Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	george_n	sir_n	william_n	10,638	5	8.8875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56095	A Protestant plot no paradox, or, Phanaticks under that name plotting against the king and government proved first, from their principles, secondly, from their practices.	Tonge, Thomas, d. 1662.	1682 (1682)	Wing P3840; ESTC R10620	63,075	38

to Captain Fosters and saw you there Gibbs Did I tell you Mr. Riggs that my brother said Ludlow was in Town and there would be a rising shortly Riggs Mr. Hill Beasly Stubbs and I and you were together Mr. Thomas and your Brother came in your Brother Beasly Stubbs and Thomas were private in discourse when you came again to us we asked you what news you said before we came you knew not much but your Brother could tell but then you said Ludlow was in Town the Council was broke up and that Messengers were sent to give notice to the Countrey Gibbs I deny that ere my Brother said so Maynard Know you any thing of surprizing the Kings Council or Whitehall or any thing of that of altering the Government Tyler As for altering the Govenment that must needs be designed for Tonge said it was debated and thought convenient as being the desire of several in the Country that the old Parliament should be chosen again that was to say that so many of them that had approved themselves faithful from first to last to the Common-wealths interest especially in the times of Dissention Secondly that none should have power to elect or be elected but such also as have approved themselves faithful as aforesaid Thirdly this House was to be filled up within a Month. Fourthly that it should continue one year and no more Fifthly that they should not have power in things of an Ecclesiastical nature to impose any thing upon the Consciences of the people Sixthly that it should be High-Treason among them to assert the interest of a King house of Lords or single person Seventhly that they should not appoint any Salary-Officers Eighthly that while they keep to this it should be High-Treason to disturb them As touching Arms and things of that nature the truth is the business which was very much urged is this that there should be an uniting of all interests together Quakers Fifth monarchy men Anabaptists Independents Presbyterians and Levellers to which purpose every one was obliged at the Meeting to see what interest they could make among the Presbyters because they looked upon them as persons that had most money and strength I think there was no Presbyterian spoken of except one who is lately secured in the Tower he said that if so be Col. Beanes was at liberty he believed he could engage him There was one man that was there which was one Prior I suppose Tonge knew him he said he had very much acquaintance with the Presbyters knew many in the Countrey and that there they did not meet with any difficulties as here for all interests Quakers and Presbyterians and the rest are all agreed Sir Hen. Finch Very well you see Tonge was at all these Meetings at the Wheat-sheaf and Sheares and there were the Colonels proposed Did you hear of any Orders given out in any of these Consultations to make the rising in the Countrey at the same time as in London Tyler Mr. Gibbs's Brother told us that he kept a Correspondence in the Countrey that in Essex he knew there were divers Horse ready there and I my self spoke with one who is lately secured who said there were divers Horse ready thereabouts I remember there were several at the Half-moon at Bishops-gate one Smith a Northamptonshire man and one Elose of Chesterfield and Tonge and we heard that at Mansfield and Nottingham there was a rising intended and it was assured that the Countrey was very ripe and forward for action We were informed that there was 200 Horse at Bristol one person not yet secured did affirm to us that one Col. Templar in Essex had two or three thousand men ready his name was Thomas that Templar was now in Town if we would we might go and speak with him Said I surely he doth but tell you this saith he his Lieutenant Col. gave me this Information and assures me that this Colonel had converted his Estate into Money to pay his Souldiers Upon this having occasion to go down into Essex I promised Tonge I would enquire further there and understanding that one Thornback a Glover was one of Templars men formerly I went to his house and being not at home I rode to Holsted Fair and riding there the man pulled me by the Coat for he knew me saith he Mr. Tyler my servant said you were at my house to speak with me Yes said I I understand your name is Thornback that you can give me some account concerning Col. Templar we hear in London that he hath two or three thousand men in readiness I pray inform me saith he I do not believe any such matter I have served him long and if occasion were he would be for you I asked him the news saith he We all dread a Massacre we understand by a Letter from Ipswich that the Papists intend a Massacre of all Protestants about Alhallontide and that the Countrey was in great fear about it This Thomas the Coppersmith told us another story about some Roman-Catholicks in Southwark that had a purpose to rise and take off all Phanaticks After this the Court directed that Phillips's Examination should be shewed him at the Bar and he acknowledged his hand thereto and was read as followeth The Examination of George Phillips Serjeant and Bringer up to Col. Sir William Wale's Company of Trained-bands in the City of London taken this 29 of October 1662. before me Richard Brown Who saith THat he knoweth one Parson Riggs late Chaplain to Blake who is now Clerk to one Friend a Brewer in Cats-hole near the Iron-gate in St. Katherines which said Riggs told him this Examinant That there would be a rising of divers godly people in Arms for preservation of Religion about the time the Queen came to Town and that they intended to seize the Kings Person about Camberwell in his passage to see the Queen-mother at Greenwich but after the Queen was come to Town this Examinant asked the said Riggs why it was not done according to their intendment who replyed they were not then ready because the Congregational Churches and they were not fully agreed but now they were come to an agreement and the work would be done in a short time that all things were now near ready both in Countrey and City and that a Frigat or more would revolt from the King to them Not long after the said Riggs carried him the said Phillips to the house of one Tonge an old Army-Captain but now a seller of Tobacco and Strong-water in Tower-ditch where he heard Tonge say unto Riggs that he had been at Windsor-Castle and had made a Captain two Serjeants and a Gunner to be of their Party and that they had undertaken to deliver up the said Castle to that Party which were now to rise to which Riggs replyed You have done well And further said I am now going to surprize two Castles in Kent one of them as this Deponent remembreth was to be Deal-Castle and