Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	husband_n	wife_n	1,655	5	6.9646	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88246	The resolved mans resolution, to maintain with the last drop of his heart blood, his civill liberties and freedomes, granted unto him by the good, just, and honest declared lawes of England, (his native country) and never to sit still, so long as he hath a tongue to speake, or a hand to write, til he hath either necessitated his adversaries, the house of Lords, and their arbitrary associates in the house of Commons, either to doe him justice and right, by delivering him from his causelesse and illegall imprisonment, and out unto him, legall and ample reparations, for all his unjust sufferings or else send him to Tyburne: of which he is not afraid, and doubteth not if they doe it, but at and by his death, to doe them (Sampson like) more mischief, then he did them all his life. All which is expressed and declared in the following epistle, written by Lieut. Coll. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to a true friend of his, a citizen thereof, Aprill 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2174; Thomason E387_4; ESTC R201493	61,516	44

to the Iudges Foster 〈◊〉 Heath 5. to draw a sequestration for my life according to Law which they did 6. and brought it to the house and the House confirmed it 7. and ordered it to my Lord Keeper who decreed it in Chancery 8. and set it out under the great s●●le of England I having all this while received nothing from the Estate the great seale being made voide I petitioned to the house in ●●ay last 1646 for the new broad s●ale which was granted me 9. and J therewith sequestred part of the Estate but never ●●●ved but one five pounds thereof In the meane time my husband petitions to the house for a r●-bearing alledging he could pr●●● incontinency against me it was granted him and comming with our Counsell to the barre my counsell pleaded his severall contempts at which time 〈◊〉 were dismissed the● he petitions againe gets of his contempt paying me my arrears 10. which was 〈◊〉 hundred pounds before he should have a re-be●●ing then he petitions againe and then I was ordered to suspend the arrears till after the hearing 11. then we had a hearing Counsell of both sides meet without witnesses on his side there was nothing or little proved and ●●l●●red of wh●●●spertions were laid upon me i● then the Lords referred it is all the 〈…〉 what alley money was due to a woman by the law 1● who reported there 〈…〉 report they dissin●ulled all their former orders took of they s●●●stration 14. and di●●●●ssed the cause though my Counsell cited to them severall cases of wom●n that were found g●●●ry of incontinency As Sta●ely 15. Dutton and others I have spent above foure hundred pounds in the suite and now no less without relase as at the beginning The Judges report was but verball which is no●●●din●●● At the giving me an estate there was three score or foure scare Lords at the raking it away there was not above twelve or fourteen and two of them protested against it which was my Lord North and Moulgrave My Counsell were Mr. Maynard Mr. Horne and Mr. Nudi●●● Elizabeth Walter Now I pray you friend judge and consider whether or no these Lords be not a company of brave and gallant conscionable men fit to be our Law makers indeed that can make a poore Gentlewoman dance above 6. yeares attendance for a little reliefe to keep her and her children alive for you see that when her husband left her he left her ●●●eaven pence and did not forsake her for any undutifullnesse or incontinency but rather th●● he●●igh● have elbow room enough to live as incontinent as his lust pleased and yet in conclusion to expose the poore Gentle-woman and her three children in the eye of reason to a perishing and starving condition after she hath spent above 400. l. to obtaine that at their ●●●ds that in it selfe is as just equitable and conscionable as any thing in the world can he c●nduf●●r they have made her order upon order for the possessing of her just desire 〈◊〉 full I thinke for I have read the mall as it is possible to he comprised in paper and I desire ●ot only you but all the Ladyes and Gentlewomen in England yea all the Fathers of F●meni●e creaturel to consider what a sad thing it is that if they shall bring up their daughters well and bestow large portions upon them and marrie them and their husbands shall live with them tell he hath got three or foure children upon them and then at his pleasure without any just cause given him by his wife for ●he satisfying of his lust upon a whore or whored shall leave his wife and children to the wi●e world and not allo● them fix pence to live upon and then which is worst of all to be in such a condition that they have no legall way to compell him to doe it for it see ●●es by the gallant but not unspotted justice of the House of Lords to this Gentle woman there is none and yet they can find some to commit Mr. St●vely to prison for refusing to pay his wife ally-money who I my selfe have heard him c. say li●es in the highes● professed and open incontinency that a woman can I pray answer me this whether these very Lords doe not by these two forementioned actions visibly declare that they are greater friends to whores and ●ogues then to honest chastmen women whether injustice oppression be not more delightsome to them then justice righteousnesse and truth and whether or no it is possible to be in a worse a sadder condition then when such men as these fi● at the Helm and govern the stearn of it not by true just rationall principles but by the crooked ●hir stand perverst principle of their owne crooked partiall and depraved wills 〈◊〉 England England woe woe unto th●e in this thy present sad condition which thou seel 〈◊〉 will not see and which thou feelest but wilt not feele but stoop Isakar like unto the burthen and no●●●ke any rationall course for thy preservation from being as ●●●lla●●y and a prey to every from 〈…〉 which 〈◊〉 neessity thou must 〈◊〉 in conclusion in the way that is now ●●ad ●●●●ly if the Lords of C●●mons or both of them put together ●●y doe unto thee what they please without my c●●trole because they are thy Magi●●rates and thou with all submission must stoop unto a 〈◊〉 of necessity thou art guilty as a wilfull murtheter in sh●ading the blood of all the Cavi●●●● for endeavouring to protect their King from thy violent and furiou● hands who is a hun●●ed times more secured and for●●fied with the expressed and declared law of the Kingdome then the Parliament is who now doe what they list yea levie money upon us and put it in that own pockets and pretend we must 〈◊〉 que●tion them and aske them wherefore they d●●s● because we have rusted them Oh brave Parliament principles indeed fitter for the gre●● Turke then for English Parliament men The second thing I shall declare to you is the scandalous and base dealing of William 〈◊〉 with me a fellow so unworthy and base and so fraught with malice and blood th●● 〈◊〉 and so habituated in telling lyes and falshoods that a man of unspotted worth honour and integritie would scorne as Iob saith chap. 30 1● ●o set him with the dogs of his flock who a about this 3. yeares hath been an agent in the hands of the Divell maliciously and causeles●y to indeavour with all his might the destruction of the generation of the righteous pu●●●sed with the blood of the Lamb in this land and Kingdome and either to have them 〈◊〉 hanged kild or banished of which when 〈◊〉 a wel wi●●er alve●●●s●● him as you may read 〈…〉 primed spistle to him dated 7. Ianuary 1●45 and in my printed ●ra●ons delivered into the Committee of Examinations dated 13. Iune 164● the 〈◊〉 was fild ●o fullo● fury as 〈◊〉 be would cate me up at a mouthfull and