Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

only the secret Receit to take away the force of it who boasts that he has the most effectual Poyson in the World which there is no Remedy can prevent One time an Englishman in heat of Blood had killed one of the King of Macassers Subjects and though the King had pardoned him yet both English Hollanders and Portugals fearing if the Englishman should go unpunished the Islanders would revenge it upon some of them besought the King to put him to death which with much ado being granted the King unwilling to put him to a lingting death and desirous to shew the effect of his Poyson resolved to dispatch the Criminal himself whereupon he took a long Trunk and shot him exactly in the great Toe of the right Foot the place he particularly aimed at Two Chirurgeons one an Englishman the other an Hollander provided on purpose immediately cut off his Toe but for all that the Poyson had dispersed it self so speedily that the Englishman died presently All the Kings and Princes of the East are very diligent in inquiring after strong Poysons and some Europeans having tryed several of their Arrows by shooting at Squirrels observed they fell down dead as soon as they were touched These are the principal Acquisitions of the English in these remote parts of the World little or nothing more being to be said of the rest which are not very considerable and some of them since quitted by the Honourable East-India Company Having therefore compleated my usual scantling I shall here conclude FINIS Licensed Nov. 19. 1685. Ro. L'Estrange There are newly Published Fifteen very useful pleasant and necessary Books all sold by Nath Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside I. THE English Empire in America or a Prospect of his Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies namely New-found-land New Engl. New-York New-Jersey Pensylvania Maryland Virginia Carolina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent Antego Mevia or Nevis St. Christophers Barbadoes and Jamaica With an Account of their Discovery Scituation and Product The Religion and Manners of the Indians and other excellencies of these Countreys To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of this New-World and of the Remarkable Voyages and Adventures of Sebastian Cabot Sir Martin Frobisher Captain Davies Captain Weymouth Captain Hall Captain Hudson Sir Francis Drake Sir Thomas Cavendish the Earl of Cumberland Sir Walter Rawleigh and other English Worthies to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures of the strange Fruits Birds Beasts Fishes Insects Serpents and Monsters found in these Parts of the World Price One Shilling II. THE Second Edition of Englands Monarchs very much enlarged Or A Compendious Relation of the most Remarkable Transactions and Observable Passages Ecclesiastical Civil and Military which have happened during the Reigns of the Kings and Queens of England from the Invasion of the Romans under Julius Gaesar to this present Adorned with Poems and Pictures of every Monarch from King William the Conqueror to our most gracious Soveraign King James the Second with his present Majes● Life Heroick Actions late gracious Declaration as other Occurrences to this time The Names of his no Majesties most Honourable Privy Council The Gre● Officers of the Crown A list of the Dukes Marquesse● Earls Viscounts Bishops Barons and Deans Th● Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter at Win●sor and the Principal Officers Civil and Military i● England The number of the Lords and Common● who have Votes in both Houses of Parliament an● many other very useful particulars Price One Shilling III. THE History of the Kingdoms of Scotlan● and Ireland containing I. An Account● the most Remarkable Transactions and Revolutions i● Scotland for above Twelve hundred years past durin● the Reigns of Sixty eight Kings from the year of our Lord 424 to the Happy Union of both Kingdoms under King James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England of Blessed Memory in 1602. and among other particulars The lamentable Murther of King Duff● with the strange Discovery and Punishment thereof The wonderful History of Mackbeth and the Witches with the many Notable Occurrenes in his Reign 2. The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by King Henry the Second to this time With a Relation of the Miraculous Persons and Places in that Country A full Account of St. Patricks Purgatory and divers other memorable Matters Intermixt with Variety of of Excellent Speeches Strange Accidents Prodigious Appearences and other very considerable things both pleasent and profitable With a List of the Nobility and Great Officers of State in both Kingdoms Illustrated with near Thirty Pictures of several Kings and other extraordinary Observables Price One Shilling IV. DElights for the Ingenious In above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral Ancient and Modern Curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates with Fifty Delightfull Poems and Lots for the ●ore Lively Illustration of each Emblem Whereby ●●struction and Good Council may be promoted and ●thered by an honest and pleasant Recreation To which is prefixed an Incomparable Poem Intituled Ma●ty in Misery or an Imploration to the King of Kings written by his late Majesty King Charles the First with ●s own Hand during his Captivity in Caris-brook Cas● in the Isle of Wight 1648. With a curious Em●em Collected by R. B. Price half a Crown V. SUrprizing Miracles of Nature and Art in two parts containing I. The Miracles of Nature or the ●onderful Signs and Prodigious Aspects and Appearances in ●e Heavens Earth and Sea with an account of the most ●●ous Comets and other Prodigles from the Birth of ●●rist to this time II. The Miracles of Art describing ●e most Magnificent Buildings and other curious Intutions in all Ages as the Seven wonders of the World ●d many other excellent Structures and Rarities ●oughout the Earth Beautified with Sculptures ●ice One Shilling VI. THE Second Edition of two Journeys to Jerusalem Inlarged Containing first A ●nge and true Account of the Travels of two English ●grims some years since and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to Jerusalem Grand ●ire Alexandria c. With the wonderful manner of nothing many Thousand Chickens at once in Ovens ●condly The Travels of Fourteen Englishmen in ●69 from Scanderoon to Tripoly Joppa Ramah Jerusu● Jericho the River of Jordan the Lake of Sodom ●d Gomorah and back again to Aleppo By S. B. ●ith the rare Antiquites Monuments and memora● places and things mentioned in the Holy Scripture ●d an exact Description of the Old and New Jerusalem 〈◊〉 which is added a Relation of the great Council of 〈◊〉 Jews assembled in the Plains of Ajayday in Hungary ●50 to examine the Scriptures concerning Christ By ● B●●an Englishman there present With the notorious Delusion of the Jews by a counterseit Messiah or false Christ at Smyrna in 1666. and the Event thereof Lastly The fatal and final Extirpation and Destruction of the Jews throughout the Kingdom of Persia whereby many