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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	know_v	life_n	7,935	5	4.3038	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04548	A true relation of Go[ds] vvonderfull mercies in preseruing one aliue, which hanged fiue dayes, who was falsely accused.		1605 (1605)	STC 14668; ESTC S106553	5,082	14

knowing himselfe without fault answered Truly I am as cleer from such offence as any person in the world Yet notwithstanding the Host was marueylous importunate to haue the young mans wallet searcht which being opened there appeared to their fight the Hosts siluer Tonne with the Marchants Obligation and seale King which when the Marchant espied he thought verily that none had his money but he The young man when he saw these things pulled out of his Mallet almost dyed with griefe excusing himselfe that he neuer knew how they came into his Wallet but the Boast vowed that hee should be hanged if it should cost him an hundreth pound So causing the youth to returne backe againe to Bon they brought him before the Magistrates who after his examination he still denying the fact was committed to prison put vpon the Racke and grieuously tormented the youth feeling this miserable paine cryed to God for ayde and voluntarily confest that he had done the deed although indeed he did it not Afterward being brought to the publike place of tryall he was there adiudged to be hanged for that oftence But when he perceaued that he must needs die the shamefull death he lamenting all his sinfull life past which he had committed against the Maiestie of Almighty God he hoped to be saued in the faith he had in Iesus Christ So being led to the place of execution in the presence of all the beholders said I am here come to suffer death in this place and now in presence of you all I take God to be my witnes therewith wept most bitterly that I neuer knew of the stealing either of the Marchants money neither of the Hoasts siluer Tonne nor can any way deuise by what meanes they should come into my Mallet and in respect I am cleere of this fact for which I am heere condemned to die I doe beseech Almightie God that it will please him through his great power to shew some miracle on me whereby the truth may be known and that all men may perceane that I suffered innocently the people grieued much to heare him inuocate the name of God in that extremity prayed also with him and lamented his timeles death if he were as he saide without fault so hauing ended his prayers he was turned off the Ladder and hanged but the Lord God hauing heard his prayers and knowing his innocencie did most miraculously preserue him as heereafter you shall heare His Uncle hauing ended all his busines at Francfort in the company of diuers other Marchants tooke their iournies homewards towards Antwerp and according to their wonted manner they tooke their Inne where before they were accustomed at the Signe of the Swan in the Towne of Bon. In the morning following when these Marchants intended to depart from thence The hoast being amongst them tolde them that there was a young man which was in their company the last time that they lodged there who had robbed him of a siluer Tonne which they vsed to drinke in and a Marchant which lodged in the house of a great summe of money for which offence the young man was apprehended and afterwards confest the fact and then adiudged to be hanged which is now fiue daies since he was executed and still hangeth on the gallowes without the gates The young mans Vncle being stroken into wonderful admiration at this speech demanded of the Host what manner a fellow he was which committed the robbery he being well assured that his kinsman would not commit any such abuse but by the Hoasts description in all things it was his kinsman wherevpon because he would be certaine whether it was he or no he earnestly requested the other Marchants which were with him to take so much paines as to goe with him to see him for hee could hardly yet belieue it to be him And comming to the place where the young man hanged so soone as he came neere him he espied him to be his kinsman at the sight wherof he sodainely fell downe in a swound but the Marchants helping him vp comforted him with all their helpes Presently the young-man there hanging spake to his Vncle in this manner following O my louing and most deere Vncle although I heere hang most shamefully yet am I not dead for it hath pleased Almighty God to preserue me by placing a stoole vnder my feete which to you is not perceaued vpon the which I stand And the Angell of the Lord from heauen hath fed me heere fiue dayes I beseech you take the paines to returne to the Towne of Bon and certifye the Maiestrater there in what manner you haue found me and request them to come with you and I will let them vnderstand that I am heere hanged without any offence The Marchants hearing the young man speaking in this manner were much astonyed and straight-way departed from thence and when they came before the Magistrates they before them vpon their Oathes deliuered what the young man had related vnto them whereat the Magistrates maruailed and presently with the Marchants they went to the place where the young man did hang and perceiuing al to be true which the Marchants had reported vnto them they caused him to be presently taken downe who was then in perfect health although he had hanged fiue dayes But God the defender of all that put their whole trust in his mercies seeing this young mans innocencie to make his wondrous workes to seeme the more admirable and to bring the truth to light preserued him all this time without any perill or danger Then the Magistrates in the company of those Marchants hauing seene this miraculous worke of the Lord brought this Iohn Iohnson into the Towne where they examined this youth throughly of all doubts who certifyed them of all the manner first of his cōming to such an Inne then how he requested his Host to call him vp in the morning then of his departing and afterwards how the Host with the Marchant came riding after him and apprehended him which when they perceaued presently they sent for the Host to examine him vpon the perticulers touching this young man but when the Host beheld the young man still to be aliue the Host presently confessed the deed how hee himselfe had wrongfully accused that youth of those fellonies which he himselfe had cōmitted When these Magistrats heard all the truth of this busines they praised God for preseruing this young man and brigning to light the wretched offender And so sentence was pronounced vpon this Host that he should be conueyed to prison and the next day to be bound to a Stake neere the place where the young-man was hanged and there to be burnt which was accordingly performed And likewise it was ordered by those Iudges that the young man should possesse to his own vse the somme of three thousand Guilders of the Hosts money in recompence of the iniurie was done vnto him After this execution was ●inished the young man with his Uncle the other Marchants taking their leaues of the Magistrates departed towards Antwerp where now this Iohn Johnson with his Uncle Gerard Atthonyson doe at this day remaine neere a place called the Meere or water Whosoeuer doe repaire to that place may be an eye-witnes see the party who was executed as before is declared The Magistrates of Bon caused this to be Printed to set forth the mighty power and glorie of God as themselues were witnesses thereof FINIS