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	pembroke_n	sir_n	15,305	5	6.9714	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30982	Pegasus, or, The flying horse from Oxford bringing the proceedings of the visitours and other Bedlamites there, by command of the Earle of Mongomery.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.; Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. Letter from Oxford.	1648 (1648)	Wing B838; ESTC R41624	12,138	21

there was never any such thing in the world as is there pretended viz. Reasons presented Iune the first against the power of the two houses or Parliament to visit with those reasons which were then presented is sufficiently knowne in the publishing of them namely the scruples of rationall men against the taking of the Covenant and Negative Oath and submission to the Ordinance for the directory and what is this I pray to any bodies power of visiting especially when now 't is confest by these men that they doe not meane in their visitation to presse the Covenant The truth is these reasons have not beene answered by any though insteed of answering them there was by an anonymas Master Cheynell the spirit bespeakes the Author a promise made long since that it should be taken in peices the theologicall part answered by the Assembly the Law part by able Lawyers and the prudentiall part by prudent men but now it seemes by this question that the farre easier course is to put the honest Christian in a wild beasts skinne and then to teare him to peices I meane to entitle these reasons a new Reasons against the power of Parliament to visit and then to turne out all who had to doe in the composing them and that should bee full as profitable to those who meant to succeede them in their places as if they had answered all their scruples Meane while this makes it not only unreasonable but impossible for the Doctor to give any positive Answer to that question which was fallacia plurimum interogationum and so sure he was not oblieged to answer it being thus proposed For the third hee was able to make this Dilemma to himselfe If hee should answer that hee had not published those orders against his brethren he had confest himself guilty of a Contempt of those who made those Orders if that hee had publish'd it hee had confest himselfe the accuser and as much as in him lay the executioner of his brethren The Accuser of them if they did not obey upon his publishing of them The Executioner if they did And sure hee was not bound either to acknowledge himself a foole or a divill A foole by confessing those omissions which must bee his rume under such Judges a devill in having acted under such bloody censors Well to hold you no longer in these discourses when reasons is become so uselesse a solicitor the answers of those two and some other the like being given on Monday before Easter made such haste from hence to London to the obedient Committee there and from thence with such full speede came back again that they brought downe that very weeke from London against Doctor Sheldon Doctor Hammond Doctor Wall and Doctor Payne votes of removing them from their places upon pretence of high contempt of authority of Parliament Was there ever such a conclusion from such praemisses But this will not much amaze you if you consider the moderne practices and that as once there was a law somewhere that no crime should be punishable but treason but then by the malice of interpretation care taken that every thing that any man did should bee improved into Treason So now among us the contempt of authority of Parliament is the only mortall Crime but then the giving a wary answer or such as Master Cheynell himselfe could pick no hole in must bee the contempt of that authority which I confesse it was in one of those Doctors in some sence The Committee having long since voted that one Master Palmer of the house of Commons should succeede in the Wardenship of All-soules when hee should bee guilty of contempt whereupon his not throwing himselfe into that crime which they decreed hee should bee guilty of was an affront to the voters a denyall of their Prophetique faculty and sure a contempt of their authority who had so absolutely decreed ante lapsum that hee should contemn perish for it Well the fury of these impatient teazers was such that they could not celebrate Christs Resurrection in any Charity till they had Executed their joyous sentence upon some of these Doctors therfore the next minuit after the arrivall of the Carryer and the votes on Easter Eve they ran presently to Christ-Church Hall with a full guard of Musquetiers send their mandatary and souldier for Doctor Hammond and would heare no reason but hee must upon utmost perrill come to the hall to them and heare himselfe pronounced neither Orator nor Praebend before Easter that so if it were possible hee might want Charity to fit him for the next dayes Dutyes but the honest Doctor had better learned and taught the duties of the fifth of Matthew then to bee in the power of such provokers The same sentence was soone after on Easter Munday affixt on Doctor Sheldons walls and his subwarden required to bee his Executioner and woe bee to him that hee hath not thought that act of parricide his duty But Sir all these have beene yet but umbratiles pugnae the reall fury of the impression is reserved for nobler hands The Earle of Pembroke must bee fetcht from Ramsbury to breake open the doores and to that purpose according to an Order procured in the Lords hosue March the eighth Master Cheynel which knew the way perfectly into those parts towards Salisbury posts presently to his Lordship to Ramsbury obteynes a promise that the weeke after Easter weeke hee would serve them Then all care is taken to get in Beedles Staves and the in●●gnia of the Vniversity to prepare for his Lordships comming the Deane of Christ-Church the Vice-Chauncellor his doores are broken open by assistance of Souldiers but nothing found there the Presidents of Corpus-Christi the pro-Vice-Chancellor his in like manner but nothing there At last when the Earle comes most pitifully fetcht in with a few visitors and a sorty Company of expectant Boyes Master Cheynell entertaynes him with an English speech and tells him that the Beedles staves had a double guilt the wit of the new University and therefore could not bee had to attend him only exhorts him to believe and to bee confident that the more vigerous hee should bee in that designed execution the more acceptable it would bee in the sight of God and if hee would not take his word for it hee should take Gods word and so presents to him a great Bible without Liturgy or Apocrypha which was to supply the place of the Beedles staves to conduct him to his lodging The imployment that now they set this Earle when they had him amongst them 't would even grieve you to thinke of That honourable office of a petty Constable generall from Colledge to Colledge is bestowed on him first to break open the hall-doore of Christ-Church Then to carry out Mistrisse Fell and all her children and family some fourteene women and children in chayres and set them in the Quadrangle that Master Reynolds might have quiet possession of that