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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	knight_n	lord_n	sir_n	14,238	5	7.1640	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92975	The severall humble petitions of D. Bastwicke. M. Burton. M. Prynne. and of Nath. VVickins, servant to the said Mr. Prynne. To the Honourable House of Parliament. Whereto is added the humble petitions of severall friends of the said Mr. Prynne, and the acknowledgmeut [sic] prescrib'd to be made by Calvin Bruen, and the rest, in the Cathedrall Church of Chester, and town-hall thereof, for visiting the said Mr. Prynne.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing S2765; Thomason E207_4; ESTC R209836	16,501	49

by a pretended order from the Lords of the Counsell hee was conveyed to the Fleet and there kept close prisoner During which imprisonment an information was exhibited against the petitioner and others in his Majesties Court of Star-Chamber whereby he was charged inter alia with the publishing of a certaine Booke containing an Apologie for an Appeale with his said two Sermons intituled For God and the King wherein hee taught Subjects to yeeld all manner of due obedience to their lawfull King and reproved all lawlesse Innovations in Religion c. Which Information the petitioner upon his Oath under the hand of M. Holt being then of his counsell assigned by speciall order from the said Court did put in his answer wherein hee alledged such things onely as his said Counsell conceived to be materiall and pertinent for his just defence in publishing the said booke but denyed all other matters in the said Information conteined which said Answer being admitted and received in Court the petitioner being then a close prisoner not onely attended the exhibiting of Interrogatories according to the custome of that Court but withall after some universall delay did write unto the Kings Attourney to hasten them but before the examiner came the petitioner heard that his said Answer was referred to S. Iohn Bramston Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Iohn Finch then chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas and was by them wholy expunged as impertinent and Scandalous save onely the not guilty And the Petitioner understanding the answer he was to make to the Interrogatories was to be reckned as a part of his answer admitted in court but afterwards expunged as impertinent scandalous as aforesaid so as if he should then have answered the Interrogatories he shold thereby have assented to the said act of the said Iudges and so to the condemnation of his cause before the hearing wherby he should have contracted his former Oath that his said Answer was a true Answer and so should justly have brought himselfe under the guilt of wilfull perjury and his cause under just censure For that very reason he held himselfe not bound as hee conceived to answer the Interrogatories for that his said answer was so expunged and the Not Guilty as the foot so tyed to the head without the maine body and that in the Judges owne words as the Petitioner could not in any sort take or acknowledge it now for other then the Judges owne answer as may appeare upon Record in the same Court Neverthelesse the Court taking the same information Pro confesso and refusing to admit a copy of the Petitioners own true answer as also of his reasons of not answering the Interrogatories both which at his Censure he tendred to the Court desiring they might be then and there publikely read the 14. of Iune 13. Caroli Regis proceeded to censure whereby your Petitioner was Censured in a Fine of 5000. li. to his Majesty To be deprived of his Ecclesiasticall Benefice degraded from his Ministeriall function and degrees in the Vniversity and ordered to be set on the Pillory where both his eares were to be cut off confined to perpetuall close imprisonment in Lancaster Castle debarred the accesse of his wife or any other to come to him but onely his Keeper and denied the use of penne inke and paper All which except the Fine was executed accordingly And after his close imprisonment for twelve weekes in the common Gaole in the said Castle he was by what extrajudiciall order he knows not transported by the conduct of one Brian Burton appointed by the High Sheriffe of Lancaster who used your Petitioner very basely and deceitfully in that his transportation which was in the Winter season through dangerous seas to the apparant hazzard both of his health and life to he said Castle of Garnsey where hee hath remained a close prisoner and exile almost three whole yeares his wife utterly prohibited upon paine of imprisonment to set her foot upon any part of the Iland where she might but enquire how her husband did contrary to the Lawes of God and the liberties of this Kingdome May it therefore please this Honorable House to take the Petitioners sad cause into consideration and for the better manifestation of his grievance in this cause to assigne him for Counsell Master Serjeant Atkins Master Tomlins and Master Gurdon to assist him in his cause and to command that he may take out such copies Gratis out of the said severall Courts as doe or may concerne his said cause And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall daily pray for your prosperities HENRY BURTON The humble Petition of Nathanael Wickings servant to Master Prinne and late prisoner in the White-Lion in Southwarke Most humbly sheweth THat more then 3 years and a half since your Petitioner being servatn to Master William Prinne then prisoner in the Tower pending the last Information against his said Master in the Star-chamber was apprehended in the Tower by a Messenger by a warrant from the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords and by him determined close prisoner by the space of tenne weekes that none could speake with him but his Majesties Attourney General his Majesties then Solicitor who examined him three severall times upon secrets of his said Masters to extort some matter of accusation against his said Master by Dures That after tenne weekes end your Petitioner was from that close custody by warrant from the Counsell Board delivered over into the hands of Iohn Ragge a Messenger attendant upon the High Commission Court to be by him delivered to the Keeper of the Gate-house But the said Ragge carryed your Petitioner home to his owne house and there detained him two dayes and a night till some of the High-Commissioners had signed a warrant for your Petitioners commitment to the Counter in Woodstreet whereto he was carryed by the said Ragge and charged with 26 shillings as his Fees due to him for the two dayes and nights he kept your Petitioner without order That your Petitioner was after called before the High Commissioners at Lambeth and there tendred the oath Ex officio to wit to answer all such Articles as should be objected against him without ever being permitted either to see or heare them though hee desired the same And for his refusing the said Oath the Court declared him pro Confesso and by their unanimous censure imposed a Fine of 1000 lib. on him good round costs of suite excommunicated and committed him backe to remaine Sub salva arcta custodia and not at any termes to walke abroad with his Keeper untill other order should be taken by the Court. One of the said Articles to which hee could give no answer running in these words Item we obiect to you Nath. Wickins that you know or believe that the letter which you carried to the Printer to be set the first Letter upon the Booke was a very compleat Letter and so Artificially cut as