Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	law_n	lord_n	4,135	5	3.8427	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05466	The poore mans cry Wherein is shevved the present miserable estate of mee Iohn Lilburne, close prisoner in the fleete. Also an humble petition to his Maiesties honorable privy councill, for meantenance that I famish not.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1639 (1639)	STC 15598; ESTC S112218	18,062	15

there be but few at my death yet you knowe not what great troupes may com to my burial (g) Who shall accompany thy body to the grave I know not But this J know Angels shall accompany thy soule to Heaven But as for that blood sâ—cker Laud J verily beleeve except he repent the Devill will accompany him to hell torment remember but the late great multitude (h) Such a company would follow Laud and his crew If they knew when the king state would hang them at Tiburne that came to the Fleet attended M Burton M. Prinne out of the Cittie and if any thing but good follow vpon this you hee are the sole cause of it therfore as you wil answer it before King and State look to it for I am my Soveaignes faithfull and leige subject (i) Let it be observe that it was never yee seene nor I hope shall be that ther was any man of his profession iustly tainted for a Traitor to the King cuntry whereas the Prelates in all ages since the Devill erected them haue beeÌ„ proved the most notorious traitors that ever were in the world might iusttice take place it would bee proved that they who are now aliue are notorious ones yea one as faithfull to his Crowne as any whatsoever that breathes in all his Dominions for if it can be proued that ever I broke any of his lawes I will submit vnto and suffer whatsoever authoritie wil laie vpon mee therefore be not you hee the Bishops Agents to take awaie my life in my close imprisonment for you vse me worse more tiranically then ever any traitour in England was vsed yea worse then the Gun-powder traitours were vsed I haue read a great part of the Booke of Martyrs with some Histories of the like kinde and J will meantaine it that such an vnparaleld Act of crueltie and barborous tiranie as haue been exercised vpon mee is not to be found in them all Yea wicked bloodie Bonner (k) Seing thier wick ednes is come to such a height fulnesse and they doe go beyond in cruelty the crelst Tirants that ever were My hope is that their destruction ruin is at haÌ„d and that hee will cause the laÌ„d to spue them out and so sâ—nd them packing to their owne place Amen Amen himselfe never did the like to any of the Saints as haue been done vnto mee for while they lived he would either suffer their friends to come at them to releeue them or else he would allow them meantenance to preserue life in them but neither of these can I enjoy also hee would dispute with them himselfe and send for others likewise to do it and vse all meanes to winne them to himselfe but none of these haue I yet found though J haue often desired it and promised to recant if it could be shewed that I held any errors Againe hee would take away their lines (l) Without doubt the Prelates would do so too but are restrained Now it is humlby desired that they who thinke it not fit that the Bishops should haue their will in taking our lines away that they suffer them not in the meane time to use us worse if they broke any of the lawes or would not submit vnto them but though I haue not broken any of the Kings lawes and haue offered so faire as I haue done and haue desired longed to meet with death yet can I not be rid of my misery but you keep me in a tormenting (m) When these Tormentours feele hell torments then they will know what it is to torment others condition full of extreamitie and bodiliepaine that I can neither get ease sitting nor lying being vnable to go without great miserie being alwaies as it were in the panges of death yet cannot meet with it But said I to M. Iohn Murry M. Morgan a Papist tell the Warden from mee that vnlesse the Bishopps by the law of the land and the word (a) They can shew as much word of God for what they doe as they doe shew mercy and goodnesse in their actions and that is in both none at all of God will shew me my offence I will never submit nor recant in the least while breath is in my body and therefore it is but in vaine to hâ—pe for it for if he and I should liue together as longe as Methusalah did which was almost a thousand yeares yet he should never get mee to goe against the sweet peace of a good conscience or recant that which J am perswaded is a truth yea if hee should exercise all the cruelty in the world upon mee though he should locke mee in an Iron chest that I could neither stirre hand nor foote and feede me with channell water and with bread made of saw dust hee might well take away my life and beeing from the earth but he should never make me goe against my conscience for I am kept by the power of God through faith vnto salvation and Crowne of glory that is so rich in my eyes that I dare not deny Christ nor his truth though all the crueltie in the world should be inflicted upon mee least he deny mee before his father which is in heaven Yet most miserable it is that I should perish by cruelty in my close condition being a faithfull subject to the King neuer broke any of his lawes And let my tormentors looke to it as they will answer it for I haue heard that the Honorable Lords (b) Howsoever the Bishops do cause the Godly to be cruelly vsed in Preson Yet I am perswaded that neither the King nor the Temporall Lords of his majesties council do know of it For it is not possible if they did that they would suffer it considering how much it is against nature to exercise cruelty vpoÌ„ any creature much lesse on man who carries Gods owne image which haue beene made acquainted with my cruell vsage protested they would not beleeue that the Warden dealt so with mee this with much more that then I said with some prisoners taking notice of my condition but especially Sr. Richard Gravenner a worshipfull Knight (c) J do not marvaile that the knight would not receive it for atruth For the truth is such is their cruelty shewed to such as are against their places that vnles it were seen with the eyes one would scarce beleeve it For this I do affirme will make it good that no Rogue in any Iayle of the Land is so basely barberously handled Not that the Keepers desire to vse theÌ„ so but are charged secretly by the Bb. so to do threatened to loose their places if they shew favour to them who sent to the Warden about it which I think put him in some feare that he durst not well denie my reasonable request in delivering my petition so hee sent a scribe to me to draw it oner a

to devise notorious lyes for their excuse but the Lord who sees their wickednesse will bring them forth one day for it to their shame before men and Angels I dyed of long sicknes and weaknesse and so colour over their tyrany and crueltie for he dares not let his and the Bishops crueltie be knowne but seeks by all means to hide it from the Noble Lords (b) No doubt the noble Lords Peeres doe know a great deal of their treachery villany yet not halfe of it for it is one of their speciall imploymeÌ„ts to keep from the King and state the knowledge of their base actions and hence it is that they striue soe much to suppresse al books that are writen in the discouery of their actions for they wel known should the land know what they doe it would spue them out Peeres of the Land whom I know haue more Humanity Nobilitie and mercie in their heroycall breast then for nothing without any just offence to take awaie a poore young mans life in a corner Now the very speaking of these things to some of my compassionate friends that came vp to my lodging to se me who would receiue no wrong of my Keeper hath struck him to the very heart and made him looke soe paile as if he would haue fallen down dead at my bed side it so affrighted him that now he will not let any come to me but hath refused to let many come at me that haue desired to coÌ„municate to my necessities neither can I now scarce get himselfe to come vp to mee But saith hee that which you set your hand too before Sr. John Bankes hath vndone you well if it haue said I yet I am sure there is nothing in it either against the King or his lawes Its true I accused the Bishops of High Treason [c] So much hath beene from time to time offered to bee proued in the chiefest Courts of the Land yea if some parliament had stood they would haue been ere this time censured executed for Traytors this they know well enough insomuch as a Parliament to them is as Drake was to the Spaniard mentioned the Parliament lawes of the Land for proofe of it Also their publique renouncing of the King and State in the Censure of Noble Doctor Bastwick in the High Commission Court And J offered vpon my life to make it good and this I spake also before many Prisoners through the grates of my window desiring them beare wittnesse of this and much more which I then spake and now againe to you my Brethren vnderstanding well what I say and J will affirme it that all the Bishops in England that had a hand in the Censuring of Dr. Bastwick in the High Commission Court are Traytours to the King State as I will proue by severall Acts of Parliamet vpon paine of loosing my head if I may haue a legall proceeding against them Therefore make it knowne (a) Jt is made known to the whole nation and proved clearely in many Bookes as the Abreviate Syons Plea c. Besides the people generally take them no otherwise for hee that conceales Treason by the lawes of the Land is guilty of punishment as well as the Traitour himselfe therefore looke to it for J am able to proue what J say But as for my Petition J am out of all hopes of any releefe by it in regard it is not yet neither do I think it wil ever be delivered to the Lords by the Warden And also I do verily thinke it will be found that hee and the Bishops as J haue accused them before mauy witnesses even the same day fell sicke and as J haue formerly said they haue conspired together by tiranicall cruelty of set purpose to take awaie my life and blood which is almost spent alreadie that so I might not liue to make their Pagan like wickednes and barberous tirnanie knowne And therefore was I laid in Irones for a long time together even in my sicknesse in which I laid night and day with my hands and feet fast in the Fetters my Bootes stockens being on my legs for many nights together Without I verilie thinke the least order from the Honorable Lords they hoping by this meanes to put an end to my daies which they haue almost done For as I then tould my Doctor the coldnesse of my Irones they being verie straite vpon the wrists of my Armes which struck an ague soe to my heart that J thought I should haue dyed in a sudden fitt of paine when none was with mee and I verily thinke it had killed me ere this if I had not followed my Doctours advise in being at charges to get a wider made which sent for to the Smiths my Keeper delaying to do it for mee though I much desired it of him that so I might haue wrapped cloaths enough about it to keep awaie the peircing cold which proceeded from the coldnesse of the Irones (b) It is a thing which the Prelates doe much labour about namely to perswade the King and his Councill that the Puritants in writings against their cruelty do greatly disgrace the Government of the Land But if the thing were truly coÌ„sidered that which hath made the English nation Contemptible in the eyes of the world is the inhumane practises of Bishoppes for where shall a man heare of so vile and bloody a practice as this O yee Heavens and earth that is to say you true Churches Christian Common wealths as you are called stand amazed and wonder at the barberous and savadge crueltie of bloody Bishops Iaylours exercised vpon mee a poore weake and young stripling without any just cause at al only because I love the Lord Iesus Christ am a faithfull subject to my Prince (a) Were thou not a faithfull subject to thy Prince the Prelates would never hate thee for what Priest or Iesuit haue they ever so haÌ„dled Country and wil not suffer as much as in me lies to be ruinated by Ambitious Treacheros popish Prelats For if my streÌ„gth of bodie which is now exceeding weake would serue and a fit oppertunity I could write a large Lamentable complaint vnto you that one would hardly beleeue (b) Yes many would beleeve it For it is certain I here report it of knowledg that in all the Popish countries where I haue beene there is not that cruelty now exercised by Bis any where as there is in England The Prelates in Poland Spaine France are not halfe so vile Much lesse sinne as those doe against knowledge and conscience that ever such barberous crueltie should be in England vpon a poor weak and innocent young man Now this may make your spirits within you to faile in rememberance of your great sinne want of courage (c) It is iust vvith God that he should keepe these Canaanites amongst us as pricks in our side in regard wee shew

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