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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	father_n	son_n	tenant_n	1,509	5	10.0474	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93858	A narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland, for the subjugating thereof to the French king together with the proceedings against, and tryal of the Earl of Tyrone, and others who were accused for carrying on the same : containing the several examinations of Hubbart Bourke, Edward Ivie, John Macnemarrah, and Thomas Samson, Gent., upon information taken before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland ... / by Tho. Samson, Gent., late steward of the Earl of Tyrone.	Samson, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing S542; ESTC R202423	43,134	40

me to Major Butler then took me by the hand and said Old Friend farewel now for evermore Then Quarter-master Ely began a Health to the Prosperity of the Earl of Tyrone and to the confounding and utter Subversion of all his Enemies and forced the Health to go round This Ely is the Lord Lieutenant his Quarter-master and charged by the aforesaid Mac Namara in his after Examination of being in the Plot and to be a Major under the Earl of Tyrone for the French King and confessed that he was a Papist heretofore when questioned by the Lord Lieutenant upon the aforesaid Mr. Samson's telling him before the Lord Lieutenant and Council that he had a Crucifix about his Neck and afterwards was committed to the Marshal for abusing the said Samson where he continued for one week and then returned to his Command The Examination which follows is Mr. Ivie's touching the knowledge he had of Mr. Mac Namara which was before spoken of to be concerned with the Earl of Tyrone in the Plot and who afterwards in his Examination confesseth he was to be an Officer under the said Earl who promised me before the said Mr Ivie to discover the same at the Assizes but through Bribes did not appear but managed the Earls Designs with me to bribe me to desist my prosecuting the said Earl and offered me large Bribes to throw the Accusation on others But on Mr. Ivies confronting him before the Lord Lieutenant and Council and petitioning the Board to have him kept from the said Earl of Tyrone's Friends and Agents and from Quarter-master Ely who furnished him with Money and Horse and promised him Bail on occasion He then being kept close according to the said Ivie's Petition he then confessed the Truth and discovered the whole Plot as you may see in his Examination following Mr. Ivie's HVBART BOVRKE The EXAMINATION of Edward Ivie Gent. Taken at several Times before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of IRELAND in the beginning of November 1679 touching the Earl of TYRONE WHo saith That about Michaelmass last was Twelve-month John Mac Namara of the County of Waterford Gentleman brought unto me James Power the Father and his three Sons Richard William and James Power the said Mac Namara desiring me to take them as Tenants on the Lands of Dunhill in the said County of Waterford which accordingly I did the said Mac Namara assuring me that they were honest men who after that they had been there some time I observed together with my Servants and Neighbours a great recourse to them of persons being private in the said Power 's house by day and going away at night having several strange horses at day and gone away at night I also observed the said Powers and the aforesaid John Mac Namara providing Bridles Saddles Swords and other Arms. In the mean time a Warrant was sent from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant to apprehend the said Powers and Mac Namara The Powers being apprehended made their Escape out of the Constables hands which the Countrey took much notice of Mac Namara being also taken was committed to Waterford Gaol and in few days bailed out on which he returned home and some days after told me that he had made his application to the Earl of Tyrone to assist him in this his trouble And finding the said Earl in fear on Bourke's charging him for Treason so that he did not answer the said Mac Namara's expectation he the said Mac Namara returned home in great passion and concluded that his Father-in-law and Brother-in-law should go to Dublin to get his Pardon which accordingly they did and applied themselves to Sir John Cole for their Assistance And as they told me they met at Sir John Cole's the Lord Chief Justice Keeting on which they concluded to get no Pardon for that the Lord Chief Justice had promised to be kind to the said Mac Namara and would stand his Friend at the Assizes Upon which they returned home and acquainted the said Mac Namara with what they had done But the said Mac Namara concluded himself not safe in their not bringing his Pardon and therefore broke out into a great passion and told me that seeing the said Earl had drawn him into such dangerous Designs and had now left him he would no more look after Pardons nor trust no more to promises but he would discover the whole Truth which the Earl of Tyrone was carrying on against the King and further said That Bourke was but a Fool and knew nothing of the Plot in comparison of what he knew and that at the Assizes he would make a full Discovery thereof The said Mac Namara further told me that the said Earl was privy to all the Horses and Arms provided for the Plot which when the said Bourke came into the Countrey I acquainted him with and thereupon the said Bourke wrote a Letter to the Judges wherein he mentioned that the said Mac Namara and others were concerned in the Plot and therefore he could not appear till they appeared The said Mac Namara hiding himself until he had received an Account of Mr. Bourk's Proceedings and of the return of the Letter sent to the Judges in order to his coming in to discover that he might be secured To which purpose the said Mac Namara received a Letter from a Friend of his That Bourke had not yet spoke with the Judges and therefore advised the said Mac Namara to continue private where he was until he heard further from him At this time Mac Namara had promised Bourke to confess but desisted on the Earls Promises of Rewards The said Earl of Tyrone hearing of the said Mac Namara's Intentions several Letters was posted after the said Mac Namara in order to get him to Waterford with promises of being prorected from all things which was lain to his Charge Upon which promises the said Mac Namara came to Waterford and there was privately secured in the house of Mr. Fitz Gerrald a Papist and Merchant and the same night or the night after was conveyed up to the Earl of Tyrone's Lodgings where he the said Mac Namara told me being before the said Earl he the said Earl told him That he little thought his Fathers Son would serve him so as to betray him and that if he would desist discovering what he knew of the Plot he the said Earl would excuse him as to his troubles and save him from appearing at the Court and that he had so ordered Matters with the Judges that the same Bail should stand till the next Assizes without his appearing which accordingly was done to the admiration of all that heard it And assured him that he the said Earl would against the next Assizes write to or speak with Mr. Morris who said the Earl is my Friend and your Prosecutor and order the Matter so that against the next Assizes he the said Mac Namara should be freed After the Assizes Mac Namara returned home and Bourke being gone away sent