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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	deed_n	light_n	reprove_v	2,125	5	10.3012	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78012	For every individuall member of the honourable House of Commons. Concerning the major, magstracy, and officers of Dover.	Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6142; Thomason E568_19; ESTC R206270	12,509	8

not let me see it neere enough to read it at length Filly departed and bid the other stay of his assistants saying he would go and fetch or receive other Orders upon which it was rumoured by the Towne people that these roaring Lyons or ravening Wolves would break my bones e're evening as Zeph. 3.3 for said they shift for your self or els they of the Town-Hall will procure a Squadron of Souldies from Dover-Castle to take you that they might have their wills of you thus they would use any means to satisfie their envy they invite the abusive souldiery against me or possesse the people they would upon which I caused my shop to be quite shut up and retired my selfe private for my more security and peace knowing too well how my respective friend M. Henry Teddyman was abused by the rude Souldiery then in Dover-Castle who came downe some number about September last to him to have him up to the Castle upon some conceited affront for which they would be their owne Judges whereof see the effect M. Teddyman would not render himselfe but told them he would be answerable by Law these giddy bloody unreasonable souldiers shoot in at his shut doors and shot his wife big with child and killed his daughter ●bout thirteen yeers of age by shot and then went up to the Castle againe without the man a lamentable story to tell but very true though few of Dover would lay it to heart but shuffled it off I now not how though the Mayor which usurps the place M. Day knew it too well for he was Mrs. Teddymans Chyrurgion till she was recovered and for this blood no body sufferen either by Law Common or Martiall which mischiefe of warre to prevent and malice of my adversaries I was forced to fly to London againe the second time and for the ●afety of my deere wife and daughter which is all the children I have left of ten since I have been contending in the field for freedome right and liberty as invited by your Declar. 23. O●tober before specified yet must I now fly or die it may be my wife and daughter too as M. Teddymans child before spoken of or lie in prison to satisfie the corrupt wills and ravenous affections of my covetous tyrannicall oppressing Judges at Dover who amongst them have sought my ruine ever since I came among them because I would not joyne with them to work unrighteousnesse to rob and oppresse free-born English-men who have not forfeited their freedomes some of them being of a forraigne blood or line and favour a forraigner more then an English-man but that almost al should do so makes me much admire and yet no man calleth for Justice no man contendeth for truth as the Prophet complaines Isa 59.4 and the Apostle saith rather reprove the works of darknesse then have fellowship with them Eph. 5.11 but it is no new thing to be hated therefore for it was so of old Amos 5.10 they have ha●ed him that rebuked in the gates and they have abhorred him that speaketh uprightly and this forraigne kindred or Inhabitants meddles not with men but for their corrupt interest neither know they English-mens priviledges yea too few English-men now do yet know it why saith our Saviour when he was on the earth Iohn 3.20 21. He that doth evill hateth the light least his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth cometh to the light to manifest that they are wrought according to God I would ask mine oppressors and the peoples why by force or fraud injustice or connivance they seek to destroy me as by their power of Judicature and Councell though usurped and yet say they beleeve I will answer them and all who sit in power and place and do so First from Psal 94. v. 23. Hath the throne of iniquity fellowship with thee Secondly wirh one of your own Declar. 1. part Book Decla pag. 150. Magistrates are appointed for the protection and preservation but not ruine or destruction of the people and the Mayor yet threatneth to lay me fast enough at Dover and by the Lawes of this Land no man is to be Judge in his own case 8. H. 6. fol. 21. 5. Eliz. Dicr 220. and Doctor Bonhams case eight part of Cooks reports But could these Dover men of usurped place and power have gotten me to their Guild-Hall or by their power and policy have gotten me into their Goale or Dover Castle They would then and their having all power in their hands as a seaport Town and the Burgesse and souldiers their friends have been complaynants persecutors witenesses Jury and Judges of me as of Edward Ranger and Hedge his man and of Edward Chambers lately they have been then you may easily discern what would have become of me amongst them when some of them were so audacious unchristian and unmannerly as to give me scurrilous and sore threatning language on Wednesday and Thursday the 26. and 27. of July last past in and about the Court of Wardes as M. Day M. Dell M. Lawrence Knot and M. Henry Hart as John Filly and John Kenton had done July the 24. when Filly sware a negative oath or told an untruth at which time some Officers of Court viz. M. Kerke M. Leichman and M. Danet reproved them and caused Filly and Kenton to go out of their room for their uncivill affronts in language Now the case depending in the inner Court of Wardes and much proved against most of them all but one though nine witnesses are not yet appeared 12. by me is charged as by the Articles and the Examinations taken will appear upon hearing wherefore I humbly intreat you to take it into your serious consideration against Friday the 10. of August instant which is appointed by consent if the witnesses fail not that so the case may be looked on without respect of persons either the Plantifs or Defendants power or meaness Ye shall do no unrighteousnesse in Judgement Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the Mighty but in righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy neighbour Levit. 19.15 Ye shall not respect persons in Judgement but you shall heare the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man for the Judgement is Gods Thus I commit my cause and my selfe to your examination and tryall which by your own Ordinances and Declarations named appears to be the Nations and Peoples who hath entrusted you and you and the People of the Nation into the hand of Jehovah the faithfull Creator blessed for Evermore and rest Your Honours next the Almighties to procure truth and Right Nathaniell Burt Junior London August 8. 1649. 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