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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	year_n	5,893	4	4.5292	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39902	The speech of Sr. Richard Ford, Knight, and alderman of London made at Guild-hall to the liveries of the several companies of that city, on Michaelmass day, 1670, upon their election of him to be lord mayor of the same city for the year ensuing / taken in short-hand writing by a person then present.	Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing F1472; ESTC R37348	1,268	7

THE SPEECH OF S R Richard Ford Knight and Alderman of London MADE AT GUILD-HALL TO THE Liveries of the several COMPANIES of that CITY on Michaelmass day 1670. Upon their Election of Him to be LORD MAYOR of the same CITY for the Year ensuing Taken in Short-Hand Writing by a Person then present LONDON Printed for N. B. 1670. THE SPEECH OF Sir RICHARD FORD Knight and Alderman of LONDON Made at Guildhall to the Liveries of the several Companies c. GENTLEMEN IF I should tell you that this Election of me to this great Office was to me very much unexpected I should tell you nothing but a very great Truth and if you believe that then you will easily apprehend that the Work of this day hath put me to a great surprize therefore you cannot reasonably expect that I should entertain you either with a long or well concocted discourse I know according to custom and custom prescribed by book I am to do that which I own to be my Duty too that is to give you thanks which I do with all my heart and that to every individual person and first to those that have had the charity for me as to think me in some degree capable for the manage of this great Trust and for those that had the charity to have prevented me from an Office of so great burthen they shall not go away without a share of my thanks I do also thank them and I shall be very heartily glad that this little beginning of Union of you in my Thanks may be the introduction to a perfect reconciliation of all those unhappy differences which have of late so much distracted both the Councils and Actions among all the degrees of Citizens You have been pleased to call me to an Office the burthen of which I always apprehended even in the most peaceable Times and greatest Union of the Hearts of the Citizens did require a person of the greatest abilities that ever this City bred but I tremble to think what an insupportable Burthen and how impossible it will be for you and me to render our Duties either to God the King or this great City unless it please God to make up those breaches and animosities which Gods just judgments for our sins have lately laid upon us I do readily submit to the Call of God by you and will endevour by my Councils and Actings to leave you at the latter end of my Year in a more perfect Knot of Unity I am more conscious to my self of my own weakness than to be an Undertaker and I would not put my self under a promise of which I have not a very near prospect of abilities to perform and therefore I shall not promise you much of my self only thus much I do in the presence of God engage my self That in the Execution of this Office I shall endevour so to comport my self as that I may prove an Instrument of Peace amongst all the Citizens of London as far as I can and I shall neither sharpen the edge of the Sword when it comes to my hand to chastise any man beyond the intention of the Law for any disrespect that I may have for his person or his Principles nor blunt the edge of it for fear or favour of any of His Majesties Subjects and by the Grace of God as far as he shall enable me I shall in all things endevour to perform my Duty to God the King and this City and in that give you a real Thanks for the honour of this day FINIS