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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	commandment_n	young_a	youth_n	69	3	7.6881	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41427	The English-American, his travail by sea and land, or, A new survey of the West-India's containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... : also, a new and exact discovery of the Spanish navigation to those parts ... : with a grammar, or some few rediments of the Indian tongue called Poconchi, or Pocoman / by the true and painfull endeavours of Thomas Gage ... 1648.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1648 (1648)	Wing G109; ESTC R22621	392,970	244

all his kindred and especially the head of that Tribe to which hee belongeth who if hee and the rest together find him to deserve imprisonment or whipping or any other punishment then the Officers of Justice the Alcaldes or Maiors and their Brethren the Jurates inflict upon him that punishment which all shall agree upon But yet after judgment and sentence given they have another which is their last appeale if they please and that is to their Priest and Fryer who liveth in their Town by whom they will sometimes bee judged and undergoe what punishment hee shall think fittest To the Church therefore they often resort in points of Justice thinking the Preist knoweth more of Law and equity then themselves who sometimes reverseth what judgement hath been given in the Town house blaming the Officers for their partiality and passion against their poore Brother and setting free the party judged by them which the Preist does often times if such an Indian doe belong to the Church or to the service of their house or have any other relation to them peradventure for their wives sake whom either they affect or imploy in washing or making their Chocolatte Such and their husbands may live lawlesse as long as the Preist is in the Town And if when the Preist is absent they call them to triall for any misdemeanor and whip fine or imprison which occasion they will sometimes pick out on purpose when the Preist returnes they shall bee sure to heare of it and smart for it yea and the Officers themselves peradventure bee whipped in the Church by the Preists order and appointment against whom they dare not speake but willingly accept what stripes and punishment hee layeth upon them judging his wisdome sentence and punishing hand the wisdome sentence and hand of God whom as they have been taught to be over all Princes Judges worldly Officers so likewise they beleeve and have been so taught that his Preists and Ministers are above theirs and all worldly power and authority It happened unto mee living in the Town of Mixco that an Indian being judged to bee whipped for some disorders which hee committed would not yeeld to the sentence but apealed to mee saying hee would have his stripes in the Church and by my order for so hee said his whipping would doe him good as comming from the hand of God When hee was brought unto mee I could not reverse the Indians judgment for it was just and so caused him to be whipped which hee tooke very patiently and merrily and after kissed my hands and gave mee an offering of mony for the good hee said I had done unto his soule Besides this civility of justice amongst them they live as in other Civill and Politick and well governed Common-wealths for in most of their Townes there are some that professe such trades as are practised among Spaniards There are amongst them Smiths Taylors Carpenters Masons Shoomakers and the like It was my fortune to set upon a hard and difficult building in a Church of Mixco where I desired to make a very broad and capacious vault over the Chappell which was the harder to bee finished in a round circumference because it depended upon a triangle yet for this work I sought none but Indians some of the Town some from oth●…r plac●…s who m●…de it so compleat that the best skilfullest workmen among the Spaniards had enough to wonder at it So are most of their Churches vaulted on the top and all by Indians they onely in my time built a new Cloister in the Town of Amatitlan which they finished with many Arches of stone both in the lower walks and in the upper galleries with as much perfection at the best Cloister of Guatemala had before beene built by the Spaniard Were they more incouraged by the Spaniards and taught better principles both for soule and body doubtlesse they would among themselves make a very good Common-wealth For painting they are much inclined to it and most of the pictures and Altars of the Country Townes are their workmanship In most of their Townes they have a Schoole where they are taught to read to ●…ing and some to write To the Church there doe belong according as the Town i●… in bignesse so many Singers and Trumpeters and Waits over whom the Preist hath one Officer who is called Fisca he goeth with a white Staffe with a little Silver Crosse on the top to represent the Church and shew that he is the Preists Clerk and Officer When any case is brought to be examined by the Preist this Fiscall or Clerk executeth Justice by the Preists Order He must be one that can read write and is commonly the Master of Musick He is bound upon the Lords Day and other Saints dayes to gather to the Church before and after Service all the yong youths and maids and to teach them the Prayers Sacraments Commandements and other points of Catechisme allowed by the Church of Rome In the morning hee and the other Musicians at the sound of the Bell are bound to come to Church to sing and officiate at Masse which in many Townes they performe with Organs and other musicall Instruments as hath beene observed before as well as Spaniard●… So likewise at Evening at five of the clock they are again to resort to the Church when the Bell calleth to sing Prayers which they call Completa's or Completory with Salve Regina a prayer to the Virgin Mary This Fiscal is a great man in the Town and beares more sway then the Majors Jurates and other Officers of Justice and when the Preist is pleased giveth attendance to him goeth about his arrants appointeth such as are to wait on him when hee rideth out of Town Both hee and all that doth belong unto the Church are exempted from the common weekely service of the Spaniards and from giving attendance to Travellers and from other Officers of Justice But they are to attend with their Waits Trumpets and Musick upon any great man or Preist that cometh to their Town and to make Arches with boughes and flowers in the streets for their entertainment Besides these those also that doe belong unto the service of the Preists house are priviledged from the Spaniards service Now the Preist hath change of servants by the week who take their turnes so that they may have a weeke or two to spare to doe their work If it bee a great Town hee hath three Cookes allowed him if a small Town but two men Cookes who change their turnes except hee have any occasion of feasting then they all come So likewise hee hath two or three more whom they call Chahal as Butlers who keepe whatsoever Provision is in the house under lock and Key and give to the Cooke what the Preist appointeth to bee dressed for his dinner or supper these keep the Table Clothes Napkins Dishes and Trenchers and lay the Cloth and take away and wait at the Table hee hath besides three