Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	action_n	debt_n	writ_n	2,286	5	9.4361	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00646	The compters common-wealth, or A voiage made to an infernall iland long since discouered by many captaines, seafaring-men, gentlemen, marchants, and other tradesmen but the conditions, natures, and qualities of the people there inhabiting, and of those that trafficke with them, were neuer so truly expressed or liuely set foorth as by William Fennor His Maiesties servant.	Fennor, William.	1617 (1617)	STC 10781; ESTC S102012	60,732	92

fortunes once againe his Creditors perhaps giues his friendes good wordes telling him they will not be rough with him hoping with this baite to catch my cittizen abroad and so clappe him vp which my Bankrupt little cares for knowing that after he hath laine in prison a yeere or two they will be glad to take a quarter of their debts and let him out what cares he for Actions Executions Iudgements Statutes or any other Writs hee hath enough to keepe himselfe in prison and will make them come to composition with him as hee list himselfe or they get none at all so his Creditors at last seeing his resolution so fixt and setled will though very loath take one quarter of their debts rather then loose all and it may bee not halfe of that in mony but young Gentlemens bonds and desperate debts that God knowes whether they shall euer recouer one penny thus doe many Banrupts ly in diuers prisons about this Towne inriching themselues and by their policie are good for nothing but to defraud his Maiesties subiects and fatten a loathsome prison and this is the first of these voluntary Souldiers The second of these are such that will compound with a brase of Sergeants to arrest them and such are many young Gentlemen that want mony to supply some vitious vse or other knowing they haue kinde friends will voluntarily haue an action enter'd against them and be arrested so perhaps will lye there a day or two while their friends heare of it who if it bee but a matter of foure or fiue pound will not sticke to discharge it which being no sooner done but straight they go to the party to whom the mony was paide and there giue the Sergeant an Angell and share the rest among themselues many trickes of this kinde haue I seen put in practise since I came hither but one thing I will not forget which was this One of these fellowe that had vsed this tricke three or foure seuerall times and beene fetcht out by his friends for seuerali summes of mony did once more put it in practise which his friends at last perceiuing let him lie there some two or three yeeres together and the most part of his imprisonment was in the Hole and if at last he had not got off cleere by his owne industry he might haue beene a Prisoner there while this time for all them How say you sir was not this a pretty tricke yes faith sir said I I would all such voluntary prisoners might be seru'd so but good sir to the third of these voluntaries The thirst sort of these are such that hauing beene in prison and lying in the Hole haue beene released by Legacies but being freed and feeling thesweetnesse of it will purposely once a yeere as about Christmas or Easter when they know Legacies come in get some friend of theirs to arrest them for a matter of thirty or forty shillings and then make suite to the Marchants that yearely come and release prisoners if their debts be not aboue that value which if they get they haue so much mony cleere to bee merry with These base trickes are vsuall though they be not lookt into or corrected for it is an extreame wrong first to the party that giues it in cheating of him and secondly in defrauding other poore Prisoners that lie in for due debts The fourth and last sort of these are young Gallants that now and then will make a steppe to Newmarket-heath or some such place and after they haue that they long lookt for come posting to London and if the hews and ●●ies come too hotly after them instantly gets themselues arrested into one of the Compters and lie there while the matter cooles for who will looke into such a place for any such Offenders Thus haue I laide downe in my best methode the nature of these voluntary Prisoners that fatten this Common-wealth the Compter Sir said I these reports strike mee into a masement I protest I thought there could not haue beene such villany extant in a Realme much lesse in a prison But I hope sir you are come to treat of the Keepers I am sir said he and thus began CHAP. IX Containing 1. A Character of a Iaylor 2. Their true nature and disposition 3. Their cruelty and extortion And 4. and lastly such abuses that haue been discouered liuely displaied DAre you write Why not my dore is shut They that pinch me see not how I pinch them But but when your discourse comes out the Keeper will hold you in the faster Tush my booke must helpe me out I hope to see Pauls Churchyard as soone as it If I doe not the worst censure that can passe will be a Rayler against a laylor Bold Muse hold on thy pace If the world is a Body then I cannot be perswaded but laylors and Keepers of Prisons are the nailes of it for they scratch exceedingly and like sicke men possest with lunacie snatch at any thing These kinde of fellowes are as nigh a kinne to Sergeants as Brokers are to Vsurers both of them are inseparable purseleaches and are men that hauing runne through their trades as they haue their estates at last are forced to take vpon them this most base and odious kinde of life which they no sooner haue obtained but are as proud of it as a lousie prisoner of a fresh sute or a beggerly Rimer of tweluepenny dole when hee oweth ninepence for ale They are men that haue no quality in them but one and that is to aske mony and like Lawyers without their fees will doe nothing They imitate Rauens Kites and Crowes that feede vpon the corruption stinking garbige and guts of any carrion lying in the fields and leaue that part that is most wholesome vntouch't so these feed vpon the follies and vices of the age haue nothing to doe with any thing that is good If a Gentleman come into their Confines that hath his purse well lined with crownes they will haue no more mercy ouer him then a Dog killer hath ouer a diseased Curre in the plague time Which makes me call to mind that Motto I haue often seene and read Homo homini Lupus man is to man a Wolfe If a man should trauell into the Wildernesse or some vast desert and bee deuoured by sōme Reare or Boare or such like sauage Creature it were but their kinde to doe so being prickt and stung with hunger But for one man like a Canniball to feed vpon the other what more monstrous and worse then crueltie is this which euery day is seene in this place Yet in their crueltie they will vse deliberation and feed vpon a man while he hath mony and make as dainty of him as a Spaniard will of a piece of beife or mutton and make many sweete meales of him Or like some cruell Surgeons that haue a rich man in cure of some dangerous disease will not at first send him to purge in another