Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	life_n	see_v	9,818	5	3.5124	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41089	To the right honorable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of Edmond Felton, Gent.	Felton, Edmond.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing F662; ESTC R29425	4,001	12

and by a Iuory of his owne choosing The cause your Petitioner did scatter papers against the said Sir Henry was for that after speciall Referrences from his Maiestie your petitioner and his witnesses should be examined concerning Sir Henries fraudes to his Maiestie and oppressions to your Petitioners Father and himselfe but could not be obtained nor his iust complaints move some of His Maiesties great Officers to assist your Petitioner therein That your petitioner as he was there writing in his Chamber at the Kings-Bench prison was assaulted with six or seven of the Marshalls servants who did violently and barbarously beat and sore bruise him and put him in feare and danger of his life and most cruelly took and haled him out of the Master-side to the common Gaole of the said Prison That your Petitioner was shortly after most uniustly and disgracefully removed and sent to the most infamous Goale of New-gate and thither carried bound as a Fellon on purpose thereby to be maimed or made away and after his remove from thence to the Master-side of the said Prison was againe twice carried amongst the Fellons without any offence by the Petitioner given and to the end that no friends should be helpfull to your Petitioner nor hee or they be believed in his complaint it was given out by the Gaolor of New-gate he was a Mad-man crazed in his braines and not meet to be respected or credited in anything or to that effect And this done on purpose to disgrace and discourage your Petitioner and to hinder his proceedings against Sir Henry Spiller in this cause or on his Maiesties behalfe That shortly after this cruell usage of your petitioner his wife fell sick and lay at the point of death to whom your Petitioner was not suffered to goe but that day shee lay ready to depart this life to the iudgement of all that saw her in which sicknesse her skinne peeled all off her as she had been poyson'd and in this time of her extremity your petitioner was removed from the Master-side in New-gate to the Common Gaole there and lodged many nights in a darke Duugeon Ward on the ground where is most noysome scents Long of which imprisonment a child of your petitioners perished for that neither hee nor his wife could give it its due and the wife of your petitioner then miscarried being with Child That there was a plot presently after your petitioners imprisonment in the Kings Bench as upon examination will appeare by one in favour with Sir Henry Spiller to have made your petitioner prisoner during Sir Henries life a strong presumption it was a combination betwixt Sir Henry and the said partie who lately in the presence of others said None but Rogues and Whores would speak against the said Sir Henry Spiller That a Committee this Parliament being appointed by the Honourable House of Commons for the examination of Sir Henries fraudes to the Crowne and oppression to His Maiesties Subiects your petitioner there with his witnesses was ready and did make good Sir Henries fraudes to his late Maiestie by which and the like courses of the said Sir Henry hath been losse to the Crowne above one Hundred thousand pound and hee thereby hath purchased to himselfe many thousand pounds a yeere much thereof taken in other mens names In Answere to so much of this as concernes your Petitioner Sir Hen. Spiller at a Hearing before the Lords produced three Letters First purporting an Offer of Composition made by your Petitioner to the said Sir Henry The second An acknowledgement of Error in speaking words of the said Sir Henry The third A desire of reasonable satisfaction with promise to desist from further prosecution To all which your Petitioners Councell was not instructed to answere But your Petitioner for answer saith To the first he was disabled by Sir Henrie in want of his writings and Estate to prosecute Law and therefore sought but tooke no composition To the second He was restrained of Libertie at Sir Henries Suite without means to vindicate himselfe against his power and purse and therefore for gaining of his libertie did acknowledge the Error of having spoken that positively which hee had only from the relation of the partie To the third He answereth That it was done when he had sought Iustice for the King and for himself to his pr●u● Councell frequently and with more then ordinary prosecution yet without fruit or remedie Your Petitioner humbly prayes your wonted Iustice in all and expedition suitable with the great Affaires least it come unseasonably he being destitute of subsistence And hee shall ever pray c. Edmond Felton