Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	sir_n	thomas_n	william_n	3,993	5	9.5465	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

was to meet with my Wife telling him also that I feared she was not well in regard I did not hear of her according to the intent direction of my last letter sent unto her surely quoth he there i● some obstacle in the way that hinders much but if you please to be content Sir you shall soon know what the matter is for my Brother hath a good Horse and I will send him over to your house and he shall bring you notice how things are there at the present and what is the reason that Mrs. W●nlock doth not come as yet I was much glad of his kind offer so not long after the Messenger was sent accordingly returning the next day he did certifie me that my Wife and Children were in good health and that the Cause that she came not was for that she could not procure Horses as yet to bring her thither and alas she was not then so much as worth one her self being very loth also to trouble her Friends in Cambridgeshire so much as to send so far for Horses to convey her thither but she hoped that ere it were long she should find a means to come and see me and the residue of her good Friends there and accordingly within a week or two after she did come and there by the large and loving respect of that noble Gentlewoman her mother-in-law and another good Lady the relict of my wives brother before mentioned we did enjoy a free and cordial entertainment with much solace and com●ort but this our glimpse of happinesse if it please your Majesty did admit but of a very short continuance and must soon suffer an eclipse for we had not been thus together much above a week but some that I fear resolved to work us mischief were as evidently envious that any other should do us any good for there was a Letter conveyed unto me which came from my wives own Nephew her deceased elder brothers Son who was then a Deputy Lieutenant of the Shire a Justice of the Peace and one of the Grandees of the Committee or English Inquisition intimating unto me That he well understood in what place my abiding was at that time and also how violent my ordinary and constant discourse was against their proceedings and therefore I must not be suffered by any means to rest any longer in that Country But an Order should presently be taken to apprehend and secure me or to this effect with some other passages therein very abusive and scandal● us to my credit a notable Nephew and sincere Saint in the interim thus to offer me such a reforming curte●●e in this case of my calamity and so Iudas-like to go about to betray and aff●ight his loving harmlesse Aunt after so many bitter pills of affliction as she had formerly swallowed and only upon this occasion because she had a Husband that durst speak the truth a coarse complement from a true Christian or a generous Gentleman and yet we were in doubt that he might prove a man of his word and therefore to avoid our own danger and the detriment that might arise to the house thereby the next day with sorrowfull hearts we went away from thence to shift about as well as we could But so soon as I was gotten out of his purlieu I saluted his worship with a thundring Epistle enough to startl● and rowse his conscience if he had any and I do hope that my reproof and good Counsell did work something upon him for after this I ventured divers times to come into that Country again and yet I never heard of him any more in this kind And the truth is as I have been credibly informed that upon the most barbarous assassnation and more then hideous and horrible Murdering of his late Sacred Majestie this grosly seduced young Gentleman was strucken with such terrour and amazement in his soul that he presently deserted and gave over all his Offices and places of trust and command and was never after that any agent or instrument in that devillish Rebellion and hereupon within a while following he was in great danger himself and had surely been sequestred had it not pleased God in his mercy to take him away from his Wordly Estate here that was fair and great and to give him I hope upon his true Repentance a farr more Blessed and Glorious habitation i● the Heavens to all Eternity And so I trust that for our Eternal good the Lord was pleased to lay out for us the bitter portion to be such pitifull pilgrims but my Wifes condition could not long endure this manner of misery for she of necessity must go home again to her poor Children where alass there was little left but the bare walls and their own weak labours and endeavours to sustain themselves withall and I must still travell about I knew not well whither and my successe and fortune was very various sometimes fair and pleasant and soon again stormy and troublesome and yet I confesse and praise the goodnesse of God I did meet with many good Friends whose names and charitable deeds towards me and mine were too tedious here to be related but I hope they shall not be forgotten in Heave● and yet I should think my self guilty of ingratitude if I should not make mention of the many good respects and great kindnesse which I received at the hands of a Noble hearted Gentlewoman then dwelling at Hit●●am in Suffolk who was a deep sufferer her own self namely Mris. Bing the Wife of Henry Bing Esq then a Captain in his Majesties Armie and the Grandchild unto that honourable and famous Father of the Law Sir Edw. Coke Knight late Lord Chief Justice c. and also from the hands of another worthy Gentlewoman in the same parish who was likewise a great sufferer namely Mistris Breton the wife of Mr. Lawrence Breton Batchelour in Divinitie a learned orthodox and worshipfull Divine Neither must I omit the remembrance of the good love and favour of my noble and old acquaintance Sir William Denny of Norfolk Baronett nor the great kindnesse of Thomas Jermy of Me●●field in Sussex Esq Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Jermy Knight of the B●●h and of John Risby of Tho●p Esq Nor the kind love of my Reverend and worthy Friends Doctor Pierse of Wangford Mr. Thomas Greek Rector of Carl●on whose Grandfather I take it was one of the Barons of the Exchequer M● Sendall R●ctor of Brin●kley and Mr. Vnderwood Rector of Cheving●on and although they bee l●st here mentioned yet meriting of me as much respect as any two friends that I found in all my travels viz. my loving Kinsman Mr. James Floid then of Weston in Cambridgeshire and Mr. Tho. Ward of Abington Thus after a long and tedious perigrination I came at length by the mercie of God to the Mansion-house again of the two good Ladies before mentioned and having heard that his late Majestie had deserted Oxford and rendred

infallible sign of my sincere love best affection and faithfull friendship towards them in the reproving of their grosse errors and I may truly say that as mine innocencie was bold so was mine affliction bitter and yet all the sufferings that ever I tasted of had they been far greater could never so much vex and torment my soul as it grieved me to see my 〈◊〉 seduced Countrimen and neighbours so madly to run on hea●long to their own ruin● destruction and damnation But I still prayed to the God of Heaven desiring their tru● conversion and that my self and mine might obtain the grace with faith and patience to consider and say with holy Job Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return again the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away and blessed be the name of the Lord and shall we receive good from the hands of God and not evill remembring also that it hath been the portion of my betters and superiours in all successions of ages to be vilified and persecuted for speaking of the truth and yet God grant that I and all mine may evermore be mindfull of this Adage Strive for the truth unto the death and the Lord shall give thee life Now if it please your Majestie having formerly sent a Letter to my wife intreating her to use the best means that she was able to give me a meeting in Cambridgeshire at the house of a nobly bred Gentlewoman that was her mother-in-law and a widdow where I was confident we could not fail of a free cordial and kind welcome it was therefore at that present my chiefest care and task how to conveigh my self thither and to be o● the place appointed within the time limited according to my promise I was then divers miles beyond Norwich and the journey I had to take in hand I beleeve extended to threescore miles at the least I had no horse and my whole stock of money which I then had was but only a pair of single two-pences yet the heighth of my courage and confidence would not permit me to make manifest my necessities at that time which if I had done I well know that there were some in the house from whence I was then to begin my journey that would willingly to their power have furnished me with monie although they were like enough afterwards to want it themselves as the world went for some of them long before had afforded me friendship in that kind upon their own accord without any request of mine but now providence would not permit them to offer me any such curtesie perhaps because the Lord was intended to let me see how abundantly he was able to make provision for me some other wayes beyond my expectation well when I was about to depart there being a young Scholar in the house which in the Doctors absence was Curate of the Parrish he most kindly proffered his service to go with me 2 or 3. miles onwards of my Journey and Sir quoth he if it please you to ride so far as the Ferry you shall have my nagg it will ease you a little and I will walk thither on foot and see you ferried over and so return I thankfully accepted of his love and thus we went away together and anon we passed the ferry the Schollar generously paid the ferriman or else the moiety of my small stock had been in hazard and past recovery and then also he spent a groat more upon me at the house near the fer●y and ●o we lovingly parted Away I marched to a Gentlemans house of good quality which had been mine acquaintance from my youth who had seen me lately in that Country and invited me to his hou●e but now when I came there the hardnesse of my happ was such as the Gentleman and his wife were both from home and I being unknown to the se●vants must be content to passe away with a cup of beer and a few good words and yet before night I did well arrive at an honest Vicars house near Norwich where I found good quarter for as long time as I pleased to tarry and then he lent me a horse and conducted me himself to a Gentlemans house about 8. miles further and there we parted from thence I marched on foot a while after and there was a Gentleman then living there that was so kinde as to walk a mile or two with me and as we went together he asked me if I were well monified to passe thorough my journey I answered him that I had but very little money and yet a good courage still for to tell you the truth quoth I there is but one groat about me alas he replyed that he was sorry that my want was not knowen before I came from the house for if it had there would have been a supply made but he told me that he had but little money about him at that time but Sir quoth he here is a sh●lling if you please to accept of it this will give you a bait as you travel I had put up worse wrongs before but seldom so small a fee yet for the augmentation of my little stock I was well contented to take it and put it up and ●o after a little further walk and discourse we two in loving manner did part asunder And soon after this I did well arrive at my said Kinsmans house called Thorp Hall and there resting my self for some few dayes by the love and kindnesse of him and one Mr. Cartwright a Divine that lived near I was freely furnished with an able horse to travell some part of my journey and also with other good accommodations that were very expedient for me at that time and to avoid further prolixity in the relation of the severall particulars and passages of that my Voyage so it was that it pleased God to procure me so much favour and friendship at the hands of divers Gentlemen as I passed along the Country that I was then never destitute of a good Horse to carry me from one Stage to another no● yet of any other necessaries that were requisite for mine use for just upon the very day that long before I had appointed with my Wife to give her this meeting I came riding up the Town towards t●e place in this postu●e I was bravely mounted upon an excellent good N●g with money jingling in my Pocket and a compleat Foot-man in his Coat well accomplished ●unning by my Horse side in this manner I approached the house and I dare say that I was more truly wellcome then some Lords would have been at that time as the case stood and yet no Wife of mine appeared that night the next day I went to visit the Vicar of the Parish which had joyned us together in Holy Matrimony above twenty years before and then I presented him with a brief Relation of my late Voyage and that the principall occasion of my coming thither at that time