Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	holy_a	relic_n	1,462	5	10.0599	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87277	I marry sir, Heere is newes indeed. Being the copie of a letter which the Devil sent to the Pope of Rome, and kept in the conclave of cardinals ever since the yeare 1623. and now published for the helpe and comfort of all Romish Catholickes in this time of their great necessity, to incourage them. Brought over from Rome by Charon the ferriman the last Jesuiticall-spring-tide of all their hellish practices to confound this kingdome of England.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name.; Wolley, George.	1642 (1642)	Wing I23; Thomason E129_3; ESTC R11239	4,465	10

good friend Tyrone and the Earle of Argile the Duke of Savoy Sir Robert Dudley Sir Griffin Marckham Sir William Stanley and my faithfull revolted friend J. Nevill stiled the Earle of Westmorland and not forgetting the Spanish and Italian leaders principall Ass-cistants in this Catholique and holy League And further J intreat that you would remember my Love to my trusty servant Spinola who hath spent the quintessence of his wits the marrow of his bones and the sweat of his brames in the besiedge of Breda and other warlike exployts and martiall affaires And who hath been both a true and trusty friend and as just to my handmaid the Arch-Dutchesse as ever her owne Husband was and who through his great wisdome and pollicy hath procured my Grandchild the King of Spaine to grant Letters of Mart and proclaime open Warres against the King of great Brittaine and the rebellious Hollanders by which meanes it is now come to passe that neither English Mouse nor Flemmish Frog can no sooner peepe out of a Hole or a Bogge but the Spanish Kite I meane the Dunkirkes devours them up and one principall reason you know is this you have many good friends and favourites in England great men in great Authority who although they have a tongue for their King yet they have a heart for the Pope who see and will not see heare and will not heare can but will not resist partly for their owne private commodities and partly for the affection and love they beare to the Romish Religion and further I heare say my servant Spinola hath received my Sacrament and kissed the Pax and hath made a most sollemne vow to Saint Iames and sworn by his Agnus dei that he will spend his blood in England against those Heriticks and revolters from the Catholique Church of Rome Therefore if cruell Fate and Fortune so conspire to effect that bloody stratagem then my desire is that his Heart may be baked in a pasty and sent to my deare Virgins and Daughters the Nunnes in Saint Lucas and his Bones to the Cathedrall Church in Civill there to remaine for ever for a Relique of that holy Saint and his Stones to be conveyed to my Handmaid the Arch-dutchesse for a token of his love and I would have an extraordinary Monument made for him of Brasse and some pretty Epi-knave upon his death Remember my love also to my Nephew the Infunta-Bona-Maria who is to marry with my Grandchilds eldest Sonne the Emperour of Rome and tell her that although I cannot be there in person my selfe by reason of other extraordinary businesse yet my Secretary Belzebub and a Legion of my Angels shall attend at her Nuptials And I cannot be forgetfull of my most worthy and beloved Servant and Statesman Gondamor and his great paines that he tooke in England when he was there Embassadour in groaping in the night and diving in the day into the very intrailes J meane the privie Chamber of their State and Kingdome and ever since going about to make use of it and to put that which he hath learned in practice and also who did encourage my Children the Romish Catholiques in England being your Sub-jackes to persevere in the Catholique Religion and to be patient for a time for there would come a day shortly wherein they should have free Liberty to use their Consciences and I have sent him a Box of pretious oyntment to heale his Fistula in his Posteriorums least it should creep into his Priorums and by that meanes the Common-wealth of Spain should be utterly deprived of so excellent a member I doubt not but that you have Cannonized my worthy Servant T. R. for a Saint who killed that filthy Heretique Thomas Scot Preacher at Vtrecht who hath alwaies been a pestilent Enemy to me and our States Therefore I charge you upon my blessing that he be Cannonized with Garnet Tunstell Digby Winter Grant Ruckwood Caies Bates and Faulks and the rest of the Saints for I have his Soule already And although the last Fleet against the Heritique Q. Elizabeth in 8● tooke not good effect and successe by reason of misfortune and privie conspiracy of that filthy Wich Furbusher and that Conjurer Drake and likewise the Gunpowder Treason Anno 1605. against King Iames and his Posterity by reason of the miscariage of an unfortunate Letter yet let us not be dismayed but practice continually Vi et armis ingenitsque to worke some rare exploit my helping hand shall not be wanting for surely some Lime-twigs being set it is a hundred to tenne but one will take they lying so se … tely and never seeking to prevent any danger in time Therefore remember me kindly to my servants the Seminaries and Iesuits for they must be the principall instruments to put that in practise which we have invented And this admirable invincible Army which we have now prepared shall be called Colla Jugo or the thunderbolt of the World because it shall not onely make the Britanish Irish Danish and Flemish Heritiques and Rebels quake but the very Turke himselfe stand upon his guard Now to conclude with weeping eyes one thing grieves me to the heart I understood the other day that an English Heritique should send word to my youngest sonne the King of Spaine that his Souldiers should bring no wild-fire with them for feare of indangering their Ships and that they would save them that labour for if your forces did land in England they would make them shit wild-fire before they went away oh this hath cut me to the soule and I can speake no more Vale from my great Court in Tartarus this first of Iulibus Anno Millimo Sillimo Vicessimo Sexto Pater tuus Amantissimus Luciferus Rex Tartari Dominus hujus Mundi Translated out of the Dutch Copy into English by me George Wolley now resident in Rotterdam FINIS