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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	henry_n	marry_v	16,312	5	9.7263	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54688	Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing P2010; ESTC R7943	37,109	71

8. suppose it to be a good provision for his Daughter Elizabeth Clifford to devise to her by his last Will and Testament one thousand pounds if shee married an Earle which in those dayes were men of no small revenues or an Earles sonne and heire 1000 marks if a Baron and 800 marks if a Knight and that Henry Lord Clifford his sonne did in the 12th or 13th year of the raign of Queen Eliz. give by his Will but 2000 l. to his Daughter if shee married an Earl or an Earls son and heir 2000 marks if a Baron or his son and heire apparent and 800 marks if shee married a Knight and that 1500 or 2000 or 3000 l. is now but an ordinary Portion to be given in marriage to rich yeomens sonnes or the smaller sort of Gentry or Silkmen Mercers or Drapers and a great deale too litle for those kind of Haggard Hawks for there be some though not so many as should be which live soberly and chastly and are helpers to preserve and increase not spend their husbands estates aswell as their owne Portions who fly Steeple high and cannot by any law or perswasion of Scripture Reason Shame or feare of Poverty Imprisonment and ruine of their husbands children and their sighs sorrows be brought to stoop or give way to any lower pitch but are more destructive to a husband who against his will and for that little quiet and content which he can get must permit it then the mischances of a Rot of Sheep Piracies or Shipwracks the sea breaking in upon their Landes ruine of Sequestrations or Suretyship and if they might have their wills are able to Bankrupt and exhaust the King of Spain and all his West-Indies When too many of the young women will not like or love the men unless they be as vain and expensive as themselvs and the men to please the women be fashionable must run a vie with them who shall soonest spend all they have or can by any sinfull courses compass a support or maintenance for it And the fathers most commonly so much indebted before they marry their eldest sons as they must have their marriage Portions to marry their Daughters and for 2 or 3000 l. Portion make his Daughter in law a Joynture of 4 or 500 l. per Annum to free her from the trouble of over-loveing her husband when as shee shall be after his death so well provided to get another When two or three servants wages amount to as much as six heretofore and a great deale more per Annum then would have made a good Gentlemans younger sonne an Annuity when great Assessments beleaguer them on one side and their own vices and prodigalities and all manner of costly sins and vanities now so universally practised on the other side Tradesmen use false weights and measures and more then formerly tricks and mysteries of Trade adulterating their work and commodities and raiseing the prices to three times more then heretofore and by the prodigality and carelesness of not a few of the Gentry creep into their estates and get too great a footing in it by furnishing them with vanities and the country men and Farmers to maintain their growing pride and excesse making all the haste they can to imitate them do heighten the rates of all that they sell and when the foundations of our Little World which was wont to be the best of the Greater are broken up and most part of the people eccentrick and running into excess and disorder when the Apprentices and Servants will do all they can to live like Gentlemen the Mechanicks like Merchants the Gentry as high as the Nobility the Maids will be apparelled like their Mistresses the Mistresses as farr beyond their estates as their wits Vintners Woodmongers wives Poulterers daughters must have Pearl Neck-laces of great prizes and all ranks and degrees of people would as if they had been chosen Kings Queens on Twelfth nights make it their business to be in their expences Kings and Queens all the year after do not only consume and waste the estates of very many of our Gentry and disable them to pay as formerly their necessary Aids Contributions and Oblations to their Prince for the safety of themselves and their Countries but carry them and all that follow their example beyond an Asiatica luxus that forreign luxury of Asia which as Juvenal saith incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem Conquered and undid the conquering Rome and Mistress of the word the abuse of peace and plenty which the Lydians by the policy of Cyrus did ruine and subdue themselvs withall that height of pride and plenty which in Germany did help to procure their after wofull warrs and desolations And making us to be almost as mad in our Luxuries as the ridiculous Sybarites will suddenly if Gods mercy and good Laws prevent not make poor England which for Twenty yeares last past hath been kicked tost and torn like a Foot-ball by the pocketing and plundering Reformers and their ungodly Warrs to be a Burden to it self and not able to support the Excesses and pride of the people of it but trembling at the apprehension of Gods long deferred Judgments for the punishment of it groan under the burden of those sins which do every day more and more hasten and draw them down upon us And may perswade us when it is too late that the saving in these last Twenty yeares Eighteen hundred thousand pounds which would have been paid to King Charls the First and his Majesty that now is by reason of Wardships and Tenures in Capite and by Knight-Service with many other great summs of money due to them out of their Royal Revenues amounting to as much or a great deal more which the King in his largely extended Act of Oblivion is now pleased to remit and pardon will not by a Tenth part make the people of England savers for what was lost and expended in the Warrs by ruines and plundrings besides very near Forty millions of sterling money spent in publick Taxes and Assessments to purchase an unhappy Rebellion and the sad effects and consequences of it So that our Complaints of Tenures in Capite and Knight-Service are from a Non causa by imagining that to be a cause which was not for our supposed grievances are but like those of hurt and wounded men by their own follies and distempers which cannot endure the softest hand or most gentle touch of a Friend Tenterden Steeple was not the cause of Goodwin Sands nor of Shipwracks at Sea but the rage of the Windes Seas and the Waves and Billows cuffing each other Nor is our ever welcome Youth and lamented when it is lost the cause of Gouts Palsies Dropsies Hectick Fevers Consumptions and many times a worser Disease which the Intemperances of young people with no little charge in the purchase of them have hired to be their attendants But they are our more then ordinary

or illegal or the old age or sickness of a formerly lusty and healthfull man which renders a small weight to be very heavy which was at other times not at all troublesome to him can make it in it self to be so much as he now takes it Nor are the supposed Grievances and Burdens of Tenures in Capite and Knight-Service naturally originally or intrinsecally to be found either in them or by them but are often occasioned by the parties groundless complaints and the troubles and burdens which they bring upon themselves who like men very sick by distempers and diseases of their owne making and complaining heavily of their paines and anguish can many times only tell that they are sick and not as they would or should be but not whence it came or if they could are unwilling to remember the causes of it For The Reason why they seem to be Burdens and Grievances and heavier then formerly CAnnot be hid from those which shall but enquire and rightly and judiciously search into the Causes of that which now lyes more upon some mens spirits or imaginations then need to be if they would doe by themselves in the Oeconomie and manage of their Estates and Affairs as their more prudent and virtuous Ancestors did who when Meadow ground was in H. 6. dayes now not much above 200 yeares agoe in the most fertile Counties of England at no greater a yearely value then 8 d per Acre by the yeare and other lands of 4 d. or 5 d. an Acre per Annum could keep greater houses or hospitalities by five or ten to one then they doe now a greater retinue of servants and dependants gave great quantities of lands in Common and Estovers of wood to the poore or whole Townshipps live honorably if they were Barons and worshipfully if they were Knights and Esquires and serve their Prince faithfully did great acts of Piety and Charity by building and endowing of Churches and stood as greater and lesser Pillars in their severall Counties did not rack and skrew their Tenants to the utmost that any would give for lands with harsh and hard Covenants and Conditions did grant Mannors Annuities and Farms to Gentlemen in Fee or for lives to serve and go along with them and their Prince upon occasion of wars were not troubled at their Tenures in Capite and by Knight-service did not thinke those benefits to be any burdens though great summs of money were somtimes paid as 6000 l. by a mother of an Earle of Oxford and 20000 marks by a mother of in Earle of Clare in the raigne of King H. 3. for their wardshipps when marriage Portions or Dowries in money were but small and their large and great revenues considered were but as accumulations of many lesser wardshippe were not so much indebted as now nor so much enforced to mortgage or sell Lands get Friends Servants or Tradesmen to be bound for them to have their Lands extended or the persons of such of them as were under the degree of Baronage outlawed or arrested were not up to the ears in Shop-keepers or Trades-mens Books or Items but lived within the pale of Virtue and fence of Sobriety and far better then they do now when they do let errable land at 13 or 16 s. per Acre by the year Pasture at 20 or 30 s. and Meadow at 40 s. or sometime 3 l. the Acre per An. were not driven out of their ancient and former love and reputation in their Countries or Neighbourhood by letting the Kitchin chimneys of their Country houses fall down for want of making but ordinary fires in them but did in their several orbs and ranks live more honourably and worshipfully then now they do or can when they are guilty of few of those great and good actions did not as too many do spend in the pursuit of Vanities ten times more then their Forefathers who had long kept and enjoyed the same or greater Estates nor sit up all night to come home drowsie and discredited in the morning with the loss of 4 or 500 l. and sometimes 3 or 4000 l. by gaming bestow 2 or 300 l. on a Coach and 100 or 200 l. upon a Band Spend more in gaming drinking and whoring which their forefathers though sometimes addicted thereunto could get at cheaper rates then by maintaining a costly Corinthian Lais or a sumptuous Cleopatra then would pay for the charge of a Wardship and lose more in a careless or not at all taking of their Accounts or looking to their Estates Affairs then would twice over discharge it nor did tamely permit their flatterers sycophants and promoters or concealers of their vices to go a share in their Estates and Fortunes Too many of their eldest sons were not so mounted to the height of Fashions as to spend more in Powder Plays Coaches and Ribbons the lesser circumstantials of their vain expences then their forefathers when they were Heirs apparent had allowed them for all necessaries and a better kind of education and expend more in Peruks or Periwigs at 3 or 5 l. price for every one then would pay for the charges of suing out their Fathers Liveries too many of their wives and daughters did not racket with a troop of young Gallants or Gentlemen of Amours or Dalliance nor discourse more of Romances then the Word of God Virtue and good Examples send their Linnen for the attire of their heads and necks when they are above one hundred miles from London by the weekly Posts to be washed or starched by the Exchange-women hunt after the newest and most costly fashions sacrifice to all the parts of pride gluttony prodigalities and luxuries drive a trade of black Patches and Painting give 10 20 or 40 l. for a yard of Lace did not make it their designs to vie with every one they can perceive to wear Jewels Diamond Lockets Necklaces of Pearl or more costly Apparel then themselves did not give insana pretia extravagant and cheating prices because such a mad great woman or a neighbours purse-emptying wife had given the same 't would be a disparagement to come as they say behind them or wear any thing at a lesser rate nor adventure and many times lose 5 10 or 20l. in an afteroonn or evening at Cards which is now become most of their huswifery their daughters did not in their hopes of getting Princes to their Husbands or impossible great Marriages help to cast their fathers estates and purses into a consumption and spend more money betwixt their age of 13 and 20 then would have made treble the marriage portions of their Grandams when 100 l. or 2 or 300 l. was a good portion for a good Knights well-bred Daughter when 1100 marks was in 2 H 6. a good portion for a marriage betwixt Thomas Lord Clifford and a Daughter of the Lord Dacre when Henry Lord Clifford having great and large Revenues in the North parts of England and else where did in 33 H.