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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	let_v	lord_n	12,952	5	4.4092	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33347	Canterburies amazement, or, The ghost of the yong [sic] fellow Thomas Bensted who was drawne, hangd, and quartered by the meanes of the Bishop of Canterburie, who appeared to him in the Tower since the Iesuites execution : with a discourse between the two heads on London Bridge, the one being Thomas Bensteeds [sic], the other the late Iesuites.		1641 (1641)	Wing C456; ESTC R7838	5,998	10

all the Kingdome knowes is guiltie of this and many more greater Offences rest confident that my recompence will not bee verie easie Cant. But good Mr. Bensteeds Ghost let me know the cause why you accompanied with your fellow Rebells sought my life more than any mans else I am utterly ignorant of any crime whereof I was guiltie to incense any man against me Benst So you are ignorant of sowing discord between the Scots and us How many truely affected subiects lost their lives more precious than your owne in that skirmish and how many should have lost their lives had your proiects taken their full effect Moreover I believe you are ignorant that when a Parliament was begun and every poore man that had beene uniustly wrong'd might without the giving of gratuities have had his iniuries righted who was the chiefe cause of its dissolution all this you are pleased to forget but assure your selfe it will bee remembred You have forgot too I believe bestowing Benefices on non Residents that would preach once a moneth and keep Curats who would read long service tickle them up with Homilies and alwayes conclude within the time and never preach in the afternoone but spend that time in mirth and good fellowship amongst their neighbours in the Ale-house or at Bowles according to your book which tollerated Sundayes Pastimes Nor you doe not remember that you would have had the Kingdome governed by the Civill Law onely then your High Commission would have beene high enough indeed so high as it is low now You have forgot also the threatnings you bestowed upon the Iudges that opposed the Ship-money You have forgot too the sounding of the new Canons and the ex Officio Oath c. You have forgot that you endeavoured to pull downe the French Church which was erected for the French Protestants that fled hither for succour had they been Papists their Church might have stood long enough without your contradiction Cant. O gentle soule I believe thou knowest all my faults which are farre more than those thou hast put me in mind of Let me intreat thée therefore to leave me that I may repaire to my devotion and crave pardon from heaven for these and all the rest of my misdoings and study to give the wronged world what satisfaction possible I may wrack not my wounded conscience with the remembrance of my horrid acts if any pittie harbour within thee wronged Spirit let me be its obiect I crave for pittie that before had none Benst O my little good Lord had you been composed of mercy and iustice you would have mingled one with the other and not let iustice take place becomming so severe and cruell to prosecute the Law against me as to send for the Iudges and to compell them by menacing words at your house to make it treason when neither Act nor President could bee found for the like you might have censured me to have lost my eares or have branded me in the forehead and cheeks and so have banished me but to take my life and thus to mangle me and let my blood be spilt upon the thirsty ground which was as thirsty as your obdurate heart but look which way you please goe which way you can I am still in your sight hers an arme and a leg Westward there an arme and a leg Eastward this is inhumanity and especially from you and one of your Coat and function the Law it selfe hath provided mercy for some relinquents and you to have no compassion which should plead for mercie But it is noted you never spared any but prosecuted them to the heighth of your malice as you have done me poore man Cant. I confesse it was my onely act by my instigation but I would thou hadst been executed in any other place than at that which is my way to my Countrie Pallace at Croydon Benst But why was I quartered and thus in peece-meale set up at each gate for birds and other ravenous soules to be made a prey unto and to endure now a pluck and th●● a tug from the hunglie Crowes as they flie over me to make me still crie out O cruell Canterburie remember I was a Christian and so dyed a penitent Christian Was my fact so haynous that nothing could pacifie your rage that when my life was expired my torne and slaughtered carkasse must be hung between heaven and earth as not worthy of either I spilt no blood in the mutinie as I have said but I have read that Church-men and women are still most bloody minded as the Martyrs are monuments of the crueltie of bloody Bonner malicious Gardner and now you cruell Laud and spightfull Wren to each of you and those Iudges of the Law which iudged me I have given my quarters for a memoriall Cant. Enough all is true thou hast said concerning them but for thy particular I was informed that thou wert a Prentise of London and sent with divers others by your Masters to pull downe my Pallace because I confesse I was ever an enemie to the Citizens and Citie for divers reasons and therefore did command this iustice to be done for others to take example by Benst Alas I was a young man and but nineteen yeares of age and not of ripe years but as full of sorrow for your crueltie for had you suffered my body to have been buried I might have been forgotten in a short space but to set my dismembred ioynts upon the gates of this stately Citie for every one to gaze on savourd not of that Christianitie which you seem'd to professe unlesse it were of that superstitious Religion that practises onely blood and builds them Altars with the bones of Martyrs Cant. O speake no more thou hast penetrated my proud heart and mollified my seared conscience what would I not give to redeeme thy life if it were possible Benst Your wishes come to late but let me thus advise you procure by some meanes that my parched limbs may be taken downe that those friends kindred and countrie men nay my poore father and mother may not forsake their concourse to London about their livelihood and trade for sometimes I am forgotten by them when other matters of greater consequence is in their heads but when they come neare London bridge then is their griefe renewed with anxietie of mind ready to strike them dead when they see my head as if I were set up on purpose to crosse and perplexe them or to examine their private businesses or wherefore they come this is a double suffering nay my Lord be not much affrighted nor doe not shake and shiver too much let not your Gentlemen which lie here at your beds feet in a Trundle bed bee disturbed by your passion but let me now admonish and tell you that you must labour and study with all your might as ever you did to raise yourselfe to be a Bishop to repent for your sins and not onely so but labour to give satisfaction for the wrong you have done to severall men I could give you a catalogue of those mens names which you have highly iniured but I wil forbear because I know you cannot forget them especially having so good a memorie now no State affaires to trouble your Grace withall and so farewell referring you not to an High Commissioner but to your owne selfe which if you doe really performe you shall upon your submission be silent as a dead Duck or an innocent Lamb. Cant. Prethee leave me Benst Well I le leave thee and yet still be with thee for assure thy selfe that when thou dost appeare before the Parliament I will be also there and be a torment not a comfort to thy afflicted conscience with the eyes of thy imagination thou shalt behold my sever'd limbs and then Conceive what trembling in thy joynts shall dwell Blood is the reward of blood Farewell A Discourse between the two Heads on London Bridge the one being Bensteeds the other the late Iesuites Bensteed WHO art thou that dares come up without my consent and stand thus cheek by iole with me Iesuite my name is Slater Ward Waller and Walker a Iesuite I was by my profession and have taken Orders in that Societie these 35. yeares and upwards for which I was condemned and am now come to be thy fellow watch-man to overlook all Benst And why so many names didst thou beare Iesuite The better to conceale my selfe and all my plots and intentions Benst Thou hast now as many quarters as before thou hadst names but what plots hadst thou in thy head when it was on thy shoulders Ies I may now reveale them which are past because I can invent no more and the rather because I had a pardon from the Pope before I was executed we had many agents about the late plot which was intended against the Citie of London and the Tower those no mean ones for had our plots tooks effect I had been advanced to a more eminent place with my head on my shoulders than now I am without it had I been wife and not too confident of my selfe and my disguise I might have fled and bin as safe as the rest of the Conspirators Benst I perceive your fact was more hainous than mine and therfore may iustly claim place here better than I. Iesuite Not better Mr. Bensteed for you are the ancientest stander of the two and therefore may claime preheminence Benst Your conspiracie was against the state of our whole Kingdom to ruine that mine was onely against a particular man the Bishop of Canterburie a Subiect yours of a higher consequence and for which you suffer iustly Iesuite That 's true but had he that power still as he had when thou wert condemned I should not have thus suffered But I am wearie with my late iourney and have got a scu●fing in my head so that I am now ill at ease to relate the rest of my plots at this time which I will forbeare till our next nights conference FINIS