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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	earl_n	john_n	sir_n	12,708	5	7.1447	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50998	The information of John Macnamara, Gent., touching the Popish plot in Ireland carried on by the conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone, and others his confederates to deliver up that kingdom to the French king, and establish the Popish religion therein : being all matter of fact, delivered upon oath to His Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, in Novemb. 1680.	Macnamara, John, Gent.	1680 (1680)	Wing M224; ESTC R184	14,503	30

said Informant Letters to be delivered to the said Judg which were to Invalidate the Testimony of the aforesaid Bourk and which this Informant delivered accordingly and found that what the said Earl said was true for during the time that this Informant denied the Treason and kept it undiscovered the said Judg did Act for him as much as he could so that at night after the Council was up the aforesaid Quartermaster Ronan Sulivan and this Informant went to Sir John Davis being Secretary of State and one of the Earls great friends all the while that this Informant was of the said Earls Partie who gave us the aforesaid Witnesses a full Account of what was done against us every day in Council This Informant further saith that the said Earl at this Informants coming to Dublin exchanged one of his Gueldings with Mr. Michael Roe because this Informant should ride the said Roes Horse for fear that there would be notice taken of this Informants riding the said Earls Horse and gave this Informant mony to bear his expences to Dublin with promises of greater rewards for appearing for him and withal admonished this Informant in what danger he was if he should discover the said Treason as well as the said Earl which very much terrified this Informant and kept him from making any Discovery for a long time This Informant further saith that the said Quartermaster Ely after the Commitment of this said Informant into the Pursivants hands by Order of the Lord Lieutenant and Council was with him every day charging this Informant not to discover for his Life the said Treason for that if he did he would certainly be hang'd and gave this Informant money to bear his charges till the said Earl could furnish him this Informant with more And this Informant further saith that one John Powre Esquire a Relation of the Earls together with Mr. Cowdal and Mr. Roe proferred 700 l. security for this Informant during his Confinement and brought this Informant a Petition to prefer to the Lord Lieutenant and Council wherein they had ordered this Informant to move that the said security might be taken with Reflections upon the Kings Witnesses in a high nature which this Informant kept but never preferred And further saith that being alone in the Condition that he was this Informant made his Addresses by Prayer to Heaven to direct him the said Informant being then at a stand whether it were better for him to Discover the Treason or to Conceal it for the guilt lay so heavy upon this Informant's Conscience that he was in as much fear of himself as of those that were most concerned But at last and he believes it to be the Effect of his Prayers God put it into his mind that in was the truest way to discover what he knew Upon which this Informant gave in this his Information concerning the Plot and his knowledge of such Persons as were to be Commandders in the Army intended to be raised by the Earl of Tyrone and William Bradley Esq for the use of the French King This Informant further saith that at what time he went to the said Earl to give him an Account of what this Informant and the rest had done with Bourk when they were ordered to tamper and make a Composition with him the said Earl of Tyrone shewed this Informant a Letter from his Father in Law the Earl of Anglesey Signed Anglesey and which the said Earl averd to this Informant to be his own Letter and Subscription wherein this Informant read that the said Earl of Anglesey had made so many Friends in England and Ireland for him the said Earl of Tyrone that there was no need to fear what was laid to his Charge and that he had spoken with the Duke of York about Interceding for him which the Duke had promised he would do This Informant further saith that the Earl of Tyrone did imploy several persons whose names were James Powre Richard Powre William Powre and Owen Whelam formerly a Tory and one of the said Earls followers with several others to steal Horses from several parts of the Kingdom for the service of the Army designed and promised by him to be raised to joyn with the French Kings Forces which were expected to be Landed in Ireland In pursuance of which directions of his Lordship the said persons did accordingly steal several Horses of good value out of several parts of Ireland and brought them all into the County of Waterford to the number of thirty or thereabouts which by order of the said Earl were distributed among such persons as were by him engaged in and privy to his design Particularly some to William Finch the said Earls menial Servant and a Papist some to one Mr. John Welsh Nephew to the said Earl some to this Informant some to Mr. William Dobbin and some to Mr. William-Bradleys Servant John Labor which by the Order of his Master he received at Raghneskdoig and some to John Powre of Clonmel But some of the owners of the said Horses making pursuit after their stollen goods and apprehending by Virtue of a Warrant some of the Persons who had stollen their said Horses they were by Sir Thomas Osborn Committed to the Custody of one Patrick Karney then High Constable and one of Mr. William Bradleys Fosterers to be by him Conveyed to the Goal of Waterford from whence they were to be removed to Maroborough Goal in Queens County Whereupon the said Mr. William Bradley understanding that the said Persons were Apprehended and as he knew well upon what account being doubtful least they might betray the Business immediately wrote to the said High Constable his Fosterer to set those Persons at liberty Upon which the said High Constable in the way to Waterford notwithstanding he had a sufficient Guard of Six petty Constables and others Assistants gave liberty to the Felons in Custody to make their escape upon a couple of the stollen Horses that were led along with them bridled and saddled for that purpose For doing of which he had the engagement of the said Mr. Bradley and the said Earl of Tyrone to save him harmless Wherein they were as good as their words for the said High Constable being questioned at the next Assizes at Waterford the said Earl and Mr. Bradley by their great interest in the High Sheriff who was then that very William Dobbins already mentioned who had some of the said Horses in his Custody and being a Confederate provided the High Constable such a Jury that he was soon acquitted besides that the Judge of the Assize the Lord Chief Justice Keating was no less the Earl of Tyrones friend then the High Sheriff And this Informant further saith that after this Informants appearing against the Earl of Tyrone in the City of Dublin John Folio and Mr. Denis Macnamara being in the company of this Informant those Felons of which mention hath been already made did acknowledge the particulars aforesaid