Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bishop_n	john_n	king_n	11,073	5	3.7166	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88933	The copy of a letter written from Dermond MacConnor, one of the chiefetaines of the Irish rebels, unto the King of Spaine, for aide and assistance against the English, and Protestants, being brought by an English marchant from Madrid and translated out of the Spanish originall. Also, a copy of another letter written from Lisbon in Portugall, concerning the execution of 4. noblemen, 4. gentlemen, and 3. bishops, and one of the inquisition. All traytors against the King of Portugall, Iohn the fourth. And to make up the 13th. the Bishop of Lamego, who had lately crown'd the King, yet since found guilty, with others, in a great treason and cruell massacre plotted, intending to kill the King of Portugall, his Queene, his sonne, and two daughters, and to burne the pallace, and citie, all in one day.	MacConnor, Dermond, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing M117; Thomason E132_3; ESTC R19071	3,873	10

the house of Diego Duarta Presently after there was in the same night set up a Scaffold in the middest of the Place of Execution made with steps or degrees of Assent upon the highest step there were set two Chaires and made fast one for the Duke and the other for his Father and on another step lower there was set a chaire for the Earle of Armamar and upon the boards lower there was set another chaire for Don Augustino Manuel so that they all did sit upon chaires or stooles but one higher than the other And there was made a Gallery from the house wherein they were unto the Scaffold all hung with Baies After that there were two high gallowes set up one at the side of S. Antonies gate and the other in the Street named Escudeiros so that the Scaffold was in the midst The next day betweene eleven and twelve of the clock there came unto the windowes of the House foure Corrigidours of the Court and some authorised Officers Thereupon came the Marquesse de Villa Real with a Monteere upon his head a little stick in his hand and with a Cloake about him After that he had made the first Step hee fell upon his Knees and made an elegant Speech or lamentation with great constancy more than was thought Then the Herauld at Armes began presently to cry The King our Lord desireth that Right be done Don Lonys late Marques de Villa Reall Traitour against the person of the King and for the good of the Kingdome and of the Common People shall be beheaded his Goods confiscated for the Royall Exchequer and his memory banished out of the world The Marquesse came as I mentioned before upon the Scaffold with great courage and sate downe upon the chaire then came the executioner made his body and armes fast and cut off his head and presently the Marquesse was covered with a garment of Bayes This being done the Duke his sonne came forth accompanied as the Father and the Herauld cryed as before untill the Duke came unto the Chaire upon which his Fathers body was before whose feet he kneeled downe kissing the same a thousand times craved time To say one Pater noster for his Fathers Soule Which being done hee went unto his seat but more faint-hearted and so was beheaded and covered Then came the Earle of Armamar with a common Doore-keeper and Don Augustino Manuel which were executed likewise Besides Pero de Baessa and Belchior Correnda Franca were hanged up at the side of Saint Anthonies-gate And in the Street named Esondeiros there hung Manuel Valente and a Clerke Whereupon all the people began to part and to Cry God save Don Iohn the Fourth Two houres after the foure hanged were quartered and their quarters carryed away But beleeve me this relation and spectacle following doth change my blood viz The two Bishops and with them the Bishop de Braga and the Inquisitor Mor for the same Treason are cast into the Towre of Belem into deep Pits which runne under the water wherein there is no light to end their lives there The Bishop de Braga recanted not but said to his last that King Philip was his Lord and that he did lose his life for him The rest confessed their crimes and alwaies cried for the mercy of the King Don Iohn the Fouth and especially the Marquesse de Villa Real who had written 3. or 4. sheers of paper craving his mercy but the King had committed it unto Justice and therefore would not intermeddle in pardoning any one of them Beassa would confesse nothing and dyed resolutely Since that time the Dutch Printed Coranto relates A Discovery of a great Treason and cruell Massacre plotted by 25. persons wherein there are many of the Grandees of the Land some of those 25. are taken Their intent was to kill the King of Portugall his Queene his Sonne and two Daughters and to burne the Pallace and City upon one day The Bishop of Lamego in Portugall hath beene since hanged at Lisbon being found guilty of this conspiracy This was hee that had put the Crowne upon his Majesties head And besides 8. others have beene han'gd J remaine your Servant c. FINIS