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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58298	A record in rithme being an essay towards the reformation of the law offer'd to the consideration of the committee appointed for that purpose / vvritten by some men of law, at a time when they had little else to doe.	Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666.; Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1660 (1660)	Wing R630; ESTC R2021	3,720	8

A RECORD IN RITHME BEING An Essay towards the Reformation of the Law offer'd to the Consideration of the Committee appointed for that purpose VVritten by some men of Law at a time when they had little else to doe BE it remembred now that formerly To witt last Term o' th' holy Trinitie Before the Keepers of the liberty Of England by the full authority Of the long Parliament at Westminster Priscilla Merecrave widow came by her Atturney M. B. and preferrs I' th Court of upper bench a bill of hers Against one Roger Pricklove who doth lye A prisoner in the Marshalls Custody Et cetera and 't is upon a plea Of trespass on the Case Pledges there be To prosecute the suit to witt Iohn Doe And Richard Ro● And the said bill also Doth follow in these very words to wit In legal manner London Scilicet Declaration Priscilla Morecrave Widow doth complain of Roger Pricklove who doth now remain Prisoner to th' Marshall of the Marshalsie Of the said Keepers of the Liberty Of England by authority and power Of Parliament i' th' bench superiour Before the same Keepers themselves that bee For that to wit whereas the aforesaid shee Priscilla Morecrave is a person just Honest and faithful one that never durst Give the least cause for to be thought unchast But hath lived ever modest and was grac't With godly education and demurely Behav'd her self and all her life most purely Hath with the Zealous precize consorted And free from all uncleanesse was reported VVho never was amongst the well affected Stain'd with a Crime or in the least suspected But with the pious people of this Nation Hath had good fame credit and reputation By which good reputation she hath gain'd Not only love and favour but obtain'd A plentiful estate by which most freely She manag'd her Affairs And that Ralph Seely One of the Assembly late at Westminster A godly-Gospel-preaching-Minister VVas earnest suiter in the way of Mariage To have her for his yoak fellow his cariage And his most Saint like loving humble speeches Had her consent to all that he beseeches And she agreed to give him all content To wed him by the Act of Parliament Three times the Contract publish't then their trust is That all shall be compleated by the Justice But this said Roger all aforesaid knowing Maliciously intending her undoeing To blast her reputation and dishonour Her unstain'd Chastity to cast upon Her Infamous obloquy to disrepute Her And to deprive her of her foresaid Suiter By breaking of the mariage was intended To leave her to the world lost and unfriended In month September day of the same Eleven One Thousand six hundred fiftie seven Of our Lords year as by our computation Our Common-wealth reckons from th' incarnation At London in the parish of St. Mary Bow in the ward of Cheap he then contrary To truth most falsly and maliciously In hearing of right worthy Company And honorable persons Noble Lords Did speak these false and most reproachful words To and of her the Plantiff that 's to say You are a pockie Whore and at this day You have three Bastards living which do dwell Two in Pick-hatch and one in Clarkenwell By reason of which false malicious speaking Of the said Roger to her great-heart-breaking The godly-gospel minister her Suiter Forbears his former suit and for the future Did make profession he would never take her To be his Consort but did quite forsake her And all her friends with whom she had repute Do now esteem her for a Prostitute VVhereby she is the worse and damnifi'd One thousand and five hundred pounds beside And thereupon she doth her suit produce In the Upper Bench because of this abuse Imparlance And now until this day that is to say On Munday three weeks after Michaels day In this same Term which very day untill Roger had leave t' emparle unto that Bill And then to answer it before the same Keepers as well the said Priscilla came I' th Court of Upper Bench at Westminster By that Attourney nam'd before for her As the aforesaid Roger who doth come By his Attourney A. B. And doth defend the force and injurie VVhen where et cetera And saith that shee The said Priscilla ought not maintain nor Have therupon her Suit against him for Protesting not acknowledging that shee Is half so honest as shee 'ld seem to bee Nor is her body or her life so clear Nor so unspotted as shee would appear Nor is shee of so chast a reputation As is pretended by her Declaration Protesting also that the said Ralph Seely Though oft together did both hee and shee lye Nere ment to Marry her but all his power Of love was quench'd in lesse than an half an hour Besides hee 'd quite undoe her if he had His learning was so small his life so bad For Plea he saith that at the time wherein Shee does suppose these slandrous words t'have bin Spoke by th' aforesaid Roger shee the sayd Priscilla was nor Widow Wife nor Mayd And though shee pass'd for an unbroken virgin Shee catch'd th' aforesaid Presbyter in her gyn And with his wall-ey'd Saintship plaid the sinner Who b'ing inspir'd by a Thanksgiving dinner Did carnally her body know to wit The crime of Fornication did commit In the same Ward and Parish to his Honour He at on clap got 3 great Boys upon her All which for privacy were put to feeding At Bridewell and Pickbatch to learn good breeding And she in recompence clap'd him so sore With Anglice French-POX it made him rore And put his Genitalls in such a pickle That all his Parish women did article And out him of his Benefices twain And into Scotland made him trot again Wherefore as lawfull 't was on this occasion He spake the words layd in the Declaration And this he Iustifies and judgment crave If she this suit ought to maintain or have Replication And she the said Priscilla doth maintain her Said Action against all that 's said to stain her And saith this Court nor will nor can forejudge her For ought that 's pleaded by the foresaid Roger But though by his said Plea shee 's forc'd to tarry Her suit against him yet she ought to carry Protesting therefore she 's not such a liver Nor of such Fame as the said Plea doth give her Out for to be but that she hath not vary'd One jott in life from what she hath declared And on the said Ralphs part protesting farther That of the Kirke he was a Godly Father And of as pure and chast a conversation As any Presbyter within the Nation And free from any lustfull act committing With her or any other deed unfitting For Replication saith she was not knowing Of the said Ralph but 3 years last foregoing During which time and till the said words spoke were By the said Roger that almost have broke her She liv'd a Matrons life chaft grave and thrifty And came unto the