Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	charge_v	horse_n	troop_n	2,183	5	9.5433	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91191	A full vindication and ansvver of the XI. accused members; viz. Denzill Holles, Esq; Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Waller, Sir Iohn Maynard Kts Major Gen. Massey, Iohn Glynne Esq; Recorder of London. Walter Long Esquire Col. Edward Harley, Anthony Nichols Esq to a late printed pamphlet intituled, A particular charge or impeachment, in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army under his command; against the said members, by his appointment and the Councel of War.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing P3968; Thomason E398_17; ESTC R201693	28,820	49

poor Service and all others to prove him guilty of receiving the least reward for any thing done by him in discharging of his publike trust And whereas it is charged That he discovered a design for the searching of Greenwich House He saith That about midnight in August as he takes it 1642 there came an Officer with some Souldiers to his lodging and brought with them a Warrant for him to sign for the searching of Greenwich House which Warrant he figned and by the same Officer he sent three lines written in an open paper to a Noble Lady who lodged in the House that she should not be frighted with the coming of Souldiers in such an unseasonable hour which Lady was no servant of the Queens but one that had given a cleer demonstration of her affection to the Publike by a large voluntary contribution upon the Propositions of Money and Plate So that he hopes this will not be thought a fault to send an open paper to a person of that quality for such purpose by the same Officer that was to put the design in execution As to the three 23 24 25. four and five and twentieth Articles which waste themselves in a scandal touching Master Long alone for to a printed imputation of cowardize covetousnesse and treachery where no particular person appear● to avouch the truth or give satisfaction for the falshood of such an Assertion no better name can be given he yet to give the world a taste of what truth they may expect in the rest returns unto these three this Answer That howbeit his education had not much acquainted him with Military emploiments before the late unhappy Wars which he thinketh to be the case of many who now reckon well of their abilities in that profession yet through the invitation of his Excellency the late Lord Generall Earl of Essex and the Committee of the safety of the Kingdom who thought it of some importance at that time to interest persons of estate and relations though not bred Souldiers in that emploiment he did accept the command of a Troop of Horse under his Excellency the greatest part whereof were raised by himself and his friends and in the Head of that Troop he charged at Edge-hill in the Regiment then under the command of Sir William Bel●ore which was the first that brake into the Enemy in which charge he lost his horse and being left dismounted did yet with his single pistoll in his hand give quarter to severall of the Enemies and was then by Captain Harecourt Quarter master of his Troop remounted continued out the Service of that day and the next and was one of the last Troops that brought away the A●●munition a thing happily not known to them who gave the information for this Article seeing it was the ill●hap of some Commanders that day to make an over-hasty retreat and of some others of no little Eminency now never to come there much lesse to charge though they quartered very neer the Field When the unexpected skirmish at Brainford happened his Troop as the greatest part of the Army besides was dispersed but so soon as he could get it together he went ●hither and stayed there till the businesse was at an end shortly after his Troop being to march towards Bristoll where some of his fellow Captains whose experience he thought as little as his own receiving sudden and great Commands he declined that Service under them and intended to return to his other in the House of Commons but some disaffections and backwardnesse to contribute to the publike Service appearing in some persons of quality in the County of Essex he was by Commission from his Excellency the Earl of Essex commanded thither and author●ed with other Gentlemen of that and the Counties of Herrford and Bedford to raise Horse Arms c. upon such as had not contributed c. Touching which emploiment without drawing the particulars into a long Discourse he saith that he acted nothing without the concurrence of two Gentlemen● at the least of his fellow Commissioners and therof and of what had been raised by them for the publike Service under that Authority he long before any Committee of Accompts setled did publish the particulars in print and thereof did immediately 〈◊〉 that Committee setled give and passe an Accompt upon Oath which course had others taken who are greater Accountan●● then hee there would happily have been lesse room for thi● Accusation The plundering and oppression in the Article mentioned he ●eckons as odious as it is an ●●true suggestion As for Master T●omas Manwood in the Article mentioned he much doubteth whether there be any such man residing in the County of Essex sure he is that no protection from the then Lord Generall his Excellency was disrespected by him and upon the ●●st enquiry Master Long can make the person intended by Master Thomas Manwood is no way eminent for his good affection and what was done towards him was well warranted by the Commission under which Master Long and those other Gentlemen of that Countrey were employed and nothing by countenance of that Authority was converted to Master Longs private advantage and so little hath the humour of covetousnesse with which the printed Articles charge him prevailed that there will be nothing found in his Accompts to be demanded for his Colonells pay an Omission of which he dares undertake to excuse them that are most willing to accuse him The Damages sustained by Master Long not pretended 24. but reall mentioned in the four and twentieth Article to be the inducement of that favour conferred upon him by the Chancery Office were under● considerations and together with his four yeers imprisonment and sufferance for his publick service in former Parliaments waighed by the wisdome of that House and his capability to execute that place usually discharged by able Deputies as now it is determined by that judgement which he dares not and thinks no men or company of men without those Wals ought to dispute and therefore to that quarrell more against both houses then himselfe he thinks himselfe bound to give and beleeves no wise honest English men will expect or well receive any other answer This onely he saith that neither the eminency nor profit of ¶ Some of thē in the sam Court as M. Speker and his Son M● Smith M. Love the Office can surely be the cause that it onely of all the Offices and Benefits accepted from the Parliament by other Members should be now subject to observation and made a matter of charge In answer to the five twentieth and perhaps for the weight of it 25. the last Article in that printed paper he saith That if any man hath which is not knowne to him seriously or in scorne used that s●urrilous phrase of Parliament-Di●●er towards him by reason of his more then ordinary diligence in perswading and pressing his Fellow-Members of the honourable House of Commons according to