Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75604	The arraignment and conviction of Mervin Lord Audley, Earle of Castlehaven, (who was by 26. peers of the realm found guilty for committing rapine and sodomy) at Westminster, on Monday, April 25. 1631. By vertue of a commission of oyer and terminer, directed to Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Lord high Steward for that day, accompanied with the judges. As also the beheading of the said Earle shortly after on Tower Hill.	Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3743; Thomason E84_2; ESTC R20942	7,427	16

dishonorable of which hee is indicted if it falls out to be true which is to be left to triall I dare he bold to say never Poet invented nor Historiographer writ of any so foule though Suetonius hath curiously set out the vides of some of the Emperors which had absolute power and that might make them fearelesse of any maner of punishment and besides were heathens and knew not God yet none of them came neere this Lords crime this is a crime of that rarity in our nation that wee seldome know of the like and the other that we scarse heare of it but they are of that pestilential nature that if they be not punished they will draw from heaven heavy judgements upon this Kingdome I can speake with comfort that all my time both in his Majesties royall Fathers life and since he came to his Crowne I never had occasion to speake in this place against any Peere of the Realme before now and God knowes I doe it now with sorrow and I hope I shall not have occasion to doe so much againe but his Majesty who is the patterne of vertue not onely as King but in his person also in whom it is hard to judge whether hee excell most in Justice or Mercy but I rather thinke in Mercy for he would have my Lord Audley the prisoner at Barre heard with as much favour as such a crime as this can bee when he first heard it he gave strict accoumpt that the triall should bee searched that his throne and people should be cleared from so grievous sins and therefore he was indicted in his owne Countrey according to the law by Gentlemen of worth The Bill is found and now he is brought to this Barre to be tried by his honourable Peeres such as of whose wisedome and sincerity there can bee no question but to have an honourable hearing And first I shall beginne with the indictment of Rape Bracton tells us of King Athelstons law before the conquest if the party were of no chast life but a whore yet there may bee a ravishment but it is a good plea to say she was his concubine In an indictment of Rape there is no time of prosecution necessary for nullum tempus occurrit regi but in case of an appeale of Rape if the woman did not prosecure in convenient time it will barre her for the crimen sodomiticum our law had no knowledge of it till 15. H. 8. by which statute it was made fellony and in this there is no more question but onely whether it bee crimen sodomiticum fine penetratione and the law the 5. of Elizabeth sets downe in generall words and there the law doth not distingish neither must we I know you will bee curious how you give the least mitigation of so abhominable a sinne which brought such plagues after it as we may see in Gen. 18. Judges 14. Rom. 1. But my Lords it seemed to me strange at the first how a noble man of his quality should lust to such abhominable sins but when I found he had given himselfe over to lust and find that nemo repente sit pessimus and that if men once habit themselves in ill it is no marvell if they fall into any sinne and that he was constant in noreligion but in the morning would be a Papist in the afternoone a Protestant I shall bee bold to give your Grace a reason why hee became so ill he beleeved not God then what may not a man runne into but I find things beyond imagination for I find his intentions bent to have his wife naught which the wickedest man that ever I heard of before would have vertuous and godly how bad soever himselfe be and him lewd to his owne wife if she love him she must love Henry Skipwith whom he loves above all and not in any honest love but in a dishonest he gives his reason by Scripture she was now subject to him and therefore if she did ill at his command it was not her fault but his and he would answer it he lets this Skipwith who he calls his favourite spend of his purse 500. l' per annum and if his wife or daughter would have any thing though necessary they must lie with Skipwith and have it from him and not otherwise also telling Skipwith and his daughter that he had rather have a child by him then by any body else But this thing I had rather should come out of the mouthes of the witnesses then from me The severall Examinations and Depositions before the Lords Walter Bigges Examination ANtill was a Page to Sir Henry Smith and had no meanes when he came to my Lord Audley he entertained him for a Page eight yeares and then let him keepe horses in his ground by which I thinke he inriched himselfe 2000 .l ' but he never sat at the table with him till he had married his daughter then gave him to the value of 7000 .l ' Henry Skipwith was sent from Ireland by my Lord to be a Page to my Lady his Father and Mother were very meane folkes there he spent out of my Lords meanes 500 .l ' per annum and he gave him at one time 1000 .l ' and hath made divers deeds of lands to him My Lord was at first a Protestant after the buying of Fountaine turn'd his religion Lord Audley his Examination HE saith Henry Skipwith had no meanes when hee came to him and that he had given him 1000 .l ' and that Skipwith did lie with him when he was straightned in roome and that hee gave a farme of 100 .l ' to Antil that married his daughter and at other times to the valew of 7000 .l ' and that there was one Blawdma in his house 14. daies and bestowed an ill disease there and therefore he sent her away Lord high Steward said I advise you not to deny those things which are cloerly proved for then the Lords will give lesse credit to the rest you say The Countesses examination THe first or second night after we were married Antil came to his bed side whilest we were in bed and the Lord spake lasciviously to her and told her her body was his and that if she loved him shee must love Antil and if shee lay with any man with his consent it was not her fault but his Hee would make Skipwith come naked into her chamber and bed and delighted in calling up his servants making them shew their privities and her looke on and commended those that had the largest Broadway lay with her whilst she made resistance and my Lord held her hands and one of her feet and she would have killed her selfe afterwards with a knife but that hee tooke it from her and before that act of Broadway shee had never done it He delighted to see the act done and made Antil come into the bed to them and lye with her whilst he might see it and that she cryed out Fitz Patricks

examination THat Henry Skipwith was the speciall favourite of the Lord and that he usually lay with him and that Skipwith sayd the Lord made him lye with his owne Lady Awdley and that he saw Skipwith in his sight doe it my Lord being present and that he lay with Blaudma in his sight and foure more and afterwards he himselfe in their sights Henry Skipwiths examination HE spent five hundred pounds per annum of the Lords purse He lay for the most part in bed with the Earle hee gave him his house in Salisbury and a Mannour of a hundred and threeseore pound per annum and that hee usually lay with the young Lady and there was love before and afterwards And that my Lord said hee would rather have a boy of his getting then of any other and that shee was but thirteene yeares old when he lay with her and that hee could not enter her body without art and that my Lord gave her things to open her That Blawdma lived halfe a yeere in my Lords house and was a common whore Fitz Patricks examination THe Lord made him lye with him at Fountaine and Salisbury and once in the bed semen consumpsit but did not penetrate his body and that hee heard he did-so with others That Skipwith lay with the young Lady often and that the Lord would have a boy by him that Blawdma lived halfe a yeare in the Lords house and was a common whore Friers examination THat Henry Skipwith and the Lady lay together and that he would faine have a boy by him The young Lady Audleyes examination THat she was married to her husband by a Romish Priest in the morning and at night by a Prebend of Kelkenny that shee was first tempted to lye with Skipwith by the Earle of Castlehaven and that she had no meanes but that which Skipwith gave her but she would not lye with Pawlet he solicited also to lye with Greene that hee saw Skipwith and shee lye together divers times and nine of the servants in the house had likewise seene it When he solicited her she said her husband loved her not and that he would turne her out of doores if she did not and if she would not he would tell her husband she did That he used a wyld to enter her body first that he usually lay with her and it was with the Earles priviry Broadwayes examination HE lay at the beds feet and in the night he called for Tobacco and as he brought it caught him and bid him come to bed to him and his wife and held one of his wives legs and both her hands and at last he lay with her notwithstanding her resistance That he used his body like a woman sed nunquam penetravit quamvis inter femine semen suum consumpsit He hath seene Skipwith and the young Lady lye together in bed and when he got upon her the Lord hath stood by and encouraged him to get her with childe and made him kisse his Lady and lye with her telling him he should not live long and it might be his making and he said to Skipwith the like The Countesses examination AT Fountaine the Lord brought Broadway to bed and hee held her hands and one of her feet whilst Broadway lay with her and that she caught a knife and would have killed her selfe but that they tooke it from her The Earles examination HEE desired to bee pardoned in those things of which hee must accuse himselfe and that condemnation should not come out of his owne mouth Master Attorney generall said you have seene the cleernes of the cause proved and I know your wisedomes to be such as you well know in so darke a businesse a clearer cannot be for let a man be never so wicked he will not call witnesses to see it Lord high Steward asked whether may a wife be witnesse against her husband Judges answer In civill causes she cannot in criminall shee may especially where she is the party grieved Lord high Steward asked whether buggery was within the Statute without penetration Judges answer It may the use of the body to spend seed doth it Lord high Steward asked whether one can ravish a woman of ill fame or no. Judges answer a whore may be ravished and it is felony to doe it Lord high Steward asked whether there be a necessity of accusation for ravishing in convenient time Judges answer in an indictment there is not in an appease there is Lord high Steward asked whether men of no worth shall be sufficient proofe against a Baron Judges answer any man in felony Then the Lords went away to consider and after their returne the Lord Steward asked one by one first of the indictment of rape to which they all answered Guilty then to the other and fifteene found him guilty and the rest not Lord Audley spake for himselfe that his wife had beene naught and had a childe which hee concealed to save her honour and that his son now became 21. yeares of age and hee old that the one would have lands the other a younger husband and therefore they plotted his death Then the Lieutenant was called to bring out the prisoner who when he was come to the Barre the Lord high Steward spake to him in this manner Mervin Lord Audley you have beene indicted and have pleaded not guilty and put your selfe on God and your Peers who have found you guilty of both and therefore my heart grieveth that my tongue must utter but justice is the way to cut off wickednesse O thinke upon your offences which a Christian ought scarce to name and which the depraved nature of man which carries us to all vice yet hates this unnaturall sin and you have not onely offended against the nature but the rage of a man jealousie and though you dye not for it yet you have abused your daughter and having honour and fortune to leave behinde you would have had the spurious seed of a varlet to inherit both But my Lord it grieves me to see you stand against a truth apparant and concluded upon how God might have taken you away in your sinnes and therefore I hope he hath reserved you as a subject of mercy when you were blinded in your sins he sends you to see this day of shame to turne you to him and seeing hee doth in a manner draw you spend the rest of your time in teares and repentance and this dayes worke is a correction for many crimes corruption The Lord high Stewards sentence of death pronounced against the Lord Castle haven FOrasmuch as thou Mervin Lord Audley hast been indicted of divers fellonies for which thou desiredst to be tryed by God and thy Peeres which tryall thou hast had and they have found thee guilty of them thy sentence therefore is that thou returne to the place from whence thou camest and from thence to the place of execution there to bee hanged by the necke till thou be dead And the Lord have mercy upon thee FINIS