Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	john_n	justice_n	thomas_n	17,750	5	8.7458	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62928	The narrative and case of Simson Tonge, Gent. being a true account delivered upon oath before Mr. Justice Bridgeman, in the presence of Dr. Titus Oates, relating to Capt. Sam. Ely, Monsieur Choqueux, &c. and my self, who would have induced me to swear that my father and Dr. Oates, were the contrivers of the horrid Popish Plot, with other material passages omitted in the affidavit, together with some short reflections upon Mr. Le'estranges [sic] dialogue between Zekiel and Ephraim : humbly tendered to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons.	Tonge, Simson, b. 1656 or 7.	1681 (1681)	Wing T1884A; ESTC R16796	26,700	16

to induce me to swear against my Father and Doctor Oates that they were the contrivers of the Popish Plot Mr. Chiffins sent Ely a Letter that Mr Choqueux should take care of me in regard of my Health and Ely show'd me the Letter nevertheless Choqueux was continually prompting me on and was extreme zealous for the Catholick Interest and said he was very glad to hear of my forwardness to vindicate them and thought I was the only Person in England that might be a means to make the Catholique Religion Flourish in these Kingdoms and said he cared not what he bestowed to further my Business Elys last Letter to me was in these Words SIR I Do not love to add Affliction to Affliction and yet I cannot but wonder that you should seek to me either for Relief or Bayl after such a Requital of my good Offices and Civilities both in Relation to his Majesty and my self you have made it so dangerous to have any thing to do with you that common Discretion obliges me to keep my Distance even against my inclinations to a Work of Charity for I do pitty your Condition but to send you any sort of Supply would look as if I were afraid of you or intended to make use of you but my Integrity hath kept me out of your Power and as to any manner of Correspondence I have done with you Only this I think I might securely do for you Monsieur Choqueux was lamenting the ill state of your Health and I moved him to take some care of you that way but his Answer was that he did not know what Construction might be made of it but I am perswaded that if you should write to him such a Letter as might secure him from being misinterpreted by some acknowledgment of what he hath already done for you and such Declarations under your Hand as might be an Evidence that it was at your own Instance and only in Order to your Recovery I do not know I say but you might prevail with him to go on with your Cure Consider the goodness of God to you to give you time to repent of your Wickedness and set about it seriously in which good Design God assist you through the Mercies of Christ Jesus September 25th 1680 7 at Night Farewel S. ELY After I had received this Letter of Elys Captain Richardson sent for me and said he was informed that several Persons had been to speak with me I told him Colonel Mansel and another Person had been with me and likewise some Catholiques and then he bid me fetch my Linnen and removed me out of the Press-yard into the Master-side Debtors from whence I was ordered to appear the second time before the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel his Majesty being then likewise present where my Affidavit which was taken upon Oath before Mr. Justice Bridgeman being read and the Lords were then many of Opinion that Ely was the main Person which did instigate me to draw up those Objections against the Popish Plot this Account being more large than the Affidavit not having then so much time to recollect my Memory so fully as I have since done and this I have performed with all due Respect to the Persons concerned without clamorous and abusive Reflections and with Conscience to the Truth without wronging any Person in the Relation and though L'estrange has so grosly abused me in his lying and scandalous Dialogue yet I only plainly lay down the matter of Fact and the several Intrigues and Discourses that past betwixt us and as near as I could remember the very Words and leave it freely to the Judgment of any unbiast Person whether L'estrange be so innocent or made so slight a matter of what I said to him as he publishes in his Case inserting in it what he pleases and many times mentioning Persons with us when there were none which is but a small Fault but he confounds the whole Series of the Discourse which I had with him as is sufficiently evident and perspicuous to any Person that will be at so much Pains as to compare my Account with his Dialogue and though he may have more Wit I am sure he has not so much Honesty in the Relation Since I was committed to Newgate the last Term a Habeas Corpus was brought for me to appear at the Kings Bench where I moved my Lord Chief Justice Scroggs that I might be removed to the Kings Bench and upon my motion to the Judges I was committed to the Prison of the Court And no farther saith Simson Tonge Witness Thomas Waller John Rawlins Francis Ramme Thomas Castell FINIS