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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	authority_n	king_n	law_n	1,296	5	4.5981	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19146	An answere to the examination that is sayde to haue bene made of one named Iohn de Poltrot, calling himself the Lord of Merey, vpon the death of the late Duke of Guyse by the Lord of Chastillon admyrall of Fraunce, and others named in the saide examination. At Caen. 1562; Response a l'interrogatoire qu'on dit avoir este faite a un nommé Jean de Poltrot, soy disant seigneur de Merey, sur la mort du feu duc de Guyse. English	Coligny, Gaspard de, seigneur de Châtillon, 1519-1572.	1563 (1563)	STC 5553; ESTC S105034	15,381	50

of Guyse he declareth frankly frely that before these last tumults he knew some that were determined to kyll the sayd Duke of Guyse because thei were displeased with him But so farre of is it that he inticed them thervnto or allowed it that rather contrariwise he did disuade and tourne them from their wicked purposes as madame de Guyse her selfe knoweth whome he sufficiently aduertised thereof in tyme and place where True it is that after the murder at Vassy after taking of armur for to maintain y e authoritie of the kynges decrees and lawes and to defend the poore oppressed men agaynst the violence of the sayd Duke of Guyse and his adherentes he hath counted pursued them as publyke enemyes of God of the kyng of the rest quietnesse of this realme But vppon hys lyfe hys honour it shall neuer be founde that he allowed that anye man shoulde attempt on this sort vppon the person of the sayde Duke vntyll he was certainelye aduertised that the sayde Duke of Guyse the Marshall Sainct Andre had hired suborned certain persons to kil the prince of Conde him his brother Dandelot as the sayde Lorde Admyrall not longe ago declared amplye vnto the Queene before Paris and synce vnto the Constable at Orleans And seyng thys he confesseth that synce y ● tyme when he heard one say that yf he could he would kyll the Duke of Guyse yea euen in his campe he dyd not dissuade or withholde hym from it But vppon hys lyfe and honoure it shall neuer be founde that he soughte or induced any man to do it neyther by words money or promises by himselfe nor by anye other directly nor indirectly And touching the twentye Crownes whereof mencion is made in the article before he acknowledgeth it to be true that at his last retourne to Orleans about the end of Ianuary last after that the saide Feuqueres had tolde him that he had knowen the sayde Poltrot for a man of seruice he determined to employ and vse hym for the vnderstandynge of newes from the campe of his sayd enemies for this cause he gaue hym .xx. Crownes hauing no other words or talke w t him nor ons making any mencion of killing or not killing the sayde Duke of Guyse For namely if the said Lorde admyrall had had any suche enterprise in hand he would in no wyse haue trusted the said Poltrot for when he sent him to y e camp of y e said duke of Guyse about y e matter foresaid it was not w tout mistrusting him for asmuch as it séemed vnto him that he made the meane way to easie to enter into the sayde campe as the saide lord admirall declared vnto Monsieur de Grammont who at that tyme was present neuerthelesse he letted not to send him for to vnderstande newes of the sayde campe saying these very wordes that he should be rather tryed proued than nourysshed maineteyned Vpon this same article also Thodore de Beze declareth most truly as foloweth for his dyscharge be fore all christendome To wete that seyng manye so animated moued against the sayde Duke of Guyse for the murther committed at Vassy yet he was neuer of the mynde or aduise at that tyme to procede against the sayde Duke but by way of ordinarye iustice where of he calleth them to witnes that haue séene heard him speake at that time which also was y e cause why he was at Monceaux in the cōpany of other appoynted by the reformed church of Paris for to require iustice for y e said murder at the kings maiestie the quene his mother of y e late king of Nauar beseching thē most hūbly to prouide w t al diligence against the troubles which alredy thretened this realme are hapned since indede And herevpō the answer y ● it pleased y e quene to make him was such that thei of y e reformed church wer cōtented satisfied w t it for the hope y t was geuē them y ● good spedy iustice shuld be don vpō the trāsgressers But sone after the said duke of Guise his cōplices hauīg taken armour the matter brought to such a state y ● right iustice could take no more place which is more y e persōs of the king quene being vsed handled as euery man knoweth he cōfesseth to haue at y ● time aswell publikly in his sermōs as by letters words warned aduertised aswell y e prince of Conde as thadmirall al other lords men of all cōditiōs qualities professing y ● gospel of their duty for to brīg thē to maintein by al meanes possible y e authoritie of y e kings lawes ordinances thinnocen●ie of y e pore oppressed And since he hath alwayes cōtinued yet now cōtinueth in the same minde exhorting not w tstanding euery man to vse his armour and weapons w t the most modestie y t is possible to seke next to y e honour of god peace concord aboue al things so that thei suffer not thēselues to be deceiued Of the which things he taketh to witnes all those which haue hard him publikly or particularly such as wyll say the trouth And furthermore as concerning y e Duke of Guyse because he hath taken him for the chief authour main tainour of these troubles he confesseth to haue manye tymes desyred prayed God eyther to tourne the heart of the sayde Duke of Guyse whyche thyng not withstanding he coulde neuer hope for or elles to deliuer this realme from him Whereof he calleth to witnesse all those y t haue hard his sermōs praiers and namely madame de Ferrare knoweth what he tolde her both w t mouth and heart and what he hath often tymes wrytten to her hereof But it shall not be founde that euer he named the said Duke of Guise publikly not y t euer he spake to the said Poltrot in person nor by any other nor that euer he knew him or had to do w t hym in any thing then muche lesse that he did counsell him to do it The sayde Theodore de Beze sayth more ouer y ● it shall neuer be found that euer he hyred or suborned any other man to do this deede wherein he acknowledgeth not withstanding a iust iudgement of god threatening the like or greater punishment vnto all the sworne enemies of his holy ghospell and those that are the causes of so much miserie calamitie in this realme And for the verifiing of his answere beside the forsayde things he taketh his aduantage vpon y e very termes ascribed vnto y ● sayd Poltrot deponent For thāks be to god he is not so ignorant or euill instructed in his charge calling as to apply y e scripture so euil in that which is there said to cary his crosse muche lesse to saye that men winne heauen And therfore he sendeth all this