Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	knight_n	sir_n	thomas_n	12,947	5	9.6515	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27165	No treason to say, Kings are Gods subjects, or, The supremacy of God, opened, asserted, applyed in some sermons preached at Lugarshal in Sussex by N.B. then rector there, accused of treason by James Thompson, Vicar of Shalford in Surry, and the author ejected out of the said rectory for preaching them : with a preface apologetical, vindicating the author and sermons from that false accusation, relating the manner of his ejection, and fully answering the narrative of the said Vicar, now also parson of Lurgarshal / by Nehemiah Beaton ...	Beaton, Nehemiah, d. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1568; ESTC R17272	43,029	53

what I can prove from his own mouth viz. That he had first obtained a promise or grant of my Living if I were removed before he attempted ought against me Although therefore he was a stranger to me yet with my Living was he so well acquainted that he knew it to be such a one as he had long gaped for and often succeslesly sought after Now Reader if thou canst not imagine that this accusation proceeded from malice which they say is a good informer yet might it not from avarice which is the root of all evil but bears no fruit so often as this of false accusation So that when God had prohibited this in the ninth Commandment he immediately added as that without which the other would never be kept Thou shalt not covet And when John Baptist had warned the Souldiers that they should accuse no man falsely he immediately prescribes this as the only remedy Be content with your wages It was the hope of getting the Living saith a learned Bishop that made Ziba accuse his Master falsely But Mr. Thompson had more than hopes he had an assurance of my Living before hand It was Naboths Vineyard saith the same Author and not his blasphemy that made him guilty and this this only was my treason I had a good living This hungry Vicar well knew that Lurgarshal afforded a larger bite than Shalford Common and that he could not get in unless he thus leaped the hedge the Law having let me in at the gate and shut it fast after me Wouldst thou know more of my Prosecutor to leave thee without the least doubt or scruple whether as foul a crime as false and forged accusations are yet he may be guilty of it Then hear what he hath since done When I was removing my goods from Lurgarshal this man desired to buy some of them Now though many perswaded me to decline him as a man not safely in any thing to be dealt with yet his proposition being fair that he would give as much as any and more than they could be worth if I removed them I consented to sell them But because I knew pretty well the complexion of his conscience I appointed him to bring one with him to prize them that so I might have another to testifie what passed between us In short we met and agreed on the prizes of several goods he appointed me to what person to deliver them promised again and again the payment of the money The goods I delivered according to appointment and now expected my money according to his promise but found that my Gentleman did not intend to hold my Living by one title and my Goods by another His five Witnesses were not yet dead and would they be so unkind when they had helped him to a house for nothing as to leave him now to pay for the furniture To a first a second a third demand therfore he denies to pay for my goods and bids me take my course Well after a civill Letter and almost a quarter of a years waiting he is arrested and the last Assizes the cause was tried between us Thither comes Mr. Thompson with one of his five credible Witnesses bragging of the victory and offering to lay great wagers he should cast me The Cause was called forth steps his credible Witnesse to do him now once more knights service and swears as heartily horresco referens or rather desperately as before but with some different success for the Jury so soon as they heard my Witnesses without stirring from the Bar gave Verdict against him Nay Sir William Wild who was of counsel for Thompson and who was by him prejudiced against me as one that had spoken Treason he I say and to his honour be it spoken when he heard my Case fully opened sate down and refused to plead for him and when this modest Vicar urged him to speak Sir William replied aloud with indignation Do not urge me to speak against my understanding and conscience in such a Case as this Reader should I at large relate without any comment or aggravation all the odious circumstances of this last practice I am confident thou wouldst think the man is not to be matched in England Next hear what I have to say as to the Charge I am accused and judged for preaching maliciously against his Majesties right c. 1. It is known almost to as many as know me that my judgment was against the death of the late King and for the restauration of this 2. I have often to the hazard of more than I have now lost and to the trouble of my friends openly declared my dislike and abhorrency of the murder of the King by which name I have frequently called it in publick places and was for so calling it accused to one of his pretended Judges who therefore did threaten to do great things against me 3. I was so far from thinking that his Majesty that now is had no right of succession to the Crown of these Realms that I was alwaies perswaded he had an undoubted right and that it was my duty in my place to endeavour his recovery of that right and have laboured to convince others that it was their duty I am certain I did seriously and heartily do my utmost in my place to procure it If these three Assertions be true wilt thou believe there is any truth in this Charge Now to prove them true I can produce the Testimonies and have the Certificates of many Knights and a multitude of Gentlemen both Ministers and others I will not trouble thee but with one of Sir Thomas Woodcocks who so long jeoparded his life in the high places of the field for the late King and so lately hazarded it in the High Court of Justice at Westminster a more dangerous place than the former for his loyalty to his Majesty that now is and is deservedly of that repute both at Court and in the Country for his Valour and Civility that I should much dishonour him if by giving a Character of him I should but suppose that the Reader hath not heard of him or would doubt the validity of his Testimony which follows in these words These are to certifie all whom it may concern that I have been well acquainted with Mr. Nehemiah Beaton above seven years last past In which space of time discoursing very frequently with him concerning the King and his affairs I discerned in him so deep a sense of his Majesties sufferings and so great a desire of his restauration that I was encouraged at a proper season to consult him c. where followeth a large relation of a particular service I did in order to his Majesties restauration which for brevities sake I omit and then he concludes with these words All this and much more of like nature I know and am ready to attest for him conceiving my self obliged in honour and conscience thereunto he having then given me unquestionable evidences of his loyalty