Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29092	Essex's innocency and honour vindicated, or, Murther, subornation, perjury, and oppression justly charg'd on the murtherers of that noble lord and true patriot, Arthur (late) Earl of Essex ... in a letter to a friend / written by Lawrence Braddon (of the Middle-Temple), Gent. ...	Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4101; ESTC R19636	79,731	74

taken before the Coroner upon my Lord's Body for the reading those Depositions proved the occasion of my first engaging herein The Right Honourable Arthur late Earl of Essex was committed to the Tower the 10th of July 1683. by virtue of a Warrant from Secretary Jenkins which Warrant ran as followeth Sir Leoline Jenkins Knight of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and Principal Secretary of State THese are in His Majesty's Name to Will and Require you to receive into your Custody the Person of Arthur Earl of Essex herewith sent you being committed for high-High-Treason in compassing the Death of the King whom God preserve and conspiring to levy War against His Majesty And him the said Earl of Essex to keep in safe Custody until he shall be delivered by due Course of Law And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Whitehall the 10th day of July 1683. To Thomas Cheek Esq Lieutenant of His Majesty's Tower of London L. Jenkins The first night his Lordship lay at Capt. Cheek's the then Lieutenant of the Tower but the next day was removed to Major Hawley's then Gentleman-Porter of the Tower and the two Warders placed upon his Lordship were Nathanael Monday and Thomas Russel one to stand at my Lord's Chamber-door or in his Chamber and the other at the Stairs-foot and thus by turns Paul Bomeny my Lord's Servant was permitted to be with his Lordship At Major Hawley's my Lord lay Wednesday night and Thursday night but Friday morning about 9 of the Clock his Lordship was found with his throat cut through both Jugulars and Arteries even to the Neck-bone on both sides the Neck The next day being Saturday the Jury sate and before them were sworn the aforesaid Paul Bomeny Thomas Russel and two Chyrurgeons whose Informations are as followeth according to the Print but that as I shall observe in its own proper place varies in the Original from Bomeny's Information The Information of Paul Bomeny Servant to the late Earl of Essex for about three or four years now last past taken upon Oath the 14th day of July 1683. Anno Regni Caroli secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. Tricesimo quinto Annoque Domini 1683. SAith That when my Lord came to Captain Hawley's which was the 11th instant my Lord of Essex asked him for a Penknife to pare his Nails as he was wont to do which this Informant answered Being come in haste he had not brought it but he would send for one and accordingly sent the Footman with a Note for several things for my Lord amongst which the Penknife was incerted and the Footman went and gave the Bill to my Lord's Steward who sent the Provisions but not the Pen-knife and he told the Footman he would get one next day When the Footman was come my Lord asked if the Penknife were come This Informant answer'd No but he should have it the next day And accordingly on the 12th instant in the morning Note before my Lord of Essex was up this Informant sent the Footman home with a Note to the Steward in which amongst other things he asked for a Penknife for my Lord. When the Footman was gone about or a little after eight of the Clock my Lord sent one Mr. Russel his Warder to this Informant who came and then he asked him if the Penknife was come This Informant said No my Lord but I shall have it by and by To which my Lord said That he should bring him one of his Razors it would do as well And then this Informant went and fetched one and gave it my Lord who then went to pare his Nails and then the Informant went out of the Room into the passage by the Door On Friday the 13th instant This was not in the Original but added by Authority and began to talk with the Warder and a little while after he went down stairs and soon after came the Footman with the Provisions and brought also a Penknife which this Informant put upon his Bed and thought my Lord had no more need of it because he thought he had pared his Nails and then this Informant came up to my Lord's Chamber about eight or nine in the forenoon on Friday the 13th instant with a little Note from the Steward This interlined in the Coroner's hand where there were Three Lines writ Note This is in the Original but left out in the Print But not finding his Lord in the Chamber went to the Close-stool-Closet-door and found it shut and thinking his Lord was busie there went down and staid a little and came up again thinking his Lord had been come out of the Closet and finding him not in the Chamber he knocked at the Door with his Finger thrice and said My Lord but no-body answering he took up the Hangings and looking through the Chink he saw Blood and part of the Razor whereupon he called the Warder Russel and went down to call for Help and the said Russel pushed the Door open and there they saw my Lord of Essex all along the Floor without a Perriwig and all full of Blood and the Razor by him And this Deponent further deposeth That the Razor now shewed to him at the time of his Examination is the same Razor which he did bring to my Lord Note and which did lie on the ground in the Closet by my Lord. The Information of Thomas Russel one of the Warders of the Tower who had the Custody of the Earl of Essex taken the 14th day of July Anno Regni Caroli secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. Tricesimo quinto Annoque Domini 1683. SAith That on Friday the 13th instant about eight or nine of the Clock in the Forenoon he was present when he did hear the Lord of Essex call to his Man Mr. Bomeny for a Penknife to pare his Nails and then for a Razor which Mr. Bomeny brought him and then my Lord walked up and down the Room scraping his Nails with a Razor and shut the outward Door Mr. Bomeny half a quarter of an hour afterwards not finding my Lord in his Bed-Chamber went down Stairs again believing that my Lord was private in his Closet Bomeny came up about a quarter of an hour afterwards Note and knocked at the door then called My Lord My Lord but he not answering peeped through a Chink of the Door and did see the Earl of Essex lying on the ground in the Closet whereupon he cried out That my Lord was fallen down sick and then the Informant went to the Closet-door and opened it the Key being on the out-side and then did see my Lord lie on the ground in his Blood and his Throat cut The Information of Robert Sherwood in Fanchurch-street Chyrurgeon taken the 14th day of July Anno Regni Caroli secundi Dei Gratia Angliae