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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	age_n	son_n	20	3	4.1992	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45581	A briefe view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Q. Elizabeths and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608 being a character and history of the bishops of those times ... / written ... by Sir John Harington ..., Knight.	Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612.; Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1653 (1653)	Wing H770; ESTC R21165	84,945	232

Normans whose posterity continued in great prosperity till the days of her Majesty who for peace for plenty for glory for continuance had exceeded them all that had lived to change all her Councellours but one all officers twice or thrice some Bishops foure times onely the uncertainty of succession gave hopes to Forreiners to attempt fresh invasions and breed feares in many of her Subjects of new Conquest the onely way then said he that is in pollicy left to quase those hopes and to asswage these feares were to establish the succession He noted that Nero was specially hated for wishing to have no Successor that even Augustus was the worse beloved for appointing an ill man to his Successor and at last insinuating as farre as he durst the neernesse of bloud of our present Soveraigne he said plainly that the expectations and presages of all writers went Northward naming without any circumlocution Scotland which said he if it prove an errour yet will it be found a learned errour When he had finished this Sermon there was no man that knew Q. Elizabeths disposition but imagined that such a speech was as welcome as salt to the eyes or to use her own word to pin up her winding sheet before her face so to point out her Successor and urge her to declare him wherefore we all expected that she would not onely have been highly offended but in some present speech have shewed her displeasure It is a principle not to be despised Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare she considered perhaps the extraordinary auditory she supposed many of them were of his opinion she might susspect some of them had perswaded him to this motion finally she ascribed so much to his yeares to his place to his learning that when she opened the window we found ourselves all deceived for very kindly and calmly without shew of offence as if she had but waked out of some sleepe she gave him thanks for his very learned Sermon Yet when she had better confidered the matter and recollected her selfe in private she sent two Councellours to him with a sharp message to which he was glad to give a patient answer But in this time that the Lords and Knights of Parliament and others were full of this Sermon a great Peere of the Realme that was then newly recovered of an impediment in his hearing I would he did heare no worse now being in great liking of the Archbishop for this Sermon prayed me to prove my credit with his Grace to get a Copy thereof and to use his name if need were alledging that impediment which caused though he were present that he carried away little of it I did so and withall told how my selfe had stood so incommodiously by meanes of the great presse as I heard it not well but was faine to take much of it on trust on others mens reports who varyed so as some I was sure did him wrong The Archbishop welcom'd me very kindly and made me sit with him a pretty while in his Lodging but in fine he told me plainly he durst give no Copy for that Sir John Fortescue and Sir John Wolley as I remember had beene with him before from the Queene with such a greeting as he scant knew if he were a prisoner or a free man and that the speech being already ill taken the writing might exasperate that which already was exulcerate so he denyed my suit but in so loving a fashion as from that time to his end I did greatly honour him and laid up in my heart many good lessons I learned of him and it was not long ere the Queen was so well pacified that he went downe with the Presidency of Yorke in the vacancy halfe against his will committed to him Till afterward the Lord Burleigh now Earle of Exeter of whose courage fidelity and religious heart the Queen had great assurance was made the Lord President But to returne to this Archbishop as he was in place so was he in learning and especially in reading not second to any in his time insomuch as in Cambridge long since he was one of the chosen disputants before the Queen and a Jesuit 26. yeares since disgracing our English students as neglecting and not reading the fathers excepts this Matthew Hutton and one famous Matthew more and of this Hutton he saith Qui unus in paucis versare patres dicitur who is one of those few that searcheth the fathers for matters of the world I can say but that that is known to the world his eldest sonne is a Knight of faire living and now or lately Sheriffe of Yorkeshire and a man of very good reputation One other Sonne he had that had an ill life brought to a worse end his name was Luke Hutton so valiant that he feared not men nor Laws and for a robbery done on St. Lukes day for names sake he died as bad a death I hope with a better mind then the Theef of whom St. Luke writes that he bad our Saviour if he were Christ to save himself and him The Arch-bishop herein show'd the constancy and severity worthy of his place for he would not endeavour to save him as the world thought he easily might deserving herein the praise of Justice which Eli wanted that was too indulgent of his Sonnes voices and having hereby no blot but such as may sort him with the great Monark of this last age King Philip with two famous Warriors of the old Romans Manlius and Brutus and with the highest Priest even Aaron His own death was more happy then his life to die Satur annorum full of years and to see and leave peace upon Israel Doctor Thoby Matthews The praises of a friend are partiall or suspicious of strangers uncertain and not iudicious of courtly persons complementall and mannerly of Learned and wise men more pretious of a Prince most cordiall and comfortable but of an adversary though often dangerous yet never undeserved what exceptions then can be taken to his just prayses whom friends commend strangers admire Nobles imbrace the Learned affect and imitate his Soveraigns have advanced and even his enemy and emulous cannot chuse but extoll and approve For Edmond Campion in his Pamphlet of the ten reasons which the Catholiques count an Epitome of all their Doctrine labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists to give the uttermost credit he can to his assertion saith that Thoby Matthew confest to him so much Pertentavimus saith he aliquando familiariter Thobiam Mattheum qui nunc in concionibus dominatur quem propter bonas artes virtutum semina dileximus We did once in familiar sort sound Thoby Matthews opinion he that now domineers in your Pulpits whom for his good learning and seeds of vertue we esteemed c. This then is the testimoniall of their Champion concerning his excellent guifts 27 yeers since if this commendation were then due as indeed except it had been very due that