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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	know_v	see_v	4,988	5	3.1452	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91193	The cheif [sic] affairs of Ireland truly communicated. For a check and reproof to all such as walk Westminster-Hall, onely to spread false wonders of the Toryes, and landing of forrein forces in Ireland, that they may discourage any that are now willing to go over either to plant, or serve in the wars for the better speeding of the work yet behinde.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing P398; Thomason E652_14; ESTC R203125	14,151	20

head shall pay for the trouble or mischief that shall follow if God enable us to reach it as I doubt not but he will because he is and we have eminently found him still to be a righteous Judg pleading the quarrell of the innocent and a severe avenger of their blood against those that spill it or lightly regard it as well as a mercifull Father and faithfull Master to those that serve and fear him Clare Castle Novemb 7. 1651. SIR Your Servant H IRETON To the Citizens of Gallway Gent I Suppose you cannot but understand That as God hath been pleased to blesse and d●spose of our Affairs we have no place considerable in Ireland to intend next but your City where I believe you must needs feel some restraint already both to your Trading and supplies and cannot but foresee more coming on that will reduce you by Gods blessing continuing with us to extremity ere long though we should not at all deal with you in a more forcible way And therefore though I can expect little fruit of a formall Summons at this distance and Season If you be under the power of mercinary Souldiery who will perhaps pretend point of Honour not to yeeld before more extremity or immediate Force at hand but really intend their own interests so far as to keep themselves in a warme Quarter and good pay whilst they can though thereby besides first milking of you dry they bring you into as bad a Condition at last as those in Limerick and other places have done the poor people that maintained them and then getting as good Conditions as they can for themselves to be gone leave you with your more weighty Interests behinde to stand at the stake yet not knowing but your wisedome may have kept you so far Masters of your selves and your City as to be able to rid your selves of such Guests when you see cause I thought fit hereby to offer you as once I did to Limerick last year whilest they were their own Masters that if you will yet open your Gates and submit to the State of England you shall find more mercy and favour to all save the Originall Authors of the Rebellion the first engagers in Command or Councel therein before the first General Assembly or such as sate therein then you shall ever have from me by bargaining for your selves Or if you think it better for you to capitulate for Conditions I shall if you accept them without farther trouble to us give you the same in effect which I tendred to Limerick at my first setting down before it this year in case they would have surrendred then so as to have set us free for other work the remainder of the Summer which if upon the sad example of what they by the refusall haue lost and what they came to at last after all the distresses impoverishments and miseries of the Siege you incline to lay bold on while you may and so prevent the like miseries you shall soon understand them from me Now indeed though you should not be ever mastered by an hungry sharking Souldiery yet the multitude of Priests those incendiaries of blood and mischief amongst men and of other desperate persons engaged upon their principles in the beginning of this Religion and in the Murthers and outrages therein committed which I understand you have amongst you makes me apt to doubt that by reception and protecting of them and adherance thus far unto them if not by any bloudy and treacherous acting of your own you may in the Righteous Judgment of God be so far involved with them in the same guilt as to be doomed to pertake with them in the same Plague and given up to be either overawed or deluded thereunto by the same persons with whom and for whose sake you have so made your selves partakers in the guilt or at least I am sure such as those amongst so far as they can prevaile to overpowre you or deceive you will endeavour to engage you as deep render you as desperate as themselves and makes your wealth and strength serve to maintain or protect them and their broken wicked interrest as long as ever they can yet what ever issue it have I shall have the satisfaction in my self of having discharged such a duty towards the saving and reall good of men if capable of it and in having by this a good tryall how God suffers you to be inclined for mercy or judgment to your selves and see the more light what dealing he cals for towards you from our hands If you shall be blinded or hardned to the refusall of this mercy whilest you may have it and to put the State of England and us their Servants to the charge hardship and labour of drawing before you to besiege you when there is no Town but yours to protract the end of the War you may well expect since we have nothing else considerable to do that we shall indeavour to the utmost to make you pay dearly for it in the issue and more then others before you by how much you alone do with lesse reason or hopes and more malignant obstinacy lengthen out our charge and trouble and make your selves the single and more singular mark of Justice But if there be as I am not without hope there may be a generation amongst you more peaceably or providently inclined and not so violent or mad as the rest who would willingly imbrace mercy while they may but are over-powred by a faction of other desperate ones I shall be glad for those that are so minded if God gives them Hearts to do that right to themselves as to use some meanes whereby we may know them and who the rest are that oppose it or the principles of them that so we may have some ground of discrimination when God shall give it into 〈◊〉 power to use that tenderness towards them and severity towards the other which God in such ●ase would call for and we should desire For Generall Ireton SIR IT would prove no courtesie unto me your summoning me at such a distance but rather a discurtesie which had in my opinion rendred you guilty of a second errour against the rules of War You may not think strange that the people of this Town should stand upon Souldiery honour and have skill to oppose an Enemy who have of themselves without the assistance of others long since stood out against the threats and attempt●s of the Lord Forbs who was Generall of a Fleet when he besieged them and forced by them to retire without any losse to themselves If my profession be unhappy as you terme it I cannot but admire you should follow the same which it hitherto hath proved to your content may hereafter prove unhappy to you according to your own judgment of it And if men of that profession shall be backward in venturing mens lives in a just cause such as I own being for my Religion King and Country they shall