Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	earl_n	essex_n	guilty_a	2,321	5	12.6467	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58482	A two-inch board for M. Prynne to peep thorow being a full and satisfactory answer to a late libellous pamphlet ... called, A declaration of the officers and armies illegall &c. proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members ... : with ... a justification of the armies charge and proceedings against the XI impeached members, by law, president, and reason : with certaine considerable queries and observations upon the cities late tumultuous rebellious proceedings agaisnt the Parliament / vvritten by T.R., Gent.	T. R., Gent.	1647 (1647)	Wing R92; ESTC R11143	15,809	20

suspend them by the Law of the Land Here note that he meanes the generall heads of the Charge given in 15 June last and not the particular Charge which came in Tuesday 6. July although like a Juggler he inserts it in such a sort as to have the multitude believe it the same And as for the generall heads there was no answer thereunto required onely therefore a suspertion of the accused as being charged and truly with M. Declarers leave there was both reason and president for it although the House voted against it Look backe and consider the Parliaments proceedings in all times against their Members in such cases and in particular in the last and latest presidents Strafford Canterbury Barkley c. nay have not the Fouse of Commons suspended and excluded divers of their owne Members this Parliament for words and particular actions in the House cases of inferiour nature and consequence to the matter of charge against the 11 Members And againe if those generall heads five in number against the 11. Members which are more large and speciall then the generall charge the House of Commons preferred against the E. of Strafford and B. of Canterbury were insufficient to charge or suspend them of what validitie then were those generall charges of the H. of Commons so vehemently prosecuted by some of these very 11. whereupon Strafford and Canterbury were both charged and suspended yea and secured which these vipers are not what justice then I say in their case had those two and others Peace for shame good M. Simpleton it is an ill bird that bewrayes her own nest you will help to enlarge their charge by and by and while you plead like a mad-man for their justification you will like a fool lay more guilt and condemnation upon them 3. The unjustnesse of the Armies proceedings aginst the 11. Members he faith appeares by the multitude and quality of the parties impeached eleven at once all men of approved integrity fidelity and abilities and there in this third instance he tells you of all their good acts and enlarges their praise beyond their deserts A silly argument without sense or reason to prove the unjustnesse of the charge by the multitude and qualitie of persons accused as if a multitude and those men eminent both for estates and authority could not act treason or be as culpable of criminall trespasses as the poor and meane What thinke ye of the Complotters and Actors of the Gunpowder plot the rising by the Earle of Northumberland and his confederates in the North in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth Absalom and all the heads of the people against King David Here were as great multitudes and as gallant men in these traiterous actions as any of these 11. Members truly I never thinke of M. Hollis the principall of the eleven but I call to mind Cataline of Rome whose sole ambition was to be the head of a faction though it turned to his ruine as for M. Massey we know he is a good Souldier but no Christian and if the number and the quality be a sufficient excuse to these eleven and of condemnation to their Accusers Sir Tho. the Army for injustice against them Oh how unjust then were all the proceedings against all the aforesaid in those daies but I wil ask this Rabshekah whether he ever heard or read of any grand treason for the 11. Members actions as sleight as he and other knaves fooles make of them when they come to the test wil be found no other even exceeding Straffords and in effect equall to that of the Gunpowder wherein there was not more then a few and those no mean ones confederates Nay do not such abominable actions evermore accompanie the greatest personages and spirits for mean men have neither wit power opportunity or audacity to contrive or act them and therfore are never tempted unlesse by so great ones to be instruments to doe them And as for their abilities and acts of merit by how much the more able and by so much the more wicked therefore by so much the more odible and condemnable The Devill hath as exquisite gifts and endowments and more then any mortall yet not therefore to be either pittied or justified and for the good they or any of them have done why did not they continue in it who hindered them Not to him that runs but to him that holds out to the end of the race belong's the praise Finis coronat factum Justice is like death it takes a man as it findes him it considereth neither quality nor condition what a man was is or hath done but of what he is accused and found guilty and so it rendreth unto him either by acquitting or condemning him The old Earl of Essex in Q. Elizabeths dayes had deserved as well of the Kingdome and was much more honoured and beloved of the people then ever any of these 11. Members yet ye know his end he being found guilty justice forgot his former good services his honour was tainted and all his merits were forfeited and this manner of proceeding is justified by the example of God the most just Judge of quick and dead Ezek. 18.24 Nor are these men of such great eminencie and quality in themselves as they are by that authority wherewith we have invested them as our Trustees the which they have unworthily and unthankfully perverted and abused M. Hollis is the most honourable amongst them but by the evill of his actions is so much the more dishonourable for nobilitas est unica virtus and the rest do we not know them The Merchants of Hamborough can tell you of Massie his manners and his quality and without question there are those can give as true a character of the rest as Mr. Declarer or any other As for the House clearing any of them by Vote or M. Prynnes who never knew aright how to examine or cast up any accompt acquitting them in their accompts is of no value non valet ova duo For if an illegall factious Vote may clean any Member of an accusation of breach of Law or publique trust where then is Englands Law dic quaeso No Sir he that is accused to transgresse the Law must be acquit or condemned by the Law in a publike Judicatory and not by arbitrary Votes within a close room and private walls Strafford and all traitors and trespassers against the publike have been alwaies tried publikely and so it is just legall and meet these should be As for the Committee for Accompts their acquitting men by * As Sir W. Lewis was by name Vouchers that is if they bring in but one or two though they be suborned to sweare that their false accompts are true is of as much credit and value as a thiess procuring witnesses to avouch a stolne horse for which notwithstanding he may be hanged As for his fourth instance of the Armies violence to have the eleven Members suspended before