Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	king_n	say_a	sovereign_a	23,708	5	10.0425	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01001	The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.		1619 (1619)	STC 11107; ESTC S102363	15,152	48

the Pinfold there within the which time the said William Faire-barne did beat her and breake her head wherevppon the said Thomas Faire-barne did mend And being asked who did send that Planet answered it was not I. Further shee saith that shee saw a hand appeare vnto her and that shee heard a voyce in the ayre said vnto her Anne Baker saue thy selfe for to morrow thou and thy maister must be slaine and the next day her maister and shee were in a Cart together and suddainely shee saw a flash of fire and said her prayers and the fire went away and shortly after a Crow came and picked vpon her cloathes and shee said her prayers againe and bad the Crow go to whom he was sent and the Crow went vnto her Maister and did beat him to death and shee with her prayers recouered him to life but hee was sicke a fortnight after and saith that if shee had not had more knowledge then her maister both he and shee and all the Cattell had beene slaine Being examined concerning a Childe of Anne Stannidge which shee was suspected to haue bewitched to death saith the said Anne Stannidge did deliuer her childe into her hands and that shee did lay it vpon her skirt but did no harme vnto it And being charged by the Mother of the childe that vpon the burning of the haire and the paring of the nailes of the said childe the said Anne Baker came in and set her downe and for one houres space could speake nothing confesseth shee came into the house of the said Anne Stannidge in great paine but did not know of the burning of the haire and nailes of the said Childe but said she was so sicke that she did not know whither she went Being charged that shee bewitched Elizabeth Hough the wife of William Hough to death for that shee angred her in giuing her almes of her second bread confesseth that she was angry with her and said she might haue giuen her of her better bread for she had gone too often on her errands but more she saith not This Examinat confesseth that shee came to Ioane Gylles house her child being sicke and that shee intreated this Examinat to look on the Child and to tell her whether it was forspoken or no and this Examinate said it was forspoken but when the said child died she cannot tell And being asked concerning Nortley carrying of his Child home vnto his owne house where the said Anne Baker was shee asked him who gaue the said Child that loafe he told her Anthony Gill to whom this Examinate said he might haue had a Child of his owne if hee would haue sought in time for it which words she confessed shee did speake Being blamed by Henry Milles in this sort A fire set on you I haue had two or three ill nights to whom shee made answere you should haue let me alone then which shee confesseth The said Anne Baker March 2. 1618. confessed before Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie that about 3. yeares agoe shee went into Northamptonshire and that at her comming back againe one Peakes wife and Dennis his wife of Beluoyre told her that my young Lord Henry was dead and that there was a gloue of the said Lord buried in the ground and as that gloue did rot and wast so did the liuer of the said Lord rot and wast Further shee said March 3. 1618. before S r. George Manners Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinity that shee hath a Spirit which hath the shape of a white Dogge which shee calleth her good Spirit Samuel Fleming test The Examination of Ioan Willimot taken the 28. of February in the 16. yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord IAMES ouer England King c. and ouer Scotland the 52. before Alexander Amcotts Esquire one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace of the said parts and County THis Examinat saith that Ioane Flower told her that my Lord of Rutland had dealt badly with her and that they had put away her Daughter and that although she could not haue her will of my Lord himselfe yet she had spied my Lords Sonne and had stricken him to the heart And she sai●h that my Lords Sonne was striken with a white Spirit and that shee can cure some that send vnto her and that some reward her for her paines and of some she taketh nothing She further saith that vpon Fryday night last her Spirit came to her and told her that there was a bad woman at Deeping who had giuen her soule to the Diuell and that her said Spirit did then appeare vnto her in a more vgly forme then it had formerly done and that it vrged her much to giue it something although it were but a peece of her Girdle and told her that it had taken great paines for her but she saith that she would giue it nothing and told it that she had sent it to no place but onely to see how my Lord Rosse did and that her Spirit told her that he should doe well The Examination of the said Ioan Willimott taken the second day of March in the yeare abouesaid before the said Alexander Amcots THis Examinate saith That shee hath a Spirit which shee calleth Pretty which was giuen vnto her by William Berry of Langholme in Rutlandshire whom she serued three yeares and that her Master when hee gaue it vnto her willed her to open her mouth and hee would blow into her a Fairy which should doe her good and that shee opened her mouth and he did blow into her mouth and that presently after his blowing there came out of her mouth a Spirit which stood vpon the ground in the the shape and forme of a Woman which Spirit did aske of her her Soule which shee then promised vnto it being willed thereunto by her Master Shee further confesseth that shee neuer hurt any body but did helpe diuers that sent for her which were stricken or fore-spoken and that her Spirit came weekely to her and would tell her of diuers persons that were stricken and forespoken And shee saith that the vse which shee had of the Spirit was to know how those did which shee had vndertaken to amend and that shee did helpe them by certaine prayers which she vsed and not by her owne Spirit neyther did she imploy her Spirit in any thing but onely to bring word how those did which she had vndertaken to cure And shee further saith that her Spirit came vnto her this last night as she thought in the forme of a woman mumbling but she could not vnderstand what it said And being asked whether shee were not in a dreame or slumber when shee thought shee saw it shee said no and that she was as waking as at this present Alexander Amcots Thomas Robinson test The Examination of Ioane Willimot of Goadby in the County of Leicester Widdow taken the 17. of March 1618 by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor