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	quarter_n	session_n	5,031	5	10.5854	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75805	The Catholiques plea, or An explanation of the Roman Catholick belief. Concerning their [brace] church, manner of worship, justification, civill governement. : Together with a catalogue of all the pœnall statutes against popish recusants. : All which is humbly submitted to serious consideration. / By a Catholick gentleman.	Birchley, William, 1613-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing A4242B; ESTC R42676	68,166	129

maintenance That the Petitioner being a Recusant did in the time of the late war continue at his own house as long as he could without apparent danger of his life but considering how obnoxious even the most peaceable of his Religion were to be affronted and ruined by the dayly mischeifs they received from some disorderly souldiers and especially seeing one of his neighbours a Recusant slain at his own door the Petitioner did then and not before fly for protection to a Garison of the late Kings without acting any thing in the least kind against the Parliament And therefore humbly prayed he might have a fifth of his estate the arrears allowed him to buy bread But it not appearing to the Commissioners that he had wife or Children their answer was they had not power to grant him any releef Nor do I believe this mans case to be singular For I am well satisfied that a great part of those Papists who are sequestred as absolute delinquents were never in actuall arms against the Parliament but onely fled to the enemies Garrisons for shelter yet no qualification or difference in punishment is hitherto allowed them which would bee to my understanding very just and reasonable Since whoever did observe the fury and rage of most of our common souldiers at the begining of the late troubles against many of that party will easily conclude the Papists had reason to distrust their own personall security amongst them And for instance I remember an officer of my acquaintance under the Earl of Manchester told me that at their taking of Lincoln from the Cavaleers in the year 1644 he was an eye witnesse of this Tragedy The next day after the Town was taken some of our common souldiers in cold bloud meeting with Mr. Price of Washingley in Huntington●hire a Papist asked him Art thou Price the Papist I am said he Price the Roman Catholick whereupon one of them immediately shot him dead In the same month of March there happned at this Hall a very hard case which was of a maid-servant whose name I do not remember but her Petition was to this effect That her Father and Mother both dyed when she was but 16 years of age and being very poor they left the Petitioner only some old clothes and a little household-stuff in all not above 5. or 6. pounds after whose death of Petitioner being an Orphan betook her self to service and having served seventeen yeares for the annuall wages of 7 Nobles the Petitioner had by her frugaliy increased her small patrimony to 20 l. which being plac'd in the hands of A. B. and of late discovered to be the Petitioners money and the Petitioner a Recusant She humbly prayd that they would please to take the sad and disconsolate condition of a poor Orphan into their charitable consideration whereby the extremity of the Law might be qualified to so mercifull a temper that she might not be utterly ruind by losing in a moment for her Conscience what she had been so long in gathering by the sweat of her browes But the Commissioners though perhaps other wise willing concluded they had not power to give her any releef more than the bare thirds unlesse she would take the Oath of Abjuration A thing as far at least above her understanding as it can be against her Conscience If it be unreasonable as many wel-affected seem to urge that the Priests and Ministers who do or at least should perform some spirituall offices for the good of the Soul should tyth a tenth part of the husband-mans labour How much more unreasonable is it that a poor silly maid-servant should thus meerly upon the account of Conscience be sequestred of two thirds of that which by many yeares labour she had gained and reserved as a suport against the necessities of old age On the 16th of Aprill 1652. The Case of Mistris Church of Essex a Recusant was heard whose Petition spake to this effect That her late husband in his life time setled a lease of Muck-hall or such like name in Essex of considerable value upon her in lieu of joincture for divers years yet in being and was held of the late Dean and Chapter of Pauls That Alderman Andrews or Mr. Nathaniel his son had bought the reversion of those lands at Gurney house and had since taken a lease for 7 years of the Commissioners for Sequestration in Essex of the whole present possession without the Petitioners consent or knowledge and without any regard to her thirds And that the said Mr. Andrewes having now possession of the whole estate had demolish'd the Petitioners Mansion house and did refuse to pay the Petitioner her Thirds whereby she was driven to a necessity of wanting bread being a distressed and friendlesse widdow of almost 80 years of Age She therefore prayd her thirds and the arreares and that the said lease might be annulled c. The first was charitably granted but as to the Lease and what her thirds should be she was left to the Mercy of Mr. Andrews who I fear does forget what the Father of Mercyes sayes in Ieremy 22. 3. Execute judgment and righteousnesse and deliver the spoyled out of the hands of the oppressour and doe no wrong 〈◊〉 no violence to the stranger and fatherlesse and widdow c. And in Matt. 23. 14. Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites For ye devour widdowes houses and for a pretence make long prayer Therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation That which in this case did most exact my observation was That Mr. Andrews a person of quality should make use of his power against a poor widow and should be present and openly avow the taking of her estate over her head with so little regard to the thirds which is allowed her by the Act of Parl. and so much to his own benefit without which t is like he would not have taken it and with which the Petitioner must needs suffer From Haberdashers hall give me leave to make a step into Morefields where on the 19 of May 1650 being the Lords day Rich. Ledsam and one Lea●●eater two Pursuivants apprehended Robert Segar a poor old decrepit man upon a suspition and t was but a suspition that he had been at the Spanish Embassadors at Masse upon this bare surmise the poor man was searched and in his pockets they found an old Prayer Book whereupon he was carried before a justice of peace and committed to the Galehouse at Westminster where he lay in the Common Gaol till the quarter Sessions in Ianuary 1651 beign full 20 moneths without any discharge or proceedings against him and at that Sessions was acquitted by proclamation through the mercy of Justice Scobell but was deteyned Prisoner untill April 1652 by Mr. Weeks the keeper of the prison for the rent of his lodging for which the said keeper demanded 14 pence a week besides fees and yet as I am credibly inform'd the old man lay on the boards