Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	howard_n	viscount_n	10,922	5	11.7783	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

THE CVSTVMERS ALPHABET and Primer Conteining Their CREEDE or Beliefe in the true Doctrine of Christian Religion Their TEN COMMANDEMENTES or Rules of Ciuill life and Conuersation daily Grace generall Confession speciall Supplication and Forme of Prayers Togither With a pertinent Answere to All such as eyther in iest or in earnest seeming doubtfull themselues would faine perswade others that the bringing home of Traffique must needes decay our Shipping All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties Customes without possibility of fraude or Couyn Alwaies prouided In reading Read all or nothing at al. ADSIT REGVLA 1608. A A a. e. i. o. u. ✚ b. c. d. f. g. h. k. l. m. n. p. q. r. s t. w. x. z. perse Con perse title title Est Amen 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY SPECIAL GOOD LLL THOMAS BARON OF BVCKHVRST Earle of Dorset and Lord-Treasurer of England Henrie Lord Howard of Marnehill Earle of Northampton Lord-Warden of the Cinq-Ports And Robert Baron of Essenden Vicount Cranbourne Earle of Salisbury and Principall Secretarie of State to the KINGS Maiestie All Knights of the most Noble Order of the GARTER and Lords of his Highnesse most Honourable Preuy-Counsell MY Dutie and Seruice to you honorable L.L.L. euery way humbly premised I haue thought it good to present the same with the loyall Endeuours of a willing mind though feeble wit and weaker brayne the Argument I confesse being of a higher pitch and greater compasse then I did imagine whē I tooke it in hand Hazard at the first did much discourage me in the mids by Friendes I had been disswaded in regard of the paines but for th' Enthousiasme still sounding in mine eares Ton Ame ne doibt ta flamme est si diuine c. Thy Soule is so beset by vowes that are deuine Thou shalt not tread amisse why should thy hart decline By whose perswasion whē I had but begun my Conscience thrust me forward and thus preuailed at last Ie veulx qu'un bel oser c. Then dangers stand aside t is GOODNES calls me to it If ought doe put me by t' is WISDOMS hand shall do it My stayes besides were these That TRVTH was all my Ground which as Time did suggest Experience still supplyd My Pen OPORTET made and was euer apt to mend But ORDER gaue the Forme which I most of all suspected and saw some cause to doubt till PRAYER in conclusion did vndertake to perfect or perswade the best So that if the Forme for the plainenesse may passe without offence the Matter for importance may perhaps deserue a double and treble reading The Matter indeed is TRAFFICK I meane our freeborne Traffick that Nurse of IVSTICE which feedes vs all and heere handled ab Effectis containes those very CVSTVMS for which the Schollers in all the Free-schooles of our SOVERAIGNES daily Tributes haue so long beene subiect to bayting and beating and for which my selfe of late so graciously chidden was forst by speciall commaund to spell againe my Letters and con this PRIMER Now be it what it may be as your WISDOMS shall esteeme and as GOD shall giue successe to whom the Glorie of All in All is due three principall reasons haue moou'd me to present it to your LLL view in the names of All the rest The FIRST besides his knowledge and sufficiencie of skill by eminencie and Place hath speciall Experience to iudge of what I write The SECOND keepes the Keyes of all those verie Ports that lymits out my Charge for whose sakes indeede reciproke Loue did instant me to write And the THIRD was the meanes to make me first a Custumer when I had giuen it ouer and little thought vppon it For these regards I say and treble respects mine Ends beeing no wayes priuat myne Intentions alwaies Loyall disclayming no mans Person but Sinne and Dishonestie I held it meetest and safest to present my Selfe and the Fruites of all my Vowes to your LLL mylde Censures and Protections By whose speciall Fauours as I am but what I am so I desire but to be knowne Your LLL by seuerall Duties deuotedly bound Tho Milles. To the GRAVEST and GODLIEVVISE in Highest Authority A Gentleman a friend and a louer of learning comming into a Free-Schoole where diuers young Schollers were learning their Grammers desirous to feele how they thryude at their Bookes by some familiar Question demaunded their Huishers standing by VVhen an English is giuen to be made into Latine what 's first to be done The aunswer is easie namelie To seeke out the Principall Verbe yet all stoode silent and halfe amazed till * The writer hereof hauing spent the best of his youth in publique seruices at home and abroade and desirous at last to settle himselfe in some stayd course of liuing after the Treaty at Barwick 1586. caled Foedus arctioris amicitiae inter potentissimos c. which with the grace of God the truth of his Title and his owne patience was a meanes that brought his Maiestie so quietly and happily hether was by his Friendes perswaded to take the charge vpon him of Custumer of Sandwich and the Member-Ports in Kent where he was borne assuring him that thereby he● might doe God and his Country good seruice vpon which motiue hee vndertooke the same simply and doubting no harme one at the last the Question repeated and he vrged to say VVhat was to be done replyed No harme sir I hope at least that I wote of Which the Gentleman taking in very good part suspecting rather ignorance in the Huishers then want of wit in the Scholler departed smyling Most Reuerend and Right Honourable This Question and Aunswere includeth the state of all the Students in the Free-Schooles of our Soueraignes Custumes where such as the Teachers be such are the Schollers There is a reason for all thinges And the reason heereof is not so much for want of wit in the Learners To deale iustly betweene the Prince and the people which in this kinde of Doctrine is the Principall Verbe as in their angry and hastie Huishers who while the Graue-Maisters and Moderators of the Schooles were distracted and busied in the study and practise of highest poynts of Learning haue vsed no Method but beating the Schollers Qui paria esse volunt peccata Ipsique laborant Cum ventum ad verum est Sensus moresque repugnant Atque ipsa VTILITAS Iusti prope mater Aequi. That make all faults alike yet they themselues are dome When Truth in question falls each finger seemes a thome And Profits-selfe empaird whence Iust Right should come Which kinde of Discipline discouraging all men and driuing many good wits from the Schoole to the secrete iniury of the whole Common-wealth forcde me to my Booke and as well as I could to Analise my lesson meaning therby with the fore-said playne Scholler No harme at all Such therefore as it was I did briefely set forth in a * The CVSTOMERS