Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	county_n	sir_n	william_n	10,508	5	8.2906	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76806	The complaint of Mary Blaithwaite widdovv; setting forth her sad condition, occasioned by the late dissolution of the Parliament, and neglect of justice ever since. Die Venris 10 Martii 1647. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that the petition of Mary Blaithwaite, and the articles anexed, are heereby referred to Sir Edward Leche, to examine the businesse, and state the same, and make report thereof to this house with all convenient speed. Jo. Browne Cleric. Parl.	Blaithwaite, Mary.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3129; Thomason E735_15; ESTC R206971	5,260	8

THE COMPLAINT OF MARY BLAITHWAITE WIDDOVV Setting forth her sad Condition occasioned by the late dissolution of the Parliament and neglect of justice ever since Die Veneris 10 Martii 1647. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that the Petition of Mary Blaithwaite and the Articles anexed are heereby referred to Sir Edward Leche to examine the businesse and state the same and make report thereof to this house with all convenient speed Jo. Browne Cleric Parl. OH that there were but an eminent man of power that would stand up in the gap to iudge the fatherlesse and heare the cause of the Widdow that I might apply my selfe unto him for justice for I cry night and day and groane under the burden of my oppressions ●nd there is none to deliver mee out of the hand of the oppressors which maketh my heart so overwhelmed with sorrow and griefe that I cannot ●orbeare for my case depended before the late dissolved Parliament and ●hey would have done me justice if they had not been interrupted but now my case is more remedilesse then the poore Widdow who importuned the unjust Judge who neither feared God nor reverenced man and yet did her justice but I can have none for mee but am forced after much labour in vaine and many a weary step to no purpose to make my selfe a foole in Print hoping hereby I by some hand mouth or pen this my complaint may come to the eare of that great man who hath taken upon him the Protection of the Common wealth c. to stirr him up to come forth and here the Widdowes complaint and give reliefe unto mee and my fatherlesse children according unto the tenor of my Petition a Copie whereof followeth with the state of my case To the Right Honorable the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England The Humble Petition of Mary Blaithwaite of Sickmurther in the County of Cumberland Widdow Humbly shewing THat your Petitioner did exhibit her humble Petition with Articles thereunto annexed to the late House of Lords and therin did set forth the losses sufferings and cruell usage of her late husband and her selfe for their fidellity to the Common wealth by Sir Wilfred Lawson Knight Simon Musgrave and Leonard Dikes Esquires Sir Phillip Musgrave Barronet Henry Pierson and James Pierson Attorneies Iohn Hudson Michael Croplace and William Leach all then notorious Delinquents which Petition was grounded upon an ordinance of the eighteenth of August 1642 wherby the well affected of the North should have reperation of their losses out of the Estates of the Delinquents that did the wrong upon which said Petition your Petitioner obtained an order of reference to Sir Edward Leech Knight who issued out his summons to the severall persons some whereof were examined but the two Persons who were the principall authors and actors in all your Petitioners sufferings did contemn and would not bee examined by reason whereof and of Sir Edward Leech his death which happened soone after the taking away of the house of Lords dissolving of the late Parliament your Petitioner could reap no benefit of her seven yeares attendance and forasmuch her losses sufferings and cruell usage are set forth in the said Articles and for that shee dares not returne to her Countrey and children which is more then 250 miles distant hence unlesse shee be by your honors relieved and secured against the oppressions of the said Persons and the others complained of and the rather for that your Petitioner hath attended more then eleven months upon his Highness Proclamation or Declaration to re●ieve the oppressions of the poore but could never g●t an answer from Mr. Sadler one of the Masters of Requests nor from Mr. Ha●ter to whom M● Saddler did deliver the Petitioners Petition neither any answer to the Petition she delivered to Major Generall Lambert to present to his Highnesse and now she is remediless but by your Honors May it therefore please your Honors to referre your Petitioners greivances to some Committee or other fit Persons whom your wisedomes shall apoint to be examined and reported that thereby shee may receive a comfortable issue of her long attendance and returne to her family with reliefe and security And she will dayly pray c. The state of my Case is as followeth I Comming from London into my Countrey to serve an Order of Parliament upon my adversaries Henry and James Pierson Delinquent Attorneys at large whereupon the Commissioners of Array cast me into Prison was severall times brought before Sir Phillip Musgrave one of the Commissioners of Array and the Kings chief Commander in Cumberland and accused for one of the Parliaments Intelligencers and thereupon committed to the custody of the High Constable upon which account m● Husband had his doors broke open and his goods to a great value taken away and my Adversaries also procured severall Watrants to binde us to our good behaviour I was therupon by their means dragged on the Market day through Cockermouth streets and afterwards suggesting that wee dispersed scandalous Pamphlets for the Parliament apprehended us upon the Sabbath day in the Chappel at the time of publick worship by a Warrant from the aforesaid Commander in chiefe and the said James Pierson having brought a Cart to the Chappel doore and commanded all the people in the Kings name to aid and assist them in carrying us before Sir Wilfred Lawson another of the Commissioners of Array who caused us to be close imprisoned and locked up the first night and the next day committed us both to Carlisle Goale and the more to express their cruelty and malice Hudson another of my Adversaries who was then Constable having brought another Cart they c●used me to be bound in i● on my b●cke with my face upwards under the horses taile and in a most inhumane m●nner caused the horses to gallop the more to torment me and under pretence of searching for Parliament Papers stripped my Husband to his shirt and me to my smock which they tare in an uncivill manner and gave direction to lay me in irons and both my husband and my selfe were put amongst the common Rogues and Thieves and for pretended charges in carrying us to Prison Hudson and the two Piersons servants Crackplace Leech did take from us one Cow certain horse loads of Oats and Oat-meale by warrant from Sir Wilfred Lawson for which there is no satisfaction made to this day Moreover my Adversaries forced mee to travell to Oxford to answer a Subpena at Hudsons suit and arrested me and my Husband many times upon Writs of priviledge vexatiously and never declared against us Again my Adversaries caused me and my husband to bee indicted seven severall times and six times to be bound to the good behaviour and five times to the Peace procuring all their Warrants from the Commissioners of Array and vexed our children and servants and day labourers with continuall Warrants without cause in an illegall way so that none durst