Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	captain_n	colonel_n	lieutenant_n	1,180	5	9.4650	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94342	The case and condition of R. Titchbourn late alderman, and now prisoner in the Tower of London. Presented to the consideration and compassion of his fellow citizens.		1661 (1661)	Wing T1147; Wing C847AB; ESTC R2605	4,765	14

THE Case and Condition OF R. Titchbourn Late Alderman and now Prisoner in the Tower of LONDON Presented to the Consideration and Compassion of his Fellow Citizens LONDON Printed and are to be sold at the Sign of the Printing-Press In St. Paul's Church-yard 1661. THE CONDITION OF ROBERT TITCHBOVRN Late Alderman c. THere is a difference between bearing and enduring of Misery The heart of a man will maintain it self against the sudden violent effects of Fortune but who can hold out against endlesse Calamities where nothing is left free to a man but his Thoughts whose dreadful results present nothing but Death and Horrour injured Humanity it self could not choose but relent Neverthelesse to make any Apologies of the crime or to excuse or extenuate that Guilt under which he suffers would be so far from compassionating of him that it would add new weight to that burden which his long contrition and exercise of Repentance may in some measure have aleviated On the other side to aggravate the Flagitiousnesse of that fact and insult upon the miseries which he undergoes is no English but some salvage Barbarisme if we shall impartially consider him throughout and in all his stations an accompt whereof you shall see in this ensuing Paper He was born of an honest and gentile Parentage in this City a Linnen Draper anciently descended from a worshipful Family well esteemed and honoured no picque blemish or stain upon them his Growth and Education advancing him alike to be soon a man which put him very early into action It was then the untimely fate of the London youths generally to arm themselves in defence of the pretended Reformation so Epidemical was that hot feavour of their bloods that scarce a House was left untainted Dulce Bellum inexpertis Amongst the rest the aptnesse and proclivity of this person to the War was soon taken notice of and accordingly a Command conferred on him of Captain over a Foot Company in the Trained Bands This he discharged abroad with valour and discretion and at home with Courtesie his Enemies bearing him witnesse During the Warre he ascended the severall steps of Military Honours in order made Collonel of a Regiment and for a Time Lieutenant of the Tower not taxed by them whom he served with any basenesse or deficiency The Objection is not worth the answering that he took up Arms against the King His Grace and Mercy to others as deeply engaged against him save in that matter with which we meddle not having refelled and confuted that Charge and it might be well added for a plea for mercy what the most learned and Right Honourable Lord Chancellour said to the Parliament in pressing the Act of Oblivion that there was a general Malignant Influence of the Planets which of late years had infected the English Air. Considered therefore in this Case as a Fellow Citizen a Gentleman and a person that behaved himself with Gallantry Et Caesar in hoste probat Commiseration may well take up the room of passion and ungoverned and blind revenge What he did afterwards in processe of time and in pursuance of those Commands to which he had ingaged himself by a heedlesse zeal and blood not yet cooled from the boyling fury of the War and in an unexperienced youth misguided by the fallacious shews of Honour and Greatnesse by those who had the Power and Sword in their hands he hath the sufficient regret thereof Ambition is a Vice most commonly a danger into which men from the brink of their desire once out of the bounds of their duty are frequently precipitated And therefore the ordinary fate of aspiring men and the constant practises of it used in all Times and Governments cannot but take off the Envy of that particular though 't is not denyed but that such Vain glory Hood-wink'd him into the destructive businesse against the King yet his most humble Submission and Confession of it at his Tryal referring it in part to his want of age and Experience cannot but merit a favourable and charitable construction at the hands of all men whose minds before stirred and provoked are now laid by the calm and serenity of His Majesties Government That fatal Businesse of our late Soveraign is a String not to be touched upon no sooner you strike upon it but like sympathetical Musick blood must follow blood Nothing therefore can be said to him here as to impunity further then Christianly to wish that if it were possible and expedient the justice of God and the Kingdom might be satisfied and that Guilt expiated without the severest inflictions of the Law upon him as to Life We have hitherto seen him at the worst let us consider him next as a Magistrate and that more eminent in the exercise of the Civil power then formerly in the Military He was made Sheriff in the year 1650. advanced before his Time to that Dignity to promote the Interest of the then Free State into which he had waded so deep before No marvel therefore if he so stickled for it and by so doing incurred the general hatred of most men and if we do impartially consider his actions then as one ingaged in a faction to which he had always adhered and was embarqued in the same danger and hazzards it will not much move any mans Stomach against him During his Session and Continuance in the Court of Aldermen betwixt his Shrievalty and Maioralty he performed the office of a good Citizen to Common justice Many can bear him witnesse of much uprightnesse and integrity manifested by him in private businesses the decision whereof being referred to Committees of Aldermen of which very seldome but he was one through the sense that Court had of his abilities he always justly and impartially accommodated and Envy her self cannot speak lesse but Gratitude would speak more We will take a full view of him in this his next Dignity the Supreme Magistracy of the City as Lord Maior of London and we use to say Magistratus indicat virum but here Vir indicat Magistratum very few persons that arrived at this Honor after a full ripenesse of years and digestion of a long observation of custome and manners governed the City better nor revived more wholsom Laws and reduced things methodically to their first state The severest punisher of Fraud and Injustice a most rigid exacter of all dues and rights belonging to the City keeping a constant Inquisition of all the abuses and trespasses committed or suffered on its priviledges neither favour or affection as we use to say making him to connive at such unlawful practises This indeed were a pleasant Subject to run on with however some particular men would put in their Spoakes and tell us of some narrow concerns of their own wherein they complain of injury and injustice done them but these men consider not that the strict impartial execution of justice cannot be without some rigour and justice being blind cannot see where it lights