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A53014 A new year's gift for Sir Bartholomew Shower Percival, Thomas, fl. 1696-1697. 1697 (1697) Wing N802B; ESTC R42210 4,099 2

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Recorder of London why that great Man threw it up to what end you were put in and how you did the Drudgery of that Day to such Content that you were to have taken a Seat by the most remarkable Lord Chief Justice that ever sat in the Court of Kings Bench Tresilian himself not excepted I mean Wright had not his Majesty's the then Prince of Orange's Glorious Expedition dash'd all your Hopes Now seeing you were not found upon the Bench it had been a Raree Show to have seen you brought to the Bar together Mistake me not I should not have rejoyc'd to have heard that you died together in Newgate but how could I have prevented it had you been ordered to be conveyed thence to But you having happily escaped by the Lenity of his Majesty's most Benign Government have since been again aspiring to that honourable Place of Recorder of our Metropolis and I care not if I take this occasion to tell the World what you already know and therefore spit your Poison at me that I my self in a Scrip of Paper entred a Caveat against you and you obtained not what you then aimed at Before I conclude I shall remark upon the Accusation you bring against me You say I have been a riding Commissioner for the late Elections It is to this Day remembred that I was taken up by your Friend Atterbury and at the Council Board criminated as now I am by the Lord Keeper North. He upbraided me that I had been riding over the Kingdom to busy my self in Elections to the Disturbance of the King's Government I confess to you Sir If it must be termed busying my self I have done ut potui in abundance of Elections for above 20 years past as is well known to many Members of this Parliament But withal challenge you and all Mankind to shew that I ever acted for an ill Man tho in the Days of Yore we saw too many such in Parliament Now to reason the Cafe with you why I beseech you may not I as lawfully sollicite for a good Man as you plead for any Man 'T is surely at least as commendable to be industrious in the Service of Ones Countrey as for its Destruction I defy you and all the World to prove that I have menac'd or brib'd any one Man for obtaining his Vote nay that I have misrepresented or disparaged any Man further than by calling a Spade a Spade I am very sure that I my self stand at this instant at such a distance from Bribery that I can and do affirm that in about four Months Fatigue I have got nothing beyond the comfortable Reflection that I have engaged totis viribus in the Service of my Generation tho you now take the Freedom to vilify me for doing it Your next Charge upon me is that I drank King James 's Health What now if I should digress a little and tell you a pleasant Passage Being lately in Company with one who usually associates with your old Gang I began King William 's Health and Prosperity to his Government The Tory having chatted on and forgot the Health and what Company he was in very innocently I verily think took up the Glass and clapping his next Neighbour on the Shoulder said Come here 's King James's his Health but instantly perceiving his Mistake was not a little confounded To return now to what we were upon the heavy Charge of my drinking King James 's Health The Story in short was this finding there were some at East-Grinstead smelt rank of Popery more of Jacobitism I had a mind to try the Parson and in a jocose Humour said to him Come Doctor what if you and I should drink King James 's Health you here have the Truth of the Tale and make your best of it Sir I have intimated how I fell under your Displeasure and having mentioned the infamous Lord Chief Justice Wright shall briefly declare how I incurred his In several Elections in the Counties of Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridg in the blessed Reign of your Gracious King I met and to his Face ever boldly opposed this Sir Rob. Wright and the Tory Interest which he ever espoused The Wretch to the astonishment of all good Men as a reward of his Villanies stepping gradatim through all the Courts of Westminster to the Seat of the Lord Chief Justice made me feel the effect of his Fury whereof my next shall give you a full Relation and indeed not only his own Revenge but the Rage of Jeffries irritated him against me for clapping into Nath. Thompson's Popish Intelligence an idle Tale of an untimely Female squint-ey'd Child I am however still a sincere Lover of my Country And Your Debtor T. P.