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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	16,146	5	6.4775	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80275	A compendious narration of the most examplar life of the right honourable and most virtuous Lady Mary, late Countess of Shrewsbury Faithfully collected out of the writings of a most learned and worthy person who attended her many years: by a gentleman, who by reason of his long acquaintance and much conversation with her can testifie the truth of all that is here related.	Gentleman.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5608A; ESTC R224366	18,927	64

sent for which my Lord being struck to the heart with that sad Good morrow she had given him did not fail to do with all diligence as knowing too well how much it concerned him to preserve so great a treasure And though she had by my Lords care the constant attendance of two or three of the ablest Doctors then in Oxford London being at too great a distance and that they at the beginning seemed hopeful of her recovery and failed not in the application of all those Remedies their Art could suggest yet it pleased God to render their endeavours ineffectual for the violence of her sickness encreased so fast upon her that according to her own opinion who by his Divine permission had taken a righter measure of her own Infirmity then they had it proved the means of freeing her within a few days of all the cares that attend a transitory life Her pains were extream seasing her in the most sensible part the prime seat of life her heart and her patience was equal for she was never heard to complain of or lament her condition but whensoever she was asked concerning it her only answer was as it pleased God upon whom her heart was wholly fixed and in continuall applications of her self to him and in fervent prayers to implore his mercy and grace the whole time of her sickness was spent On the last day whereof being the feast of the Holy Innocents she received Extream Unction with admirable devotion being so present to her self as to answer exactly to the Lytanies and to reach out her own hands to be annointed The next day being the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury that famous Martyr and Champion of the Church a day that was ever wont to be spent by her in a manner totally in devotion about six of the Clock in the morning just precisely at the conclusion of those devout prayers called the Recommendation of the soul used by the Catholick Church in the last Agonies of her children did this great Servant of God end this mortal life giving up her soul to him whom she ever loved served and obeyed with her whole heart as hath been I suppose sufficiently evidenced by many most remarkable and undeniable testimonies And I think I may without difficulty gain credit when I shall tell you how universal a consort of Lamentation there was in all that Family at the approach of her death when every one was considering how great a loss they were to undergoe not any but sensibly shared in this affliction seeing no children could have a more tender or careful Mother no servants a more Indulgent or charitable Mistress nor no Husband a more affectionate and obedient Wife After her Death it appeared evidently to those who had the ordering of her body for buriall that she had not only made a righter judgment of her danger then her Physitians but also of the quality of her Infirmity which shewed it self by the great evacuation of bloud at her mouth to have been an Imposthume she having several times some years before intimated that she conceived that there was one gathering about or near her heart where she felt her greatest torment She lived 36 years 2 months and 26 days and her Corps were with all convenient decency carried to Albrington in Shropshire a Town belonging to the now Earles of Shrewsbury and the usuall place of Sepulture of that branch of that family unto which that Earldome hath been descended these four last generations and there it was interred in a Church dedicated to God in honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury upon whose Feast she died and laid in the self-same Vault with that of the late most Learned and holy George Earl of Shrewsbury formerly mentioned whose virtues she did so effectually imitate She left behinde her 4 Sons and 3 Daughters having buried 2 Sons during her life to wit the Lord George Tallbot who died in his youthful age and inherited the heroicall spirit of his great Name but left no issue behinde him Francis the second Son Earl after his Father a Gentleman generally esteemed by all worthy persons and as much lamented by all such who hath left issue Charles the present hopeful Earl and one other Son and a Daughter the picture both in her face and humour of her Father Edward the third Son kill'd in the late Civill Wars in the service of his King at the Battle of York and Gilbert the fourth and youngest Son still living Her 3 Daughters were the Lady Frances the Lady Katherine and the Lady Mary all were most praise-worthy for their excellent dispositions and virtuous comportments the two first dyed in their young age without issue the Lady Mary is still living and hath issue one Son by her first husband the grandchild by the Fathers side of Thomas Lord Arundell of Wardour and Count Imperial and by the Mothers of the Lord Viscount Montacute and both Sons and Daughters by her second husband the brother and heir apparent of James Lord Studly and Earl of Castle-haven Gods holy Name be blessed for having given her the Grace to leade so holy a life and make so happy an end and may we by his grace and favour through the mercies of Christ profit by the example of her virtues FINIS

in that quintessence of this divine virtue humbleness of heart which still moved her to undervalue her self and to expresse to her ghostly Directour so much affliction of minde for her want of worth to merit those many blessings God had bestowed on her both spiritual and temporal upon account as she would frequently urge even with abundance of tears of her many sins and imperfections insomuch that he was forced for her comfort to use many perswasive discourses and reasons which her life and practise rendred abundantly convincing that she looked upon her few imperfections with magnifying glasses for no great sins ever stained her pure soul and not through Opticks which made a true discovery of them But as this true humility of hers would not permit her to take any notice of her own virtues but kept her heart still fixed on the consideration of her own unworthiness And so great did her own small faults appear in her own sight that the very reflection on any the least imperfection filled her eyes with tears and her heart with sorrow so on the other side no body was an higher magnifyer and esteemer of the virtues of others and principally when they shined in persons of High degree and would often bewail her self for not imitating such patterns and particularly she honoured and frequently celebrated in her Discourse that remarkable example of great Ladies for piety who truly trampled upon the pride and vanity of this world the Countesse of Arundel of the Lord D'Acres Family by birth betwixt whom and her self there had passed many Testimonies of mutual kindness And also that most excellent Lord the immediate Predecessor and Uncle of her Husband George Earle of Shrewsbury of whose great perfections she was many years an eye-witness upon whose death she forthwith repaired to her ghostly Father not with a heart filled with joy according to the usual strain of worldly Ladies for the honour that was thereby descended to her but full of a deep sense of her own unworthiness to succeed so Saintlike a person in so eminent a degree and therefore earnestly begged the assistance of his prayers that she might not soyle that honour by her sins but in some small measure at least imitate so good a president Neither was she less eminent in that high virtue preferable before sacrifice Obedience in imitation of our Blessed Saviour and divine Master who for us was made obedient to the death of the crosse and who though above all laws was for our sakes content to subject himself to humane Ordinations And she did not only practise this virtue in so high a manner as hath been already related in never having been guilty of any mortal breach of his holy Commandments but also by a most exact submission to all the Pastors and Prelates of his holy Catholick Church to whom he hath committed the cure of souls and those particularly to whom by virtue of that authority she had committed the regulation of her own conscience and spiritual concerns with whom she frequently consulted about those matters and never failed in a strict observance of their advises and directions And as to the duty of her own calling and most punctual compliance with the obedience due from a wife to a husband I may affirm without being contradicted by any one that knew her and her own constant family exceeded 60. persons that the fault would lye at the mens door if all marriages were not happy if all wife 's did but imitate her example For as she was most prudent in offering in an humble manner such advises upon just occasion as she judged conducing to my Lord her husbands advantage so did she ever with all cheerfulness submit to his determination And if he were at any time indisposed in health she not only expressed the tenderness of a most affectionate wife in her sense of his infirmity and her sollicitous providing of all remedies for his recovery but ever performed all the duties of a servant in his attendance All which he hath with much gratitude frequently acknowledged affirming that during the speace of above nineteen years wherein she lived his wife she never gave him the least cause of disgust but that he received much constant content from her agreeable and complasant conversation and much benefit from her frequent prudent and pious counsels and most of all from her exemplar practises And I am sure no person whatsoever whether domestick or other whether of the same Religion or a different had any difficulty to believe him For so high was the esteem of her virtues amongst all that every ones mouth was full of her praises And one Noble person though of a different Religion who made a condoling Visit to my Lord after her death speaking in the general language used by all when she was the Theme of the discourse said to him that he had no just cause to grieve for one who lived like a Saint upon earth and now shined like an Angel in heaven Her last sickness and Death AS her whole life was spent totally in a manner in successive acts of piety and devotion so did it please Almighty God in recompence of her virtue to grant her a most happy and Christian-like conclusion of it Her very last employments before she was consined to her dying Chamber and bed was a whole night to wit that of Christmasse spent according to her custome in acts of devotion she then joyning like a dutiful childe with her holy Mother the Catholick Church in celebrating the birth of the Saviour of the world and having then with her wonted pious preparation received the holy Eucharist Immediately after so many hours spent in such exercises going to retire to her rest she found her self seised with a most unusual coldness and with so violent an heart sickness that she concluded it to be mortal yet nevertheless as she had all her life shewed her self in a most exemplar manner a truly loving wife so would she now give dying Testimonies of it For neither would she quit my Lords chamber and Bed which she conceived her self about to quit for good and all nor yet give him any disturbance in it but with all patience suppressed the complaint of her sickness in silence not permitting any the least noise to be made by speech or otherwise or her bed to be warmed or any act of indulgence to be used to her self that might tend to the disquieting of him whom some indisposition had caused to retire sooner but lay quietly full of pains and as full of acts of confirmity to the divine will till he awaked then imparting to him the dangerous condition wherein she conceived her self and with that tenderness that became so truly indulgent and affectionate a parent recommending her children to his favour and care she desired in compliance with that obligation which lay upon her to make use of those means which God hath appointed for the preservation of health that Phisitians might be