Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	know_v	think_v	3,397	5	3.7699	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80472	A copy of a letter sent from a gentleman in Carisbrooke-Castle to an honourable person at VVestminster concerning His Majesties intentions, and their expectations of the personall treaty.	Gentleman in Carisbrooke-Castle.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6138; Thomason E463_4; ESTC R205083	1,712	6

A Copy of a LETTER Sent from a GENTLEMAN In Carisbrooke-Castle to an Honourable Person at VVESTMINSTER Concerning His Majesties Intentions and their expectations of the PERSONALL TREATY Printed at London 1648. A Copy of a Letter sent from a Gentleman in Carisbrooke Castle to an Honourable person at Westminster Honoured Sir I Received yours of the 15 th and returne you all thankes for your Intelligence which imports the hastning if not the precipitation of a Treaty to which I wishes good an end as is expected from it by the common voyce of the People who being not the best Judges of things hastily embrace and declare and countenance that which first makes it selfe obvious and pleasing to the fancy But indeed Sir for you are one with whom I dare bee free Men of the most honesty and judgement can by no meanes give way to any such expectation but rather conceive nay feare that the drift of a Personall Treaty is one of the designes of the olde Serpent among us and that which if obtained is meerely to put the KING in a capacity to Ast for Himselfe or in case that faile to make way for His escape And verily Sir if you thoroughly consider it the former is not wholly free from Iealousie Eor if you please to remember a part of one of the KINGS Letters which Hee intended to have sent into Scotland by Haliburton Hee there desires Duke Hamilton to PROMOTE the businesse for a PERSONALL TREATY as fast as Hee can and when that is done Hee will play His part Himselfe Now I beseech you Sir if the KING really intended a Treaty and a faire correspondency with His People what needed all these packings and shufflings and why may Hee not Fairely and Honourably comply with His PARLIAMENT without any further Delusions Not to say any thing of the Bragges of many of His owne Party who pretend to be deepely acquainted with His Interest that that is the best and hopefullest Project that ever they had and that which hath also thriven the best Nay they sticke not to say that if they once come to a Treaty they have done the Businesse and that They will never bee able to looke him in the face as who should say standing for our Lawes and Liberties was so great and unpardonable an errour But indeed we have justly cause to feare an Escape For not to mention the olde Attempt the Engines whereof should have beene those base and unworthy fellowes Osborn and Dowcet who thought by the false translation of the guilt to another to have becom'd innocent It is also knowne how Ashburnham and Legge lurked in secret places near the Isle were once taken which doubtlesse was not without some expectation of a Designe which now seemes to bee more fairely carried on For these very persons Hee demands for Attendants as also Titus and Firebrace men as experimented in these occasions and such as hee was by no meanes forced to nominate since he might have had the choyse of many other more unblemish'd and unspotted reputations Nay among these there may be Dowcet too an Alien noted with breach of Trust and one that was so neerely concern'd in his former intended Escape And truly 't is a wonder that Dowcet one whom hee had formerly so much trusted was not summon'd to this employment But I wonder what the King meanes by sending for so many riding suits and so many horses sent to him unlesse thete were strong hints of such a Designe But they will object that He hath pass'd His Royall word not to depart within twenty dayes after the Treaty But I pray why may not Hee doe here as He did at Hampton-Court slip away or else make a pretence of a new Designe upon Him as that was fain'd about Rolph when He was to escape from the Isle of Wight But methinks all true English-men should take heed of being lull'd with this Plot For otherwise why should the Malignants have driven at it all this time which may argue there is a deeper plot in it then we yet know or else it is to make the Parliament odious in case that His Majestie be stubborne and breake off the Treaty and all that odium be cast on the Parliament and new Tumults be prepared against next Summer as they may well expect them if they continue this indiscreet lenity they have formerly used But 't is hoped they will now grow somewhat wifer for by that wholsome severity exercised upon Lucas and Lisle the Parliament begin to declare that they will make use of their justice as well as their mercy I desire you Sir remember my businesse concerning c. For at this pressing opportunity speed is very needfull I kist the hands of your sweete Lady to whom with your selfe I wish the consummation of your owne wishes and rest Your reall Servant Carisbrooke Aug. 30. FINIS