the other parte Your honour with your noble brethern M. Francisce the light of the common welth of Venece and M. Paule made so much of and gaue so muche honor vnto our holy fathers holynes when he was a barefooted Frier at Venece that his holynes beyng most myndfull and thankfull I knowe is desirous also to requite and doo you pleasure agayne Wherfore I hartily beseche your honour let it stande with your pleasure to bestowe one droppe of the fauor that ye are in and cause me to bee rydde ●●t of these troubles and daungers And it may please his holynes to vnderstand that it is to no purpose for me to haue the doyng of thynges here any longer for the greate hatred that I haue already purchased me Let his holynes consyder whether it be better to send one to supply my place or to leue this realme without any Legate which in myne opinion were best bicause he can not ●e here any longer with honor estimation Moreouer I think that when that shal be done and is done yet these men wil haue it after their owne fantasy and there wyll be agreat scisme so that the nobilitie will folow one way and one doctrine and the byshops an other And yet I can tell you not all the byshops for one part of them begyn to halte and a lyttel thyng will make them agree with the Counte Palatine of whom I write and the others But lette his holynes doo as it pleaseth hym in sendynge or not sendyng an other Legate to supply my place so he dispatche me hence that quickly Who can see who can suffer that at the Shroftide disguysynges maskes mu●●meries of monkes fryers and Cardinals shuide be openly made to the open shame reproche of all the hole order of the Churche as there hath ben here in my time And who can disgest these troubles these villanies and not thynke vppon the daunger of his lyfe Muche good doo it hym surely I aknowlage my selfe to be a manne that can not doo it And I haue no hope that I shal be hable hereafter to do any good here To be playn I haue done as muche as was possible for me to doo to lette the diet and parliamēt that shal be kept at Bartilmew tide But yet notwithstandynge it will procede Neither shal it auaile to wast my braines destroy my body suffring my self to be t●●t from place to place in Couche in company of the said most reuerende Archbishop thorough all the greater and the lesse Polone and so to haue brought to passe that the noble kyng hath geuen cōmandemēt contrary to the determinacion conclusion of the last parliamēt as I aduertised our holy fathers holy●es to the great grudging of the aduersaries Besides I fear lest these felowes shal cause men to come out of Germany specially out of Schwitzerland half a dosin of the greatest clerkes most famous diuines the be ther bicause it is bruced abrode the the Pope mynded to sende of his diuines to this parliament to defend our cause And all be it I haue bothe sayd and earnestly affirmed in euery place that they shulde not thinke that his holynes will euer sende or consent to any such parliament which shal be none other but a nationall councell Yet neuertheles as farre as I can vnderstand they mynd to cause of our enemies diuine● of other contreys to come hither Your honour may consider what confections these men wil make and what cōsultations and conclusions they wyll determyne agaynsts vs. God helpe vs for I se the matters be in a very evyll case I recommende me vnto your honor Your honours seruant Ludouicus Lippomanus byshop of Verona the vnvvorthye Legate Frō Louitz the. 20. of Iuly 56. Postscripte I Am aboute to make a Conuocation of all the byshoppes and prelates of this Realm and wyll begyn it now in Petricouia Two thinges I hope I shall obteyn there the one to gather a great summe of money and I trust the popes holynes wyll be a contributour vnto it for to hath he put me in hope wherby we may be better able to defend our matters aboue all thynges contentyng theim and stoppynge their mouthes which be importunately busy and make muche troub●e us aboo And ●e haue ofte proued that this practise is a ●●y good way The seconde that there be ●●me correction of lyfe of the cleargy who 〈◊〉 he playne are a very euyl example But ●s mischief is that the reformation of ●●●●ers is at this present to lyttell purpose to ●●eserue our high estate and authorite For ●●ose cursed Heretikes pretende and crye ●●at the doctrine must be corrected As for ●●ample they be not contente that the prie●●s shulde be honest wyse and discrete but ●●ey wyll haue the masse al togither hurled ●●aye Nother are they contented that the ●●ope shuld be a modest man and of a vertu ●●s lyfe and that he shuld not receyue mo●●y for spiritual thyngs but they wyl that ●●ere shoulde be no Pope nother good nor ●●dde This is the pricke this is the marke ●●ey shoote at I say we are in an euyl case The xxij of Iulye The same L. Lippomanus Legate I Haue this daye receaued lettres frō Venece whiche haue encreaced sorowe vpon sorowe For one my very frende w●yteth vnto me that the ●te of the seruice which I haue don here ●●d of the contencions that I haue founde 〈◊〉 these partes chiefly with the sayd Coun●● Palatine comming to the eares of myne ●●uorable lordes of Venece their honours be very sory complaine and ●a●●●●f of ●●●sayeng that they be afraid least I bey●ig●● a Venecian and of the bloud I am of th●● Alemaines and poleakes will beleue tha● the lordes of Venece them selues consen● to a● my doinges wherby thei may herea●ter bee partakers of the same hatred ●ha● they goe about to stere against the Pope and perhappes ▪ at one tyme or at an othe● of the self same daungers And to saye th● truth these men spread abroade very mu●● how because I am a venecian all thynge please the venecians that I do and that 〈◊〉 would not doo it if I knewe it shoulde di●please their honours To conclude for all respectes for the aduancement of the cause and maters of ou● holy fathers holynes for not encombrin● of my lordes of Venece with these mē an● for the suretie of my life it shal be wel do● to call we away hence I wold gladly ha●● ben called away by som other meanes an● with some other honour but pa●ience th●ges be at such a poynte that I must thin● vpon my lyfe and not vpon honour I sh●● lacke none hereafter if I can escape hen● with life Yet eftsones I commende me 〈◊〉 to your honour The xxii of Iulye The same Levvis Lippoma●us Legate