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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	knight_n	sir_n	viscount_n	16,070	5	12.0091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30989	Theologo-Historicus, or, The true life of the most reverend divine, and excellent historian, Peter Heylyn ... written by his son in law, John Barnard ... to correct the errors, supply the defects, and confute the calumnies of a late writer ; also an answer to Mr. Baxters false accusations of Dr. Heylyn.	Barnard, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing B854; ESTC R1803	116,409	316

com●… by indirect means and not by merit to them Bellarmine also was of no poor and base extraction but better than his Fellows for which reason he was created Cardinal by Clement the Eight Hunc eligimus saith he quia est nepos optimi sanctissimi Po●…tificis because he was the Nephew of Marcellus the Second who said that he could not see how any could be saved who sate in the Pontifical Chair Non video quomodo qui locum hunc altissimum tenent salvari possunt After those heats of disputation were over Mr. Heylyn took a Journy to London where he waited on Bishop L●…d then Bishop of Bath and Wells who had heard of all the passages that had hapned at Oxford of which Mr. Heylyn gave a more perfect account to his Lordship who was pleased to read over the Supposition at which Dr. Prideaux was so highly offended but the good Bishop on the other side commended it and encouraged Mr. Heylyn in his Studies saying that he himself had in his younger dayes maintained the same Positions in a disputation in St. Johns Colledge that Mr. Heylyns Hypothesis could not be overthrown in a fair way exhorting him to continue in that moderate course And that as God had given him more than ordinary gifts so he would pray to God that he and others might employ them in such a way and manner as might make up the breaches in the Walls of Christendom Mr. Heylyn to clear himself from the suspicion of Popery which Dr. Prideaux had most unjustly branded him with in November next following Preached before the King on those words Joh. 4. ver 20. Our Fathers Worshipped on this Mountain c. In which Sermon he declared himself with such smart zeal and with as quick Judgment against several errors and corruptions in the Church of Rome that his Sermon was otherwise resented by the King and Court then his supposition by the Kings Professor at Oxon. And when that clamour was revived again by his Enemies that he had some inclinations to the Romish Religion he gave such satisfaction in his third and fourth Sermon Preached at White-Hall in the year 1638. Upon the Parable of the Tares on these words Matth. 13. vers 26. Tunc apparuerunt Zizania Then appeared the Tares also that some of the Court did not stick to say that he had done more towards the Subversion of Popery in those two Sermons than Dr. Prideaux had done in all the Sermons which he had ever Preached in his Life For that Doctor was a better disputant than a Preacher and to give him his due a right Learned Man in his place of Regius Professor yet withal so Dogmatical in his own points that he would not abide to be touched much less contradicted by Mr. Heylyn Non aliam ob causam nisi quod Virtus in vtroque summa fuit More especially being a Great Man at that time very popular in the University profoundly admired by the Junior Masters and some of the Seniors inclined to Puritanism his own Colledge then observed to be Communis pestis Adolescentum the Common Nursery of West Country Men in Puritan principles so that Mr. Heylyn could expect no favour nor fair dealing in the way of his disputation when it ran contrary to the Professors humor After these Academical contests growing weary of Obs and Sols in Scholastical disputations which was ever opposite to his Genius and for this purpose being unwilling to be alwaies Cloystred up within the Walls of a Colledge where he must be tied to such Exercises besides a Man of an Aiery and active Spirit though studious and contemplative would not be perpetually devoted to a Melancholly recluse Life also emulation and envy the two inseperable evils that accompany Learned Men in the same Society hath frequently stirred up animosities and factions among them That I have known some ingenious persons for this reason have been wearied out of a Collegiat Life resolved therefore he was to Marry and alter the condition of his Life which he thought would prove more agreeable to the content and satisfactiof his mind Neque aliud probis quam ex Matrimonio solatium esse saith the good Author because Marriage is the only comfort of minds honestly given accordingly a fair Fortune was offered to him a Wife with a thousand pounds Portion and a Gentlewoman of a very Ancient Family and of as excellent Education Mrs. Letitia High-Gate third Daughter of Thomas High-Gate of Heyes Esq one of his Majesties Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex who in his younger dayes whilst his Elder Brother was alive had been Provost Marshal General of the Army under the Earl of Essex at the action of Cales and of Margery Skipwith his Wife one of the Daughters of that Ancient Family of the Skipwiths in the County of Leicester of which Family still there is a Worthy person living Sir Thomas Skipwith Knight a Learned Serjeant in the Law Which said Thomas High-Gate the Father beforementioned was second Son of that Thomas High-Gate who was field Marshal General of the English Forces before St. Quintine under the Command of the Earl of Pembrook Anno Dom. 1557. And of Elizabeth Stoner his Wife a Daughter of the ancient Family of the Stoners in the County of Oxon. To this young Gentlewoman Mrs. Letitia High-gate aforesaid Mr. Heylyn was no stranger for his Elder Brother Mr. Edward Heylyn had married some years before her eldest Sister His Seat was at Minster-Lovel in Oxfordshire where his Son to whom Dr. Heylyn was Uncle now liveth viz. Hen. Heylyn Esq an ancient Collonel and an excellent Commander in the Army of King Charles the First and a most accomplished Gentleman in all respects to the honour of his Family Another of the Sisters of Mrs. Letitia High-gate married Robert Tirwhit Esq one of the ancient Family of the Tirwhits in the County of Lincoln Master of the Buck-hounds in the Reign of King Charles the First a Place of honour and of great Revenue Finally to the honour of that Family Sir Henry Bard of Stanes Knight who afterward was created Viscount Lord Bellamount did marry the Daughter of Sir William Gardiner whose Lady and Mrs. Letitia High-gate were Sisters Children that unfortunate Lord who is mentioned in the Marquesse of Worcesters Apothegmes for a brave Commander and Governour of Camden House in the time of War did attend his sacred Majesty all the time of his Exile until the Treaty at Breda when he was sent as I have heard on some Ambassage into the Eastern Countries where travelling in Arabia deserta for want of a skilful Guide was swallowed up in the Gulf of Sands These were the Relations and many others of Quality which I forbear to mention of Mrs. Letitia High-gate And whereas the late Writer disparages the young Gentlewoman that her Portion was never paid I am sure he has done her that Wrong which he can never recompence for her Elder