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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	time_n	word_n	4,755	5	4.0289	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78042	To avoid the intolerable drudgery of giving full satisfaction by a several letter to every one that may deserve and desire it, the rector of Exeter College hath taken this way to give an account of the unhappy affair which hath drawn clamors, as decry him and his assessors in behalf of one of the fellows, who they say is injuriously, or at least too severely expelled.	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1689-1690 (1690)	Wing B6203A; ESTC R173336	4,986	2

consider your own interest and not a man 's that hath so much abused you F. I pray give me 3 or 4 days time R. To what purpose F. To speak with my Friend R. What to frame a lye if you mean to speak truth you need no further time F. But till to morrow morning After many words the Rector requiring a present answer and Ferdin praying time Ferdin went away and the next morning came with his first answer That he paid his Wife with his own Money A. S. was removed from the house where she lay in and Mr. C. denied not what after clearly appeared that it was done by his Friends This was equivalent to a Man's flying when named for Father of a Bastard and since it appeared to be done to avoid her examination was taken for no less evidence than if she had sworn what she said Upon these Evidences and after six days warning the matter was brought to Hearing The Conviction That Mr. C. offered Money or Rudeness to other young Women though then testified is not now insisted on because it will not amount to such Incontinence as deserves Expulsion What Joice said concerning Anne's Cursing Mr. C. before she appeared to be with Child which was confirmed by Mr. Crabb to whom she then told it this compared with Anne's naming him for the Father appeared such a concurse as could not but be true though either of them single were never so doubtful The Cook was absent attending the Mayor the Rector told what he had said and he still averreth it that Mr. C. bid him take Ferdin's Bond and the Parish should not be damnified Thomasin began with a surprising Preface Sr. I must now tell you what I never told you yet Anne saith That Mr. C. never touched her at which words the Rector said he must expect no truth from her and then took his voluntary Oath of what she had told him before Ferdin denied nothing of the Dialogue above recited and being pressed by the Assessors to tell who that Friend was whom he must speak with before he would answer the Rector's question because if he refused to do it it must lye upon Mr. C. at last after much tergiversation he said his Wife was the Friend though he had acknowledged it was a Gentleman that must be Expelled In Mr. Colmer's Defence To take off the Cook 's Testimony it was alledged that what he spake was publickly in the presence of three whom he named and all of them were known to be his fast Friends Two of them took their voluntary Oaths that Ann had cleared Mr. C. and said that Goodwife Roberts perswaded her to name him But Anne was known to be scarce half witted and the Proverb which saith Children and fools speak Truth is to be understood of what they speak of their own accord but when they are in other folks conduct then they speak as they are prompted and therefore this was not thought of weight sufficient to answer other Evidences especially because she ought to have been produced to speak it her self So that Mr. C. was found guilty by so many that the Rector who was to speak last could not but declare him Convicted and consequently Expelled The Confirmation Himself afterward acknowledged more than once that he could not blame his Judges for that himself upon the same Evidences must have judged any other Person guilty but the Witnesses were c. Had he continued in that mind his Disgrace had been the less but since he took encouragement from some that he taketh for his Friends to use his College as rudely as his Women the Rector in his own Defence found it necessary to seek such other Proofs as might baffle all objections The greatest Objection is That he ought not to be taken for lawfully Convicted without Witness upon Oath This though it hold not in College-Affairs where the Governour hath no power to administer an Oath or compel any that is no member of his Body so much as to speak yet to avoid cavils the Rector laboured to have Testimony upon Oath Ferdin and Thomasin who having been Agents must be principal Witnesses said peremtorily they would not swear He went to Alderman Fyfield if by any means he might learn from him where Anne was From him he learned that he had been with her and taken her examination wherein she freed Mr. C. and said she had lain with a Gentleman of Christ Church and another of Brasen Nose but what their Names were she knew not nor did himself know what House she then lodged in when he examined her ☞ This Alderman is a Justice of Peace a Mercer Mr. C's Friends and their Pupils are his Customers he debaseth his Office so low as to go to the Hutt rather than House of one of the most profligate Rogues in the Town to examine without Oath a poor Whore upon whom he executed not the Law nor took any course to secure the Parish but left her where he found her without naming any Father and refused to make known her hiding Place that the Parish and College might be righted Then the Rector comparing together Probabilities thought fit to have Anne Aris examined Mr. C. told the Rector's Wife that he had given Ferdin Forty shillings when upon Anne Aris's laying her Great-belly to him he fled to Cornwal whereupon she then merrily told him she believed him to be the Father of that Child Ferdin said that the same man was Father of both the Children Mr. C's extraordinary kindness to Ferdin was observed to have began about That time A. Aris before she was known to be with Child had told some young men that Mr. C. had tempted her as she was rubbing his Chamber Upon these Suspicions a Warrant is obtained from Sr. William Walker and A. Aris brought before him where upon Oath she confessed that Ferdin had had Carnal knowledge of her Body three times and Mr. C. twice About the same time by a fortuitous concurse able to convince an Epicurean A. S. was met with The Rector had caused the Town to be searched for her thereupon she was conveyed to the great living Forest The first morning after she was lodged there looking out at a Window she espied one of the College and with joy called to him and freely answered whatever he asked of her He sending notice hereof to the Rector was by him directed to have her examined upon Oath by some Justice of Peace before this direction came she was removed but after much endeavour was found and examined upon Oath she swore that she never carnally knew any man but Mr. C. and what she said to Alderman Fyfield concerning a Gentleman of Christ Church was upon Mr. Cl's and Mr. M's perswasions who told her that if she accused Mr. C. he must be Expelled but no one ever perswaded her to accuse Mr. C. That all this and more is true the Rector is ready prove challengeth any one that please to put him to a capacity to do it by bringing an Action of Slander against him and in conformity to the Law against Libels subscribeth his Name ARTHUR BURY