Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	arthur_n	john_n	sir_n	15,296	5	6.8412	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65081	An appeal to Caesar wherein gold and silver is proved to the Kings Majestie's royal commodity : which, by the lawes of the kingdom, no person of what degree soever but the Kings Majestie and his Privy Council can give licence to transport either gold or silver ... / by Tho. Violet ...	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing V580; ESTC R34727	48,995	59

Father would I have obeyed the Parliament and discovered the Transporters of Gold at that time 1643. I had inioyed all my estate and been setled in the Office which I have for two Lives for the regulating Gold and Silver Thred and Wyer And all this damage I suffered for obeying your Maiesties Royal Fathers command to my damage at this day above twenty thousand pounds My most humble Petition to your Majesty is That seeing I was oppressed and traduced by the tyranny of Sir Henry Vane junior Sir Arthur Haselrig and Mr. St. John they being the principal Actors that ruined me that I may have by your Majesties goodness bounty and mercy allotted out of Sir Arthur Haselrigs and Sir Henry Vanes estates such satisfaction and reparation as your Maiesty in your Royal wisdom shall think fit and just for my support after so sad an oppression for my loyalty to your Royal Father the petition to the Parliament and my charge against Vane St. John Haslerig was put into the Parliament before your Majesties gracious Letter from Breda the Lords in Parliament ordered me to respite my Petition to them until your Maiesties happy arrival into England and ever since I watched my opportunity to shew what I have done and suffered for your Royal Father and what I can and will do for Your Majesties Royal service if you please to command me I am at your service as far as my life and estate will go MAY it please your Majesty in the year 1636. your Majesties Royal Father gave Alderman Wollaston and Alderman Gibbs his Gratious pardon Sir Henry Mildmay and the Company of Goldsmiths charged Alderman VVollaston for buying the Kings stollen Plate and Alderman Gibbs for refining and melting of Silver contrary to the Lawes as will appear in the Records of the Councel-Table about March 1635. Had not his Royal Majesty of blessed memory pardoned the then Lord Major Wollaston the Law had hanged him before ever he had come to have been Lord Major of London and then he should have prevented this VVollaston from being such a Traitor to his Majesty the Proverb saith Save a Thief from the gallows and he will hang thee This VVollaston proved a bloody enemy to the King to his dying day and Gibbs as bad as he but is yet living For as soon as ever I delivered his Majesties Message unto my Lord Major he sent for his fellow Traitor Alderman Gibbs and they presently concluded to make Sir Henry Vane junior Sir Arthur Haslerig Mr Sollici or St. John and Francis Allen acquainted with the Kings Letter and ordered presently to apprehend me Sir Basil Brook and Mr. Rily to seize upon our Estates and sequester us And so presently I was that night apprehended and for four years so used that never any man that brought up a Letter from any King of England to London for a Peace was so barbarously and cruelly used that Evening the aforesaid persons and some others examined me they carried me to Goldsmiths Hall they sent for Sir Basil Brock and Mr. Rily and St. John the Kings Sollicitor caused all our Pockets to be searched and found their Letters in Sir Basil Brocks and Rilies but none in mine and as Sir Basil Brook presented him with the Kings Letter which I brought up from Oxford St. John asked Sir Basil Brook for another Letter which the Kings Majesty had sent up the day before I went to Oxford to presse Rily and his party to act their business as soon as they could with a Letter from my Lord George Digby which the Officers found about Sir Basil Brook Touching this business when they had these Letters St. Johns Vane Haselrig Mr. Allen Lord Major Wollaston and Alderman Gibbs and several others made themselves very merry with them There was Mr. Jackson the Essay-Master of Goldsmiths Hall a very honest man and one that saved my life at that time in discovering to me what was confessed by Rily that he had not discovered any thing and that the aforesaid Committee were resolved to face me down Rilie had confessed all and so would have me to discover and I should have mercie They found in Mr. Rilies pockets Reads two Letters aforesaid and threatned him to have him racked if he would not discover the bottom of the businesse and who they were in the Citie that plotted to oppose the Scots coming in But there was an Oath of Secrecy amongst them all and Rilie knew them all but I was not privy to the number that was but only to act with Sir Basil Brook Read and at Oxford with his Majestie the Queens Majestie the Dutchess of Buckingham and Lord Digby and to bring the Kings Letter from Oxford Had Rily but confessed those Gentlemen in London that wete privie with him in this business he had made many score of men in the City of London lose their Lives and Estates And had the Lord Major VVollaston concealed the business twenty four hours it had been out of his power to have stopped this design for peace His late Majesty of blessed memory told me at Oxford That Rily had sent him down by one that came purposely to Read from London a List of above two hundred of the principal men that had ingaged in this business every man upon an Oath of secresie The late King commanded me to tell Mr. Rilie Scoutmaster-general of the City that he should follow his former Directions which was to be careful whom he imparted this business to and to treat with them severally and not together for all their security depended thereon that it did concern all our Lives and Estates to be circumspect We had former Presidents to make us wary Tomkins and Challenor and others and though he was careful of all his Subjects yet of those that were most forward to serve him he was most tender that they should venture themselves telling me he did know more of this design then I did by Gods blessing it will take saith his Majestie I have laid it so with Mr Rily that I am assured of a happy success go thy way I will make thee a man and tell my Lord Major and Mr. Rilie I will make them famous for ever Rily was by all parties trusted to carry on this design and had not the sins of the Nation prevented us of such a mercy for it was not Gods time for our deliverance there was never in all these troubles a design for putting an end to the War without bloodshed so laid and contrived as Sir Basil Brook Col. Read Mr. Rily had laid every man his part severally and so secretly that though the principal men in the City were ingaged in the business to make the City of London to declare for the King and to oppose the Scots invading of England and the Cities Declaration which they intended to publish I brought it to his Majesty my self 1643. and received my Orders and Directions thereupon my self from his Majesty and the Queens most