Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	acre_n	meadow_n	pasture_n	4,248	5	11.0446	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77341	A breviate of a sentence given against Jerome Alexander Esquire, an utter barrester of Lincolns-Inne, in the court of Star-chamber, the 17th day of November, in the second yeer of the raign of our soveraign Lord King Charls, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With exceptions taken to the said sentence, to unfold the iniquity thereof. With a short narrative of divers other passages and oppressions, wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life, both before and since. Printed for the satisfaction of his friends, against those many calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion, and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4410; Thomason E1066_2; ESTC R211322	183,530	157

be dry yet the fountaine is still the same and will fill the Channels that although in the winter of many infortunities there be neither leaves nor blos somes that do appear upon this tree yet whiles there is sap sufficient left in the root it will make both boughs and branches to flourish and grow green when the spring time of favour shall approach Acts 3.19 and when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord no man knows so well where the shoe wrings as he that wears it a sturdy Beggar gets no almes because he will not acknowledge his wants but whatsoever my adversaries may report or other men think of my Estate I may not be ashamed to enforme my Necessities and to open those sores which may procure your Charity and herein I will not be found a Lyer let malice and the black mouths of detraction say what they can against it I have lost by the Rebellion in Ireland in personall Estate five thousand seven hundred sixty nine pound the particulars whereof I can make appear by the Oathes of divers which I have ready to produce upon occasion I lost the possession of a Mannor and two thousand Acres of as good Land Meadow and Pasture as any in the County of Meath there where I dwelt which was under a part of this stock of which I had a Lease for forty one yeeres of some and sixty one yeeres of another part of it and within those Leases had the Tithes of as many out Parishes as paid the whole Rent reserved and more and so I enjoyed the Land free And upon which I had built and otherwise improved it in which I expended above one thousand two hundred pound besides the scituation of the place for Markets and every accommodation whatsoever that no man could dwell in a more Commodious seat I lost the possession of another Mannor and of five thousand twenty two Acres of Land Meadow and Pasture by Surveigh all within a hedge being my Inheritance and Fee-simple Estate which did yeeld me in present Rent six hundred pound per annum or there abouts was never improved by reason of my absence here in England for four yeeres together upon the late Earle of Straffords persecution there is above one thousand five hundred Acres of this is as good Meadow and Meadowable Pasture as any is in that Kingdome two thousand Acres more of it is as good Wheat Land as Grain can be sown upon the rest good land to feed sheep upon that I am sure valuing the losse of my yeerly revenew in Rent but at one thousand pound per annum I am no Lyer let malice say what it can unto the contrary and all this taken from me by the Rebells the 24. of October 1641. the next day after that bloody and traiterous design was to have been executed at Dublin but God Almighty giving me my life for a prey and the lives of my Wife and Family being miraculously delivered from the Enemies surprize in the dead time of that night attempting it hath answered all these my losses and bound me to a perpetuall thankesgiving and acknowledgement thereof unto God for this deliverance I lost the use of my profession also by which I profited yeerly more than all the revenew of my Estate besides and for all this I shall not be ashamed to say with the Patriarch Jacob With my staffe I passed over this Jordan Gen. 32.10 by which I became those two Bands and being dispoiled of all this again as I went I returned in a disconsolate Estate yet with holy Job looking up unto heaven from whence commeth my help after this I had no sooner set the sole of my foot upon my Native soyle here again but I met with many Comforters and was offered a competent livelihood for my self and family to have absented this City but was disswaded to embrace those offers with promise of a sufficient supply if to plant here and assist the common cause and truely my affection to the service and the assurance I had for my subsistance was from men so eminent in places and authority that I had no reason to doubt of the performance but being once engaged God Almighty to let me see there is no dependance but upon himself alone tooke these men away and left me onely to awaite upon his Providence and having now served the State this three yeeres space and more here in severall Committees and otherwise to the best of my abilities you will see in the sequell of the Story what my reward hath been for all my labours and faithfull performances herein and I have been informed that some have not been ashamed to give out that I have gotten ten thousand pound in this time in these imployments which is a thing so grosse and noteriously false that all men that but understands what I have had to do will cry him down for a son of Belial that shall have such a fiction in his mouth I protest upon the faith of an honest man that I have not in this time had so much allowed me in the places and Offices wherein I have served for Salary in the over sight of some Treasuries for the Irish account as hath given me and my family bread and more then what hath been freely given me for my paines I defie any man to charge me with and all which is visible and to be seen upon record to be much under three hundred pound and I have spent four hunded pound more in this time which hath been the benevolence of my friends and were I not bereaved of my whole Estate and fortune by that Rebellion as I said before I should as freely serve without reward in this Cause as any man alive and shall as willingly contribute what I am able to it as any man whatsoever but those that asperse me have dealt with me herein Jo. Paul Herin de Albing l. 1. c. 2. as the Pope anciently did with the Albingenses in France Who having a minde for to ruine them entertained them in Treaties and Conferences that in the mean time he might prepare his great Armies the more suddenly to destroy them so are they such who made fair weather with me a long time till they had served their own turns and gained their own ends Ecces 6.8.9.13 and then have requited me with this bad language onely for my labour and now it is but justice to do him right that hath suffered all this wrong and but Christian compassion now at last to take that burthen from my back which hath so long so heavily laine upon my shoulders but if my time of rest and quiet be not yet come since vengeance is onely Gods Prerogative I shall leave Joves thunder-bolt in his own hands and in the mean time scorn the wrong and so shall sufficiently be revenged of the injury and shall thus conclude with that of Jethro unto Moses Blessed be the Lord who