Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	life_n	put_v	6,590	5	4.8343	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49746	Law unknown, or, Judgement unjust wherein is shewed, that some persons were indicted, judged, and condemned at the sessions in the Old Bailey, London, by an unknown Law, neither printed nor published, nor any ways knowable by the common people, whereby the inhabitants of this nation may perceive what unavoidable bondage and slavery they are going into : with a brief relation of the killing of John Townesend, by Major Crosby at St. Albones, and the proceedings of court thereupon, in quitting the said Crosby, and punishing the peaceable standers by, and some remarkable passages of Sir Harbottle Grimston in the said tryal : together also with certain queries, grounded upon the Act of Indempnity, especially recommended to the serious consideration of the said Sir Harbottle, and all the members of that Parliament whereof he was speaker.		1662 (1662)	Wing L636; ESTC R36860	6,930	11

because this story hath filled the ears and exercised the tongues of many far and near Let us reason a little with Sir Harbottle Grimston upon some Maxims of his own Sir it was your own observation very lately that To settle mens estates was the way to quiet their mindes But how think you can we look upon our Estates as setled or what quietness can the mindes of English-men have when their lives shall be in jeopardy every hour and their persons obnoxious to be assaulted killed and murthered at the malitious rage of such wicked and ungodly wretches as Crosby if justice cannot be had against the Murtherers If Jehu had reason to demand What peace so long as the Whordoms of Jezabel and her Witchcrafts are so many How much more cause have English-men to say What peaceable security have we when the Justices upon the Bench and no less than a quondam Speaker of Parliament shall countenance the Murtherer Or what Justice are we like to expect when such shall be made Foremen of the Jury to try Capital Offenders who were themselves accessary to the Crimes committed especially if accompanied with such fellow Jurats who shall say in open Court They intended to do as they were bid What is the Law or what is our security by it when thus perverted and imployed to punish the Innocent and discharge the Guilty Peaceable men bound to their good behaviour and Indicted as Rioters and the Constable that assisted the Murtherer with Fire-armes made Foreman of the Jury and the Murtherer quit by Proclamation upon an ignoramus Verdit Was there ever the like president before that a Jury should be turned back when they had found a Bill under the like proofs as in this case and an ignoramuus Verdit received The King hath lost a Subject This man kill'd him in the face of many Witnesses in the manner aforesaid and can the Bill be found ignoramus and he that kill'd him quit thereupon Where is the Justice of the Judge Wo to thee oh Land saith the Wise Man when thy King is a Child and thy Princes eat in the morning How much more may we say Wo to thee oh Land when thy Judges are thine Oppressors and those that should defend the cause of the Fatherless and the Widow shall defend the Murtherer and the Peace-breaker Surely such wisdom as this was not conveyed by Divine intelligence into the Soul of the Jugde but rather inspired from him who first taught men shifts to evade the dint of a righteous Law I appeal to you Sir who so lately was as the Mouth of the Commons of England Whether such Justice as this will Deliver us from our Sufferings Or Knock off our Shakels Or Set us at Liberty Will such Judges and Judiciary proceedings turn our Prison into a Paradise of Pleasure fill the whole Nation with Joy Love and Peace If this be the after-crop which the fair weather of our Patience hath brought forth for us what food can we expect therefrom but such as hath Death in it Or what contentment can any of the Loyal and Faithful Subjects of the Land receive thereby Will such Triacle as this expel the poyson of John Townsend's Blood and make a Sacrifice to appease God's wrath and satisfie Divine Justice Will God be mocked Can you demand of him whether Crosby intended to kill Or would you know his Judgement Read Numb 35.16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron so that he die he is a murtherer the murtherer shall surely be put to death And vers 31. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the Life of a murtherer which is guilty of Death but he shall be surely put to Death But Crosby did more then this his Act had Contrivance and Deliberation in it He first Threatned then fetch'd his Pistol cock't it and presented it against Townesend gave fire and kill'd him and afterwards pursued another man Certainly this is no more like unto Murther than one Egg is like another and to say that Crosbey had an intent to kill a man is without all doubt as bad us to call a Spade a Spade or a Bottle a Bottle What greater demonstration can you have of the inward Intention of any Murtherer And yet would you reject a Verdict that found him guilty and quit him upon an ignoramus HEAR oh Heavens and GIVE EAR oh Earth and Consider ye Justices of the Bench Think not that God will be mock'd Or that Considerate Men will alwayes shut their Eyes No you do not dance in such a Net but many in City and in Countrey do look upon you This Story rings far and near and is come very nigh unto the Ears of the King's Court. And let all such folly be made manifest that it may proceed no further Our Lord Christ saith concerning the Woman that poured the box of Ointment on his Head Wheresoever this Gospel is preached there shall this be told for a memorial of her In like manner wheresoever the name of Sir H. G. from henceforth shall be mentioned let this story be told for the future shame and reproof of all Contrivers of Injustice and Unrighteousness in the seat of Judicature He that Justifieth the Wicked and he that Condemneth the Just even they both are abomination to the Lord Prov. 17.15 Mr. Grimston's Speech in Parliament upon the Accusation and Impeachment of William Laud Arch Bishop of Canterbury of High Treason Printed in the Year 1641. and now Reprinted for publick use Mr. Speaker THere hath been presented to the House a most faithful and exact report of the conference we had with the Lords yesterday together with the opinion of the Committees that were imployed in that service That they conceived it sit the Arch Bishop of Canterbury should be sequestred I must second the motion and with the favour of this House I shall be bold to offer my Reasons why I conceive it more necessary we should proceed a little further than the desire of a bare Sequestration onely Mr. Speaker Long Introductions are not suitable to weighty business We are fallen upon the great man the Arch Bishop of Canterbury Look upon him as he is in his Highness and he is the Stye of all pestilential filth that hath infected the State and government of the Church and Common-wealth Look upon him in his Dependancies and he is the man the onely man that hath raised and advanced all those that together with himself have been the Authors and Causers of all the Ruines Miseries and Calamities we now groan under Who is it but he onely that brought the Earl of Strafford to all his great places and imployments a fit Instrument and Spirit to act and execute all his wicked and bloody designes in these Kingdomes Who is it but he only that brought in Secretary Windebanke into the place of Secretary and Trust the very Broker and Pander to the Whore of Babylon Who is it Mr. Speaker but