Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	richard_n	sir_n	thomas_n	15,162	5	9.0462	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40517	Some particular motives of the conversion of Peter Frotte, heretofore canon-regular of the Royal Abby of St. Genevieve at Paris. Prior of the priory and parish of Souilly in the Diocess of Meaux In a letter directed to Mr. James Benign Bousset, bishop of Meaux; formerly tutor of Monseigneur Le Dauphin. Englished by the author. And dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stampe, Lord Mayor of the City of London. And the Honourable Court of Aldermen.	Frotté, Pierre.; Stamp, Thomas, Sir, 1628-1711.; Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing F2247B; ESTC R214641	14,270	38

Some Particular MOTIVES OF THE CONVERSION OF PETER FROTTE HERETOFORE CANON-REGULAR of the Royal Abby of St. Genevieve at Paris PRIOR of the Priory and Parish of Souilly in the Diocess of Meaux In a Letter directed to Mr. James Benign Bossuet Bishop of Meaux formerly Tutor of Monseigneur Le Dauphin Englished by the Author And Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stampe Lord Mayor of the City of London And the Honourable Court of Aldermen LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arr Inn Warwick-Lane M DC XCI TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir THOMAS STAMPE LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON And the HONOURABLE COURT of ALDERMEN MY LORD NO body I hope will accuse me of temerity if I take the boldness to Dedicate to Your Lordship this Discourse though hereby I have the unhappiness to interrupt with this little Address of mine Your more important Affairs For no wonder if a stranger comes to implore nay to importune Protection even his very condition gives him title to it since every Stranger in a Foreign Country may be look'd upon as an Orphan without particular Kindred Friend or Acquaintance it may be allow'd him to have Recourse to the First Magistrate of the City wherein he lives as to a Publick Patron Friend and Father As for my part My Lord 't is true I am not so abandoned a Stranger but that I have found some Friendship and Charity not only among my Countrey-men who are here meer Strangers as my self but also among the English-men Nevertheless were I not in need of any Protection or Favour I should be glad of an occasion to give my self the honour of approaching to Your Lordship to manifest in describing the Hypocritical and Cruel character of an Enemy of Your Religion and Liberty That I desire heartily the happiness of this magnificent City of Your Lordship and of Your Honourable Brethren who so happily steer it at this time to its present measure of Peace and Order to congratulate it for its Loyalty and Love to so Good so Generous and so Illustrious a King to Rejoice and Bless you for Your great Care and Unwearied pains in Rooting out the Seminaries of Sedition in supressing Irreligion and Profaneness and doing what lies in men for the keeping of the Unity and Concord in which worthy deeds that you may ever proceed and be succeeded by the Blessing and Concourse of Divine Providence is and shall be the daily Prayer of Your RIGHT HONOURABLE Most Humble and Obedient Servant PETER FROTTE Some Particular Motives of the CONVERSION OF PETER FROTTE c. In a Letter directed to Mr. James Benign Bossuet Bishop of Meaux formerly Tutor of Monseigneur Le Dauphin Monsieur I Remained too long in your Church I have been too long a Witness of her Violences and Cruelties against those whom she injustly calls Hereticks not to understand into what degree of Fury she would have run against me had I been so unhappy after my renouncing her Communion as to fall again into her power 'T is Sir what obliged me to abandon all what I possess'd in France That I might come into these Countries where Conscience being free I could give glory to God and worship Him according to the rules of the Holy Gospel I am not ignorant also what calumnies this same Church of yours is wont to put upon those that separate themselves from her and especially when they are of my Character I know she forgets nothing that may cry them down and blemish their Reputation This reason engaged me also to make publick the true motives of my Conversion to direct them to you and to write you this Letter that all people might know what your simple Priests and Monks are capable of when they see a great Prelate who honour'd me so long with his esteem and protection become on a sudden one of my greatest Enemies and run into Invectives with an Anger unbecoming his Character as soon as he apprehended I designed to forsake his Church I do not deny Sir and I am obliged to acknowledge you gave me a thousand marks of your Bounty This to your Recommendation I owe that I was very welcome at Monsieur Le Pelletier Comptroler of the King's Exchequer and that Monsieur de Menars Intendant of Paris favour'd me with his particular Protection Moreover though my kindred might have the Honour to be known and a little consider'd by Monsieur the Chancellor your Favour and Authority was not needless to me in reducing to Reason the Inhabitants of Souilly which I had not prosecuted in Law but in Obedience to your Order You caused me to Preach in your Cathedral Church and in your Presence on the most Solemn day of the Year and my Sermon was not only approved but also applauded by you I was welcome not only in your House but also at your Table and in your Coach All things were pleasant to me at your Court and your kindness towards me caused great Jealousie of me in many other good People 'T is most certain your favour and affection was so great to me that you would never believe what several People told you of me viz. That I neglected the Celebrating of Mass That I Preached no more That I was always in the Company of the Protestants That I compelled them not to obey to your will That I stayed for nothing but the Prince of Orange's coming into France to Reform my Church And that at last I overthrew by my behaviour in this Countrey all that your Zeal Endeavour'd to Establish My Kindred which feared for many Reasons I would abandon your Church informed you of all they knew about that business My Brother De Lignieres Collonel who was long since in your Town with his Regiment spoke to you of nothing else if by Divine Providence you had not been prejudiced against all these reports which yet were really grounded as you may see now this unnatural Brother who hates me only because I reproach'd him with his Licentious sort of Life would have sent to me many of his Soldiers to take me up and would not have spared me more than he did the poor Reformed of Daulphiné when he went thither to Preach so efficaciously by an extraordinary Mission in Quality of Captain of Dragoons I must Sir Adore here God's Providence who kept me in midst of these Dangers who not giving me yet all the necessary light nor resolution enough to break with you gave me yet the confidence to remain among so many Enemies who were long since angry with me For many years ago my Kindred and Canons Regular of Saint Genevieve being informed from all hands of the liberty I took to speak in particular Conversations nay to Preach also publickly against the abuses of the Ecclesiastical power of the Superstious Worship of the Pharisaical Hypocrisy of the Monks and the Priests of the dangerous Policy of the whole Clergy designed often to declare me fool and to treat me accordingly How