Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	master_n	sir_n	william_n	19,242	5	8.6673	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85934	Baltazar Gerbier Knight to all men that loves truth	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing G577; Thomason E510_1*; ESTC R205643	13,063	20

Douer and during the time of my attendance in the office of Master of Ceremonies after I had consumed my selfe in his Maiesties seruice during my eleven yeares Residency in the Court of Bruxels greate part of my arreares being 〈◊〉 payed No vvouder that I tooke then hold on the occasion to passe into France vvhen I had obtained the letter of Credence as aforesaid vvhich being about the time that a question vvas moved on as intercepted letter sent from London to Oxford fathered on me though no man could proure the caracter to be myne not to haue his sent directly nor indirectly by me my said departure then did not as it seemes satisfy all those that heard of the said letter not some that haue bin pleased to vent glosses theron Though I had to pleade on that subiect first not guilty Secondly That I vvas charged vvith a letter of Credence to passe a Compliment vvith a King vvho vvas acere the Angonies of death as it proued since ere I landed att Callis he vvas deceassed Thirdly that I had a passe from the Parliament declaring my libertie to attend his Maiesties seruice and this vvithout limitation of place vvhen his Maiestie had full povver on me to command mee to go or to come That my dependency vvas Manifest and publike my attendance but a Coremoniall part vvithout any relation to the dicipline of vvarres Fourthly 〈◊〉 my going from London I vvas in no constraint nor vnder any guarde Fiftly it vvas ten the ClocK in the morning vvhen I did embarke my selfe in the ordinary packett boate att Douer vvhereof one Master VVhi● vvas master vvho had Knovvne me many yeares before I payed the duties vvhich the Officers there demanded of mee all men that vvere there did see my face vvhich vvas not disguised by falce heare nor peruix Master vvhit vvas at the starren of the Boate and I neuer vvent under deck to hidde my selfe Sixtly that iff the letter could haue been proved to bee mine yet could it not have argued mee to bee a dangerous man since I had no voyce in chapter vvith either parties that I vvas no instrument of the unhappy difference betvven the King and his People for vvhich I shall praise God vvhille I live and di●●rs of my publick dispatchs vvhich I have made to the King and State during my Residency at Bruxels as my Iournals can manifest vvill prouve that I did faithfully relate hovv little the vvorld did reflect on His Majesties povver so long it vvas not seasoned by an Harmonious concordance of Parliaments VVhich vvas often cast in my teeth VVhen I did incist as my duty vvas and my Instructions did beare on the point of the restitution of the Palatinat VVhich endeauours besides the pursuance of His Majesties interests lost me vvith some of the Spanish Ministers as namely vvith the President Role vvho vvhen I did demand Iustice for His Majesties subjests and such possitiue ansvvers as I vvas commanded to put to him insolently questioned vvhetber the King had an Army of fifthy thousand man at his back VVhich he ●●eered vvith disrespectfull VVords vvheron I made a just complaint to the Infant Cardinall vvho did blame the said President Rose for it No men vvill vvonder as I do conceiue that I did at last sue for my recall from that imploiment as I did vvhen I had so long vvithstood the violence and malice of the Cottintoniens vvho by these great Intelligence vvith the most depraued Ministers the King of Spaine had some of vvhich the said King hath been constrained to shake of all the good and solid Orders sent to me by His Majesties Principall Secretaries of State vvere of no force and all good indeavours destroyed to the prejudice of His Majesties Seruice Honour and the reall good and greatnesse 〈◊〉 the State of England No vvonder also that I did sue for my said recall vvhen the Kings ennemies made use of Spirits of Dil●●ion to attempt on the Soules and minds of the first of my family a persecution vvhich vvithout comparaison Iob neuer felt for his calamity did not follovv him from one Countrey to another As sirst it begun against me in Brabant It continued at my returne in England and follovved me into France as feemes to finish vvhere it begun vvith my Predecessors For no sooner had I gotten in France a Surintendance of an Office vvhich vvould haue proued vvorth to me many thousand pounds a yeare but vvas pursued by factionnaries vvho did boldly maintaine in Petitions presented by the Bishop du Puis to the Queen Regent that She vvas Ipso facto excommunicated for having conferred such an Office on an Heretique as they terme all that are not of the Church of Rome This vvas pursued by libels and mischie●●●● contrivances in vvhich English Papists had part as especially those vvho impudently and most falcoly did sustaine me to be the man who crost all the King of great Brittains affaires abroad alledging 〈◊〉 other ground for their utterances but vvhat I had openly declared to the Lords in Parliament concerning the Lord Cottington and ha● during my being at Paris one Sir Thomas Dishington had free accesse to me That the said Sir Thomas Dishingt on should have said that it vvas I vvho disuaded the Queen Regent from sending any Ambassado●r into England that had not left a good esteeme there that the Queen Regent being graciously pleased to aske my opinion vvhat person seemed most fit for that Ambassage I said in ansvver to her most gracious commands that to me the Mareshall de Bassompie●●e seemeed the fittest being a peaceable graue good and vvise noble man vvho hauing once reconciled the tvvo Nations might perhaps prou● a fit Minister for the reconciliation betvveen the King and his people That the said Sir Thomas Dishington had said that the Lord Lanthian had departed as ill satisfied from the French Court as any man euer could If I had not represented to the Queene Regent and to the Cardinall Mazarin the true condition of that Lord That I had likevvise procured a present of a golden chaine to the said Sir Thomas Dishington and presented him to the Cardinall Mazarin before his going for England vvhich vvas in the yeare one thousand six hundreth fourty foure VVeake Objections indeed and vveake grounds for Master VVilliam Crafts to proceede on for the utter destruction of my familly and to take hold on any other occasion to do me mischief as vvas intended vvith a report that I had since my being in France corespounded vvith some that are not in good intelligence vvith the French On vvhich point I vvas not bound to ansvver to any man liuing for as I am a free man borne in Zeeland It vvas free to me being not ingaged in any seruice to correspond vvith vvhom I vvould Yes cannot any man doubt of my Integrity and Maxime● considering the profession I haue made during many yeares my experience and the cruell persecutions vvhich I have suffered by those