Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	anthony_n	sir_n	thomas_n	10,660	5	8.6168	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56081	The Protestant antidote, or, An answer to a pamphlet, entituled, A seasonable address to the right honorable Lord Mayor, &c. touching the present election of sheriffs : in a friendly epistle to that worshipful author / from his humble servant Phil. Anglus Trueman.	Phil. Anglus Trueman.; Philo-patris.	1680 (1680)	Wing P3822; ESTC R18044	4,570	2

For my part I should think it rather blame worthy if any few should obstinately refuse to acquiesse in the determination of a Major Vote or should urge unusual unpresidented proccedings and little Stratagems and shams which should seem against common Right Equity and reason but whether any such thing have lately been offered by those you would be understood to complain of is left to wiser judgments But you seem to object something against the persons of some of the Candidates If they are not qualified let the law reprobate them but all you say is by way of sly Insinuation had you spoke plainly and proved any such matter it had been worth consideration now t is only Rancour and Libel I am not ignorant t is buzz'd abroad That one of them was nominated of the Council of state in the late times of confusion and a list have been very industriously printed concerning which having no personal knowledge of the Gentleman that seems to be aimed at I cannot give so full an answer as might otherwise be done But however there is so little in that objection that any man of impartial sense may abundantly be satisfied that 't is malicious and impertinent for 1. In the Act of free and general pardon indempnity and oblivion 12. Car. 2. Ca 11th T is enacted for the reasons in the oreamble thereof viz To the intent that no crime whatsoever should thereafter rise in iudgment or be brough in Question against any of the Kings subjects except such crimes and persons as are therein excepted to the least endamagement of them or to the prejudice of their reputations by any reproach or term et distinction and to bury all seeds of future discords in the breast of his Najesty and in the breasts of all his subjects one towards another c. That all crimes misdemeanours c. be pardoned released Indempnified discharged and put in utter oblivion With a penalty therein upon any office in any law Court c. that shall vex disquiet or grieve any person pardoned and Indempnified by the said Act From whence it appears that every person within mentioned not exempted in the sad Act is as capable as any other of his Majesties Subjcts to have his share in the Government and several of them have been since honoured dignified and employed in eminent Affairs of state by his Majesties special Election and choise and consequently Quere Whether the Printer and publisher of that paper called The true list c. And you Mr. Addresser who are harping on the same string be not disturbers of the publick peace and enemies to the quiet of his Majesties good subjects 2. The Printer or publisher of that paper would perswade the Reader that all those persons therein named had taken the Oath therein mentioned which is most false and scandalous for the Lord Fairfax never took that oath nor appeared at that Council and General Monk was then in Scotland and could not appear to be sworn at that time likewise Sir Thomas Widdrington Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper Alderman Love Mr. Bethel and others of whom I challeng that Libeller or you Mr. Addresser to prove that any one of them took that Oath and if any body shall report such a thing and be not able to prove it does he not deserve the name and punishment of a Libeller or Slanderer But the willful malice in the publisher of that paper is apparent in that the very Author from whom he taketh that list viz. The continuation of Bakers Chronicle Fol. 678. calls it only the names of the intended Counsellors of State and ingenuously and truely acknowledges that even a third part of them at least refused it and were therefore not admitted to sit and act All which this Libeller conceals purposely to promote a causeless scandal 3. T is well known that Vice-Admiral Lawson if he did take the Oath appeared very faithful to the King after his Restauration and lost his life in his Majesties service at sea and why unless to serve some popish design amuse people and raise feuds and Animosities should the Author of this paper now revive this story and so falsly represented striving to infect the people with prejudices and slanders against diverse persons of worth and honest reputation In which design you Mr. Addresser are likewise engaged and tho your words are smoother than oil yet the poison of asps seems to be in your heart but the world is pretty wel aware of your devices you spit your venom but in vain Let us therefore I beseech you noble Sir Injoy that Peace with you seem to recommend Alarm not the Government and your Neighbors with needless fears and false representations of tumults and tll practises and designs where there are none Forbear your slanders how many hundred real sound strict and most obedient Sons of the Church of England have lately been stigmatiz'd with the title of Fanaticks meerly because they stood up for their just legal civil rights and priviledges as Citizens and English-men Whereas you say t is not so easy to introduce Popery amongst us as a Common-wealth I conceive t is both a false and seditious assertion but accursed be he and let his memory rot that designs either of them and in spight of all your little dividing arts I do not doubt but to see his Majesty long to continue great dear and glorious in the hearts of his subjects the Church of England to be supported with due Reverence the Protestant Religion to flourish prerogative liberty and property to be maintained according to Law and Popery with all its plots and Abbetters however maskt or disguised to be in these nations shortly and throughout the world in Gods determined time utterly confounded To which he that does not cordially say Amen let him be Anathema POSTSCRIPT If the unknown Author of the sheet called the Address c. shall within few days as he promises prove himself to the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor to be a Citizen and a Protestant I hereby Engage likewise to publish my name and openly beg his pardon for any thing wherein I may seem through mistake to have misrepresented him and upon that Issue I leave it FINIS