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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	john_n	london_n	sir_n	11,901	5	6.7349	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01806	A brief narrative of the case between His Royal Highness James duke of York, lord of the mannor of Richmond aliàs West-sheen, in the county of Surry; George Carew esq; one of the customary tenants of the said manor, and Sir James Butler, mortgagee upon a conditional surrender, and others concerned in the said case.	Brown, John, gent.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5024A; ESTC R173092	6,130	4

said Carew having a Grant under the Great Seal of England the highest Security of the Kingdom for the sum of 10000 Pounds out of the Customs and a Tally for the same resting in the Hands of Richard Mountney Esq towards Sir Paul Pindars proportion of Mony granted by his Majesty out of a greater summ amongst the old Farmers Carew's part was post-poned in his absence beyond the Seas whereupon he lately addressed his humble Petition to the King for the same with the brief state of this Case Annexed and put it into the Hands of Sir James Butler who promised to use his utmost endeavors to get satisfaction therein both for Carew and himself who only lodged the Petition with Mr. Francis Gwyn the Lord Conways Secretary where it lays also re infecta although it is the only return of A Hundred and Eighty Thousand Pounds Sterling lent and advanced by Sir Paul Pindar to the late King upon his most urgent occasions and even of 15000 l. in Gold sent to Oxford in the years 1643. and 1644. by Mrs. Jane Whorewood yet living to Testify the same towards support of the Royal Family in their greatest Extremities which was lately owned by his Majesty himself as the greatest service in the World It s observable that several persons concerned in this Case have been very unsensible of the Kings honor and Interest and even of the Reputation of his Royal Highness in the Conduct of this Affair who is so Generous in his own Nature And its Remarkable that the said Robert White being told of the ill consequences of his practices and the prejudice it would bring upon his Master and the Tenants of the Mannor of Richmond he seemed the more obstinate where for want of a Court of Survey and the very Court Rolls detained from the Tenants View Carew had been forced to the Expence and Damages of 100 l. and upwards in defence of Kew Heath against Sir John Brownelow and his Tenants who pretended that the said Heath was Free-hold Land after several Surrenders Admittances and Fines paid to the Lord of the Mannor for the same Heath as Coppy-hold Land And this Robert White was so malicious after all these admonitions that out of a blind Zeal for his Masters service he caused a poor Servant of Carews to be Arrested in Sir Allen Apsleys and Wordens Names by Writ out of the Marshalseas for digging some Gravel upon Richmond Common to carry into one of the said Carews Gardens Who then affirmed in open Court as still the said Carew doth affirm the same that there is a Debt of 359 l. sterling incumbent upon his Royal Highness for monies paid and disbursed by Carew upon the Duke and his Commissioners Orders and Warrants to Captain John Maxwel and Daniel Gottherson concerning the Apprehending of Thomas Scott one of the Regicides which was to be paid and allowed to Carew out of the Dukes Interest in Scots Houses in the Parishes of St. Andrews and St. Dunstans in the West in the City of LONDON which were c●nveyed by Mr. Benjamin Heather to Sir Samuel Baldwin by Fine and Feofment upon a valuable Consideration in Trust for Carew Scot having no Estate in him to forfeit in the said Houses at the time of the Treason Committed nor the King in him to Grant to his Royal Highness at any time afterwards The premises considered it 's presumed there cannot be found the like President of Grievance and Oppression That a person under those circumstances as Mr. George Carew stands should be ruined by the means appointed for his Relief or destroyed under the greatest Security of the Kingdom granted for his Satisfaction and Reparations And all this under the Government of ENGLAND where so many thankful Addresses have been made to his Majesty for his most gratious Declaration to maintain the Rights and Properties of the Subjects by the strictest Rules of Law and Justice Recollected by John Brown Gent. April 20. 1682.