Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	son_n	year_n	4,102	5	4.8346	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41757	The grand indictment of high-treason against the Marquess of Argyle, at the instance of His Majesites advocat: exhibited to the Parliament of Scotland, with an account of what hath followed since thereupon.		1661 (1661)	Wing G1498A; ESTC R218495	26,442	24

and others therein without making the least opposition and declaring that they had refuged themselves to the said place for shelter and Protection did render up the said House and themselves upon assurance that they might freely and quietly return and live at their own Homes according thereto they were dismissed and sent Home where they remained in peaceable manner by the space of _____ days Notwithstanding thereafter you and the forces aforesaid having besieged the Castle of Dunnavertie during the said siege there were several Rendezvouz appointed for the said Gentlemen to make their appearance which frequently they did and were still dismissed until such time as those who were within the said House of Dunnavertie had rendred up the said House and them selves to be disposed upon at the mercy of the Kingdom or pretended Committee of Estates And that notwithstanding thereof you and your said Complices had most perfidiously treacherously and treasonably and for which also you are hereby endicted slaughtered and murthered or caused to be slaughtered or murthered the number of 260. of them or thereby they being under your trust assurance credit or power and did dispose upon the rest of them at your own hand without any lawful warrant to Captains William Hay and Archibald Campbel to serve in the French Wars then and hereafter you caused appointed a new Rendezvouz of the said Gentlemen who were in the House of Lochehead and their followers who having appeared in frequent manner you caused to be singled out fifteen or sixteen of the said Gentlemen who were that night sent to the said House of Lochehead and the next morning brought forth by you or such as were under your Command and most perfidiously cruelly and inhumanely without any Order of Law or Form of Process Civil or Military hanged and murthered And to aggravate the said cruel and barbarous crime It is of verity That one of the said Persons so murdered being an old man and having one son of age not above sixteen or seventeen years the father immediately before his death did depone that his said son had never carried my Arms offensive all his life time but that he had still been at Schools and that some few days before he had come from Glasgow the place of his Education to visit his Parents and therefore did earnestly supplicate in regard of his innocency his life might be spared Notwithstanding you and the bloody Actors of your purposes were so unmerciful as not to hearken to the said so just desire of the said dying old man but forthwith the said young innocent boy was cruelly also hanged to death Likewise not content with the aforesaid unheard of horrid acts of cruelty you in the moneth of _____ 1640. years or one or other of the moneths thereof by your self and Followers or such whom you might have stopt or let caused to be transported from the Isle of Ila to the Isle of Jura to the number of two hundred persons of all sexes and ages where all means of livlihood and subsistance being withdrawn from them they in a most miserable manner were pined and starved to Death by Famine except some very few who outlived the rest and were relieved and carried out of the said Isle by boats accidentally coming by Likewise the person of _____ Mac Donald alias Colmac Gillespy or Colkittoche being in anno _____ ordained by the Parliamenr or Committee of Estates thereof to have been brought from prison out of the House of _____ where hethen was where he had been kept by you and others in your time many years before to Edinburgh that the causes for which he had been kept and so detained in prison might have been known and he having for that end been brought in a ship the length of the road of Leith you for preventing such information of your cruelty and oppression exercised towards him and many of his friends and relations which he was able to have given and made out you in manifest contempt and scorn of the Authority of that Parliament under which you your self acted caused take the person of the said Colkittoche forth of the said ship after you had carried him to your own lands and bounds cruelly caused hang him to Death Eightly Notwithstanding of the manifold acts of mercy and favour dignity honour and trust conferred upon you by your then Dread Soveraign for reclaiming of you from your disloyal and treasonable practices plots and machinations against His Sacred Person Dignity and Authori●y he being sore pressed and reduced to great straits and extremities by that Army of Sectaries before mentioned with whom you had formerly joyned as said is And having in that exigence and difficulty rather chosen from an innate principle of affections of his Country men to cast himself over in the hands of the Army of his Majesties Subjects of his ancient Kingdom of Scotland for shelter and preservation of His Royal Person Nevertheless you the said Marquess of Argyle being the chief Ring leader of that factions party who then swayed the Estate and Affairs both in Council and Armies in the said Kingdom did so contrive and complot and by your influence so prevail that after all fair offers made by his Majestie and His earnest desire to have come and lived in Scotland until such time as all differences in both Kingdoms had been settled That a pretended Act of Parliament was made for abandoning and leaving His Majestie to the disposal and mercy of the inveterate Enemies of His Majestie and Government the said Armies of Sectaries And that your acting in and accessions to the said Affair might be the more evident and clear and to aggravate your eminent and singular guilt therein you your self went to London where you basely under pretext of satisfaction for the Arrears of the said Army raised by the pretended Authority of the pretended Convention of Estates in anno 1643. as said is treacherously and Treasonably gave up at least condescended to the upgiving of your Dread Soveraign and Master and that as being impowered so to do by the Kingdom of Scotland and thereby did rub an indelible mark of reproach and infamy upon the whole Nation to all generations so far as in you lay And further to clear your foresaid treasonable dealings accessions to and correspondency with that infamous party of the said Army who carried on the said abominable and detestable act you being at the same time in a pretended joynt Committee of both Kingdoms while as the English therein did call in question whether the Scots Army would sincerely concur with them in their said Treason and Treacherie you after many arguments used in their Favours earnestly desired them to have patience for a little time it would appear by somewhat to the Officers of the Army how far they intended to concur and go along with them Likewise within few days after there was a Vindication and Declaration emitted in name of the said Armies whereby it was