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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	covenant_n	seal_n	seal_v	4,393	5	10.3434	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05351	The copie of a letter writen out of Scotland by an English gentlema[n] of credit and worship seruing ther, vnto a frind and kinsman of his, that desired to be informed of the truth and circumstances of the slaunderous and infamous reportes made of the Queene of Scotland, at that time restreined in manner as prisoner in England, vpon pretense to be culpable of the same.	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1572 (1572)	STC 15503; ESTC S103368	31,468	132

slaunder therof departing frō the Courte about xvi houres before the murder committed saied to the Lord Darris This night eare morning the Lorde Darley shal lose his life which woordes the said Lord Harris being of suche honour and credit as is well knowen did ●t sundry times auow openly to the Earle Murreys face and is yet liuing ready to auow the same Secondly Murrey before his departure out of Scotland for France had contriued that his factiō shuld in his absense procure the acquital of Bothwel ● after to marie with the innocē● Queene And diuers of the faction had by their owne hand● writing bounde them selues to obey and assist Bothwel against any that shoulde prosecute him for the murder committed Thirdly the said Murrey b● his ernest sute obteined the returne of some of his principall confederates then banished into England for the slaughter of the Secretarie without whose assistence for their greate courage and witte to execute his practises went but lamely forward Fourthly it is wel knowen that the said Murrey and other the confederates had many secret meetings at the Castell of Cragmiller about the contriuing and compassing of the said murder at whiche place the same was fully concluded as hath veu since confessed Fiftly the said Earle Murrey nor any of the rest would not geue to the Quene any admonition or knowledge that y Earle Bothwell was any dote in the death of her husband til by the great sute singuler commendation of the saied Earle Bothwel other mischieuous practises mingled with pretensed humilitie and with couert terrour they had persuaded and procured her Highnes to marie him Then when it was for her to late and for them ●umpe in the nicke they sodeinly with open mouth blased abrode and published that the Earle Bothwel forsooth with whom the Queene had maried was the principal murtherer of the Lord Darley whose death it came now sodeinly vpon them and much touched their honour as they said to see reuenged And there vpon presently brake they foorth againe into armes against their Queene whom● when vp seined submission and false promisses as hath bene shewed before they had frandulently gotten into their handes and vnnaturally cast into prison in Lochlenen where the ●ewed mother and bastard brother of the said Murrey were dwelling they litle then cared for pursuing or hurting the Earle Bothwell For they permitted him to remaine there quietly in the Countrey certaine monethes after and to passe safely whither he would according to their former promisse made vnto him in their names by a Noble manne yet liuing who when he was sent from Edenborough to the Queenes Campe to persuade her Maiestie to laye armes aparte and peaceably to enter Edenborough as is before remembred tooke the Earle Bothwell by the hande and drawing him aside abussed him to departe for a time faithfully promising him that no man should pursue or folow him Sixtly Ihon Hepborne the Earle Bothwelles man who with certaine others that had in deede bene presente at the murder was executed for a face of iustice and to remoue suspicion from the principals said and constantly affirmed at his death in the presence of fiue thousand persons and mo that as he should answere before God the Earle Murrey and certeine others whom he then and there named were the principals and chiefe procurers of the said murder and that so the Earle Bothwell his Maister had often told him in secret The same in effect was affirmed by Ihon Hay of Tallow Powrie Dugglish and Parris at the time of their deathes as hath bene shewed before Lastly there was a solemne Indenture Octopartite made and passed betweene the said Earle Murrey and the reast of the Conspirators of mutuall couenant and promisse vppon their faith and honour vniformely to procede in their said cōfederacie that which of them soeuer should first cumpasse opportunitie should kill the said Lord Darley and in al euents touching the same should iointly assist and defend eche other Of which Indenture one part signed sealed with the handes and seales of the Earle Murrey and the reast of the Conspirators hath since come to the Queenes handes and was shewed to the English Commissioners Now see how wonderfully God hath wrought herein If suche vehement presumptions as are before remembred could be slightly past ouer as things that rather make likely then cleerly proue true that which is gathered therof yet is it not to be mistrusted but so many witnesses directly accusinge Murrey his complices at the houre of their death Murreys foretelling the night when the Lord Darley shoulde be killed the flatte and weightie testimonie of the Noble Lord Harris yet liuing and lastly the Indenture of that traiterous conspiracie signed and sealed with the knowen hand and seale of the Lord Murrey and his Confederates will fully satisfie all men the haue their commō sense and geue them matter inough cleerely to see who were the procurers of that horrible murder wherof the guiltie malefactours haue so vnnaturally slandered their good and guilelesse Queene I coulde here touche diuerse points by the way to witte the inualiditie of the Accusers for the iust and lawful exceptions that the Queene ●ughte take against euery of them by the Law which geueth to the simplest defendant that may be the benefit and aduantage of lawful exceptions not only against the accuser but against the witnesse Iudge Al which three parts that is to saie to be accusers witnesses and Iudges also they them selues haue taken vppon them in this Tragedie And farther if the Queene had bene guiltie as shee was not yet ought she not by them to haue bene deposed no more then Dauid was when he had committed bothe murder and adulterie or numbers of other Kinges and Princes in the like cases Further that subiects ough not for any cause of their owne priuate authoritie to lay violent handes on their annointed Prince That their maner o● proceedidg hauing bene altogether vnhonest and contrarie to the lawe of God and man hath made their doing euil vniust and impious Quia forma dat esse rei with diuers other such matters which of purpose I omitte as not necessarie in this case where the principall is so fully answeared as the Queene or her frindes neede not to flee to the aduantage of those helpes Praised be God that truth hath yeelde● such abundant notorious prouffes of her innocencie their guilt that her Highnes may hath from the begynning yet doth offer to stande and ioine issue with her accusers vpon the principal point by them most falsly and impudently laid to her charge A Capitulation of the Actes and partes of this Tragedie hitherto without producing al the Actors diuers of whose names are for good respectes to be suppressed CAP. 4 THis Lord Iames bastard brother to the Quene of Scotland by her natural goodnes aduanced to the Earledome of Murrey to possessious liuelyhod of six and twentie thousand poundes