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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	daughter_n	mother_n	sister_n	25,437	5	10.5778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34454	A true description of the mighty kingdoms of Japan and Siam written originally in Dutch by Francis Caron and Joost Schorten ; and novv rendred into English by Capt. Roger Manley.; Benschrijvinghe van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan. English	Caron, François, 1600-1673.; Schouten, Joost.; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.	1663 (1663)	Wing C607; ESTC R22918	62,553	163

had therefore rather hear of their faults by their trusty Servants to correct them then to be ill spoken of behind their backs and for this reason these secret Monitors are alwaies near their Lords persons especially at Feasts and publique meetings observing their words and least actions These Lords though they have their particular names yet they are ordinarily called by that of their Government or residence further every man hath three names the children a childish when they are men a more manly and being become old get others suitable to the decays of nature and age The surnames are first pronounced for being their parents were before them they think it but reasonable that their names should likewise precede When one of these Lords die ten twenty or thirty of his Vassals kill themselves to bear him company many that do so oblige themselves to it during their Lords lives for having received some more then ordinary grace and favour from him and fancying themselves better beloved then their companions they think it a shame to survive their Benefactour and therefore in return of their thanks they usually add My Lord the number of your faithful Slaves is great but what have I done to merit this honour this Body which is indeed yours I offer you again and promise it shall not live longer then yours I will not survive so worthy a Patron For confirmation of this they drink a bowl of Wine together which is solemn for no covenants thus made are to be broken Those that thus binde themselves cut their own bellies and do it as followeth They assemble their nearest kindred and going to Church they celebrate the parting feast upon mats and carpets in the midst of the Plain where having well eat and drank they cut up their bellies so that the guts and entrails burst out and he that cuts himself highest as some do even to the throat is counted the bravest fellow and most esteemed If the Lord cause a wall to be built either for the King or himself his Servants often times beg they might have the honour to lie under out of a belief that what is founded upon a living mans flesh is subject to no misfortune This request being granted they go with joy unto the designed place and lying down there suffer the foundation stones to be laid upon them which with their weight immediately bruise and shiver them to pieces His Majesty hath several Castles strong and great whereof those of Osaua and Iedo are the most magnificent The Countries belonging to the Kings and great Lords are not much travelled by our Nation so that we have no knowledg of them only I am informed that they have mighty Towns and Castles None of these Cities are walled though their streets are regular every one and equally long the ends of them shut with Gates and guarded with Watchmen by night or times of danger The Country waies are marked at every miles end with stones or stakes being put up for that purpose In their Towns and Villages every street hath two Magistrates who take care for their precinct and must give an account for whatever happens in them and because none through clownishness or otherwise may approach the Lord Governour with disrespect they have Prolocutors appointed them by whose intervention all lesser matters are compassed the more difficult being reserved for the decision of the ordinary Judge Their manner of Justice THe Cities and Towns have no revenue at all each of them depending on their Lord neither have the Citizens Marchants Gentry or Commonalty any Tolls Excise or Contributions they pay likewise nothing except it be for the ground their houses stand upon which is the Lords and for that they give from forty shillings to two yearly according to the greatness of their houses Every house must finde a man upon occasion which happeneth three or four times a year though but for an hour and sometimes for half a day or so The King or Lord hath the whole product of the Land and Sea the Gentlemen and Souldiers live upon that portion their Lord assigns them out of the Country the Marchant subsists by his gaine the Citizens and Artificers by their trades and the Labourers by that portion which their Lord allows them out of the fruit of the earth What Crimes they punish most severely EVery individual from the Emperour to the meanest Gentleman hath the right of Justice over his Subjects and Servants His Majesty hath his ordinary Judges in all his Cities and Towns When a Gentleman or Souldier is condemned to die he is allowed the honour to kill himself by cutting up his belly with his own hands whereas the Citizen Marchant and meaner persons suffer by the common Executioner A Marchant how rich soever is not esteemed at all because they say He liveth by his lying making no conscience to cousen and deceive the People for his filthy lucre sake The Citizen and Artificer are likewise undervalued because they are but Servants to the Commonalty and forced to live by their labours and manufactures Neither are the Country People of more account because of the miserableness of their condition being subject to perpetual slavery and toyling But the Gentlemen and Souldiers who are numerous are honoured and feared and they do nothing being maintained and served by the Marchants by the Citizens and by the Country Labourers Every crime how small soever is punished with death especially theft although but to the value of a penny gaming and playing for money is no less hainous then murther and all other Delinquents which deserve the rigour of Justice with us in Europe undergo the same penalty here Every one suffers for his own faults except the matter be treasonable and then the Father Brothers and Sons must likewise suffer and their goods be confiscated and the Mothers Sisters and Daughters be given away and sold for slaves These confiscations are not due to the Emperour King or Lord in whose Territories they happen but are reserved under account for publick uses as building of Churches making of Bridges repairing of High-waies and the like It happened in my time that a proud fellow presented his service to a poor Gentleman demanding of him by reason of his address and parts more wages then he knew the Gentleman could give who vexed at the youths impertinencies and perceiving he jeered him replied with a composed countenance Friend you demand indeed much wages but being I think you will deserve it and that you are pleasing in my eyes I am content to receive you into my service Three daies after his Master sent him on an errand being returned he was accused for staying out so long so as no excuses would save his life being forced to pay for his insolency under this colourable pretence The Lord of Finando did lately cause three Gentlewomen of his Ladies attendants to be shut up in Chests spiked with nails on every side because one of them had had some

free-Chambers or pack-houses where none is suffered to enter but their familiar and most intimate Servants and Friends Their chief furniture which they expose are Tsia Cups and Pots Pictures Manuscripts and Sables which each provides himself of rich and goodly according to his condition and might How they receive each other and of their Hospitality THe Japanners are very hospitable and civil to such as visit them they treat them with Tobacco and with Tsia and if the friend be more then ordinary with Wine They cause them first to sit down and setting a Lack bowl before them will not suffer them to depart before they have tasted of it they sing they pipe and play upon such stringed instruments as they have to rejoyce their Guests omitting no manner of carouses and kindnesses to testisie their welcome and the value they put upon their conversation They never quarrel in their debauches but he that is first drunk retires and sleeps until the fumes of the wine be evaporated There is no such thing as Tavern or publick drinking House in all the Countrie they eat drink and are merry but all in their own houses not refusing lodging and refreshment for the traveller and stranger Of their Conjugal State THese People neither make love nor woo all their marriages being concluded by their Parents or for want of such near relations by the next of kin One Man hath but one Wife though as many Concubines as he can keep and if that Wife do not please him he may put her away provided he dismiss her in a civil and honorable way Any Man may lie with a Whore or common Woman although he be married with impunitie but the Wife may not so much as speak in private with another Man as is already said without hazarding her life What is said of divorce relates only to the Citizen Marchant and common Souldier a Gentleman or Lord may not put away his Wife although she should not please him and that out of respect to her quality and his own Person he must maintain her according to her condition and necessities but may freely divert himself with his Concubines and Women and when the humor takes him with his own Wife again This liberty that the Men have obliges the Women to observe their Husbands and endeavour to endear them to them by an humble compliance and submission to their humors being sure else to lose them and see their Rivals preferred before them Open Whore-houses are publickly allowed of as well for the use and conveniency of Batchelors as to prevent the debauching of young Maids and married Women Of the bringing up of their Children CHildren are carefully tenderly brought up their Parents strike them seldom or never and though they cry whole nights together endeavour to still them with patience judging that Infants have no understanding but that it grows with them as they grow in years and therefore to be encouraged with indulgence and examples It is remarkable to see how orderly and how modestly little Children of seven or eight years old behave themselves their discourse and answers savouring of riper age and far surpassing any I have yet seen of their times in our Country None go to School under seven or eight years of age as being until then uncapable of its rules and more inclined to play then to learn unless it be waggishness and wantonness At School they begin by degrees by sweetness and not by force the Masters imprinting an ambition and desire in each of them to out-go his fellow they lead them likewise by examples telling them that such and such learned so much in so little time whereby his Honour and Family was so highly advanced The Children are so accustomed to this way that they learn sooner and more then by any correction or whipping for generous spirits and an obstinate Nation such as this is are not to be forced but rather won with gentleness and emulation What Succession ab intestato WHen the Parents are grown old and the Children come to be Men the Father then quits his Government Commerce Shop or Trade placing his eldest Son in his room and giving him the greatest part of his Estate the younger Children are likewise provided for by the indulgent Parents although their portions return to the eldest in case they die before them Daughters have no portions at all nor nothing given them at their marriage sometimes it happens that rich Parents send a good sum of money with their Daughter upon their marriage day to their Son in law which present is returned by the Bridegroom his Parents with much thanks being unwilling that the Bride should have any colourable excuse to raise her into an opinion of having obliged her Husband The poorer sort do but seldom return these offers as needing them and glad of any augmentation of their Friends They have a common saying that a Woman hath no constant dwelling living in her youth with her Friends being married with her Husband and when she is old with her Childe VVhether they be faithfull or false in their dealings THis Nation is very trusty and that out of their ambition the only mark they aim at hence it is that they seldom wrong each other esteeming their honours above their lives and hopes examples of this kinde are frequent amongst them I will only relate one During the civil Wars between Ongoschio and his Puple the King of Cocora who followed the Usurper had left his Queen and Children as the fashion is at the Emperours Court Fideri having notice of this revolt sent for Cocora's Wife and Children to come into the Castle the better to secure them which the Lady refused excusing her self That she was married and under the obedience of her King as he was under his imperial Majesty let him command her Lord and she would most readily upon receipt of his orders submit to his Highness pleasure The Emperour angry at this denial sent her word if she would not come he would cause her to be brought by force The Queen who thought no dishonour equal to that of quitting her house in her Husbands absence and seeing she could not conserve her self in it against the Emperours fury resolved to perish with it she therefore commanded some barrels of Gun-powder to be brought into a Chamber where she retired with her Children Nurse and such of her Women who were resolved to die with her and there writing her Will and her own Elegy she conveyed them by a trusty Gentleman in her service to her Lord and immediatly thereupon putting fire to the Powder prevented that loss of honour which she feared and the Emperours design by that fatal blow If it happen that a person be in a strait and engaged and comes to another for assistance recommending the protection of his life and honour to his generosity this Man will hazard all without respect of Wife and Children for the service of his Friend and perish or deliver