Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	day_n	westminster_n	1,905	5	11.2494	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09176	The faithful analist:, or, The epitome of the English history: giving a true accompt of the affairs of this nation, from the building of the tower in London, in the days of William the Conquerour, to the throwing down the gates of the said city, by the command of the Parliament, which state before the secluded members were admitted, in the yeer 1660. In which all things remarkable both by sea and land from the yeer 1069. To this present yeer of 1660 are truly and exactly represented.	G. W.	1660 (1660)	Wing G69; ESTC R177297	114,611	376

close all that night and so continually from place to place until the second of August in which space having by the power of God wonderfully overcome them he returned to Margaret in Kent now the Camp being kept at Tilbury in Essex under the charge of the Earl of Leicester the ninth of August her Majesty repaired thither where all the whole camp being set in order of Battalia she passed through every rank of them to their great rejoycing and lodged that night and the night following in the house of Master Edward Rich in the Parish of Hornedon on the next morning she returned to the camp and on the twelfth returned to Saint Iame's and shortly after the camp was dissolved Sunday the twentieth of August Master Nowel Dean of Pauls at Pauls Cross in the presence of the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen in scarlet all the Companies in their liveries preached moved them to give God thanks for the great victory given to our English Nation by the overthrow of the Spanish Fleet. August the twenty sixth at the Sessions nere unto Newgate were condemned eight men for being made Priests beyond the seas and remaining in this Realme contrary to the statute four temporal men for being reconciled to the Church of Rome and four others for releiving the others September the second at night a fierce fire brake out over against the Dutch Church in London to the great terror of the whole City but by the burning down of one house and pulling down some other the fire was quenched September the eighth the Minister at Pauls Cross moved the people to give God thanks for the overthrow of our enemies the Spaniards and there were shewed eleaven Ensignes or Banners taken in the Spanish ships by our men and on the next morning hanged on London Bridge towards Southwark where then the faire was kept being our Lady day October the eighth a stable was burned with the number of twenty horses at Drury house neer the Strand An. Reg. 32 November the nineteenth was this year kept holy day through the Realme with Sermons singing of Psalmes Bonefires and much rejoycing and thanksgiving unto God for the overthrow of the Spaniards our enemies upon the seas and a sermon at Pauls Cross tending to that end November the twenty fourth being Sunday the Queens Majesty having attendants upon her the privie counsel and other of the Nobility honourable persons as well spiritual as temporal in great number all on horseback did ride in a Chariot Throne the Lord Mayor and Aldermen attending her with all the companies in their Liveries stood along to Pauls Church where she heard a Sermon preached by Doctor Pierce Bishop of Salisbury and then went to the Bishops Palace where she dined and returned to Somerset house by torch light Ianuary the fifth at night a great wind in the North-east overturned trees and did great harm in many places February the first two souldiers were set on the Pillory at Leaden-Hall where they stood for the space of three houres the one had his ear nayled the other his tongue pierced with an aul which aul remained in his tongue till he was taken from the Pillory for abusing their Captains with bad words About this time Francis Ket Master of Art of Wimondham for holding divers detestable opinions against Christ our Saviour was burnt neer to the City of Norwich February the fifth two Souldiers were hanged on trees at the miles end for being mutinous April the fourteenth Philip Earl of Arundel was arraigned at Westminster of high treason and found guilty by his Peers and had judgement accordingly April the eighteenth Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Francis Drake with six of her Majesties ships twenty ships of war and an hundred fit for burden having in them a choice company of Knights Captains Gentlemen and souldiers departed from Plimouth and the twenty third of the same arrived at the Groin the twenty sixth they took the lower town with great store of Ordinance victuals cables and other furniture for shipping about the sixth of May they fought with the Spaniards at Borges Bridge where the enemy fled with the loss of seven hundred men the lower town of Groine was burned and the ninth of May our fleet set sail the Earl of Essex Sir Philip Butler and Sir Roger Williams met the Fleet so that on the sixteenth the whole navie arived at Phinicha where they set to land and the same day won both town and castle after this they divided the Armie whereof part matched with Sir Iohn Noris by land to Lisbon the rest with Sir Francis Drake passed by sea to Cascales the twenty fourth our men entred the suburbs of Lisbone where they obtained rich spoyles and plenty of every good thing the twenty seventh the Army left Lisbone and came to Cascales without any great fight or skirmish where they took the town and then returned for England but landing at Vigoe they took the town and wasted the Countrey The twenty first of Iune Sir Francis Drake arrived at Plimouth and the third of Iuly Sir Iohn Norris with the rest of the Fleet arrived there also the two Generals being offended one with the other The first of August at night was the greatest lightning and thunder that ever was seen or heard of any man living and yet but small hurt done God be praised The sixth of November Lodowick Grevil of Warwickshire Esquire was brought from the Tower of London to Westminster and there at the Kings Bench Bar for murder and other notorious crimes wherewith he was charged arraigned and found guilty but standing mute had Judgement to be pressed to death which was performed in the Goal of the King Bench in Southwark on the fourt●enth of November on the which day for the same fact his man was hanged at the Court Gate at Westminster An. Reg. 23 In this moneth of November the Citizens of London were o●ten●i●es affrighted by fire first on the twentieth about four a clock in the morn on Fish-street Hill where one fair house was burn●d to the ground and some people in helping to quench it were consumed and the houses next adjoyning to it Also the one side of Saint Leonards was sore spoiled On the twenty two of November at night about eleven of the clock one othe● house over against the first was in great danger but soon slaked On the twenty sixth about one of the clo●k in the morn one other house and some people were burnt and many other houses near about were spoiled The fifth of Ianuary about five a clock in the evening before Twelfth day began a terrible tempest of wind in the South-west which continued with great vehemency till about eleven a clo●k at night this in the City of ●ondon blew the tiles off mens houses and caused them to fear the overthrow of their houses the lesser West-gate of Saint Pauls next to the Bishops Palace was broken with bolts and locks and strong bars of iron

of England he died suddenly at the Counsel table April the twenty ninth proclamation was made commanding the oath of allegiance to be ministred to all persons that should come from beyond the seas onely to distinguish honest subjects from traiterous practisers and not for any point or matter in religion all known Merchants and others of honest state and quality was exempte from takeing this oath this proclamation was made by reason that many suspitious persons of base sort came dayly from beyond seas and refused to take the oath Iune twenty third Thomas Garnet a Jesuit was executed at Tyburne having favour offered him if he would have taken the oath of allegiance which he refused This Summer at Astley in Warwick shire by reason of the fall of the Church there was taken up the corps of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset he was buried the tenth of October 1530 in the twenty second year of the ●aign of Henry the eighth and albeit he had lain seventy eight yeers in the the Earth yet his Eyes Haire and flesh remained in a manner as if he had been newly buried For these five yeeres past great and manifold Roberies spoiles Piracies murders and Depredations within the Streights and elsewhere have been committed by severall Companies of English Pirats as well upon our own Nation as others but especially upon the Florentines and Venetians wherewith his Majesty was much grieved and for that cause published from time to time severall Proclamations denownsing the same offenders to be Rebells and therewithall gave order for their suppression and apprehensias Traiters and peace breakers but all this prevailed not for they still prevailed persisted and maintained their former villanies with which offenders there were some English Marchants who very cunningly underhand used Commerce Track and Trafficke for stollen goods to the great Cheri●●ing of those Malefactors and dishonour of this Nation for redresse whereof the King by Proclamation the eighth of Ianuary Prohibited from all manner of medling or dealing with them upon great penalties all English Marchants whatsoever Commanding the judge of the Admiralty to proceed severely in Justice against all such offenders and that from him there should be no appeal granted to any person touching the premises all which notwithstanding the number of Pirats still increased and did much damage to the English Marchants and to all other Nations there were Hollanders and Easterlings that at this time and before became fierce Pirats and held consort with the English Robbers viz. Ward Bishop Sir Francis Vorny and others whereupon the King of Spain sent certain Ships of Warr under the command of Don Lewis Faxardo who very pollitickly about the middle of Iuly came upon them at Tunis and sudenly burned twenty of their ships lying in Harbor at which time though Captain Ward escaped in person by being then a shore yet his great Strength and Riches perished in the fire with some of his Confederates December the two and twentieth Nineteen Pirates were executed at Waping some had been in consort with the English Pirates Sunday the nineteenth of February when it should have been low water at London-Bridge quite contrary to course it was then high Water and presently it ebbed almost half an houre the quantity of a foot and then suddenly it flowed again almost two foot higher then it did before and then ebbed again untill it came to its course almost as it was at first so that the next flood began in a manner as it should and kept its due course in all respects as if there had been no shifting nor alteration of Tydes all this hapned before twelve a clock in forenoone the weather being indifferent calme The thirteenth of Iune the King Queen and Prince with many great Lords and others came to the Tower to make triall o● the Lions single valour and to have the Lions skill a great fierce Bear that had killed a Childe but the Lyons being tryed by one and one at a time and lastly by two together wh●ch were bread in that open yard where the Bare was put loose for Combat yet would none of them assaile him but fled from him to their Dens after the first Lion was put forth then was there a Stone Horse put into the Bare and Lyon who when he had gazed upon them a while fell to grazing standing in the midst between them both and whereas at the first there was but two Mastives let in who fought sto●tly with a lion there was now six Dogs let in who flew all upon the Stone Horse being most in their sight at their first entrance and would soon have wearied the horse to death but that suddainly even as the King wisht there Entein th●ee stout Barewards who wonderous valliantly rescued the Horse and brought away the Doggs whilst the Lyon and the Bear stood staring upon them and the fifth of Iuly this Bare according to the kings Commandment was bayted to death by Dogges upon a Stage and the Mother of the murthered Child had twenty pound given her out of the money given by the people to see the death of the Bare Robert Allyley being Araigned at Newgate for fellony stood mute and and refused the ordinary triall whreupon as the manner is the Hangman came unto him to binde his hands but Allyley resisted and with his fist stroke him on the face in the presence of the Judges who presently Remembred that this priprisoner but the last Sessions before was there Convicted of Fellony and for the same had obtained the Kings Speciall pardon which pardons in generall are unto all persons but onely upon their good behaviour unto King and his Subjects and thereupon the Court gave judgment that for the blow he gave his hand should first be cut off and then his body to be hanged for that fact for the which he had his pardon according to which sentence he was presently executed at the Sessions Gate Thursday the third of May the French Queen was Crowned with all Solemnity in Paris and having been ten yeers before maried to the King and the next day was murthered in his Coach as he rode through Paris by a base villain that stabed him into the body twise with a long knife that he died instantly and his body was carried to the Loover presently upon the Kings death the Queen was made Regent during her sons minority viz. Lewis the thirteenth The twentieth of May being Sunday our King Queen and Prince the Duke of Yorke the lady Elizabeth and all the Lords and Ladies of the Court mourned in Black for the death of the French King Henry the fourth and about the end of Iune was he buried in Paris in as great Royalty as ever King of France upon the murrher of this French King the Lords and Commons of the house of Parliament of England humbly besought the King to have a more especiall care then formerly for the preservation of his Royall Person and also to the speedy order for the

shall not be disputed against by him Immediately afterwards the Court being set the Captain of the Guard was commanded to fetch the King and Solicitor Choe having read the Charge as before he required the King to give his positive answer which if he refuse it should be taken pro Confesso and the Court should proceed to Justice Lord Prisi I require your positive Answer King I protest against the Jurisdiction of this Court if power without Law may alter the fundamentall laws of the Kingdom what Subject is he that can be secure of his life or Estate And proceeding to shew Reasons why he could not allow the Authority of the Court he was interrupted by the President who told him that the Court desired a direct Answer The King I understand law and Reason and therefore under favour I do plead for the liberty of the people more then you do and therefore if I should impose a belief upon any Man without giving reasons for it it were unreasonable President The Votes of the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament are the Reasons of the Kingdom King The Commons of England were never allowed to be a Court of Indicature The King urging again to give in his Reasons the President told him that his Reasons were not to be heard against the highest Iurisdiction to which the King answered Shew me the Court where Reason is not to be heard Upon these words the President commanded the King to be taken away and the default recorded On the day following the Court met again and the King being brought and seated in his chaire The President told him that it was not for him to dispute the prerogative of the Court and being sensible of his delayes the Court required him positively to answer whither he was guilty or not guilty of the Treasons laid to his Charge King I desire to know whither I may speak freely or not President You are not to be permitted to run out into any discourses untill you have given a direct answer to the matter laid in charge against you King I valve not the Charge a a rush It is the liberty of the People that I stand for Being here interrupted he proceeded Sir you ought not to interrupt me How I came here I know not there is no Law to make your King your prisoner President The Court once more demands your possitive Answer To which the King replied To give satisfaction to the people of my clearnesse and to satisfie them that I have done nothing against the trust comitted to me but to alter the Fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdom and to acknowledge a new Court against thei● priviledges you must excuse me To which the Presid replyd This is the third time you have affronted and disowned the Court. How far you have preserved the priviledges of the the people your actions have spoke you have written your meaning in bloody Characters but Sir The pleasure of the Court is that the Clark record the default and Gentlemen you that have the Charge of him Take away the prisone● who was immediately convayed back to Saint Iamses On Saturd●y Iune the twenty seventh the court sate again and the King desired that he might be heard to speak and hoped he should give no occasion of interruption President You may but you must hear the court first whereupon the President addressing himself to the Court told them that the prisoner at the Bar hath been severall times charged with Treason and hath been so far from obeying the Court by submitting to their Iustice that he began to debate their Authority and being required to answer he was pleased to be Contumations whereupon the Court having Considered of the notoriousness of the Fact were resolved to pronounce Sentence on the prisoner but in respect he desired to be heard before Sentence the Court was resolved to hear him The King told him A hasty Sentence once past may sooner be repented then called I do desire to be heard before the Lords and Commons in the Painted Chamber if it be reason and really for the welfare of the Kingdom and liberty of the Subject I am sure of it it will be well worth your hearing before my sentence be past I therefore do conjure you as you love that which you pretend which I hope is reall the liberty of the Subject and the peace of the Kingdom that you will grant me a hearing before you passe sensentence President This is but a further declinig the Iurisdiction of the Court. The King told him It was no declining the Jurisdiction although he could not own it The President told him that what he offered tended to a delay which neither the Kingdom nor Justice could admir but the Court was content to withdraw for a time hereupon the King being withdrawn after the space of half an houre the Court did sit again and the prisoner being brought the President told him that the Court had withdrawn pro forma tantum and that having considered what he had offered them and of their own Authority which was grounded on the Supream authority of the Parliament they had Acted according to their Confession and being now his Judges they were to know that Judges were no more to delay then to deny and were therefore resolved to proceed on punishment and judgement King It is vain for me to dispute I know yo● have power enough but I would fain know the lawfulness of that power I do put at your doores all the inconveniences of a hasty sentence which the childe unborne may repent President The Court desireth to know If you have any thing more to say before sentence King If you will grant me this delay I doubt not but to give you some reasonable satisfaction I require you therefore as you will answer at the dreadfull d●y of Judgement that you will consider it President If you have nothing more to say we must proceed to Sentence King I have nothing more to say President Then the Court hath something to say to you though it will not be acceptable to you and proceeding in a long speech shewing how Kings had been executed for their misgovernment The King desired to be heard concerning the Imputations laid to him before that sentence was prono●n●ed The President replied that his time was now past and not far from Sentence because they would not acknowledg him to be a Court they could not admit of what had to say and the Clarke by the Presidents appointment did read the Sentence which was That for the Treasons and Crimes laid to his charge the Court did adjudge him the said Chales Stuart as a Tyrant Traytor and Murtherer to be put to death by severing his head from his Body The sentence being read the Court stood up in Confirmation of it as the Act and Resolution of the whole Court The King offered again to speak somthing but the Presid would not hear him and commanded the prisoner to be carried