Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	county_n	peace_n	say_a	12,909	5	7.2596	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41909	Great news from Derby-shire being a full and true relation of the discovery of above thirty priests living and residing in and about Halam in the said county : together with an account of the taking of one Busby, a priest, and two women, notorious papists, by Justice Gilbert, a worthy and active prosecutor of priests and Jesuits, and how they had contrived to charge Mr. Gilbert with felony, which by the confession of Dudley, one of their own party, by the providence of God was fully detected and discovered and they committed to the county-gaol where they now remain / written in a letter from a worthy divine in that county, to a friend in London.		1681 (1681)	Wing G1717; ESTC R36558	1,778	4

GREAT NEWS FROM Derbyshire Being a Full and True RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF Above Thirty Priests Living and Residing in and about Halam in the said County TOGETHER With an account of the taking of one Busby a Priest and two Women notorious Papists by Justice Gilbert a worthy and active Prosecutor of Priests and Jesuits and how they had contrived to Charge Mr. Gilbert with Felony which by the Confession of Dudley one of their own Party by the Providence of God was fully detected and discovered and they committed to the County-Gaol where they now remain Written in a Letter from a worthy Divine in that County to a Friend in London SIR I Cannot but acknowledg my neglect by so long a silence since I received your last but yet I doubt not of a pardon from so candid and ingenuous a Nature when I shall acquaint you that partly Business and partly want of something new wherewith to divert you from these parts did occasion it But having now an opportunity in some measure to make you Reparation I resolved not to let slip a Relation which at present is the Subject of our whole Discourse in these parts and which is this There was the last Week a Meeting of the Justices of the Peace hereabouts to consider of an Information which was exhibited before them against one Busby a Romish Priest who they understood was entertained and harboured at the House of one Mr. Pouthrel of Halam in this County a notorious and obstinate Papist after whom Mr. Gilbert a Justice of the Peace a worthy good Protestant and zealously active against those of the Church of Rome had several times searched at the said Mr. Pouthrel's house but to no effect till at length whether by some private Intelligence or mere accident I know not he discovered him hid between the Cieling and the Tyles of the House in a Garret Mr. Pouthnel himself being at that instant absent from home nor indeed had he been there for some considerable time past leaving only a Housekeeper who in the nature of a Steward managed his Estate with an under Bayliff named Dudley and two Women who were all noted Papists especially one of the Females who is or at least pretends to be missioned from his Un-holiness A few days after Busby was taken Dudley and the two Women were also Apprehended and brought before Justice Gilbert who laying open the Law to Dudley told him that he was not only liable to be imprisoned but to be Indicted also and that the matter of Fact being so evident he had certainly forfeited his Life by entertaining and harbouring the said Priest which was death by the Statute This wrought so effectually upon Dudley who had not as yet entertained any thoughts of being Sainted that he freely confessed to the Justice That his Master Pouthrel did after an extraordinary manner receive and protect the Priests of Rome telling him that at one time and in one and the same place there met together no less than thirty of them the greatest part of whom he knew as having seen them at several times at his Masters house Moreover affirming that one of the women who were taken with him was in some kind of Orders the nature whereof he could not tell neither what she was only he had observed her to Baptize Children Mr. Gilbert then further encouraged him by all the mild and plausible perswasions imaginable assuring him of all the favour and friendship that could be expected from so ingenuous a Confession And now Sir do but observe the damnable and wicked contrivance of this accursed Crew For Dudley gathering more assurance from the mild behaviour and hearty promises of the Justice proceeds to declare That they had conspired amongst themselves to Accuse Mr. Gilbert the Justice of the Peace that when he searched the House he had taken from thence a Bag of Eighty Pounds in money and that he carried it away with him threatning withal to Indict him upon a Robbery for the same But it appearing that there was no such money lost altho' they did impudently charge it upon this worthy and active Gentleman Mr. Dudley as a recompence for this great discovery was discharged and set at liberty the rest were sent to the County-Gaol where they remain to be Tryed at the next Assizes Thus Sir I have given you a true and impartial Relation and which I hope hath in some measure discharged that Obligation incumbent upon me I shall now leave you to make your own Remarks upon the proceedings of this sort of people who notwithstanding all the dangers and difficulties they meet with from the Constitution of our Laws and Government shall yet be be so audacious as even in the heart of the Kingdom to affront them both which makes me apt to believe there is some greater encouragement in the bottom of their design than as yet the world is either capable of knowing or willing to be undeceived in SIR I am yours in all Hearty Affection From Halam in Derbyshire June 4th 1681. LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Ally in Pater-noster-Row 1681.