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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	heir_n	king_n	wales_n	2,772	5	10.3654	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41804	An appeal of murther from certain unjust judges, lately sitting at the Old Baily to the righteous judge of heaven and earth; and to all sensible English-men, containing a relation of the tryal, behaviour, and death of Mr. William Anderton, executed June 16. 1693. at Tyburn, for pretended high treason.	Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?	1693 (1693)	Wing G1566; ESTC R216496	30,841	41

make it High Treason And when the Jury could not agree to find me Guilty and came down to ask the Court Whether the finding these Things there and supposing them to be mine since it could not be prov'd that I printed these Books or had made any use of them could affect my Life I say when the Jury asked this Question and the Lord Chief Justice Treby told them positively No it did not yet withal he told them That that was not their Business their Business was to find me Guilty of Printing And while they stayed the Court frown'd upon them to that degree that the Foreman told them he was not to be frighted upon which they publickly reviled them calling them ill Men ill Subjects and a Pack of Knaves and so terrified them into a Compliance That this is true those who were near know too well although the partial Writer of the Tryals hath most perfidiously published not only an unfair imperfect and lame Account but hath also stuff'd it with down-right Untruths and Falshoods and left out whatsoever made for me not so much as mentioning the Contradictions of the Witnesses in what they did swear their swearing to some things that made for me and when I took hold of them they denied them nor hath he in the least told the World of the Judg's over-ruling whatsoever I offered without giving any other Answer than that it should be so because they would have it so with many other such things which the conscientious Auditors can testify And now I pray consider where is this Liberty and Property where the Rights and Privileges of the Subject Nay where the very Laws themselves And consequently where is the Security of any Man Why even in the Deliverers Pockets where your Money is and where also without all doubt if you look not well to your selves your Estates e're long will be likewise What are the Proceedings but Arbitrary in a superlative Manner and such as no Reign ever produced before These were they you were heretofore only afraid of being jealous without just Cause but now you see them actually come upon you I hope you your selves will put a stop to them by laying these Proceedings before the Parliament for had it been Sitting at this present these Proceedings durst not have been practised and I pray God to put so speedy an end to them that as I am the first so I may be the last that may suffer by them I have hitherto lived a Member of the Orthodox Church of England as by Law established and I declare I now die in the Unity of the same Therefore according to its Discipline I hold my self obliged to ask Pardon of the whole World of every particular Person whom I have any ways offended and I do freely and sincerely forgive every one that has offended me particularly my most false and perjured Witnesses and among them more particularly ROBIN STEPHENS my most unjust and unrighteous Judges and my repenting Jury and I pray God may not lay this their Sin of wilful Murther to their Charge at the General Bar where they shall appear as Criminals and not Judges May the Almighty bless preserve prosper and restore our Sovereign Lord King James to the just Possession of his indubitable Lawful Crowns strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his Enemies here on Earth and crown him with eternal Glory hereafter And that he may never want Heirs to inherit his Crown bless I beseech thee O God his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and give him such a numerable Issue that there may never want one of his Loins to sway the Scepters of these Kingdoms so long as Sun or Moon endure Amen Amen William Anderton June 15. 1693. Several sorts of Men have their several Objections against this poor Man's Speech which he wrote the day before he dyed between the hours of Eight and One being fourteen times interrupted in the Writing of it and forced to convey a Copy of it through a Key-hole to a Friend least it should be taken from him Some complain That he did not pray for the Queen but these surely forget what Man they have to do with Formerly in such cases Men used to pray for their King and when they were acquitteed used to say God bless the King without any further Notice of other Persons unless there were particular Reason for it But since a joint Regency hath been set up it hath followed in course that they pray'd for the King and Queen but he was a Man who would not countenance this or take any Notice of it and therefore used the old form and way not caring who excepted against it But if any Honourers of their Queen by mistake except these they may know that he honoured her as much as they and doubtless she will believe no less of him who prayed so heartily for the Prince of Wales the Son of her Womb his Majesties care and all their good Subjects hopes Others alledge that it hath too much Levity in it for the Speech of a dying Man and for that reason quarrel with the word Kidnapping in it and that is the very term now by all used and by which all Men express and understand the Fact signified by it and he that would speak to be understood by all should speak in the Language used by all when Words are new and fresh they carry along with them somewhat of the lightness quaintness or other particular Humour or Quality of the first Deviser but when they are once appropriated and naturalized by use that Humour is lost and they become in some measure necessary and he that will find fault with a Man for speaking as other Men do perhaps will find in the End that more will find fault with him On the quite contrary there are others who are as much displeased with the Sharpness and Severity of it so difficult a matter it is to please all Palats But this is only in that part of his Speech where his subject matter plainly engaged him to speak somewhat after that manner and therefore the Objectors ought to consider that there are some things in their own Nature so harsh and ungrateful that a Man cannot mention them without seeming to grate or bite but then how Evil and Severe are those things themselves And if a Man must necessarily speak of such Matters they ought to lay the blame on the things which extort from a Man such severity of Language not on the Man who speaks properly and according to the nature of the things which was always esteemed a Virtue and Commendation Some Persons can find fault with the Excellencies of a Man as I remember it was one Objection against Mr. Ashton's Paper that he reasoned too logically the same Crime I am apt to think will never be objected to him who pick'd the quarrel Were any of these smooth Men to suffer in the same manner with such kind of Justice as Mr. Anderton