Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	sir_n	william_n	12,557	5	8.1084	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65369	The displaying of supposed witchcraft wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy, but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the witch ... is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters / by John Webster ...	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1230; ESTC R12517	396,606	368

blood or affinity Also money was given as was said to the Poysoners instead of inheritance But when they had murthered the Brother and only Son of one Necus and that scarcely others than the Masters of Families themselves or their Sons did perish And that also they had marked that into what Houses those Conspirators had insinuated themselves that those for the most part did perish into whose Houses they entred but the Conspiracy being found out they were all put to death with most exquisite torments They also confessed that they had determined to kill all the Citizens upon a Festival day by anointing the Seats and to that purpose they had prepared twenty Pots full of that pernicious and hellish Ointment And Paracelsus tells us that at St. Vitum and Villacum certain of the Poyson-makers in the time of a Plague did take the Earth and Dust from the Graves of those that had been buried and did so prepare it with their Magical Art that they raised up a most cruel and raging Plague whereby many thousands of men were infected and slain But that the manner of that preparation is by no means to be revealed Those that desire more satisfaction in this particular may have recourse to that learned Treatise de Peste written by the learned and industrious Matthias Untzerus 5. But there is no where a more strange accident written than what is recorded in our own Annals in the year 1579. the nineteenth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth in these words The 4 5 and 6. days of July were the Assises holden at Oxford where was arraigned and condemned one Rouland Jenkes for his Seditious Tongue at which time there arose such a damp that almost all were smothered very few escaped that were not taken at that instant The Jurors died presently Shortly after died Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron Sir Robert de Olie Sir William Babington M r Weneman M r De Olie High Sheriff M r Davers M r Farcurt M r Kirle M r Pheteplace M r Greenwood M r Foster Serjeant Baram M r Stevens c. There died in Oxford 300. persons and sickned there but died in other places 200. and odd from the sixth of July to the twelfth of August after which day died not one of that sickness for one of them infected not another nor any one Woman or Child died thereof This is the punctual relation according to our English Annals which relate nothing of what should be the cause of the arising of such a damp just at the Conjuncture of time when Jenkes was Condemned there being none before and so it could not be a Prison Infection for that would have manifested it self by smell or by operating sooner But to take away all scruple and to assign the true Cause it was thus It fortuned that a Manuscript fell into my hands collected by an antient Gentleman of York who was a great observer and gatherer of strange things and facts who lived about the time of this accident happening at Oxford wherein it is related thus That Rouland Jenkes being imprisoned for treasonable words spoken against the Queen and being a Popish Recusant had notwithstanding during the time of his restraint liberty sometimes to walk abroad with a Keeper and that one day he came to an Apothecary and shewed him a receipt which he desired him to make up but the Apothecary upon the view of it told him that it was a strong and dangerous receipt and required some time to prepare it but also asked him to what use he would apply it he answered to kill the Rats that since his Imprisonment spoiled his Books so being satisfied he promised to make it ready After a certain time he cometh to know if it were ready but the Apothecary said the ingredients were so hard to procure that he had not done it and so gave him the receipt again of which he had taken a Copy which mine Author had there precisely written down but did seem so horribly poysonous that I cut it forth lest it might fall into the hands of wicked persons But after it seems he had got it prepared and against the day of his tryal had made a week or wick of it for so is the word that is so fitted that like a Candle it might be fired which as soon as ever he was Condemned he lighted having provided himself a Tinder-box and Steel to strike fire And whosoever should know the ingredients of that Wick or Candle and the manner of the Composition will easily be perswaded of the virulency and venenous effects of it and this in him in regard of the use and end was meerly Diabolical though th● agency and effects were meer natural 6. It is very strange to consider what learned and grave Authors have left recorded of the Ligation or binding of Husbands that they might not be viripotent or be able to have to do with their Wives for a longer or a shorter time nay some even have proceded so faras to write it and seem also to believe it that by venifice or Witchcraft the virile members may be quite taken away as is related by Codronchius of a certain young man that had his members quite taken away by a Woman Witch which notwithstanding she restored again by beating and putting her in the fear of death And of this incredible story Sennertus a professed maintainer of the impossible power of Witches doth notwithstanding give this censure The Devil doth often delude men by prestigious and jugling deceits and perswadeth them that he hath brought such Diseases as indeed are none at all as this taking away the virile member related by Baptista Codronchius For although some be of that opinion that the genital members may really be taken away and restored by the Devil notwithstanding he saith I had rather hold with those that believe such things are meer juglings and delusions seeing it is not in the power of the Devil to restore unto man a member lost or taken away The most learned Lord Bacon doth affirm that this kind of Ligation or binding to make men impotent for Coition is frequent in Santonne and Gascoigne and is used to be done upon the Marriage day and that it is often performed by the Mothers to prevent that incantation by others and that they may loose it when they please And doth think it no light matter because punishable by their laws And saith after If it exceed not nature it hath its force from the Imagination of the binder of the virile member and adds Putem ego illud ab incantatione alienum esse quia non à certis personis tantum quales incantatores sed à quolibet fieri potest But that which puts it forth of all doubt that it is nothing but melancholy and the abuse of the fancy is manifest from the observation of perspicacious Salmuth which is this I have known two he saith who did imagine themselves impotent