Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	speak_v	time_n	word_n	15,397	5	4.1665	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51459	Most fearefull and strange nevves from the bishoppricke of Dvrham being a true relation of one Margret Hooper of Edenbyres neere the river Darwent in the said bishoppricke : who was most fearfully possessed and tormented with the devill as also in what ugley shape he first appeared unto her how lamentabley she was handled with this evill spirit and at last how wonderfully the Lord delivered her : affirmed by these cridible witnesses there present November the fifteenth 1641, Stephen Hooper, Iohn Hooper, Iohn Gley, Alexander Eglestone, Anthony Westgarth, Alice Egleston and divers others.		1641 (1641)	Wing M2889; ESTC R12605	4,259	9

candle was cleene burnt out called to his Brothers and Sisters that were in the house with other of their friends watching and sitting up to comfort her if her extreame fit should any way molest her who hearing him call come in and brought a candle lighted and set it upon the table which stood neere where the woman lay She began to wax very fearefull saying to her husband and the rest doe not you see the Devill whereat they desired her to remember God and to call for grace that her faith might onely be fixed upon him to the vanquishing the Devill and his assaults Hell quoth shee if you see nothing now you shall see something by and by and forthwith they heard a great noise in the street as if it had beene the comming of foure or five carts and presently they in the chamber cryed out saying Lord helpe us what manner of thing is this that commeth here then her husband looking up in his bed espyed a thing comming to the bed much like a beare but it had no head nor taile halfe a yard in height and halfe a yard in length her husband seeing it come to the bed rose up and tooke a joynt stoole and strooke at the said thing the stroke founded as though he had strucken upon a fether-bed then it came to the woman and stroke her three times upon the feet and tooke her out of the bed and so rouled her too and fro in the Chamber and under the bed the people then present to the number of seaven persons were so greatly amazed with this horrible sight that they knew not what to doe yet they called still upon God for his assistance but the candle was so dimme that they could scarcely see one another at the last this Monster which wee supposed to be the Devill did thrust the womans head betweene her leggs and so rouled her in around compasse like an hoope through the other Chambers downe an high paire of staires into the Hall where he kept her the space of a quarter of an house her husband and they in the Chamber above durst not come downe to her but remained in prayer weeping at the stai●es head grievously lamenting to see her so carried away there was such an horrible stinke in the Hall and such fiery flames that they were glad to stop their noses with cloathes and napkines then the woman cryed out calling to her husband now he is gone then quoth he in the name of God come up to me and so even upon the suddaine she was come up so quickly that they greatly marveiled at it then they brought her to bed and foure of them kept downe the cloathes about the bed and continued in prayer about her the candle in the Chamber could not burne cleare but was very dimme and suddenly the woman was got out of the bed and the Window at the beds head opened whether the woman unpind the Winddow or how it came to passe they knew not but it was opened the wamons leggs after a miraculous manner thrust out of the Winddow so that they were clasped about the post in the middle of the Winddow betweene her leggs the people of the Chamber heard a thing knock at her feet as if it had beene upon a tubb and they saw a great fire as it seemed to them at her feet the stink whereof was horrible the sorrowfull husband and his brother imboldened themselves in the Lord and did charge the Devill in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to depart from her and to trouble her no more then they laid hands upon her and cryed to the Lord to helpe them in that their 〈…〉 and so pulled her in againe and set her upon her feet then shee looked out of a winddow and began to say O Lord quoth she me think I see a little child but they gave not regard to her these words she spake two or three times so at the last they all looked our at the winddow and so they espyed a thing 〈…〉 little child with a very bright shi●ning countenance 〈◊〉 a great light in the Chamber and the candle burned very brightly so that they might one see another then they fell flat to the ground and prayed the Lord that he had so wonderfully assisted them and so the child vanished 〈…〉 the woman being in better feling of her selfe was laid in her bed and a ked forgivenesse at Gods hands and of all that shee had offended acknowledging that it was for her 〈◊〉 that she was so 〈…〉 of the evill spirit and God be thanked she hath beene ever since in some reasonable order for there hath beene with her many godly learned men from divers places of the Countrey These are the names of the witnesses that it is most true Steven Hooper Iohn Hooper Iohn ●ky Alexander Egleston Anthony Westgarth Ali● Egleston with divers others FINIS