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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	bring_v	case_n	reverse_v	2,118	5	12.1957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47019	A compleat history of Europe, or, A view of the affairs thereof, civil and military from the beginning of the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1676, to the conclusion of the peace with the Turks, 1699 including the articles of the former, and the several infringements of them, the Turkish Wars, the forming of the Grand Confederacy, the revolution in England, &c. : with a particular account of all the actions by sea and land on both sides, and the secret steps that have been made towards a peace, both before, as well as during the last negotiation : wherein are the several treaties at large, the whole intermix'd with divers original letters, declarations, papers and memoirs, never before published / written by a gentleman, who kept an exact journal of all transactions, for above these thirty years.	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing J928A; ESTC R13275	681,693	722

wherewith some of those Divines who were appointed to assist him in the last Moments of his Life treated the poor Gentleman the main of all they said to him being to press him to acknowledge their foppish Doctrine of Non-Resistance which they alledged was such that without it he could not be a Member of the Church of England as he profest himself to be But all they could do could not bring him to it and in Truth it would grieve any Heart but such as was wofully prejudiced with the Bigottry of those Times to find a Man under such Circumstances teazed as he was who by any Thing that appeared to the Contrary was as much discomposed with that Way of Treatment as with the Death he was then ready to undergo It was said a certain Brave old Officer who then came over with him and since with the Prince of Orange offered with a small Party of Horse to have ventured thro' all the Guards and take him from off the Scaffold But they could not be got together His Time was come and Providence designed that our Deliverance should be more Just Peaceable and Wonderful and that the Glory as well as the many Blessings we have since enjoyed should be reserved to our Pious and Renouned Monarch King William whom God grant long to Reign over us But the Issue of Blood did not stop with the Duke's Death and the Executions that followed were as Cruel and Barbarous as happened in any Age or the worst of Tyrant's Reigns I am very loath to enter into any of the Particulars since all that have Travelled in the Western Parts have been Eye-witnesses of it for Years after this It were enough to satisfie some to say that Jefferies the Chief Justice now a Peer of England forsooth by the Title of Lord Jefferies Baron of Wen it had been better of Acheron and the first Chief Justice after Hubert de Burg I think that was made so had a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try the poor Wretches But I 'll give a few Particulars The first that fell under his fiery Rage was Alicia Lisle a Woman of extream Age and Relict of John Lisle one of K. Charles ●'s Judges who was Tryed at Winchester for High-Treason for Comforting and Assisting Rebels the Pretence being that she had Concealed Mr. Hicks the Non-conformist Minister and Richard Nelthrop the latter being a perfect Stranger and the former in no Proclamation which made the Jury bring her in 3 times not Guilty But at last Jefferies Threats so far prevailed that she was brought in Guilty of High-Treason and Beheaded for it Yet the Convention after King William came in were so dissatisfied in her Case that tho' they could not restore her to Life they Reversed the Judgment for her Death From thence Jefferies Posts to Dorchester where understanding there were 30 Persons that had been found by the Grand Inquest to have been Assisting the Duke of Monmouth● He contrived this Stratagem to dispatch them for when they came upon their Tryals and before they had Pleaded he told them That whosoever Pleaded Not Guilty and was found so should have little time to live and if any expected Favour they must Plead Guilty But the Prisoners would not trust him tho' it had in a manner been all one to them for of the 30 29 were found Guilty and Executed soon after as were ●o more our of 243 who were deluded to Plead Guilty to their Indictments The same was done at Exeter to near as many who were alike deluded as also at Taunton and Wells where Jefferies finished his Bloody Assizes and in which Two Places he Condemned above 500 Persons whereof 239 were Executed and had their Quarters set up in the principal Places and Roads of those Countries to the Terror of Passengers and the great Annoyance of those Parts But Jefferies was not the only Person that was the King's Agent in this bloody Work for Kirk one of his Majesty's good Officers had after the Duke's Defeat caused 90 wounded Men at Taunton to be hanged not only without permiting their Wives and Children to speak to them but with Pipes playing Drums beating and Trumpets sounding and boiled their Quarters in Pitch to set them up in several Parts of the Town Though Kirk was positive afterwards when he was charg'd with being concern'd in such Barbarity That he had Instructions both from the King and his General to do what he did But what Instructions soever Kirk had for what he did Jefferies took to himself a greater Latitude in Reprieving some who had Money and afterwards procuring Pardons for them and he had the Conscience to take 14500 l. of one Man to save him with which be bought a very fine Estate But those poor Wretches who could not purchase Pardons at my Lord's Rate were fairly sold for Slaves into the American Plantations And when Justice could take place no longer out came a Pardon but so ridiculously Cruel as Mr. Coke expresses it as could scarcely be believed for those who made their Escape were not only excepted but also Girls of 8 or 9 Years old who had made a few Colours and presented them to the Duke of Monmouth while he was at Taunton were excepted by Name and no Pardon could be purchased for this Treason till the Girls Parents had paid more for it than would have provided a Marriage-Portion for them when at Age. By all which Passages you have very pregnant Examples not only of the Avarice of the Ministers but the King's Promise to imitate his Brother's Clemency and Tenderness to his People Neither will any Man think his Majesty's Goodness to come short of the rest in his Severity to Mr. Cornish who in Oct. this Year was taken up as he was freely following his Profession and clapt close Prisoner in Newgate without Pen Ink or Paper or any Body to assist him or as much as suffered to come at him and about a Week after was Tryed upon an Indictment of High-Treason for that in the Year 1682 he had promised to be assisting to James late Duke of Monmouth William Russel Esq Sir Thomas Armstrong c. in their Treasons against Charles I. Surely one should think his Brother had a mighty Respect for his Memory But there was another Snake in the Grass Mr. Cornish when Sheriff of London had been very active against the Popish Conspirators so that now nothing less than a Sacrifice of Humane Blood could appease the offended Ghosts of those that perished for that Plot. The only Witness against this poor Gentleman was Col. Rumsey who had plaid his Part before and was easily believed here also though no honest Man would have hanged a Dog upon his Evidence As for what Dick Goodenough said it was not very material though it seemed to have been malicious enough And I 〈◊〉 heard the Rascal with Impudence enough and many cursed Oaths justifie what he said So that the worthy Citizen was