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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	woman_n	womb_n	1,403	5	9.8281	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02635	A reioindre to M. Iewels replie against the sacrifice of the Masse. In which the doctrine of the answere to the .xvij. article of his Chalenge is defended, and further proued, and al that his replie conteineth against the sacrifice, is clearely confuted, and disproued. By Thomas Harding Doctor of Diuinitie.	Harding, Thomas, 1516-1572.	1567 (1567)	STC 12761; ESTC S115168	401,516	660

Commissioners in London vpon a complaint examined the mater that it was founde but probable And probable he meaneth in the iudgement of them who gladly finde fault with al that was done touching the punishment of heresie in Queene Maries reigne Now the thing if any such thing were done at al being so Notorious so openly executed so fewe yeres then past since it was doone so many men yet lyuing that would haue ben present at the examination in case they had bene commaunded the charges of the iourney from Garnesey where it is said to haue bene done to London being borne and could haue brought true witnesse neuerthelesse to be founde but probable I weene it wil not to any wise man appeare very probable How be it let the Fable be a Storie and the same be taken for true Of the vvoman of Garnseis childe fallīg out of her bely into the fire according as Foxe doth describe it to the aduantage and as you M. Iewel report it That in Garnesey three wemen that is the mother and her twoo daughters were burnt and that one of the Daughters was with childe and the childe issued from her wombe being riued with the fier and was consumed together with the fier What of al this In whom was the faulte in the officer that tooke not the childe out of the fier or in the vnnatural mother that brought it into the fier In the Storie there is mention made of a childe and of the mother but of the childes Father there is no woorde spoken It appeareth very credible that the historiographer was a shamed to name the childes Father least so he should haue defaced the glorie of the mothers Martyrdom For I would faine know who was the husband to the daughter M. Fox doth not expresse it But you wil say how so euer the childe was begotten the mother being in that case should haue bene by no Law iustice or reason committed vnto the fier True it is a woman in that case may for once claime the benefite of her belly Mary I haue heard Lawiers say that if whiles she is in prison she play the strompet againe by Lawe the iudge may denie her the benefite of her belly and geue sentence of death vpon her But as for your pratteling parrat Paratine for so was her name as M. Fox registreth her it was not knowen to the Iudge Paratine of Garnesey that she was with childe Had it bene knowen doubtelesse her death had bene differred vntil she had ben brought on bed But the honest woman bicause she would not shame the Gospel keping it priuy from the Magistrates claimed not the benefite of the Lawe and so now not only like an harlot or Heretique but like a Murtherer went desperatly to the fier and murdered bothe her selfe and her childe conceiued within her So farre the Deuil carrieth them whom he possesseth and leadeth at his wil. This abominable facte God by his most iust iudgement reueled to the condemnation bothe of her and of the cause for which she dyed by suffering the childe to fal from her wombe in the sight of al that stoode by Iudge now discrete Reader to whom redoundeth the blame of the crime whether to the Ministers of Iustice who not knowing the thing executed the Lawe or to the woman that for auoiding a worldly shame conceeling her owne turpitude became a murtherer of her owne babe before it came to perfection So that she died gilty of three heinous crimes of heresie lecherie and murther And to these thefte may be added for the fourth For it appeareth by the tale that Foxe him selfe to her best estimation telleth of her that she was a thefe as being accessorie to the honest woman Vincent Gosser that stole a siluer gobblet If the mater were wel examined I doubte not she would be tried an honest woman and a fitte vessel to receiue the glorie of these newe inuented Martyrdomes Here I appeale vnto your owne wisedome M. Iewel Vvhat vvas to be don vvith the dead and demaunde of you what you could or would haue done for that vnperfite and dead childe in that case better then was done Carcasse of Paratines babe If they had taken it out of the fyer what should that haue auailed Life it had none and therfore was it not to be baptized Sense it had none and therfore had it not ben holpen by sauing it from burning As for burial sith it was neither Christened nor come to be perfite man it was aswel burnt and buried in earth yea in some respecte better bicause being burnt with the wicked mother besides the more detestation of the horrible crime to the example of others it was a testimonie against the mothers vnnaturalnes Neither in deede truly to speake was it a poore innocent Babe as to aggrauate the facte more rhetorically then truly you reporte For being a dead thing as it could not be riche or hurtful so neither properly ought it to be called poore or innocent This much considered you haue gotten litle honestie to your Gospel M. Iewel by rehersal of casting this poore innocent Babe into the fyer And the mother your Syster in the Lorde is fownd but a meane Martyr and witnesse of the truth Tybourn Martyrs Of the fruite of such Martyrdome the famous Tree of Tybourne bringeth forth good stoare Iewel The vvorste vvoorde that proceeded from them vvas this O Lord forgeue them They knovve not vvhat they doo O Lorde Iesu receiue my Spirite In the meane vvhile ye stoode by and delited your eies vvith the sight Ye digged vp the poore carkasses of Goddes Sainctes that had beene buried longe before ye serued them solemnely vvith processe and ascited them to appeare at your Consistories and by Publique sentence adiudged them to die the second death and so to the perpetual shame of your cruel folie ye vvreak●e your anger vpon the dead O M. Hardinge● your conscience knovveth these are no lies They are vvriten in the eies and hartes of many thousandes These be the markes of your Religion O vvhat reckeninge vvil you yeelde vvhen so muche innocent Bloud shal be required at your handes And vvhere you say VVee must pulle the Olde Martyrs out of Heauen to place our ovvne for that our Doctrine and theirs as you beare vs in hande is quite contrary al this is but a needeles ostentation of idle vvordes Yf vauntes vvere proufes then vvere this mater fully ended But vve say that in these cases that I haue mooued you are not hable to allege one sufficient Clause or Sentence of your side out of any of al the Olde learned Fathers And hitherto your muster appeareth but very simple notvvithstāding the great promise of your Stoare Harding The pacience of your stincking Martyrs who say you vttered no worse worde then ô Lorde forgeue them ô Lorde Iesu receiue my spirite is by you hyely commended Pacience in an euil cause is no sufficient trial of a true Martyr It