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	sir_n	william_n	145,713	5	9.2043	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37828	It is this day ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that a collection be made of all well-affected persons within the cities of London, Westminster, and parishes within the bills of mortality, and likewise within the county of Middlesex, the associated counties late of the Earl of Manchesters association, and the four associated counties late of Sir William Wallers association, to be imployed for the relief of the poor distressed inhabitants of the town of Taunton, and such of the adjacent places, to be disposed of, as to the Committee of the West shall be thought meet and convenient	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing E1621; ESTC R36391	1,541	1

Die Sabbathi 24. Maii 1645. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That a Collection be made of all well-affected persons within the Cities of London Westminster and Parishes within the Bills of Mortality and likewise within the County of Middlesex the Associated Counties late of the Earl of Manchesters Association and the four Associated Counties late of Sir William Wallers Association to be imployed for the relief of the poor distressed Inhabitants of the Town of Taunton and such of the adjacent places to be disposed of as to the Committee of the West shall be thought meet and convenient Jo Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H Elsynge Cler. Parl. D.Com. THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament having thought fit that a Collection shall be made for the distressed people of the Town of Taunton as by the Ordinance now read appears That you may be the better quickned to second it with a free Contribution It is thought fit that thereunto should be subjoyned a brief Delineation of their pressing Miseries They being such as call for tenderest bowels of compassion from all that bear the name of Christians It is notoriously known to all the Kingdom That the said Town hath for these two years past endured all the calamities almost that War the sharpest of all outward judgements can bring upon a people The first of these two years they lay groaning and fainting under that Affliction of which the poor oppressed Church complains Lam. 1.5 Their Adversaries were the Chief and they that hated them ruled over them So that they were deprived many of them in an instant of their liberties by close imprisonment of their estates by Plunder and by heavy impositions of their dearest Friends by flight yea which is yet sad and dolefull of their Ordinances and their God The latter of them they endured three as sharp cruell Sieges from a bloody Enemy as ever any place hath suffered since the Wars began in which their houses were consumed by fire their persons slain the Famine and the sword contended which should prey upon them first poor Mothers looking when the time would come that they should hear the Children cry for bread and there would be none to give them When they should see them swoon in the top of every street as Lam. 2.11 However God upholds their spirits with unshaken resolution in the midst of fire and blood and in the end wrought out a great salvation for them whose almost matchlesse magnanimity and resolute Defence of that place hath put a greater stop to the proceedings of the King in hindring His Recruits and opened a more fair advantage to the Reducing of the Western parts then can be easily expressed But yet by these calamaties and troubles the estates of those who have escaped the sword are utterly exhausted and consumed five hundred of their houses burnt down to the ground being one half of the Town by which almost one thousand Families are turned harbourlesse and helplesse to the mercy of their Neighbours who can only melt upon them and weep over them but are not able to relieve them And therefore you that have escaped these miseries are earnestly besought to look upon this sad Distressed Town sometimes the most eminent of those parts for building and scituation and which is more for Piety and true Religion now by the just displeasure of the Lord against it raked in its own ashes reduced almost to the extreamity of misery and want for the Defence of that Cause which you Professe and take upon you to maintain Listen and hear it crying to you in the Churches Lamentation See if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger and do not stop your eares against their cry for pitty from you lest the Lord deal accordingly with you and stop his eares against your cryes for mercy when you have most need of it In such a singular and extraordinary case as this stir up your selves to do some extraordinary thing Do not draw out your purses only to your poor distressed Brethren but your very souls too as the Prophet speaks This is your duty and this will be your policy if you desire to save your persons houses and estates from that heavy misery which hath exposed them to your mercy London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons Sept 9. 1645.