Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	sister_n	13,459	5	11.1008	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07918	Tvvo notorious murders one committed by a tanner on his wiues sonne nere Horne-church in Essex, the other on a grasier nere Ailsburie in Buckinghamshire : with these is intermixt another murdrous intending fellonie at Rislip in Middlesex, all done this last month.		1595 (1595)	STC 18289; ESTC S2243	5,751	12

Tvvo notorious Murders One committed by a Tanner on his wiues sonne nere Horne-church in Essex The other on a Grasier nere Ailsburie in Buckinghamshire With these is intermixt another murdrous intending fellonie at Rislip in Middlesex All done this last month LONDON Printed for William Blackwall George Shaw and are to be sold ouer against Guild-hall gate Three cruell felonies and two hated murders performed this last moneth by the father and brother in law against the Sun and brother the neighbour against the neighbours child the false familiar against his vnmisdeeming freend BIrdes obserue seasons Beast knowe the course of tymes eyther to their owne kind are kind but men neither regard time nor make vse of example but with a headlong fury follow their owne appetite Experience in all ages hath approued that Sin hath not béen in the highest Estate vnpunished especially that sinne that is to nature abhorting before good men most detestable of God from the beginning detested Murder I meane that crying sinne that sinne which gaue the first murderer horror of heart and presents all his successors with hell of conscience Of so many thousand bloodthirstie tirants close plotting poysoners felonious waiting murderes let any man tel me which went vnto his graue in peace the scripture prophane Stories the records and cronicles of all nations remember not one but all point out a miserable sudden and certaine ruine to him that lay in wait for blood The wisedome of our fathers in elder ages the policie of maiestrates in these times wherein iniquitie rageth by punishmēt haue sought to warne the liuing vntoucht to remember the guilty put to death that they may feare to fall into such misfortune To this they thought good to ●dde that publishing of their detested crimes that those whose eyes could not behold their deserued endes might yet by hearing be warned The imitation whereof wee follow and in as few wordes as the matter wil giue leaue describe thrée sorrowful accidents gathered from the confession of the malefactors The murder of Thomas Chambers In Essex not farre from London in the parish of vp master at a place called Corbetts Tie dwelt on Iohn wright who had married the widdow of one Chambers a Tanner whose Sonne Thomas Chambers being a yong man of great towardnes of condition gentle of body well proportioned was bereft of life euen when he began to liue by the conspiracie of his vnkinde brother in law Iohn Graygoose of Epping husbandman that had maried Chambers sister Iohn Wrights cruelty the vnnaturall husband of his mother The cause that mooued these two this sinne to attempt arose from hence Thomas Chambers being by his father left heire to 30. l. a yeare and a portion of 200. l and vpwards in money which money and land at christmas next was to come to his hande or if he died vnder age a great part of it then to fall vnto the wife of the aboue named Graygoose Graygoose as at his death Wright protested about Cādlemas last came vnto him and plotted murder promising the benefit that by Chambers death to either of them might arise O false temptation of deceiuing gaine how blind are men to be so abused how fond to fall so fondly to beléeue the deuill so quickly when they can no sooner haue perfected so odious an ill but vengeance like a théefe in the night seazeth on them nay like a violent tempest beates downe their violence But to our matter Graygoose was the wicked tempter Wright as willingly tempted the one conceiues the mischéefe the other consentes many times they méeteplott conspire in the end conclude that about Epping or Wéeldside in Essex in one of the Whitson holidaies he should be slaine which of thē could first méete him promised to be the murderer So part these vile conspirators eyther attending the dismall time of Chambers destruction Wright being alwaies in the house had fitter opportunity than his confederate and on the sixt of Iune before the appointed time knowing Thomas Chambers to be forth betwéene the howers of ten and twelue awaited at a place called Rushy gréene nere Barrow hill in the parish of horne-church and with a stake taken out of a style he there assaulted the vnmistrusting yong man at one blow giuē on the right side of his head stroke out his braines which done dragd him into a bush and there hid the murdred body and with a bold face returned home The youth being well beloued was in sundry places sought for and no small suspition of his murder had by those of good conceipt At length on whitson munday being the ix of Iune a gray-hound found the murdred body and neuer left baying till it was drawne forth Oh wretched estate of blood guilty murderers how often haue the foules in the ayre wonderfully bewraied your long concealed acts how often haue bruite beastes wondered at you howe often haue your trecherous hearts betrayed you Though men see yée not God doth though men bewray yée not birds may yf birdes doo not beastes may if neither doo your own consciences shall but if they be seared vp God certainly wil find out a meane When Chambers body was thus found a rufull sight it was to looke vpon his faire countenance was discoulored wormes cralled in his mouth nose eares and his whole body was putrefied The missing of Wright that euening the deed was done some suspitious wordes but chéefely Gods will made Wright to be suspected and albeit at the first he sought to face it out yet before a Iustice he confessed it presently in manner as is before recited for which hee worthely suffered death on Munday the 14. of Iuly at Rumforde in Essex and Graygoose is to abide his triall at Chelmesford O that all stepfathers and mothers might possibly haue heard Wrights lamentation how he exhorted them to beware how he exclaimed on coueteousnes how he desired forgiuenes they woulde then remember the childrē that were orphanes committed to their patronage were to be vsed as derely as their naturall children but it séemed he knew his duity and forget it and if 〈◊〉 he not as he was giuen ouer they will remember it The robbery of Pets house with the wounding of his sonne OVr Second seene of this thréefold tragedy was acted in Rislip a country towne in Middlesex Two neighbors dwelt in that parish Murdox the one an honest wealthy Farmer Pets the other a carpenter though not rich yet of honest reputation Murdox had among diuers children a yong man to his yongest sonne of body well proportioned of face louely a great company kéeper giuen much to riot yea giuen ouer as it proued so that no allowance of his father nor counsell of his mother preuailed with him but will was to him a law no profit seemed to him so pleasing as wanton pleasure but as one sinne is father to another so riot be got gréedy desire of getting to maintaine wast this youth being perswaded Pets was