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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	heart_n	life_n	7,489	5	4.5130	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94342	The case and condition of R. Titchbourn late alderman, and now prisoner in the Tower of London. Presented to the consideration and compassion of his fellow citizens.		1661 (1661)	Wing T1147; Wing C847AB; ESTC R2605	4,765	14

If there had been any fore-thoughted malice any grudges or ill will it were justly imputable but on the contrary good for evil hath in some businesses been rendred by him and that also when he had power in his hands to do it very effectually To give an instance of this though somewhat before he came to this Magistracy 'T was a generous act of his in saving the Life of those Two young men condemned by the Powers usurping for the Tumult in London 1647. It is no kind of lessening that Courtesie to say they were Traytors that sentenced them and that he had been accessory to their Mu●ther if they had dyed he being then Sheriff for then the Stream went strong another way and no suspicion or fear in them of his Majesties most happy Restitution they thinking and taking themselves to be fast rooted in the Government Many more there were of this nature and it is without question that his private benefits have exceeded his private injuries though venit ad amissas nullus amitus opes and wrongs follow the Doer of them to the Grave But if you weigh his publick benefactions in his administration of his Mayoralty against those petty injuries he did their Lightnesse as well as Trivialnesse will be so inconsiderable in the Ballance that they will pass for nothing Having therefore passed this honourable place with commendation and general applause it were but just he should receive some advantage from it in recompence of that honour and advantage he did it Let plundering Isaac Pennington expiate all the Contumelies done the King and his Government in the last 18 Maioralties and let Andrews estate make up Isaac's broken Fortunes to the Exchequer The Authority once vested in a good Magistrate though perhaps an ill man hath a kind of Sacrednesse and Reverence in it and the Ancients did use to offer up their Insignia of Honour at the Temples of the Gods at the expiration of their annual offices as Sacred to posterity 't is true this crimen laesae Majestatis hath profaned all that respect due to him but who knows if by the unanimous Intercession and Supplication of this City whether gratia placatae Majestatis the King and his great Councel may not be pleased to pardon that great offence Let him at least not fall helplesse or friendlesse as one that had not one good Action to speak for him It will be some Sweetning to that bitter Cup to find some pity shewed him though peradventure it should not avail him The justice of the Law hath many times been lenified to the Sufferers of it by the Humanity and Compassion of the people 'T is a double death to dye unpitied 't is an aenigmatical sad Fate to be buryed in Marble Hearts and yet have no Sepulchre It adds all the horrour of death to see as many Tormentors as Spectators and is a desperate prospect of the woful estate after this Life To move you the rather to this Compassion though no doubt you cannot be without some affections to him view him in the last revolution and you will find him no stickler against our present happinesse He that was not against it was clearly for it Even in the amuses of some of those men our Deliverance came like a Dream but his Eyes were wide open and he plainly foresaw His Majesties Return and stood still till the wonders of his Restitution were past He ingaged in no new Designs counsels or practises to retard or withstand that blessed work but with all Submission and patience expected the Results of Providence There were few of that Temper or Moderation in that critical juncture of Time who yet were in lesse danger then himself which afterwards amounted to a confidence of surrendring himself according to the Proclamation and putting himself within the danger of the Law What he did as a Member of the late Committee of Safety was rather of necessity then choice neither then was the Kings Interest so discernible Questionlesse had he had that State insight to which he was neither capacitated nor experienced he would have taken hold on occasions Foretop and redeemed himself by some signal seasonable Demonstration of Loyalty as well as others in the same praedicament Now he is foris factus and that opportunity of retriving himself quite lost and hath a sad After game to play and the Tables almost shut up without a speedy intervention and interposition betwixt his sentence and approaching Death And in this last view of him we shall see him well worthy of our greatest Commiseration How he hath behaved himself as to his Imprisonment in that place where he once commanded with all Humility and fair Carriage the Noble Sir John Robinson and his Warders and Officers will give him a sufficient and good Character At that late strange and rebellious Insurrection in the City by the Fifth Monarchists he professed an utter detestation thereof and not so much for the Butchery and Murder committed as that the peace of the Kingdome was thereby endangered by such a riotous wicked attempt the danger and scandal brought by it on him and his Fellow Sufferers to the acceleration of their ends he weighed not so much being resolved either living or dying to pray for the prosperity of the Kings Government He hath continued ever since his first restraint a most strict austere and mortified life without any grudgings or repinings at these his sad dispensations bearing with an even mind the losse of a considerable estate besides sundry discomforts in his nere relations grieving excessively at his Condition and a deeper wound can hardly be given to a man in misery so falls it out in the Extremes of Sorrow that even our friends unvoluntarily shall contribute to the load of it And if this condition be not matter of mercy what distresse shall find it Report hath taken up many things falsely against this person as of his unsupportable Pride Covetousnesse c. Raised from his Pageantry Lordship conferred on him by Oliver and his several rich places and offices he went through all along the Usurpation but this reducement of him hath made it appear to the Contrary his wealth not answering the sum required to a Lord Maiors Estate and his constant affability as well as his present humility convincing all men of his not being arrogant Enough might be said of this in his praise and questionless be pressed more home and advantagiously by others who owe him greater kindnesses if such can be in this his Condition in his behalf The Author hereof hath only endevoured to discharge as far as his Mite would reach an Obligation to this afflicted being willing if he were able and if it would be taken to ransome him with Gold However you have his Devoir which he humbly submits to Candid and Christian Consideration Quem paenitet peccasse Paene est innocens FINIS