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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	father_n	sister_n	23,792	5	10.2345	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13111	The looking-glasse of schisme wherein by a briefe and true narration of the execrable murders, done by Enoch ap Evan, a downe-right separatist, on the bodies of his mother and brother, with the cause mooving him thereunto, the disobedience of that sect, against royall majesty, and the lawes of our Church is plainly set forth. By Peter Studley, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods Word, in Shrevvsbury.	Studley, Peter, 1587 or 8-1648.	1634 (1634)	STC 23403; ESTC S117932	73,005	313

ca●●le and the Neighbour-●ood there one of them Brother in law to Enoch by marriage with his eldest sister The other a man of very honest reputation in the place of his dwelling Mr. William Tanner were desired by Enochs father to come unto me and to crave the continuance of my charitable paines with his son and promised me that the old man should be thankfull unto me I answered them that as my owne charity was my first Inducement and motive to visit him so my dutie to GOD and the satisfaction of mine owne conscience was all my expected reward The brother in law of Enoch desired of me that the next morning he might attend me to the Gaole to conferre with him to counsell and to direct him The houre eight of the clocke being appointed we repaired thither and in the presence of nine persons of which one was strongly affected to Non-conformitie I entred conference or rather counsell with him and they all are able to testifie how free I was from any po●tike device of scruing my sel● into his bosome to doe the Paritans any disgrace which was the thing so greatly feared ● called for the Bible of the house and by many and urgent perswasions illustrates with pregnant examples I laboured to bring him to a sight and sense of his great wickednesse thereby to humble him and by repentance to prepare his soule for comforts 22 Having finished my exhortation to him which he seriously promised in the hearing of that company to imprint deepely in his remembrance for the careful practice therof I acquainted him with a common terme which passed for current and credible in all the Neighbour-hood about Bishops-castle where his murders were committed By cleare and forcible arguments as the Countrey affirmed convincing him of Lunacie and Distraction thereby to divert the facts from all thoughts of Church Ceremonies or any dislike thereof And the relation and clearing of these objections by evident refutation of them sure I am will give our Non-conformists a deepe disgust who labour to this day in all assemblies and occasions of conference to fasten madnesse on their brother Enoch But necessary truth conducing to GOD's glory and His Churches good must not be supprest to sooth and please selfe-willed Schismatikes The Arguments which were related unto mee by Mr. William Tanner were foure and here follow in their order 1 Enoch came into an Inne or Alehouse in Bishops-Castle and found there the Oast of the house and a Scrivenour drinking together Hee being desired to sit down with them carried a while in their company In this time of his sining and conference with them the Scrivenour is reported to draw ●ut of his pocket certaine coppy-books ruled with red Inke and written with his owne hand These Bookes he laid upon the table and Enoch taking one of them into his hand and looking intentively upon the red lines became as the report goeth much troubled in minde The Scrivenour not perceiving his perturbation drew also out of his pocket a Prospective-glasse thorow which our sight being directed it makes the object on which our eye is fixed much more large and extended than the naturall and proper magnitude thereof Vpon the sight of these red-ruled books and glasse Enoch is said to burst out into words of great terror and trouble in himselfe and to say This man is a Conjurer and hath sent to Bristow for a man to murder me This speech say our Puritans about Bishops-castle plainely convinceth Enoch to be crackt in the braine and apt for violent distempers by Lunacie This is the Argument Enoch which your neighbours make against you let me have your answer without any untruths shifts or evasions Enoch Sir these men whom you name can fully cleare me herein and to their report I referre my selfe yet for your satisfaction to whom I owe all dutie and respect I will assure you the cleare truth herein I viewed indeed one of the Scriveners bookes and I supposed and spake according to my thoughts that those lines were ruled with bloud for I had never seene nor heard of any red inke in all my life-time I think a wiser man than my selfe may commit a greater mistake and errour without any distemper or cracke in his understanding As for the Glasse or Bristoll or murdering of me GOD is my witnesse I never made any mention of them Neither did I terme the man a Conjurer nor had any imagination therof But it is the practice of the world when a man is in misery to load him with false accusations wherof since I came into this Prison I have had much experience by manifold slanders of whoredome and other vices invented against me 2 The second Argument is this Enoch a yeare before the death of his mother is reported to aske her this question upon a Sunday after they were returned from Clunne Church Mother did not you heare ● shrill and loud voice speak● unto mee this morning in the Church His mother is reported to reply unto him yes ● heard the Ministers voice speaking to thee and to me and to all the Congregation other voice I heard not nor thy selfe neither He is reported to aske her againe Did you not heare a voice call unto me by name and say Enoch prepare She● is said to answer him Hold thy peace thou foole I heard no such voice nor thou neither This is alleaged against you now answer for your selfe in truth and uprightnesse For weaknesse of braine is no cause of shame or reproch to your person Enoch They talke much of the Divell and my selfe but if they invent and devise such lyes against mee in matters whereof I am no way guiltie let the authours and contrivers thereof take heed lest that lying spirit hold not as much interest and take as strong possession of their soules as hee hath done in mine according to their opinion and conceit For certainly this report newly raised touching my questions with my mother is such a cunning lye tha● I cannot understand the ayme or search the depth of it For by these words Enoch prepare I conceive their meaning to be as though Satan had cast some thoughts into my heart touching the killing of my mother and brother a whole yeare before I committed those execrable facts But I have told you Sir and doe further assure you of the truth therein that my resolution to slay my brother was not fully ten dayes old before I brought it into execution And if my mother were now living who is temporally perished by my enraged heart and accursed hand she could and would cleare my reports and denial of any such questions moved unto her I assure you therefore on my faith and truth I never used any such words unto her nor never received any such idle thought into my owne heart as to imagine a voice to call to mee by name in the open Church in the time of Divine Service as people call it 3 The third Argument