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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baronet_n	knight_n	sir_n	27,306	5	7.3237	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

of that grosly ignorant dis-ingenuous and inconstant multitude and which unhappily made them to be so instrumental not only to themselves but also such real auxiliaries to the long continuate sad distractions and ever to be lamented miseries of these late so wilfully distressed Nations And in truth your Majesties Subject might have just cause to fear that some or other of his Neighbours so notoriously envious might be drawn by some Diabolical instigation to make an Oath against his Life as well as his Libertie for he had good reason to misdoubt the worse in regard he was so palpably guiltie of such high Crimes as true intelligent legal Loyaltie and just Integritie were then esteemed to be and also because his place and station was under a Climate where the farr major part of the people were so prodigi-Ously zealous and fanatical and where but very few of any note or qualitie thereabouts had the happinesse or honour of a just occasion to be put into the Catalogue of Sufferers with that eminently Loyal and ever to Honoured Knight of St. Johns in Colchester now the Right Honourable the Lord Lucas and that most Noble and Loyal Baronet Sir Benjamin Ayloffe and that worthy to be remembred and discreet Knight Sir Thomas Wiseman the Elder deceased and therefore your Majesties Subject well considering that his so constant opposition to the violent force and torrent of Rebellion would every day more and more stir up the stomachs and provoke and sharpen the edge of his pernitious and inveterate Enemies so cruelly bent against him and that such also of his Neighbours as he esteemed to be his Friends durst not make any manifestation or testimony thereof for fear of being marked with the brand of Malignancy and so in danger likewise to be exposed to the fury and madnesse of the multitude for his sake and knowing for certainty that his own Conscience in point of Religion and his knowledge and judgement in the municipall Laws of his Country would never permit him in the least tittle to alter his resolution in the progresse of truth and Loyalty did hereupon conceive and believe as aforesaid that a private departure from his house for a time would prove his best visible posture of defence And so towards the latter end of the year 1642. your Subject with some reluctancy God knows did depart from his dwelling place leaving his dear Wife and small Children as the fate and face of the Tyrannical times did then appear in a Forrest or Wildernesse amongst Bruitish and Barbarous animals and yet with a competent and sufficient estate for their comfort support and maintenance in my absence if their innocencies had not been injuriously deprived and violently robbed thereof within a short time after my departure And so it was if it please your Majesty that the change of aire did never breed the least change or alteration in your subjects minde and affections but wheresoever he came and upon all occasions his discourse was still pathetical on your Majesties most glorious Fathers behalf very freely reproving the crosse hallucinations perversities and rebellion of the times and vindicating his Majesties regall rights and just and lawfull Prerogatives to the uttermost of his power in so much as many times he found that he gave offence to some and made others of a more honest condition somewhat timorous to entertain him for fear of the Bugg-bear and his r●mbling ubiquitarie spirits that then kept the bewitched Countrey in so much awe for alas the most part of the people thereabouts were so sottish as to idolize meer shaddows and yet fondly to neglect the Almighty God that made them and ready to offend and grieve his good spirit by their irreverent despising and horrible rebelling against his most perfect and specifical Image that then was upon the face of the earth which profane impiety your subject could not pass by without ministring some reproof although some that pretended to be his friends did divers times tell him that he did procure his own wrong and prejudice thereby yet your subject having a more assured regard and a more firme and vigilant eye upon the future then the present time could not upon any occasion refrain in a Christian and moderate manner to declare himself and in despite of all opposition still persisted in that religious and heroical resolution of loyalty and the discharging of his own conscience before God and the World and thus after many sore rubs dangers and affronts your subject approached unto the village of Dalham in Suffolk the * Thomas Dalton now Dr. in Divinity Rector whereof being my kinsman and one that I may well affirm to be a very loyal learned and orthodox Divine did give me most free and noble entertainment and where by the means of the great love and especiall regard both of himself and his vertuous wife expressed towards me being in that distressed condition and whom in truth of nobleness they esteemed as their Kings friend above their own kinsman and together with the civil courtesies and generous respects of another noble Gentleman then Lord of that town and others of his worthy family at Dalham Hall your subject did receive and enjoy a comfortable rest and residence for many weeks together being linked in a pleasant and sweet society with some royal bird of his own feather and where quotidian and frequent discourses did pass amongst us concerning his late Sacred Majesty and his affairs at Oxford whither your subject● said kinsman intended suddainly to repair and also offered to my self a friendly and fair means of conduction thither which I did thankfully imbrace and approve of yet before I undertook so long and dangerous a journey I was very solicitous to see my wife and children and to take my leave of them not knowing what had success I might meet with as the times then were nor whether I should ever live to see them again in this world or not after which resolution thus taken without delay I began to ma●ch and did beat upon the ●oof homewards as I was driven to fetch my compass I beleeve above four miles at the least but when I approached the territories of my own unhappy Countrey that profest stage of rebellion mine ear●s were sa●ly saluted and summoned with the beating of drums and thundring of guns for indeed the most part of the people in that quarter were so much holy mad that their most continual practice and greatest endeavour was to seek occasions and prepare materials to macerate themselves and to muster up the ruin and confusion of these once so happy and late most flourishing nations And further to trie my patience when I came within a flight shot of mine own house I was casually met withall and discovered by a man that dwelled in the same Town of Dedham where the rebells were then a training up themselves to work mischeif which party I durst not well trust in regard that some of his neighbours but

time of my absence for one of them that had hired some of my land of the Sequestrators and had been a servant and retainer to my house near fortie years and had also received many benefits and favours at my hands did notwithstanding denie and forbid my Wife to take any fewell for her own use out of the lands of her own joynture but selled and took what he listed for himself and therefore I had a great mind to ●kar● such wretche● and commenced divers actions at Law against them for the recovering of the mean profit● of my Land and for other wrongs which I had received by them not doubting that the Judges who were sworn to do Justice could either in Law or conscience direct a Jurie to find against me being there was no obstacle or obstruction in my way but only an Ordinance made by a rent piece or patch of a prodigious Parliament and yet I had heard that their Cou●● of injust indempnitie would surely stop my proceedings at Law and neverthelesse I had a strong Zeal to be still an instrument to open mens ei●● and to let the people see and learn what the Law was although my self ●●aped no other benefit by the bargain and indeed there was one which had poss●ss●d the most part of my Land and who not long before I had seriously reproved for his so doing and said that I much marvelled at him above others for I had conceived a better opinion of him in former times and his excuse was only this that if he had not hired my Land somebody else would ala● quoth I if another will do wickedly is that a sufficient warrant for you to do the like No surely for if there were no receivers there would be but fevv Theeves and if there had been no such Creatures as you to hire our Lands and to buy and embezle our goods there would hardly have been any such impudent and impious Wretches to deprive and rob us of the same and certain said I there is a time when you shall come to a strict and bitter accompt for these things and if you chance to die soon and so escape Justice and Puishment in this World yet you shall be sure to hear of it hereafter he asked me when and I told him at the day of Judgement well quoth he if I may tarry so long I do not greatly care I was sorry to hear him speak so like an Atheist and said unto him alas poor man that time may come before thou art aware of it for as Death doth leave thee so Judgement shall find thee and therefore repent in time this man was a pure Pretender to Religion a frequent hearer of Sermons at home and Lectures abroad and this was the only Party that after his arrest at my suite did apply himself to their Court of Indempnity and there getting an Order against me did upon a Sunday serve it upon me in the Church-porch I looked on it and when I perceived the Contents thereof I cast it on the ground at my feet before the face of him that gave it into my hands and surely I had been soundly catechis'd for this contempt of their usurping proud Luciferian Authority esteemed of me as much as a Lowse one of the Plagues of Aegipt if Providence had not presently brought those Noble Lords together with our Valiant and Beloved Country man Sir Charles Lucas into Essex in armes and that for a time did mittigate my Martyrdome and I was triumumphantly glad to hear of their Approach and I dare swear it for a truth that if I had been Master of as many men as ever X●rxes commanded and as much Treasure as ever Croesus enjoyed all had been suddenly sent to their succour and assistance but alas I had then but one Jewell of any worth that was fit for service and this was my Eldest Son a Youth of about eighteen years of Age whom I loved dearly and was very loth to loose him and yet willing to venture him upon so good and honourable a design and he well perceiving my disposition did freely offer himself and was so ready to embrace the occasion as I rejoyced thereat with admiration to see the sparkes of Loyalty so soon kindled ●● his Youthfull breast and both he and my self endeav●●●ed the best we could to procure some others to go along with him and with all expedition I furnished him for the Journey as well as I was then able and away he marched on foot with two lusty Fellows with him and I charged them to go the most private way and to have a vigilant eye to keep themselves as much as might be from being discovered and surprised by Scout● for I beleeved the Country was full of evill Spirits but they had not marched many miles before that unluckily they fell into a Party of the Rebells that soon robbed them of all their Moneys and let them go yet for all this first check my Son would on still and not long after they fell into another part of the Enemies where there was a Lievetenant then a Rebell but now I hope an honest man that knew my Son well and much perswaded him to return home to his ●ather and not expose himself to any further danger and as I think did procure him a Ticket for his convoy homewards and this notwithstanding so soon as my Son was gotten clear from him he went still on his intended Voyage and with much labour and travell at length he fell in amongst Sir Charles Lucas his companies and so came along with them to Colchester where by the means of some Gentlemen of his acquaintance he was soon furnished with Horse and A●mes and there continued all the time of that ●edious and troublesome Siege and had the hap to make away 3. Horses there one was killed under him in fight at a ●alley made out at the East gate another was stollen out of pasture and the third himself and his Comrades did provide a Sepulture for in their hungry and half starved Bellie● and one time he was in danger to have been most cowardly killed by the Rebells for being in an out-quarter of the Town and much wearied with watching he like a young Souldier ventured to go to bed and in the interim the Guards were beaten up by the Enemy who entred the house where he was and running up the stairs to search for Cavaliers the people of the house cried out and said that there was no body aloft but a Maid sick in bed and they looking in at the Chamber door and seeing one in the bed with a clout o● kerchief on the head and no hair on the face did take it to be a wench indeed and so by Gods mercy they departed without doing him any harm at that time and once as he told me a Bullet was shot quite thorough the Hat upon his head and yet he received no hurt but surely he did happily escape many wonderfull danger● for