Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	knight_n	sir_n	son_n	21,452	5	5.7301	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00045	Witchcrafts, strange and wonderfull: discovering the damnable practices of seven witches, against the lives of certaine noble personages, and others of this kingdome, as shall appeare in this lamentable history. ; With an approved triall how to finde out either witch or any apprentice to witch-craft..	Flower, Margaret, d. 1618.	1635 (1635)	STC 11107.7; ESTC S92558	15,311	23

Mouse put into him in his swearing and that if hee did looke upon any thing with an intent to hurt it should be hurt and that he had marke on his left arme which was cut away and that her owne Spirit did tell her all this before it went from her Further shee saith That Ioane Flower Margaret Flower and she did meet about a weeke before Ioane Flowers apprehension in Blackborrow hill and went from thence home to the said Ioane Flowers house and there shee saw two Spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owle and one of them did sucke under her right eare as she thought and the said Ioane told her that her Spirit did say she chould neither be hanged nor burnt Further she saith That the said Ioatie Flower did take up some earth and spit upon it and did worke it with her finger and put it up into her purse and said Though she could not hurt the Lord himselfe yet she had sped his sonne which is dead H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Ellen Greene of Stathorne in the County of Leicester taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity SHe saith That one Ioane Willimot of Goadby came about sixe yeares since to her in the Wowlds and perswaded this Examinate to forsake God and betake her to the Devill and she would give her two Spirits to which she gave her consent and thereupon the said Ioane Willimot called two Spirits one in the likenes of a Kitlin and the other of a Moldiwarp the first the said Willmot called Pusse the other Hiffe hiffe and they presently came to her and she departing left them with this Examinate and they lept on her shoulder and the Kitlin suckt under her right eare on her necke and the Moldiwarp on the left side in the like place After they had suckt her shee sent the Kitlin to a Baker of that Towne whose name she remembers not who had called her Witch and stricken her and bade her said Spirit goe and bewitch him to death the Moldiwarp she then bade goe to Anne Dawse of the same Towne and bewitch her to death because shee had called this Examinate Witch whore jade c. and within one fortnight after they both died And further this Examinate saith That she sent both her Spirits to Stonesby to one Willison a husband-man and Robert Williman a husbandmans sonne and bade the Kitlin goe to Willison and bewitch him to death and the Moldiwarp to the other and bewitch him to death which they did and within ten dayes they died These foure were bewitched while this Examinate dwelt at Waltham aforesaid About three yeares since this Examinate removed thence to Stathorne where she now dwelt upon a difference betweene the said Willimot and the wife of Iohn Patchet of the said Stathorne Yeoman she the said Willimot called her this Examinate to goe and touch the said Iohn Patchets wife and her childe which she did touching the said Iohn Patchets wife in her bed and the child in the Grace-wifes armes and then sent her said Spirits to bewitch them to death which they did and so the woman lay languishing by the space of a moneth and more for then she died the child died the next day after she touched it And shee further saith That the said Ioane Willimot had a Spirit sucking on her under the left flanke in the likenesse of a little white dogge which this Examinate saith that shee saw the same sucking in Barley-harvest last being then at the house of the said Ioane Willimot And for her selfe this Examinate further saith That she gave her soule the Deuill to have these Spirits at her command for a confirmation whereof she suffered them to sucke her alwayes as aforesaid about the Change and full of the Moone H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Philip Flower sister of Margaret Flower and daughters of Ioane Flower before Sir William Pelham and Master Butler Iustices of the Peace February 4. 1618. Which was brought in at the Assizes as evidence against her sister Margaret SHe saith That her mother and her sister maliced the Earle of Rutland his Countesse and cheir children because her sister Margaret was put out of the Ladies service of Laundry and exempted from other services about the house whereupon her said sister by the commandement of her mother brought from the Castle the right hand glove of the Lord Henry Rosse which she delivered to her mother who presently rubd it on the backe of her Spirit Rutterkin then put it into hot boyling water afterward she pricked it often and buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Rosse might never thrive and so her sister Margaret continued with her mother where she often saw the Cat Rutterkin leape on her shoulder and suck her neck Shee further confessed that she heard her mother often curse the Earle and his Lady and thereupon would boyle feathers and blood together using many Devillish speeches and strange gestures The Examination of Margaret Flower SHe saith and confesseth That about foure or five yeare since her mother sent her for the right hand glove of Henry Lord Rosse afterward that her mother bade her goe againe into the Castle of Bever and bring downe the glove or some other thing of Henry Lord Rosse and she askt what to doe Her mother replied to hurt my Lord Rosse whereupon shee brought downe a glove and delivered the same to her mother who stroked Rutterkin her Cat with it after it was dipt in hot water and so prickt it often after which Henry Lord Rosse fell sicke within a weeke and was much tormented with the same Shee further faith That finding a glove about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse on a dunghill shee delivered it to her mother who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat and bad him goe upwards and after her mother buried it in the yard and said a mischiefe light on him but hee will mend againe Shee further saith That her mother and shee and her sister agreed together to bewitch the Earle and his Lady that they might have no more children and being demanded the cause of their malice and ill-will shee saith that about foure yeares since the Countesse growing into some mislike with her gave her forty shillings a bolster and an attresse and bade her lie at home and come no more to dwell at the Castle which she not onely tooke in ill-part but grudged at it exceedingly swearing in her heart to be revenged After this her mother complained to the Earle against one Peake who had offred her some wrong wherein shee conceived that the Earle tooke not her part as she expected which dislike with the rest exasperated her displeasure against him and so she watched an opportunity to bee revenged whereupon shee tooke wooll out of the said mattresse and a

away and shortly after a Crow came and picked upon her cloathes and shee said her prayers againe and bade the Crow goe to whom hee was sent and the Crow went unto her Master and did beat him to death and she with her prayers recovered him to life but he was sicke a fortnight after and saith that if she had not had more knowledge then her Master both hee and shee and all the Cattell had beene slaine Being examined concerning a childe of Anne Stannidge which shee was suspected to have bewitched to death saith the said Anne Stannidge did deliver her childle into her hands and that she did lay it upon her skirt but did no harme unto it And being charged by the mother of the childe that upon the burning of the haire and the pairing 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 she 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 shee was so sicke that shee did not know whither she went Being charged that shee bewitched Elizabeth Hough the wife of William Hough to death for that she angred her in giving her almes of her second bread confesseth that shee was angry with her and said she might have given her of her better bread for she had gone too often on her errands but more she saith not This Examinate confesseth that she came to Ioane Gylles house her childe being sicke and that shee intreated this Examinate to looke on her childe and to tell her whether it was forespoken or no and this Examinate said it was forespoken but when the said childe died she cannot tell And being asked concerning Nortley carrying of his childe home unto his owne house where the said Anne Baker was she asked him who gave the said childe that loafe hee told her Anthony Gill to whom this Examinate said he might have had a childe of his owne if hee would have sought in time for it which words she confessed she did speake Being blamed by Henry Mills in this sort A fire set on you I have had two or three ill nights to whom she made answere you should have let me alone then which she confesseth The said Anne Baker March 2. 1618. confesseth before Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity that about 3. yeares agoe she went into Northamptonshire and that at her comming backe againe one Peakes wife and Denis his wife of Belvoyre told her that my young L. Henry was dead and that there was a glove of the said Lord buried in the ground and as that glove did rot and wast so did the liver of the said lord rot and wast Further she said March 3 1618. before Sir George Manners Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity that she hath a spirit which hath the shape of a white dogge which she calleth her good spirit Samuel Fleming test The Examination of Ioane Willimot taken the 28. of February in the 16. yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Iames over England King c. and over Scotland the 52. before Alexander Amcots Esquire one of his Majistise 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 shee could not have her will of my Lord himselfe yet she had spied my Lords Sonne and had strick on him to the heart And shee saith that my Lords sonne was stricken with a white Spirit and that she can cure some that send unto her and that some reward her for her paines and of some she taketh nothing Shee further saith That upon Friday night last her Spirit came to her and told her That there was a bad woman at Deeping who had given her soule to the Devill and that her said Spirit did then appeare unto her in a more ugly for me then it had formerly done and that it urged her much to give it something although it were but a piece of her girdle and told her that it had taken great paines for her but shee saith that shee would give it nothing and told it that shee 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 Ioane Willimot taken the second day of March in the yeare above said before the said Alexander Amcots THis Examinate saith That shee hath a Spirit which shee calleth Pretty which was given unto her by William Berry of Langholme in Rutland shire whom she served three yeares and that her Master when hee gave it unto her willed her to open her mouth and hee would blow into her a Fairy which should doe her good and that shoe opened her mouth and he did blow into her mouth and presently after his blowing there came out of her mouth a Spirit which stood upon the ground in the shape and forme of a woman which Spirit did aske of her her soule which shee then promised unto it being willed thereunto by by her Master She further confesseth That she never hurt any body but did helpe divers that sent for her which were stricken or fore-spoken and that her Spirit came weekely to her and would tell her of divers persons which were stricken and fore spoken And she saith That the use which shee had of the Spirit was to know how those did which shee had undertaken to amend and that she did helpe them by certaine prayers which shee used and not by her owne Spirit neither did she imploy her Spirit in any thing but onely to bring word how those did which she had undertaken to cure And she further saith That her Spirit came unto her this last night as shee thought in the forme of a woman mumbling but shee could not understand what it said And being asked whether shee were not in a dreame or slumber when shee thought she saw it she said no and that she was as walking as at this present Alexander Amoors Thomas Robinson test The Examination of Joane Willimot of Goadby in the County of Leicester widow taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Divinity two of his Majesites Iustices of the Peace of the said County of Leicester SHe saith That she told one Cookes wife of Stathorne in the said County Labourer that Iohn Patchet might have had his child alive if he would haue sought forth for it in time and if it were not death stricken in her wayes and that Patchets wife had an evill thing within her which should make an end of her and that she knew by her girdle Shee saith further That Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in the said County Shepherd had a Spirit like a white