Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	plea_n	5,523	5	9.8646	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02753	A discouery of the fraudulent practises of Iohn Darrel Bacheler of Artes in his proceedings concerning the pretended possession and dispossession of William Somers at Nottingham: of Thomas Darling, the boy of Burton at Caldwall: and of Katherine Wright at Mansfield, & Whittington: and of his dealings with one Mary Couper at Nottingham, detecting in some sort the deceitfull trade in these latter dayes of casting out deuils.; Discovery of the fraudulent practises of John Darrel	Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1599 (1599)	STC 12883; ESTC S103824	204,500	314

hinder the preferring of petitions in M. Darrels behalf to the Lordes of her Maiesties Priuie Councell Who haue troubled the Lordes and Ladies in that matter they know best themselues but indeed some haue done it peraduenture to haue had Darrels practises smothered vp for the auoiding forsooth of such slaunder as might otherwise fall vpon the Ministery But aboue all the rest that is a substantiall conceit that M. Darrel cannot be endured because he hath such a feate in casting out Deuils as many other men want It cannot be endured sayeth the author of it that those kind of men which are accounted the of-scouring of the world should be thought to haue such interest in Christ Iesus as that by their prayers and fasting hee should as it were visibly descend from heauen and tread downe Sathan vnder their feet whereas other men who account themselue more learned excellent and wise then they do not withall their Phisicke Rhetoricke pompe primacie accomplish the like But God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise and the weake thinges of the world to confound the mighty A place indeed of scripture aswell applyed as that in the fourth of S. Mathew Hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone But to insist no longer vpon these vanities and foolish surmises the true occasion that moued her Maiesties saide Commissioners to intermeddle with this Impostor wherewith his confederates and companions are so much grieued and to proceede therein as they haue done was as followeth William Somers hauing counterfaited himselfe to be possessed dispossessed and repossessed and held on that course successiuely for the space of about three moneths he did at the last being got out of M. Darrels hands confesse and auow that all hee had done that while was but dissembled shewing to the Maior and Aldermen of Nottingham how he had acted all his former fittes Herewith M. Darrell and his friendes were greatly moued especially when they perceyued the boyes said confession to be so generally belieued as that there beganne an hart-burning amongst the neighbours some holding with M. Darrell and some against him To meete therefore with this mischiefe and hearing as it is supposed that the Archdeacon of Darby had written to the L. Archbishoppe of Canterbury touching that matter it was thought good to vse some preuention and to procure a Commission from the L. Archbishop of Yorke for the examination of such witnesses as should be produced in the behalfe of M. Darrel to proue that Somers had not dissembled The saide Commission obtayned exceptions were taken against it because all the Commissioners were addicted to M. Darrell Therupon it was renewed and vpon one M. Euingtons motion some were made Commissioners to ioyne with the rest that were known to haue disliked of M. Darrels proceedinges When the time came that this second Commission was to be executed certaine persons hauing beene examined Somers was brought before the Commissioners who shortlie after his comming fell to the acting of some of his fittes in their presence vpon a former Compact and Agreement made betwixt him and others before he came thether Herewith al that fauored M. Darrell began to reioyce and to runne abroad into the towne telling their friends with great ioy that Somers was now found to haue been no dissembler but the rest that had held a contrary opinion they were greatly rated and checked insomuch as when some of them came out of the house where the Commissioners sate they were not onely rated at exceedingly but to one of them by the throwing of a stone some violence was offered Thus M. Darrell and his friends triumphed for nine or ten daies hauing by the direction of the said Commissioners Somers amongst them againe who playing his old trickes denyed that hee had dissembled But this their ioy ended when the saide dayes were expired for Somers by the direction of the L. Chiefe Iustice of the common Plees was no sooner gotten againe out of the handes of M. Darrell and his friendes but of himself he confessed as before the whole course of his dissimulation and why he had affirmed to the said Commissioners that the fittes acted before them were not counterfaited With this alteration M. Darrell and his adherentes were greatly troubled the partes taking on both sides beganne to be more violent and the town became to be extraordinarily deuided one rayling vpon an other at their meeting in the streets as they were affected in that cause The pulpets also rang of nothing but Diuels and witches wherewith men women and children were so afrighted as many of them durst not stir in the night nor so much as a seruant almost go into his maysters celler about his businesse without company Fewe grew to be sicke or euil at ease but straight way they were deemed to bee possessed Briefly such were the stirres in Nottingham about this matter as it was feared the people would grow if they were not preuented to further quarrels and mutinies or to some greater inconuenience Hereof the L. Archbishop of Canterbury being aduertised by the said L. Chiefe Iustice and others did thinke it in his wisedome very necessarie to call for M. Darrell by vertue of her Maiesties Commission for causes Ecclesiasticall who being accordingly sent for appeared before him and others at Lambeth from whence hee was committed to prison by reason of his absurde and vntrue but yet very confident assertions giuing thereby iust occasion to suspect that he was but a counterfaite and order was taken for the further examination of that cause according to the vsuall course by the lawes of the Realm in such cases prouided The issue whereof was that vpon the hearing of M. Darrell and the depositions against him in open Court before the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the L. Bishop of London the Lord Chiefe Iustice of her Maiesties Bench the L. Chiefe Iustice of the Common Plees M. D. Caesar M. of the Requestes M.D. Bing Deane of the Arches and M. D. Stanhope the Earle of Shrewesbury and some other gentlemen of good note with many others being present hee the said M. Darrell was by the full agreement of the whole Court condemned for a counterfeyte and together with M. More his companion who tooke vpon him to iustifie the said Darrell and had otherwise greatlie misbehaued himselfe they were both of them deposed from the Ministery and committed to close prison there to remaine vntill order were taken for their further punishment The iustice of which sentence will sufficiently appeare by this treatise inforced as it were to be published by the casting out of certaine Pamphlets which do so much impeach it suffering none to escape their bitternes that haue dealt against M. Darrell but yet for the truth in this cause Vpon M. Darrels first committing within a while after some matters beganne to break

holde on him or condemne him Diuerse others at the least halfe an hundreth the same morning before he went to the said Commissioners vsed the like wordes of terrour to the boy By these depositions if the humor then regnant in M. Darrels zealous adherents so much addicted in outward shew to set out the glory of God doe not somewhat appeare the peruser of them may out of doubt be deemed partiall This was threatning and terrifying in deed able to haue shaken the constancie of a stronger man peraduenture then Somers was the time and the persons considered that dealt so with him It had beene good for M. Darrell if he had omitted in his Apologie this calumniation seeing that thereby he is fallen himselfe into the same snare which he had laid for others CHAP. VII How Somers was perswaded by threatnings promises to haue continued his dissimulation after hee had beene before the Commissioners at Nottingham vntill M. Darrell might againe dispossesse him WIlliam Somers hauing confessed before the Commissioners at Nottingham that he did not dissemble he was sent by their authoritie vpon the desire of Maister Darrell his friends to one Garlands house Of his being there and of the course then held with him he deposeth in this sort When I came to Garlands house there was great concourse again vnto me and diuers perswasions were vsed that I should neuer say againe that I had dissembled Also Mistres Aldridge as I thinke M. Aldridge himselfe said vnto me that now it was apparant vnto all the Commissioners that I was repossessed that if euer hereafter I shold affirme that I had dissēbled M. Maior the rest of the Cōmissioners were certainly determined to hang me that they had a cōmission frō the Queene so to doe Shee therefore with the rest encouraged me to continue in the course that I had againe newly begunne and promised me that the next fryday after the Iudges were gone whose comming was not then farre of there should be an other fast and that M. Darrell would then dispossesse me againe They also saide that there should be the same day a collection for me and that then I should being dispossessed be placed for halfe a yeare with M. Bolton Chaplain to Sir Iohn Byron afterwards wait vpon one of the saide knightes grand children These perswasions added to the reasons that caused Somers to say he had dissembled before the commissioners moued him as he confesseth to continue his old practises for the space of about ten dayes vntill the Maior of Notingham sent for him thēce by the direction of the Lord chief Iustice of the common Plees And then he confessed before the said Maior the last day of March 1598. Richarde Hurt and William Freeman Iustices of the Peace the reasons that moued him to tell the Commissioners that he had not dissembled and to continue his fittes at Garlandes house to the effect in euery point as is before expressed Within two or three dayes after the iudges comming to Nottingham he the saide Somers being sent for before the L. Anderson confessed at large how he had dissembled there shewing his tricks before his Lordship diuers others in some extraordinarie sorte to those that had not seene him before he presentlie started vp vppon his Lordships bidding of him to arise and shewed himselfe to bee as well as he was before Since which time sayeth Somers I haue beene very well I thanke God notwithstanding that M. Darrell did then and hath since diuerse times affirmed that I remaine still repossessed with viii deuils and that I am likewise possessed in soule And I trust that God will hereafter giue me grace from euer consenting againe to any such wicked courses hoping that God will graunt both M. Darrell and mee true repentance for our abusing of the world so notoriously with such and so manie our vngodly practises That William Somers did acte his fittes before the Lord Anderson and confessed as it is aboue mentioned to the Maior of Nottingham and others after he was taken from Garlandes house it will not be denyed But for the rest concerning a pretended faste for Somers second dispossession that M. Darrel maketh altogether strange as though he had neuer mentioned any such matter and Mrs. Aldridge quallifyeth her speeches in some parte aswell as shee can Howbeit there are depositions which doe argue that to be true which Somers hath herein deposed I heard M. Darrell affirme sayeth M. Aldridge that there should be a new fast after the Assizes for the dispossessing againe of Somers When William Somers was first brought vnto my house I heard speeches deliuered vnto him to this effect vz. that now he hauing auowed the truth in saying that he was no dissembler hee should stand stedfast vnto that truth that there should within a short time an other fast be appointed in S. Maries when God were so pleased he should be againe dispossessed and that afterwardes meanes should be made to M. Bolton that hee might be with him Again I heard Mrs. Aldridge say to the boy when he was at my house sent the therby the Commissioners that if he would sticke to the truth shee made no doubt but to place him with M. Bolton And Mrs. Aldridge her selfe I willed the boy to sticke to the truth not doubting to make meanes by some friendes to place him in seruice with M. Bolton Sir Iohn Byrons Chapleaine there to waite vpon one of Sir Iohns Grand-children M. Aldridge also confesseth that vpon Somers comming from the Commissioners or very shortly after he saide vnto him that now it was apparant to the Commissioners and to the Maior himselfe that he had not before dissembled and that now if he should hereafter as before he had done affirme that hee had dissembled hee deserued to bee punished very sharpely If the Prouerbe bee true that a man may see day at a little hole what may hee then doe at a great breach If the Assizes had not beene so neare M. Darrell it seemeth would haue quitte his handes of Somers as being verie weary of that matter He was therefore as it seemeth very earnest both by himselfe and his friendes to haue had the boy continued his dissimulation a little longer then he might haue bin rid of him with some shew of honesty But it would not be such iugling will out and not be concealed CHAP. VIII Of the depositions taken in M. Darrells behalfe at Nottingham and how vpon the reexamination of his own witnesses it falleth out that the bodilie actions of Somers in his fitts were not extraordinary as they haue beene misreported WE are now come to M. Darrels last shifte wherein both he and his fellowes doe so greatly triumph which is the authority of certain depositions taken before the said Commissioners on his behalf at Nottingham Somers who knew his owne doinges best saide hee had dissembled and M. Darrell affirmed that