Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	time_n	9,350	5	3.4640	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55186	The last speech of Mr. Oliver Plunket, titular Primate of Ireland who was executed at Tyburn on Friday the 1st of this instant July, 1681 written by his own hand.	Plunket, Oliver, Saint, 1629-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2626; ESTC R8422	5,464	4

one Purse it would signify little or nothing to introduce the French or to raise an Army of seventy thousand Men which I had Insisted and ready as Fryer Mac Moyer most falsly deposed Neither is it less untrue what Fryer Duffy attested viz. That I directed him to make a List of 250. Men in the Parish of Foghart in the County of Lowth To the fifth I answer that I never surrounded all the Forts or Harbours of Ireland and that I was never at Cork Kinsale Bantry Youghal Dungarvan or Knockfergus and these 36 years past I was not at Limerick Duncanon or Wexford As for Carlingford I was never in it but once and staid not in it above half an hour Neither did I consider the Fort or Haven Neither had I it in my thoughts or imagination to fix upon it or upon any other Fort or Haven for Landing of French or Spaniards and whilst I was at Carlingford by meer chance passing that way Fryer Duffy was not in my Company as he most falsly Swore To the sixth I say that I was never at any Meeting or Counsel where there was mention made of allotting or collecting of Moneys for a Plot or Conspiracy and 't is well known that the Catholick Clergy of Ireland who have neither Lands nor Revenues and hardly are able to keep decent Cloaths upon their Backs and Life and Soul together can raise no considerable sum nay cannot spare as much as would maintain half a Regiment To the seventh I answer that I was never at any meeting of 300. Gentlemen in the County of Monaghan or of any Gentlemen of the three Counties of Monaghan Armagh and Cavan nor of one County nor of one Barony and that I never exhorted Gentleman or Gentlemen either there or in any other part of Ireland to take Arms for the recovering their Estates And 't is well known that there are not even in all the Province of Vlster 300 Irish Roman Catholicks who had Estates or lost Estates by the late Rebellion And as 't is well known all my thoughts and endeavours were for the quiet of my Country and especially of that Province Now to be brief As I hope for Salvation I never sent Letter or Letters Agent or Agents to Pope King Prince or Prelate concerning any Plot or Conspiracy against my King or Country I never raised sum or sums of Money great or small to maintain Souldier or Souldiers all the days of my life I never knew or heard neither did it come to my thoughts or imagination that the French were to Land at Carlingford and I believe there is none who saw Ireland even in a Map but will think it a meer Romance I never knew of any Plotters or Conspirators in Ireland but such as were Notorious and Proclaimed commonly called Tories whom I did endeavour to suppress And as I hope for Salvation I always have been and am intirely Innocent of the Treasons laid to my Charge and of any other whatsoever And tho' I be not guilty of the Crimes of which I am accused yet I believe none came ever to this Place who is in such a condition as I am for if I should even acknowledge which in Conscience I cannot do because I should bely my self the chief Crimes laid to my charge no wise man that knows Ireland would believe me If I should confess that I was able to raise 70000 men in the districts of which I had care to wit in Vlster nay even in all Ireland and to have levyed and exacted moneys from the Roman Clergy for their maintenance and to have prepared Carlingford for the French's Landing all would but laugh at me it being well known that all the Revenues of Ireland both Spiritual and Temporal possessed by His Majesty's Subjects are scarce able to raise and maintain an Army of 70000 men If I will deny all those Crimes as I did and do yet it may be that some who are not acquainted with the Affairs of Ireland will not believe that my denial is grounded upon Truth tho' I assert it with my last breath I dare venture farther and affirm That if these points of 70000 men c. had been Sworn before any Protestant Jury in Ireland and had been even acknowledged by me at the Bar they would not believe me no more than if it had been deposed and confessed by me That I had flown in the Air from Dublin to Holy-head You see therefore what a Condition I am in and you have heard what Protestations I have made of Innocency and I hope you will believe the words of a dying man And that you may be the more induced to give me credit I assure you That a great Peer sent me notice That he would save my Life if I would accuse others but I answered That I never knew of any Conspirators in Ireland but such as I said before as were publickly known Outlaws And that to save my Life I would not falsly accuse any nor prejudice my own Soul Quid prodest homini c. To take away any man's Life or Goods wrongfully ill becometh any Christian especially a man of my Calling being a Clergy-man of the Catholick Church and also an unworthy Prelate which I do openly confess Neither will I deny to have exercised in Ireland the Functions of a Catholick Prelate as long as there was any Connivance or Toleration and by Preaching and Teaching and Statutes to have endeavoured to bring the Clergy of which I had a care to a due comportment according to their Calling and tho' thereby I did but my duty yet some who would not amend had a prejudice for me and especially my Accusers to whom I did endeavour to do good I mean the Clergy-men as for the four Lay-men who appeared against me viz. Florence Mac-Moyer the 2 Neals and Hanlon I was never acquainted with them but you see how I am requited and how by false Oaths they brought me to this untimely death which wicked act being a defect of Persons ought not to reflect upon the Order of S. Francis or upon the Roman Catholick Clergy It being well known that there was a Judas among the ●2 Apostles and a wicked man called Nicholas amongst the seven Diacons And even as one of the said Diacons to wit holy Stephen did pray for those who stoned him to death so do I for those who with Perjuries spill my Innocent Blond saying as St. Stephen did O Lord lay not this Sin to them I do heartily forgive them and also the Judges who by denying me sufficient time to bring my Records and Witnesses from Ireland did expose my Life to evident danger I do also forgive all those who had a hand in bringing me from Ireland to be tryed here where it was morally impossible for me to have a fair Tryal I do finally forgive all who did concur directly or indirectly to take away my Life and I ask forgiveness of all those whom I ever offended by Thought Word or Deed. I beseech the All-powerful That his Divine Majesty grant our King Queen and the Duke of York and all the Royal Family Health long Life and all Prosperity in this world and in the next Everlasting felicity Now that I have shewed sufficiently as I think how Innocent I am of any Plot or Conspiracy I would I were able with the like Truth to clear my self of high Crimes committed against the Divine Majesties Commandments often transgressed by me for which I am sorry with all my heart and if I should or could live a thousand years I have a firm resolution and a strong purpose by your Grace O my God never to offend you and I beseech your Divine Majesty by the merits of Christ and by the Intercession of his Blessed Mother and all the holy Angels and Saints to forgive me my Sins and to grant my Soul Eternal Rest Miserere mei Deus c. Parce animae c. In manus Tuas c. OLIVER PLUNKET Postscript TO the final satisfaction of all Persons that have the Charity to believe the Words of a Dying Man I again declare before God as I hope for Salvation what is contained in this Paper is the plain and naked truth without any Equivocation Mental Reservation or secret Evasion whatsoever taking the Words in their usual sense and meaning as Protestants do when they discourse with all Candour and sincerity To all which I have here subscribed my Hand London Printed by N. Thompson 1681.