Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	lord_n	parliament_n	4,338	5	6.4183	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26143	The Lord Russel's innocency further defended, by way of reply to an ansvver, entituled, The magistracy and government of England vindicated by Sir Robert Atkyns ...	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing A4140; ESTC R861	11,021	18

Justice of the Cause did extort from him so far was he from this Author 's scurrilous and rude course of reflecting upon any Persons private Conversation but some mens faculties lie this way and they are very well known tho' after such manifest and gross provocations that have been given by this Author and such publick and scandalous Actings of his in the eye of the World it might justly be said with the Poet Difficile est Satyr●s non Scribere The Author of this Answer in his first Paragraph would have the World believe that he writes upon no other design than to support Magistracy and the Government a Noble Th●m● as he terms it Every Man knows what sort of Government he labour'd to support but the other day and how far he was instrumental in it but the other day and how far he was instrumental in it but it is rather thought fit to leave him to a General Act of Indemnity and Oblivion then take any Revenge upon him He seems to allow the Lord Russel's Defender in his Fourth Paragraph to be an Author of Age Experience Figure and Learning but he will not say Candour or Honesty Thus he writes The Lord Russel's Defender is very glad he hath so little of this Adversary's Commendation for it would gain but small esteem amongst Men of true worth to be commended by him It might be said to him with the Philosopher upon the like occasion being commended by an infamous person What Ill have I done that thou shouldst thus Commend me Yet that Candour and Honesty which he covertly refuses to allow is that which the Lord Russel's Defender prefers before all this Answerer's mercenary Wit and Rhetorick In his fifth Paragraph he judges the Lord Russel very unfortunate to fall under the Accusation of Treason and says that Noble Lord was most pitied of any under those Circumstances That Noble Lord's misfortune among other things was his falling under the lash of so bitter and sharp a Tongue as yours who however you seem now to mention that Lord with pity had then no pity for him but used him with severity as may appear by your own Printed Narrative of that Tryal and your Rhetorical Flourishes in a Case of innocent Bloud which contributed in an high degree to enveagle the Jury and bring that Noble Lord to the Scaffold He confidently says in the same Paragraph that in truth the fairness and indifferency of that Tryal was such that his own Relations were pleased How untrue this is in both the parts of it that the Tryal was very far from being Fair and Indifferent and that his nearest Relations were highly exasperated and offended shall appear before we part In the Sixth Paragraph of his sheet he complains that the memory of that Vnfortunate Gentleman was revived by the Publication of the Defence of his Innocency Why what hurt in the reviving of his Memory his Memory is precious he dyed a Martyr for his Religion and for the Rights and Liberties of his Countrey and fell a Sacrifice under cruel and merciless hands It is indeed this Answerers Conscience that flies in his face the reviving of this Noble Lords Memory speaks Terrour and Amazement to the Answerer Thus did bloody Herod when he heard of the Fame of Jesus he presently cryes out This is John whom I Beheaded He does prepare himself to make use of indecent or disrespectful Language as himself expresses it and comforts himself with the thought that his Name shall not be known A pitiful and unmanly dealing not becoming a person pretending to Ingenuity The Lord Russel's Defender dealt otherwise and owns his Name and will let the world know what this Answerer is In the four next ensuing Paragraphs he is much to seek for what end and purpose the Lord Russel's Defence was Printed in that Pamphlet as his wonted Rhetorick thinks fit to call it It could not be as he most contemptuously says for Consumption of Paper Nor for the Bookseller's Profit for a Reason to be guess'd at Forbear for shame to use these sly and silly Intimations they are fitter for School-boys or the Mountebank's Stage or for Billings-gate than for a Man of your Figure one may be ashamed to have any Dispute with such an Emperick or rather a jesting and jeering Merry-Andrew Pray keep this Sport for the next Bartholomew-Fair and learn more Gravity and Civility It could not be as he further proceeds upon the same Enquiry for the sake of the Lord Russel's Memory or any of his surviving Relations for what was written in the Lord Russel's Defence is says he but a painting to the Life the too deep Concern of that Noble Lord in a weak as well as criminal Enterprize This is wonderful boldness and daring in this Answerer still to pronounce him a Criminal that Noble Lord whom the Supream Power of the Nation and the highest Judicature and Authority have adjudged Innocent And yet he has the Impudence to entitle his undutiful Pamphlet The Magistracy and Government of England Vindicated And to Publish this after he as well as any Man knew that the Act of Parliament had pass'd asserting the Innocency of that Noble Lord and the Barbarity and Injustice of the Proceedings against him Wherein this Answerer had so great an Hand and so bitter and sharp a Tongue One would think that an ordinary Wit might have served to put him in mind that as yet there is no Act of General Pardon and Indemnity pass'd And who knows upon whom the great Exception may light But he gives a very just occasion to the Lord Russel's Defender to let the World know for what end and purpose he long since writ and so lately Printed so despised a Pamphlet by which even his Adversary may be convinc'd it was not meerly for Consumption of Paper or for the Bookseller's Profit but truly for the sake of that Lord's Memory in asserting his Innocency and at the desire and for the sake of his surviving Relations And for the truth of what is thus affirm'd he does appeal to those Noble Relations of his who are yet alive While that Noble Lord was upon his Tryal or very soon after there came a Letter to his Defender's hand who was then in the Countrey near Eighty Miles from London and this from a person of great Honour and one of the nearest Relation to that Noble Lord requesting the Author of his Defence to afford the best Advice he could and accordingly he heartily and freely gave it Much of which does appear by what is Printed by him This was not the only Letter he receiv'd from that Lord 's great Relations upon that sad occasion But after that bloudy stroke had been given a Paper was Publish'd as the Speech intended by that Dying Lord. In Answer to which the now Answerer and Adversary as is too evident did publish his first Pamphlet Entituled An Antidote against Poyson composed to use its own words of some Remarks upon the