Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	bear_v	birth_n	child_n	2,032	5	5.7088	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23335	A commemoration or dirige of bastarde Edmonde Boner, alias Sauage, vsurped Bisshoppe of London. Compiled by Lemeke Auale. Anno Domini. 1569	Avale, Lemeke.	1569 (1569)	STC 977; ESTC S104439	14,217	46

A Commemoration or Dirige of Bastarde Edmonde Boner alias Sauage vsurped Bisshoppe of London Compiled by Lemeke Auale Episcopatum eius accipiet alter Anno Domini 1569. ¶ Imprinted by P. O. ¶ The Preface MAtter 's beyng yet in doubt maie with questions and reasons bee brought out of doubt but thinges beyng without doubt ought not with the subteltie of wordes bee broughte into doubte As without all doubte Edmonde Boner late vsurped bishop of London was a bastarde and also the soonne of a Bastarde that is a Bastarde in grosse and a Bastarde can not neither maie not bee a bisshop Boner was a Bastarde ergo no bishop and this is a true conclusion This is not true said an old Dunsticall felowe sittyng at the table with a graue learned Lawier of the common Lawe and an eloquente Ciuilian that were all three together the one frouned the seconde did bite his lippe the third in a greate rage saied men maie saie what thei will now a daies belye the truthe as you haue doen he was a blessed confessor although a bastard and a true bishop bothe by Gods Lawes the Canonicall lawes the lawes of this realme of Englande To this thei saied all Amen Proue you the cōtrary saied thei and we wil yelde vnto you will you q he then will I proue hym no bishop when he liued whiche you graunt to bée bastarde by these thrée Lawes Make proffe saied these three I will by Gods grace quod he proue that neither 〈◊〉 nor Boner were any bishoppes of London but vsurped bicause thei twoo were bastardes and all bastardes bee vnder the same predicament For the booke of Wisedome in the. iiii Chapit makyng a difference betwene twoo generations of the lawfull and vnlawfull Of the lawfull it is saied O quam pulcra casta generatio c. O how faire is a chaste generation with vertue the memoriall therof is immortall for it is knowen with God and with men when it is presente men take example thereat and if it goe awaie yet thei desire it it is alwaies crouned and holden in honor and winneth the rewarde of the vndefiled battaill But the other generation that is vnknowen emong men that are called the children of the people thus muche is spoken of in the same booke Multigena autem impiorū multitudo non erit vtilis spuria vitulamina non dabunt radices altas nec stabile fundamentum constituit That is The multitude of the vngodly children are vnprofitable children and the thynges that are planted with whoredome shall take no depe roote nor laie any fast foundation though grene for a tyme in the braunches yet thei shal be shaken with the winde for thei stande not fast and through the vehemencie of the windes that is Gods vengance thei shal be rooted out for the vnperfite braūches shal be broken the fruicte shal be vnprofitable and sower mete for nothyng For why 〈◊〉 demaunded of their parentes that is who were their fathers or mothers doe witnesse against them and declare their abhomination and dooe disclose their synnes as did that wicked Cham the sonne of Noe whiche vncouered his fathers secretes for whiche cause Noe asked vengeaunce vpon the offenders sonne that therby the offender might 〈◊〉 more greued then with his owne mishappe Therfore the lawe that punisheth th offēders issue 〈◊〉 more prohibite synne then that whiche plageth the offender alone by this it maie be cōsidered with what zeale the law of Englande abhorreth vnlawfull coniunctions depriuyng them not onely of lawfull parentes but also of Ecclesiasticall dignitie and tēporall inheritaunce The Ciuill Lawe speakyng of the birth of children saieth Quod non potest arbor mala fructus bonos facere c. An euil tree saie thei can not bring forth good fruite nor a good tree beare euill fruites and by the consente of the lawes it is agreed that euery plante yeldeth to the nature of the grounde wherein it is planted The childe also hath Leges Ciuiles dicūt filium naturalē tuū esse fil um populi muche more certaine and sure knowledge of the mother then of the father Therfore saith the Ciuill Lawe your naturall or bastarde soonne is the soonne of the people and when suche a bastarde is hauing no certain or knowen assured father at the birthe as it is daily seen and so iudged by lawe How can he come by a father after as example If one woman should beare twoo children of twoo fornicatours and one of these fornicatours after doe marie with this woman whiche of these children should this mariage make legitimate This would partly help Tunstall by the Ciuil Tunstallwas a Bastarde lawe bicause his father reconsiled his mother into mariage but lōg after his birth this is not Boners case whose father was neuer maried to his mother fātasy would som what perswade but reason can not finde seyng the tyme was ones when bothe these children were bastardes and the sonnes of the people and did not knowe their fathers it wer therfore against all reason that a child afterward borne in the same Matrimonie being lawfully Genes 16. borne should lose the inheritaūce and place Galla. 4. the bastardie in the same as lawfull heire The lawes of Englande agreeth with the scriptures Ismael did not inherit with Isaac So no bastardes doe inherite lawfully by the lawes of Englande neither is equall to the lawfull begotten in the inheritaunce whiche by the Ciuill lawes can be deuided but onely emong the male children Saincte Augustine in lib. xvi de Ciuitate dei saieth Abraham gaue all his substaunce vnto Isaac his soonne but vnto the soonnes of the Concubines he gaue giftes and sente them awaie from Isaac his soonne Wherevpon he ment that to bastardes there is no inheritaunce due but onely necessary liuyng and vnder the name of a bastarde Sainct Augustine vnderstande all vnlawfull issues and so doeth holie scripture also and thinketh no small difference betwene the succession of the lawfull begotten and the bastarde in tēporall thynges or worldly inheritance muche lesse in the churche of Christ in that that it admitteth them not into holie Orders and that is proued in the Popes Lawes againste the bastardly Papistes and if the Pope dispēce with suche a one yet he permitted not hym to haue a dignitie or preheminence in the Churche as to bee a bishoppe Et ecclesia que eos a sacris repellit ordinibus c. Et si tale dispensauerit non enī tum permittit dignitate habere in ecclesiae dei Therefore it is conuenient that mannes lawes should cutte them shorte in the benefite of worldly succession When the Churche doe iudge thē vnworthy of orders of ministerie of pontificall dignitie yea whom the holie scripture do thrust doune and greatly embace for though some that is one emong a thousande is good yet most are not onely giuen to wickednesse and persecution c. Example of Ismael some to murder Example of