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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	earl_n	marquis_n	2,889	5	10.7142	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85934	Baltazar Gerbier Knight to all men that loves truth	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing G577; Thomason E510_1*; ESTC R205643	13,063	20

BALTAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT TO ALL MEN THAT LOVES TRVTH BALTHAZAR GERBIER KNIGHT To all men that Loues Truth THe Diuine p●ecopts of Christ forbidd men to Iudge one annother Iudgment belongs to God and to none else for he saith IVDGMENT IS MINE It pleaseth God to suffer my Parents to fly the bluddy persecutions in France against those vvhich the Roman Catholikes called then 〈◊〉 My said Parents left and lost all for that cause My Father Anthoine Gerbier vvas a genthleman borne and had a Baronnie in Notmandie My Mother vvas Radegonde daughter jn Ayre to the Lord of Blayet in Picardie I vvas borne att Middelbourg in Zelandt vvhence I vvas by one of my Brothers transported into France and thence returned and about 〈◊〉 tuinty one past in the company of Noël Caron then Holl●ndt Ambassadeur into England vvhere I applied myselfe to George Villiers nevvly become fauorit to King Ieames the said George Villiers being immediatly after Baron Viscount Earle and aftervvards created Marquis and Duke of Buckingham My attendance vvas pleasing to him bijcause of my seuerall languages good hand in vvriting skill in sçiences as Mathematicks Architecture dravving painting contryuing of scenes Marques shovvs and entertainments for greate Princes besides many 〈◊〉 vvhich I had gathered from diuers rare persons as likvv●e for making of Engins usfull in vvarre as I made those vvhich might blovve vpp the Dike that stopt the passage to the Tovvne of Rochell for it vvas on the same Modell of that of the Prince of Parms vvhen the attempt vvas on Antvverpe He did puts to me first the contryuance of some of his habitations to chouse for t him rarities bookes medals marble of mony of vvhich I neuer vvould hane the managing I did keepe his Cifers vvith his jntelligences abroade vvas sent by him vvith the king his Masters aprobation in secret Messages No sooner vvere those markes of trust obserued butt malicious Ignorant persons made glosses theron according the places vvere I vvas sent My first publike inployment abroade vvas a iourney into Holland to meete theire an Eminent person from Brabant vvho vvas to make ouuertures from Spaine and Germani●e for the restitution of the Palatinat I vvent att that same justant jnto Tessei and assisted Sr. Sackville Trevers to gett cleere from the Eastindian Company theire dessigne vvhich vvas to stay him vvith the Shipp called the S. Esprit vvhere vviht he made aftervvards for England My second jmployment vvas jn France to expostulate vviht the Cardinall de Richelieu concerning large promisses France had made to assist Count Mansfelt vvhen king Ieames vvas mouued to engage him selfe on theire fai●e promisses againts Spaine vvhich assistance prouued att last butt bare Cabinet discourses and no reall engagement of that king nor Ministers of state vvhich seemed to vexc Count Mansfelt art my returne to Douer and semed to mouve him to desire that I should say to King Ieames that he had keijes to make his one passage through France iff the king vvould giue him leaue though it vvas a question vvhether Count Mansfelt ment it for he neuer had any o●ttaine promisse of a reall conjonction nor assistance of the french his Tresorier then for shovve only did passe aquittances to the french thereby to persuade king Ieames that the jntended vvare for the Palatinat should not vvholly lay on his charge I vvas aftervvards jmployed againe jnto Brabant vvhere I vvas commanded to comune vvith the Marquis Spinola about the reconcilliation betvveene the Crovvne of England and Spaine on vvhich secret conference the treaty vvas sett on foot and pursued vntill it vvas braught to à conclusion I vvas jmploied jnto France to remonstrate the greate jnconueniencies of theire countenancing of the Spanish trade for that theire shipping did transportte all the Spanish Marchandise and thereby frustrated the king of England of those hopes during the breach betvveene the tvvo Crovvnes after the desoluing of the tvvo Treaties of the Spanish match and that of the Palatinat the Spaniards might haue been pu●t to it and thereby mouued to giue fitt satisfaction on the point of the Palatinat I vvas likvveise imployed by the King to remonstrate to the French King and to the then Queene Mother the mistakes of the French Ambassador Monsieur de Blinuille vvhen his men vsed violence on the Kings Officers Constables and others that did theire Duty to hinder the scandalous resort of English Papists att Durham house I did then deliuer to the Cardinall des Richelieu a letter of the Duke of Buckingham vvhich vvas by some taken for the cause and begining of mis-intellgences betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes of England and France because those tvvo greate fauorits did then declare theire ressents vvhich vvere so violently vttered on the Cardinall de Richelieu side as that hee accompanied them vvith unciuill glosses vvho gaue ground to some licencious discourses vvhich did so little vvorck on me that had not other Northstarre then his Majesties seruices and my duty as mouued mee to proceed as befitted a person sent on good grounds and to make apparant to the haughty spiritt of that Cardinall that threats vvere to vveake to driue me from my byas nor could his compliments aftervvards vvork any other effect on me vvhen he desired my toturne then to mouue me to heare him and to relate his vtterances vvhich concluded vvith compliments that he contented himselfe to knovve the fame of a fauorit so great as the Duke of Buckingham vvas but for him only to act the part of a single Minister of state vvho did admire the povver of the Canon of an English Admirall but that hee him selfe did remaine in the humility of the Canons of that Church vvhereof he vvas a Disciple and as those vtterances vvhere indeed butt flovvers of Rethorice they coueted serpents for he caused men to follovv me to the very port of Bollogne vvhere the foldiers vvere apointed to ceasse on all my papers butt he vvas disapointed for I gott safe into England I vvas aftervvards commanded tovvards Spaine on an invitatin● from that King and a Passe sent for my safe Landing In any 〈◊〉 of CANTABRIA it vvas to proceede to the intended Treaty of reconcilliation betvvene the tvvo Crovvnes butt an Irish blee●d Eyd Papist Priest vvas sett on by Mr. Endimion Porter to make the Duke of Buckingham beleeue that the Conde-Duch d'Oliuaras the king of Spaines fauorit desired the said Mr. Porter to be sent on that Treaty vvhich prouued but a plot of the said Mr Porter as apeared by his proceedings for after he got the Duke of Bukinghams consent to go allong vvith them and the Abot d'Escaillie then Amb●ssad from the Duke of Savoye no sooner vvere vvee arriued at Bruxels butt the said Mr. Porter vvith out knovvledge of the said Abot d'Escalie lesse of m●e repaired secretly to the Arch Duchesse Infame Isabells and to Don Carlot Colom●● to contrice his disguised passage into Spaine vvithout the said Abot d'E●caille and my selfe vvich he undertooke

after hee left me on my vvay from Bruxelles to N●mur and his returne to Bruxelles though he had neither Comission nor any letter of Credence for I did pocesse them therefore his said secret journey into Spaine prouued most ridiculous and his appearance to that Court vvas taken by the Conde-Duca as an argument of vveaknesse in those that had sent him that had no letters of credit It vvas from that instant that I became an Eye-sore to the English Spanish faction vvich vvas maintayned by the Lord Cot●inghton some of them caused a most malicious and horride asperssion to be cast on me supposing by theire letters to the Lord of Carlile his Majesties extraordinary Ambassador in Itallie in the yeare 1628. that I vvas sent that vvay about on a pretence to go to Spaine only to kill him by the vvay of which horrid asperssion the said Lord of Carlille vvas pleased to giue me notice and on my just ●essent declared in his Maiesties presence that hee neuer had any cause to credit that foulle report yet did the Authors thereoff continue their malice against mee by theire ill Offices during my Bleuen yeares Residency in his Majesties service in the Court of Bruxels returning copies to the Spanish ministers off all the of most Important advertissements vvhich I did sent to the King and State And as those malicious persons seemed to ayme to haue me and myne distroyed in that Residency they endeauoured no lesse than the distruction of his Maiesties seruice his Interest honnor that of the Nation and the interest of the best and most assured Friends and Allies of the State of England This they did on diuers notable occasions First vvhen by their maintayning the Spanish scarce any of his Maiesties subiects could get Iustice in the Admirallitie Courts of Brabant and Flandres vvhen diuers of his Maiesties subiets might haue been timly releast their perssons and goods freed from distruction diuers of them suffered therein by the insolency of their aduersse parties fauoured by the Spanish faction in England Secondly They crost many faire occasions concerning the Palatinat by returning to some of the ill disposed Spanish ministers of state such secret aduertissements as I had sent into England and vvhich I had in confidency from the Emperors Resident the Du●k of Neevv●●●g the Prince Elector of Treue● and the Resident of Collen The said English Spanish affected aduertissed the Marquis d'Ayton● that the Infanta Isabella Arch-Duchesse had honnored mee vvith a secret declaration that shee vvould put Franckendall into the Queene of Bohemias hands This they returned by one Iohn Taylier an English Papist vvho formerly had been by the English Spanish faction imployed into Germanie by vvhich auertissements the Infants for her good vvill tovvards the Queene of BOHEMIA vvas braught into question and that businesse vtterly distroyed vvhich then I did manifest to Old Sir Iohn Coke then Secretary of State and that I had vvitnesses hovv the said Iohn Tayler confest his faute for hauing conferred vvith the said Marquis dAyton● Contrary to his Instru●●ions receaued from the King and the Secretary of State vvich he confest a month after his arriuall att Bruxels that he had kept sir Iohn Cokes letter to mee in his pocket untill the said busines of Franckendall vvas distroyed he said that the Cottintoniens had forbid him to go a long vvith me to the Spanish ministers Thirdly They returned to the Court of Bruxels the Copie of a great dispatch vvherein I manifested to the King and to the Secretary of State all vvhat the Catholike States both Spirituall and Temporall had resolued in their trance that those Prouinces vvere in hazard to be conquered By vvhich cetu●ne of Advertissement vvas vvrought the distruction of the famillies of the Duke of Ascot Prince of Espinoy Barbanson Duke or 〈◊〉 and o● Count Egmond One Iean de Viualde that had been Secretary to van-Malle for the Space of 1● years in England beheaded on the Marquet place at Bruxels on the returne of such aduertissements as I had sent unto the State His sentence in Dutch bearing the vvords Vitz For hauing giuen aduertissments to a publike ministers of a Neigbour Prince All vvhich being become publix the COTTINTONIENS ceassed not to countenance instances done for my recall from that Residency vvhich the Marquis de Velad● and Don Alonzo de C●●denas did vigourously persue though his Maiestie did most graciously reject their motions and vvith matkes of extraordinary exteeme of my fidelity for he answ wared it vvas not his custome to disgrace those that dit serue him vvill Like ill VVillers as the COTTINTONIENS did likvvelse countenance many complaints against mee made by factiona●ls about Queene Mother The Duke d'Elboeuf and others vvho vvould passe into England against his Majesties vvill vvhen the vvords of my Instuctions signed by the Lord Dorchester then Secretary of State dit beare that my 〈◊〉 vvas in the Sca●l●e if any one of those dit passe to trouble the English Seas As it seemed to be indeed vvhich vvay it vvent since the factionaris about Queene Mother had those in the English Court as vvell of the French 〈◊〉 of the Spanish faction and of others God knovvith vvllo did sturre an irreconciliable hattered against me for hindering so great a Princesse as Queene Mother to repaire in time vvhere shee might breath att rest the last of her dayes In fine it proved that to free Queene Mother from such aduertissements as I could and did giue from the place of my Residency 〈◊〉 factionaris about her ledd her avvay about into Holland vvhore my confractor Sir Vvilliam Bosvvell could not stop her though no ruine fell on him for her said passage into England vvhere 〈◊〉 selfe being returned I met a Sea of ill 〈…〉 of diuers factions vvho duting my Eleuen yeares Residency at Bruxels had taken occasion to except against my aduertissements vvhich spared none nor of Church nor State for vvhat vvas manifested to me and by mee found true on the place I did plainely set dovvn vvithout mincing any thing for feare of 〈◊〉 nor for allurements resolved to take things as God ●evould have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to make due exteeme of the vvise saying Nolite cansidere Principibus neque filiis hominum in quibus non est Salus His Majesty indeed vvas often graciously pleased to approve my endeaviours to expresse his satisfaction thereon and I may say vvithout vanity a truth as a marke of my gratitude that his Majesty vvas so gracious as to say in publike that of all those that did then attend His service abroad none vvas more diligent this vvas vvritten to me by my predecessor Sir Iohn Finet vvho attended the King at His dinner vvhen the vvords vvere uttered Nor could I thinke so meanly of my indeavours blessed by Gods assistāce in the discovery of many things vvhich peradventure divers others vvould haue bin incapable off for vvant of Languages but that I might have bin thought vvorthy of a