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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
A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

the Protector hear the foolery clamoured of my maid To which I answered I have offered and do offer to cast my credit on the verdict of twelve men amicably chosen or returned by the Sheriff but as for the Protector he is no competent judge for he hath prejudged me and that I had cause to say so there are some anong you know And if a man may not deem his Highness in some cases an incompetent judge why doth the Lord Chief Justice sit on the Bench in causes to him relating And how is he capable of being impleaded But as for the giving away the halfe of my Pulpit and saying That the Protector was an unrighteous judge and made a nose of Wax of the Law I never said or thought it For I am yet to be convinced that by any colour of law I should be interrupted in publick service or hindred from preaching twice a day to my people and that statis horis on the Sabbath And therefore unto this part I plead Not guilty and to convince me you must expect the Oath of John Wildgoss and William Jellie both accusers but have not subscribed that they may be witnesses and these men if they would swear truth must tell you these were Tho. Harrisons words not mine For they coming to my house and knowing that I would not speake with them alone brought with them Nathaniel Duckfield and Edmund Man now at rest both men fearing God and they heard what past in discourse between us And if these two Common Council-men do swear as they are desperate enough that I spake these words I shall produce Nathaniel Duckfield and one Roger Morris a Minister in North Hamptonshire who was in my house to witnesse that when I said The Lord Protector was no competent judge Thomas Harrison said What do you say the Protector is an unrighteous judge I replyed No he that is an incompetent is not alwayes an unrighteous judge He answered I will swear you said so and he now attempts to accomplish his word and when these two Common Council-men were gone away with this accuser I and my friends did bewail their wickedness that would gloss on my words and then swear I spake them but thus they make up their words to that purpose Moreover I should if not furnished to disprove them except against their testimony as incredible not onely as they are accusers in whose name the Charge is exhibited but as the one is forsworn and the other a convict lyar Unto Article the fourth Relating to the incivility pretended to be acted on the body of Mary Cadman I say it is here added to no other end save audactèr calumniaere to fasten with impudence their own slander were it true it is no crime and modesty hath been more violated by the fame then act it self if done But these men are most notoriously impudent to charge what they can prove by none save a notorious thief and liar and one that hath to many in discourse and on her oath denied it and that which she never owned till by a Justices Warrant brought to the Pye and Hoop Tavern hefore their very selves who have circumstantiated it most ridiculously and taught her and others to swear the things in which they are palpably forsworn and so proved as doth appear in the late book to you directed called Perjury the Proof of Forgery penned by a friend of mine that well knew all circumstances relating to that businesse To this therefore I plead Not guilty and will hold mine integrity until I die and not justifie these mine accusers Unto Article the fifth I say that I did say That the Order concerned not me it being directed to M. Grafton I knew not the Order to come from the Council it not being signed by the Clerk as was usual On August the 8. I gave an answer to that order which provided M. Simpson a liberty of Lecturing in my Church which answer was That I would do my duty statis horis and leave him to his liberty when I have done and I am sure Stepney would give 50 l. per. ann for such a grant On August the 9. I kept my pulpit being so advised by council and knowing that if I stept out they would seizeit and to that end Simpson preached at Creed-Church that morning The Constables out of Middlesex who had their staves were Parishioners and on their duty defending me in my right from such as had at the Fountain Tavern conspired to pull me out of the pulpit who were these very accusers and prosecuters of this charge For this I was had before the Council and acquitted and these Constables were by these men indicted for a Riot who did but their duty as was evidenced on Tuesday the first of December instant before the Lord Chief Justice where they were acquitted and the conspiracy of these men was discovered And it must not be made a scandal for a Minister to contend for his just liberty to do his duty and to have the Officers to defend him in the same against the plotted viotent assaults of his enemies Unto the four first additional Articles charging me on the Lords day August 16 in my Church and Sermon to have said 1. That Moses could prevail with the Lord in Prayer but I could neither prevail by Prayer nor Law because ungodly men have prevailed with the unjust Judges of this Nation who have gon contrary to their oath tyrannically disinheriting me of my right and letting an erronious turbulent spirit enjoy it 2. And that their sword was their Law and therefore their Tyranny was the greater whereunto law could notreach 3. And if that I were to plead my cause with either godly or honest or pious or civil modest or just Judges according to Law I were confident I should enjoy my right and said That the wickedness of ungodly men had so prevailed against me with the tyranny of unjust judges that I was inforced to leave my right and if any of the souls of my people be damned for ought I know their blood would be required at the hands of the unjust Judges or Erronious intruders I have received an order for Simpsons teaching in my pulpit and I am here to surrender my just re-entred right to Simpson contrary to all law right and reason as a certain King said what I wil do I wil do so Iam disre-entred by that power that what they wil do they wil do contrary to all law right and reason Unto this whole charge I desire it may be noted That these are the highest but querulous expressions in apprehension of of oppression in a particular case They all relate to the intrusion of Iohn Simpson into my church and are charged on that occasion to be spoken as being thereby provoked It is the observation of the preacher That oppression will make a wise man mad These men make me cry and then endeavour to have me beaten for crying His Highness grants I.