Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	son_n	28,642	5	5.7609	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17088	Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis graces authoritie. M.G.B.	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.	1571 (1571)	STC 3967; ESTC S121982	13,176	34

of truth and full of fellonie toung trampid in dissait and word tending to fals practise without verity by quhilk properteis and many vthers thairunto ioynid as is knawin to all men ye that vnderstandis their begynnyng progres and hole lyfe may easilie remember to quhome thys generall speikyng-appertenis in speciall and it is not vnknawin to sic as knawis the personis how they ar mellid with godles persons Papistes harlot Protestantis commoun brybouris holie in worde Hypocrites in hart proude contempners or Machiauill mockers of all Religioun and vertew bludie boucheris and opin oppressouris fortifieris of the ifis manteneris of traitouris It is also necessarie to your Lordschippis to vnderstand thair pretence that if it be a thing quhilk may stand with the tranquilitie of the commoun welth your Lordschippis may in sum pairt rather condiscend to their inordinate lust thē put the hole estate in ieopardie of battell First it is not honour riches nor authoritie that thay desire for thay haue had and al 's haue presentlie and may haue in tyme to cum sic pairt of all thay thingis as a priuait man may haue in this Realme not being chargeabill to the countrie or not suspectit to ane king as vnassurit of his awin estait It is not the delyuerance of the Quene that thay seik as thair doyngis contrair to thair worde testifeis manifestlie for if thay wald haue hir deliuerit thay wald haue procurit by all meanis possibill the Quene of Inglādis fauour support in quhais power the hole recouerance stode onlie not offendid hir sa heichly as thay haue done and daylie dois in participatioun of the conspyrit tresoun to put hir maiestie not onlie our of hir stait but out of this lyfe present nor in receityng and mantening of hir Rebellis cōtrair to promeis and solempne contract of pacificatioun betuix this two Realmes nouther yet haue hoūdit furth proude and vncircumspect young men to hery burne and slay and take presoneris in hir Realme and vse all misordour crueltie not onlie vsed in weir but detestabill to all barbar and vile Tartaris in slaying of presoneris and contrair to all humanitie and iustice keip na promeis to miserabill catiues receiued once to thair mercy and all this was done by commandiment of sic as sayis thay seik the Quenis deliuerance and reprochit to thame by the doaris of the mischiefis saying that thay enterit tham in danger and supportit tham not in mister so mekle as to cum to Lawder and luik from thame in quhilk deserting of thair Collegis thay schew crueltie ioyned with falsheid and maist heich tresoun agaynst the Quene pretendyng in worde hir delyuerance and stoppyng in warke hir recouerance the quhilk as euerie man may cleirlie se thay soght as he that soght his wife drowned in the Riuer agaynst the streime It is not the Quenis authoritie that thay wald set vp in hir absence for if that wer thair intentioun quhome can thay place in it mair friendly to hir then hir onlie Sone or quhat Gouernour may they put to hym les suspect thā sic men as haue na pretēce of successiō to the Crowne or any hoip of proffeit to cum to tham after his deith or they that euer haue bene trew seruandis to Kingis before hym should thay not be preferrit to his paternall enemeis yea and slayeris of hys Father and sollicitaris of strangeris to seik hys Innocent blude Quhat thē shall we think that these mē seikis vnder pretence of the Quenis authoritie seing thay can not bring hame the Quene to set vp hir nor will not suffer the king lawfully inaugurate and confirmed by decreit of Parliament to bruik it with sa many of his Tutoris chosin by his mother as ar not to be suspectit to will him harme I traist it is not vneasie to perceiue by thair hole progres now presently and in tyme by past that thay desire na other thing but the deith of the King and Quene of Scotland to set vp the Hamiltounis in authority to the quhilk thay haue aspirit by craftie meanis these fyftie yeiris ago And seing thair purpois succedit not by craftie and secreit meanis now thay follow the same trayde conioyning to falsheyde opin wickitnes ¶ And that ye may see quhat meanis thay haue vsid thir fyftie yeires by past to set vp by craft this authoritie quhilk now thay seik by violence force and tresoun I will call to your memorie sum of thair practisis quhilk many of you may remember asweill as I. First after the deith of King Iames the Fourt Iohn Duke of Albany chosin by the Nobilitie to gouerne in the Kingis les age The Hamiltounis thinkyng that he had bene al 's wickid as thay and should to his awin aduancemēt put downe the King beyng of tender age for the tyme and by the deceis of his brother left alone and that thay wald easilie get thair hand beyond the Duke being an stranger and without successioun of hys body held tham quyet for a season thinkyng that vther mens actioun should be thair promotion but seyng that the Duke as Prince baith wyse and verteous to bryng him selfe out of sic suspitioun put four Lordis estimid of the maist trew and verteous in Scotlād in that tyme to attend on the Kingis grace to wit the Erle Merchell the Lordis Erskyn Ruthuen and Borthicke The Hamiltounis beyng out of hope of the Kingis puttyng downe by the Duke of Albany out of credeit to do him any harme by tham selfis maid one conspyracie with certane Lordis to put the sayd Duke out of authoritie and take it on tham selfis that all thynges put in thair power they might vse the King and the Realme at thair awin plesure To that effect thay tooke the Castell of Glasgow and there maid an assembly of thair factioun the quhilk was dissoluit by the hastie cummyng of the Duke of Albany with an armie for feir of the quhilk the Erle of Arrane cheif of that cumpany ded to his wifis brother the Lord Hume being then out of Court The second conspiracie was after the Dukis last departing the foresayd Lordis separate from attending on the king deuysit by Schir Iames Hammiltoun bastard sonne to the sayd Erle of Arrane quha conspirit the Kinges deith then being in his hous in the Abbay of Halyruidhous quhilk couspiracie ester many yeiris reueillit the sayd Schir Iames sufferit deith for it This conspiracie not being execute Schir Iames perseuerid in hys euill intentioun by secreit meanis in Court soght alwais that the king should not mary that for lack of his succession the Hamiltounis might cum to thair intentis For the king was yong lusty and redy to auenture his persoun to all hasardis baith by sea and land in down putting of theifis and vpsetting of Iustice. The Hamiltounis luiked on quhen seiknes throw excesse of trauell or