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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	lord_n	work_n	3,459	5	5.8504	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31164	The Case of the inhabitants of the town and parish of Croyden in the county of Surrey concerning the great oppressions they ly under by reason of the unparallel'd extortions and violent illegal and unwarrantable prosecutions of Doctor William Clewer, vicar of the said parish.		1673 (1673)	Wing C1092; ESTC R26442	20,131	18

The Case of the Inhabitants of 〈…〉 Parish of Croyden in the Co●●●● 〈…〉 concerning the Great 〈…〉 under by reason of the 〈…〉 ●●●●●tions and violent illegal and 〈…〉 Prosecutions of Doctor William 〈…〉 care of the said Parish Humbly Presented to the Consideration of Parliament THe said Doctor William Cle●●● in the Times of the Late Rebellion obtained a Sequestred 〈…〉 in Northampton-Shire in which he behaved himself much unlike Clerg●-Man as will appear by the Articles annexed 〈◊〉 which were in those Dayes Exhibited against him However 〈…〉 Continued to Persecute the Poor People 〈…〉 Majesties most happy Resta●●ation to his Crown and 〈◊〉 when Doctor Whitford the Person Sequestred out of the said Living 〈…〉 above seventy years of Age and living was restored to his Benefice Which 〈…〉 Living he entertained one Mr. Preston to be his Reader who accepted 〈…〉 ●●●ved and Officiated there in that capacity but Clewer would never pay him his Wages so that he might have Starved if some of the Parishioners to whom by 〈◊〉 he did sometimes Read Common Prayers and Divine Service had not given him relief for which Clewer caused him to be sent for up to London by a 〈…〉 and being so Old that he could not Ride on Horse-back he was brought up in a Cart stuft with straw and kept at London till utterly ruined and than they released him The Articles Exhibited against the said Clewer by the said Parishioners were as follows Articles Exhibited against William Clewer Minister of Ashton in the County of Northampton FIrst that the said Clewer is a very Covetous Man and doth endeavour unjustly to exact and extort Sums of Money and other things from the said Parishioners and others that he hath to deal for The said Clewer did unjustly demand a Cow for a Herriot of Sarah Honor a Poor Widow whose Husband was then lately Dead and Died so Poor that the Parish was forced to Bury him at their Charge he leaving his said Wife with five smal Children and nothing to maintain them but that one Cow and it was never known that any Herriot was there paid And the better to procure his End therein the said Clewer Promised her that if she would let him have the Cow he would procure her a Warrant from the Justice of the Peace that the Parish should pay her weekly one shilling for the maintenance of her self and Children The said Clewer hath several times unjustly detained and withheld the Wages of Labourers from them who had Painfully and Faithfully done their Duties He caused a Poor Widow whose Husband was there lately Dead and she her self ●eing then very Sick and Weak and almost blind and left in Debt fifty pounds at least having four small Children unable to maintain themselves to pay him the tenth penny for a Calf which she sold towards the Payment of her Husbands Debts and enforced her to pay two pence for the Head and Pluck which she had reserved for her self The said Clewer hath pulled down a great part of the Parsonage House and converted the Materials thereof to his own use The said Clewer notwithstanding his Parsonage at Ashton is Worth one Hundred and Twenty Pounds by the Year at least yet for lucre of Money did undertake to serve another Cure of Twenty Pounds by the Year by means whereof he served neither of them as he ought to do The said Clewer is a very Contentious Man and doth much vex and trouble and disquiet his Neighbours Parishioners and others by unjust Suits and Malicious troubles For The said Clewer did in a Clandestine way procure a Bond which was made to a Serjeant at Arms for security and such one Budworth who was Surety herein upon the same and recovered Fifty Pounds of him and caused him to spend Fifty Pounds more at least notwithstanding the Serjeant at Arms was never Damnified one peny thereby The said Clewer hath at the last Assizes in the County of Northampton indicted a Gentlewoman of his Parish of good Parentage and of Worth and Quality for Felony for Stealing of his Horse and himself and his Wife and Maid gave evidence thereupon and would have brought the Gentlewomans Life in question if he possibly could have done it and when the Grand Jury had returned the Bill Ignoramus he gave out in Speeches that he had sufficiently disparaged the Gentlewoman by what he had done That he hath commenced Suits against divers of his Parishioners who were willing to pay him his just dues because they would not pay what he would unjustly have exacted and extorted from them He hath refused to pay just Debts owing by him and hath declared he would rather spend one hundred Pounds in Law than pay five Pounds when he is sued for it though it were due The said Clewer is very weak unable and insufficient for the Ministerial Function and idle and will not take pains therein as he ought to do nor perform what of Duty he ought For He doth ordinarily Preach other Mens Works Verbatim that are in Print which the Parishioners have in their Houses and can read at Home He hath several times in his Sermons uttered and spoke nonsense He hath neglected his Cure upon several Lords Dayes to prosecute contentious Suits and Quarrels and for his own ease and procured none to supply the same Refused to Baptize the Child of a Visible Believer being tendred and the Father present Refused to Baptize the Child of a Souldier that was in Service because the Father was not present and the Child died within few daies The said Clewer is scandalous in his Life and Conversation For FIrst He is a Liar and a common speaker of Untruths Secondly He did Privately keep in his House one Mistris Bernard Widow six or seven Weeks together and denied that she was there and afterwards kept her publickly having no relation to her and now keepeth her as his Wife but whether they were ever Married according to the Laws is not known That he the said Clewer hath been Drunk and abused himself with excess The Kings Majesty being restored the Sequestred incumbent Doctor Whitford entred upon the said Living and Doctor Clewer being thereupon to seek for a benifice came to London and then pretended himself to be a zealous Son of the Church though for ten years before he had possest the Sequestred Living and Violently Prosecuted his Reader for Reading Common-Prayer as aforesaid and not being well known about London hearing that the Vicarage of Croydon was Void made Friends to the Earl of Clarenden then Lord Chancellour of England to obtain the same which he effected by the help of a Gentleman to whom he promised a good Reward for his pains to be paid him so soon as the Presentation should be Sealed which Gentleman having obtained the Presentation the Doctor got it from him but never paid him to this day as the Gentleman reported That having got this Presentation to Croydon he hastened thither the Vicarage consists only of