Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	lord_n	sir_n	william_n	12,209	5	8.7561	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90189	A true copy of a letter, sent from the Lord of Inchiquine to the honorable Collonell Michaell Iones, commander in chiefe of the Parliaments forces in Leinster and governor of the citty of Dublin, vvith Colonell Iones his answer, to the Lord of Inchiquines saied letter.	Inchiquin, Murrough O'Brien, Earl of, 1614-1674.; Jones, Michael, d. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing O460A; ESTC R223517	1,948	7

A TRVE COPY OF A Letter sent from the Lord of Inchiquine to the Honorable Collonell Michaell Iones Commander in chiefe of the Parliaments Forces in Leinster AND Governor of the Citty of Dublin VVith Colonell Iones his Answer To the Lord of Inchiquines saied Letter DVBLIN Printed by William Bladen 1649. The Lord of Inchiquins Letter to Colonell Michaell Iones Sir THE sight of some late past Letters ebtweene his Excellency and you have by their passages given me more then Comon reason to suspect that a misunderstanding of our grounds is the greatest cause that foments an unhappy distance betweene us at the present of how great a Consequence to all our security and felicities a vnion would bee as it is obvious to the lowest apprehension soe ought it not to be contemned by the highest but to be the labor of us all to discend from those heights which may wyden a breach and lay hold on those things that most conduce to peace it has pleased God to make me one of his meanest Instruments to preserve him a remnant hitherto of Protestants persevering in their first Principles by my Sword which selfe same worke I am still intending but should esteeme the happinesse greater if you would please to effect it now by my pen or word by how much I prize a Conquest over the minde more then the body and esteeme the retaineing of a friend more then the subduing of an Enemy Sir it is not for Christians to descend to a VVarre like Cocks into a pitt and fight without knowing how the quarrell began Blood must bee accounted for and therefore is not on light Causes to be-spilt besides the Sword has a mouth to devoure Iustice but no eyes to see how to defend it if you please therefore before it have exhausted any droppe from either party to expostulate the matter your self or by any other whom you will appoint with a divine or two added to them in a faire and handsome debate I shall meete you with the like both in number and quality where it may please God to bestow such a blessing as we are not yet apprehensive of and I Conjure you as you intend that really which you pretend verbally the establishment of the English intrest and Protestant Religion that you contemne not this nor any other meanes which shall be offered you for your just satisfaction If you shall the ill consequences that may attend it will inevitably fall upon you and I shall with quiet to my Conscience have acquitted my selfe that I have in thus seeking performed the duty of a Christian to you alsoe if you please to follow it the office of 20 Iunij 1649. Your Friend and Servant Inchiquine Colonell Iones Answer to my Lord of Inchiquins Letter My Lord I recieved your Lordships of the 20th Instant by your Trumpet which being the same in substance with those not long since passing me with the Lord of Ormonde And that your Lordships containing nothing new or more then what was in those others I must therefore without further answer as to soe much referre your Lordship to what hath been then Answered and Replyed As for that Conference by your Lordship now Propounded and desired It cannot be in prudence admitted especially in matters of this consequence and in times when such debatings must needs bee Dangerous as being subject to whatsoever constructions and misconstructions alsoe But soe well am I satisfied in the Iustice of my Cause whereupon the Lords blessing hath dwelt Visibly as still it doth that I am fixed to my just Principles whence by Letters or Discourses I am not to be removed And I wish heartily your Lordship had done likewise Your Sword hath been I confesse prosperous but remember my Lord the cause in which you then appeared the same with this now by Vs here maintained against those bloody Rebells But Now is your Lordship with them most unhappily joyned to the admiration of those who knew your Lordships former professions and your once and againe renewed engagements Now. in that your late Confederacy and Countenancing of them in their waies are you become one of them in that guilt of Blood where withall they and the whole Land is defiled And with them deserting your first principles doe you Now set your selfe against those of the Protestant Religion of which once you were and whereunto you still professe your selfe a friend and whereof they are mortall and professed Enemies Your Cause therefore being soe varied your Lordship cannot promise your selfe the same Providence as formerly which we doe and may confidently expect and the rather our trust being in God alone not in our own strength whereas your powers and number is that you boast off and in which you rest your selves principally All which I desire may be by your Lordship Seriously and timely Considered for regaining and preserving to your selfe a good Conscience and for staying the effusion of more English and protestant blood which if by your meanes spilt it must lye heavy on you and on your Posterity I conjure you therefore as you intend that really which you pretend verbally the establishment of the English interest and Protestant Religion that you contemne not this wholsome Councell now given you If you shall the ill Consequences that now attend it will inevitably fall on you and I shall with quiet to my Conscience have acquited my selfe that I have herein performed the duty of a Christian and to you alsoe if you please to follow it the Office of my Lord Dublin Iune 21th 1649. Your Lordships Friend and Servant Mic Iones For my Lord of Inchiquine