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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02750	A declaration of egregious popish impostures to with-draw the harts of her Maiesties subiects from their allegeance, and from the truth of Christian religion professed in England, vnder the pretence of casting out deuils. Practised by Edmunds, alias Weston a Iesuit, and diuers Romish priestes his wicked associates. Where-vnto are annexed the copies of the confessions, and examinations of the parties themselues, which were pretended to be possessed, and dispossessed, taken vpon oath before her Maiesties commissioners, for causes ecclesiasticall.	Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1603 (1603)	STC 12880; ESTC S120922	196,686	296

Queene herselfe standing excommunicate and that therefore the examinations taken before them are of no validitie to bind the examinats but that all that they doe confesse is tanquam coram non Iudice A number of other shifts they haue which I doe not now remember The Apostolicall rule is that euill shall not be doone that good may come of it but they doe not account it euill as I verily thinke to calumniate the Protestants by any deuise whatsoeuer that may carry any probabilitie with it nor make any conscience to tell and publish any vntruthes which they thinke beeing belieued may aduaunce and promote such poynts and matters as they take vpon them to defend for the honour of the church of Rome and dignitie of their priesthood Anth Tyrrell ❧ The confession of Richard Mainy Gentleman written by himselfe and auouched vppon his oath the sixt of Iune 1602. THe said Richard Mainy had read vnto him some parts of a discourse or two written by certaine Seminary priests of a pretended possession and dispossession both of himselfe and of certaine others viz. one Marwood Trayford Sara Francis Williams two sisters and Anne Smith These parties were said to be possessed and dispossessed of many wicked spirits The priests that dealt with them were diuers but the especiall men that had Richard Mainy in hand were Ma. Edmunds the Iesuit alias Weston Cornelius and one Dibdale men wholy at the deuotion and direction of the said Edmunds It was in the yeeres 1585 and 1586 when these stratagems were executed Such dealings as they had with the said Mainy were at Denham at one Ma. Fittons two miles from Windsore and at the Earle of Loncolnes house in Channon-row where Iohn Mainy his brother did then remaine Of these matters the said Mainy beeing demaunded diuers questions desired that hee might haue leaue to aunswer them after his owne fashion and not to be tied to the order of the said demaunds for that hee thought he could set downe those things which hee remembred more plainly to his owne vnderstanding then otherwise he should be able if he were bound to follow the order propounded vnto him by the said demaunds And that which he hath set downe is the discourse following not much disagreeing from the order of the interrogatories ministred vnto him And hath Ma. Edmunds the rest of the priests thus dealt with mee I am very sorry for it It might haue beene sufficient for them to haue practised theyr purposes vpon me and the rest youthes and almost girles although they had not published the same to the world But of likelihood theyr glory and our discredit were so ioyned together as the one could not stand without the other This course whereunto they haue therby drawne me wil procure me great displeasure I know amongst my friends and worke me much hinderance in my priuate estate but what remedie Beeing called by publique authoritie and enforced by vertue of mine oath to deliuer the truth I cannot see how with any conscience I can deny those things which I find to be truly layd to my charge and could neuer haue beene thought of if their writings had neuer come to the Magistrats hands The particulers which now of necessity I must deliuer I was purposed to haue concealed from all men liuing although heeretofore in generall termes I haue beene driuen to say somewhat of these matters About 14 yeeres since the Lords of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell Henry Earle of Darby being one hauing gotten some notice of the pretended possessions and dispossessions at the places before mentioned and that I was one of the parties that had beene dealt with did write their letter vnto Ferdinando then Lord Strange to examine me It seemeth they had beene informed that I should publish how I was possessed with certaine wicked spirits and of them dispossessed by some priests of the Catholique Romane Church and that I should take vpon mee in companie where I came to iustifie the same So as being called before the said Lord Strange he demaunded of me whether I had giuen out such speeches Hee examined mee vpon my oath and my aunswer was according to the truth as I was perswaded in mine owne conscience and as farre as my memory did serue me viz. that I was neuer possessed with any wicked spirit nor had reported any such thing and that I was so farre from iustifying of it that I was fully perswaded that in all the courses which the priests tooke with me when they pretended that I was possessed there was nothing but deceit falfhood illusions and iuglings This was the effect of my aunswer at that time if my memory doe not much faile me and thereupon I was by his Lordship dismissed VVith this aunswer I suppose the Iesuits were long since acquainted which hath greatly already hindered me alienated the harts of some of my deerest friends from mee And the same aunswer that I made then before his Lordship I must now make againe to the substance of all those questions which haue been demaunded of mee viz. that I was neuer possessed with any wicked spirit otherwise then all other sinners are but euer as free I thanke GOD from hauing any deuils in me as either Ma. Edmunds himselfe or any other of the Priests that had to deale with me for ought I know This aunswer I thought would haue beene sufficient to haue satisfied all those things which are obiected against me but I am vrged with sundry particulers and therefore I must of necessity yeeld to the cleering of my selfe in them and yet no otherwise then the truth requireth When I was about 13 yeeres old I was sent by my mothers direction to Rhemes in Fraunce where there was then an English Seminary the intent of my mother and other of my friends was as I thinke to haue had mee to haue been a priest I remained in Rhemes about two yeres and was there maintained with my mothers exhibition allowance Towards the end of the said two yeeres of a childish curiositie I entred into the obseruances of certaine religious men termed in that country Bonhommes or fratres minimi and became a young probationer amongst them This order was deuised by Fraunces de Paula who is canonized for a saint of whom there is mention made in the Romane breuiary as hauing his place appointed in the Kalender on the second of Aprill There his office course of life is set downe and briefly described After I had remained about a quarter of a yeere or somewhat more in this probation I was sent by the Rector of the house with some other of my fellowes to the house of the Bonhommes at Paris where I had scarcely remained a quarter of a yeere but I grew weary of that profession Their rules seemed vnto me to be too strict for me and their diet beeing nothing but fish I began to dislike it Besides I had a disease wherewith I had been