Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	james_n	john_n	sir_n	63,767	5	6.8706	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81462	Sir John Digby's letter to Colonel Kerr Governour of Plymouth, perswading him to betray his trust, and deliver up the town and forts of Plymouth, to the Kings party. Together with Col. Kerrs answer. Wherein is exprest his faithfull resolution in keeping the trust he hath undertaken.	Digby, John, Sir, 1605-1645.; Kerr, James, Colonel.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing D1419B; Thomason E314_10; ESTC R200492	2,457	8

Sir John Digby's LETTER TO Colonel Kerr Governour OF PLYMOVTH Perswading him to betray his Trust and deliver up the Town and Forts of Plymouth to the KINGS Party Together with Col. Kerrs Answer Wherein is exprest his faithfull Resolution in keeping the Trust he hath undertaken ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Letter be forthwith Printed and Published Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edw. Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Golden Dragon in Fleetstreet neer the Inner-Temple January 2. 1645. The Copy of the Letter from Col. Digby to Col. Kerr Governour of Plymouth SIR I Am troubled to understand that through the ingratitude of those you serve you are like to be rewarded with the dishonour of having a person of much inferiour merit put over your head an injury insupportable to any man of Spirit and which may offer you a justifiable occasion of doing a very eminent Service to your Native King and Countrey and which if you will embrace to deliver up the Town with the Works of Plymouth I shall engage my self on my Honour and the Faith of a Gentleman you shall be rewarded with Ten thousand pounds sterlin and have the command if you please of a Regiment of five hundred Horse with what Honours you your self shall desire Sir be not scrupelous in taking the advice of an Enemy that desires heartily on these terms to become your true Friend and to serve ever for the future in all occasions as a most faithful Servant John Digby Plimpton 3. Decemb. 1645. For Col. Kerr Governour of Plymouth Colonel Kerrs Answers SIR YOur motion to Treason I have seen and detest it it is below my Spirit for personal injury supposed onely by an Enemy to take National revenge and for a Punctillio of honour to take advice from Hell and bētray my trust I am sorry that one so ingennous as your self should abuse your natural parts onely to do mischief yet I have no reason to wonder much at your perswasion to Treasheiy because I have had experience of the Endeavours of your Family to corrupt others also I remember the Gun-power Plot the Letter your Brother wrote to my Lord Roberts in this place for the same purpose and his negotiation with Major General Brown at Abbington Surely those principles came from Spain but you should have told me also that Spanish Proverb To love the Treason and hate the Traytor Sir If my Councel may take with you then I beseech you to consider the evil Councel you and your Party have given His Majesty whereby the Kingdom especially those parts under your power are become almost a desolation And when you have thought upon the sad effects of those Wars then let your heart tell you the truth That much of the Blood and Rapine in this Countrey must lie upon your accompt and guilt may inforce you to seek for terms of Reconciliation first with God then with the Representative Body of the Kingdom whom you have so highly offended Let not this advice from him whom you call Enemy be despised as you hope for mercy and the respects of him who according to the National Covenant resolves to be Sir Assuredly your Servant James Kerr Plymouth 10 Dec. 1645. For Sir John Digby General at Plimpton To the Right Honorable Committee of Parliament for the safety of Plimouth Pool and Lyme My Lords and Gentlemen IT hath been my endeavor since I had any Command here faithfully to discharge the trust reposed in me especially for the preservation of this Important place Plimouth and although you in your wisdoms have thought fit to change the Government I do contentedly acquiesse in it and shall alwayes be ready to serve my God and the Kingdoms according to the Nationall Covenant in any condition I shall be thought worthy to be imployed My Neighbor Enemy Sir John Digby sent me on the third of this Instant this Temptation whereof the inclosed is a true Copy by a Countryman of mine that resided in this Town It seems the fellow was an Instrument of theirs for he went twice to Parley with the Enemy without Order and the second time received this Paper from that Renegado Major Balfore privatly who conjured him with secrecy to deliver it to me and told him he might gain Five hundred pounds by the businesse The Messenger accordingly delivered his Message but could not read it I no sooner saw it but sent for the Committee Mr. Wadden Mr. Francis Mr. Alsop and the Secretary and discovered it to them It was at first resolved That I should seem to comply with him and by it to get advantage but since that Resolution is changed and the inclosed returned in Answer the Messenger is still in Custody and shall receive a Tryall according to the Rules of War And I desire only that you will Publish my Integrity to the World and I shall continue to be for ever Plimouth the 12. of Decemb. 1645. Your Honors and the Kingdoms most faithfull Servant JAMES KERR To the Right Honorable Committee of Lords and Commons for the safety of Plimouth Pool and Lyme Right Honorable Vpon Wednesday last was sevennight in the Evening Col Kerr sent for us and communicated a Letter he had then received from Col Digby by the hands of one Thomas Read a Scottish Seaman whom he had then secured in his own Quarters And when we had confidered the nature of it we at first resolved to Deceive the Deceivers if we might but because some other accidents have since intervened we changed our Resolutions We professe we found Col Kerr extremely troubled at this Treacherous notice and exceedingly grieved that an Enemy should suspect him capable of Treason And we shall give this Testimony of him that we believe him a most cordiall faithfull Servant to the Kingdom and this Place and make it our Requests That you will return him thanks for his fidelity and cause the Letter to him and his Answer thereunto to be made Publique which we conceive is an Honour too small for his Resolution in resisting such a Temptation So rest Plymouth the 12. of Decemb. 1645. Your Honours most humble Servants John Beare Justinian Peard Tho Ciely A Letter from Colonel John Digby to Colonel James Kerr Governour of Plymouth and the Answer of the said Colonel James Kerr unto him were both this day Read and Ordered to be forthwith Printed and that the Committee of Plymouth do prepare a Letter to be sent unto him from this House in testimony acknowledgment of his great fidelity and that Five hundred pounds be from this House bestowed on him and paid unto him or his Assignes by the Committee of Plymouth and that he be in an especial manner recommended from this House to the Committee of the Army for some place besitting as a man of such approved Faith and Integrity The Messenger that brought this Letter to Colonel James Kerr hath since received his reward and is executed by Martial Law H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS