Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	person_n	warrant_n	2,995	5	9.7411	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29056	[The case & usage of Mr. Edw. Bagshaw, drawn up by himself, the night before he was to have been sent away, being March 10. 1663/4. With an account of his examination before the King.]	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1664 (1664)	Wing B406; ESTC R209094	3,793	6

The CASE and USAGE of Mr. Edward Bagshaw ON January 3. 1662. I living then peaceably in Northamptonshire by a Servant of Sir John Bernard one of the Justices of Peace of our Country was served with a Warrant subscribed by Sir Henry Bennet wherein my Person was commanded to be seized with my Books and Papers This was brought to me about seven a clock at night and though I might well have pleaded the unseasonableness of travelling at that hour yet to shew how willing I was to clear my self that very night I rode seven Miles to Sir John Bernard's House where I lodged and spent the Lord's Day following On Monday Jan. 5. though the Weather was so tempestuous that Sir John did very civilly intimate his willingness to let me stay yet lest any Delay might seem to argue Guilt I refused his courteous offer and that day rode to Dunstable which was about 25 Miles in so much Wet that nothing but a Zeal to clear my Innocence could have made me so willingly venture through it On Tuesday Jan. 6. from Dunstable I rode to London where I arrived about one a clock and though I was desired after so long a Journey to stay and refresh my self yet so impatient was I to know my Crime that without either eating or drinking and in my Riding Habit I went immediately to the Secretary Sir Henry Bennet by whom I was examined about three in the afternoon but so slightly that I plainly saw he was not himself satisfied that I deserved any of that kind of Rigour yet whether because he was bound by his Place to comply with the Information of my Accusers o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not able to bear down the Importunity and Address by Sir Jo●●ies he sent me forthwith to the Gate-house and committed me Close-Prisoner for Dangerous and Seditious Words and Practices In that place I abode ten dayes after which time the Chancellour who now appeared as the sole Author of my Imprisonment sent for me to Worcester-house and in his Chamber the Secretary being present asked me several captious and ensnaring Questions As Whether I had never said that the Long-Parliament was in Being And Whether I did not affirm That by the Spring there would be a Change And Whether I had never spoken Derogatory words of the King by saying that he kept Wenches and the like To all which when I had as I thought given satisfactory Answers I desired I might be brought to a Tryal but was answered That should be when the King pleased Upon which I was remanded to the Gate-house but that afternoon viz. upon Jan. 16. I was fetched from thence and sent to the Tower whither I was committed Close-Prisoner by a New Warrant the words of my former being changed into Treasonable Designs and Practices But for what Reason that Alteration was made I as yet know not having often desired a Tryal but could not obtain it With what unhandsom Circumstances of Rigorous Restraint I was used there I shall now forbear to mention because a few words cannot express that matter but in short notwithstanding I was forced to give ten pieces in Gold to Sir John Robinson to purchase the Liberty of Tower Air and besides paid thirty shillings a week for my Diet and Lodging yet I was given to the Arbitrary Disposal of an Absurd and Drunken Keeper who being himself a slave to his Lusts was thought the fittest person to oppress the spirit of one who never was guilty of any State-crime but the desiring of a sober Liberty In this condition I continued above a year so hopeless of Redress that I never did attempt to seek it when on Jan. 30. 1663. one Mr. L'Estrange whom I had heard much and written something of but never saw before came to search my cha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my Window found a Paper which contained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. Davis who was then newly sent to Fangier in a very Extraordinary manner In which Paper there were it seems some Marginal Notes likely to give Offence and therefore it was in all hast conveyed to Whitehall as a Discovery worthy the Diligence of such a Needy and Officious Informer On Feb. 2. following I was sent for to Whitehall and by the King himself examined about that Paper not whether I contrived or writ it for that as Sir John Robinson afterwards told me the King was satisfied I had no hand in but how and by whom it was conveyed to me To whose Questions though I answered in words of Truth and Sobriety yet because I durst not do a thing so unworthy of the Gospel as to betray another and because I could not humble my Language to the false and flattering stile of Court for though I was called Rogue and used like one yet I could not forget that I was a Minister of the Gospel and therefore was enabled to speak with that Constancy which became one For this I was returned back by the King in a Passion much greater than his Title and that very night about eleven a clock at night I was by Sir John Robinson committed to the Tower-Dungeon where I continued four dayes and four nights without either Bed Fire Candle or any thing else that as to humane conveniencies could make my Life desirable Besides the Dismal Horrour of that place being all the time afflicted with the Piles in so great extremity that the very vehemence of pain did often put me into a sweat and so by accident prevented my feeling the cold which at that time of the year and in that place was more than ordinarily piercing On Saturday Feb. 6. about three in the afternoon I was released from thence without any seeking of my own but by the unwearied Importunity of my Eldest Brother and that I may be just in commemorating as I think an Effect of Real Worth by the generous and compassionate resentment of Sir Henry Bennet the Secretary by whose Warrant I was returned to my former Lodgings and by his Intercession preserved from being remanded into the Dungeon which by Sir John Robinson the very next day after was most maliciously and inhumanely sollicited Though I came out of the Dungeon with so much Health as made it evidently appear that God himself did own and preserve me there yet within three dayes after I fell into a violent Feaver which brought me very low And though God did then likewise deliver me from the Fury of it yet Sir John Robinson was not wanting to do his part that it might prove mortal forbidding not onely my Brothers but likewise my Physician access to me notwithstanding both He and They had an express Order for their free Admittance I am scarcely yet well recovered when this News comes that I am to be sent away I know not whither And since I understand that every part of this Proceeding against me is contrary not only to God's but likewise to our English Laws I thought fit to leave this Narrative behind me that it may be