Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	archbishop_n	canterbury_n	lord_n	3,258	5	3.5345	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94433	To men, fathers and brethren; Henry Holland (son of the learned and laborious scholler Dr. Philemon Holland;) a citizen of London: ...	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1381; Thomason 669.f.11[34]; ESTC R210513	1,213	1

To Men Fathers and Brethren HENRY HOLLAND Son of the learned and laborious Scholler Dr. Philemon Hollard a Citizen of London and to do the King and Common-wealth service He hath heretofore been a Grand-Iury-man and a Subsidy-man and one of the Trained Band charged with a Corslet And lived in good Credit and Reputation and for a long time hath been an housholder in an eminent Parish called Mary Le Bow Charitable and open-handed to the reliefe of necessitated good Christians Hee had also a gracious Wife named Susanna now with God who did go beyond him in Grace and goodnesse and with her Husbands leave was openhanded to the reliefe of the Poore which being taken notice of he and she in the memorable yeare of the Mortality of the great Plague Anno 1625. Monies were sent into their hands some from some known friends and othersome from unknown friends that left London to contribute to necessitated and visited Christians Whereof their witnesse is in Heaven and for need yet some few on earth that they were faithfull Stewards Hee hath been also a Commissioner under the great Seale of England against Bankerupts in foure or five Lord Keepers times And he was ever a zealous hater and abhorrer of all Superstition and Popery and Prelaticall Innovations in Church Government and Discipline for the which he hath heretofore by that Grand Impostor William Land Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and his Agents suffered imprisonment by Attachments of Pursuivants in the High-Commission Court and the Starre-Chamber Court and he hath been thereby put to great trouble and charges and much impoverished And he is averse to all late sprung up Sectaries when he was 60 yeeres of age he adventured his life and went out one and was the eldest man of the present Basil Earle of Denbigh his Life-guard in his expedition for the King and Parliament in the yeare 1643. whereof he hath good Certificate And now in these miserable and distracted times he is grown aged betwixt 60 and 70 he is subject to some infirmities of age his Eye-sight and hearing much decayed sometimes almost starke deafe so crazy in his Limbs as hardly able to follow any calling and he is not only impotent in body but indigent in estate the more with some unhappy averse suits in Law wanting necessary subsistance even now when he is by the course of Nature not farre from the period of his Pilgrimage here on earth And so poore he is that of late in a just suit commenced in Chancery he was faine to make Oath to be addmitted in Forma Pauperis And seeing the Holy Ghost by Solomon saith that they that give unto the poore do lend unto the Lord c. And it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive Your Charitable benevolent contribution as God shall move your heart towards his necessitated condition now in his old age is most humbly eraved whose bowels will have cause to blesse you by him that dayly imploreth at the Throne of Grace for Peace such an honourable and safe one as may accord with the peace of the Gospell or the Gospell of Peace as also for the welfare of the high and honourable Court of Parliament the Reverend Assembly of Divines and the prosperity of all the Israel of God in England Ireland and Scotland and all the World Ita est Hen. Holland Wee having known Mr. Henry Holland a long time do attest that we do conceive and believe the premises are true WILLIAM GOUGE THOMAS FOXLEY RICHARD HILLER HENRY HICKFORD