Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	miserable_a	sinner_n	16,295	5	10.6580	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42368	Articles ministred by His Majesties commissioners for causes ecclesiasticall, presented to the high court of Parliament against John Gwin, vicar of Cople in the county of Bedford wherein is discovered his lascivious wenching, drunkenesse and wanton life and most vild and unbecoming courses, most unfit for his function.	Gwin, John, b. 1605, defendant.	1641 (1641)	Wing G2281; ESTC R8247	2,653	8

ARTICLES MINISTRED By His MAJESTIES Commissioners For Causes Ecclesiasticall Presented to the High Court of Parliament against John Gwin Vicar of Cople in the County of Bedford Wherein is discovered his lascivious wenching Drunkennesse and wanton life and most vild and unbecomming courses most unfit for his Function Hush Hush Cuckoo Gwin guin London Printed for V. V. 1641. ARTICLES Ministred by his Majesties Commissioners for causes Ecclesiasticall presented to the High Court of Parliament against Iohn Gwin Vicar of Cople in the County of Bedford 1. THat the said Iohn Gwin hath bin and is a common frequenter of Alehouses Taverns and other tipling houses and a man given to immoderate and excessive drinking and hath beene divers times so distempered and overcome therewith that he hath beene scarce able to stand or goe but like a drunkard hath reeled up and downe and having necklected his stody in Divinity hath spent his time in carousing and drinking Ale Beere and Tobacco the most part of the wecke in tipling houses and upon the Lords day hath there sat untill 10.11.12 or a clock at night 2 That the said Iohn Gwin is much given to quarrelling and brawling especially at the alehouse and in such quarrelling hath hurt his owne brother Henry Gwin with his weapon 3. That he hath committed the hanous crime of Adultery with the wife of Robert Purser and had the carnall use of her body And hee hath divers times gloryed and boasted of such his wickednesse and incontinency with the said Pursers wife and hath reported it to divers persons that he hath had the carnall use of her body in the said Pursers Hall where her husband himselfe sate by the fire side in the Kitchin or to that effect 4 Vpon the Lords Day in the morning the said Iohn Gwin went from his owne house to the Parish of Wootten to one Fowcks his house where hee continued in company with the said Foowcks his wifes sister the most part of the said day and did not goe to Church at all that day And he then and there and at other times also had the carnall use of her body and did commit Adultery with her And he hath in a glorying manner boasted divers times that he hath layne with her and that he had given her all the money that he sold his Corne for which grew in Brooks field or to that effect 5. Upon the Fayre day held at Bedford he the said Iohn Gwin being at one Peries house and there espying Mary and Dorathy the daughters of Iohn Davy standing in the street did send for them to come to him and he did drink with them 4. s. or 5. s. in wine and having so done he tooke occasion to send away the said Mary and all other company save onely the said Dorothy and then and there not having the feare of God before his eyes he did commit the hainous crime of Adultery incontinently with her the said Dorothy Davis in the said Petties house and immediately after the said Mary came back againe into the roome to him and then he took occasion to send away the said Dorothie and all other save onely the said Mary and then there he did attempt the chastity of the said mary and pulled up her cloathes and offered to commit the hainous Crime of Adultery incontinently with her and forced her to cry out for helpe And he hath divers times boasted in a glorying manner that he hath laine with the said Dorathy the time aforesaid and that he attempted to have laine with the said Mary and to be naught with her but that he could not enter her body And that the said Mary cryed out and sayd ah master what will you doe will you undoe me or to that effect 6. One of good quality came to his house in a morning his wife and he being then in bed together and the said Gentleman being come into his chamber desiring him to arise and goe with him a little way then the said Iohn Gwin made answere that he must stay a little for him for I must have a bout with my wife quoth he meaning he would first have the use of her body Then and there in the presence of that person the said Iohn Gwin did in a shameles in an impudent maner get up upon his wife had the carnall use of her body in the presence of the said person who was a gentleman of good quality and ashamed thereat and he hath divers times since in a glorying manner boastingly reported that hee then lay with and had the carnall use of his wives body 7 He hath so heynously committed the heynous crime of adultery with divers women that hee got the loathsome Disease of the French Pox or at least the running of the reyns which he hath divers times confessed that he got with lying by a whore at Bedford but he said that hee would tell his wife he got it some other way 8 He hath indeavoured to be a Bawd to his own wife and hath given way that a gentleman of his acquaintance should lye with his wife and have the carnall use of her body And upon a morning he put on a red coat a culler'd hat belonging to a gentleman and went with the same upon him a good distance from his own house and at one John Braces in Cople aforesaid cocked his hat and asked the said Brace how he liked him in that habit and hee said to him that he had left the gentleman whose cloaths he had then on at home in bed with his wife and that his wife was giving him a posset meaning thereby that she was committing the act of Adultery with him 9 That the said Iohn Gwin together with one Iohn Patman being the house of one Brace in Cople aforesaid sitting by the fire side and hoving their drinke about them did sing lascivious prhfaine and drunken catches and after in a profaine manner did sing the Lateny or part thereof with a loud voyce beginning O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners c. And so went on his companion Patman answering every versicle as the Clarke useth to doe in the church after that he sung other prophane idle caths to the scandal of the profession of his calling and the evill example of others 10 That the said Iohn Gwin did write foolish scorrilous lines against authority and went forth of the church whilst the people was in singing of a Psalme to the whipping post and there fixed the said verses to the said whipping post 11. He hath divers and sundry times both publickly and privately and in his Sermons and elsewhere without any just cause inveyed and rayled against divers of his Parishioners 12 He hath changed and altered both the Form and sense of the Psalmes at divers times when hee hath read them to the people to sing turning them to his owne purpose at his owne pleasure 13 That all and singular the premises mentioned in the precedent Articles were and are true publick and notorious and thereupon rhere hath bin is a publick voyce fame and Report both in the Parish of Cople aforesaid and other Parishes places thereunto neere adjoyning and that by reason of the premises and especially of his wicked deboyst lascivious and incontinent course of life he hath bin and is a shame and scandall to the Ministry and to his profession and calling And so generally accounted reputed and taken to bee FINIS