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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	fight_v	3,956	5	7.3572	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19674	A true relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the right honourable Thomas Lord Hovvard, Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Primer Earle, and Earle Marshall of England, ambassadour extraordinary to his sacred Majesty Ferdinando the second, emperour of Germanie, anno Domini 1636. By Wiliam Crowne Gentleman	Crowne, William.	1637 (1637)	STC 6097; ESTC S109122	38,521	77

troubled with Mice built this and lived in it thinking there to be secure but even thither they pursued him also and eate him up then by Bingen a faire Towne on the right side and by Ehrenfels Castle on the other side to Rudeshein a Towne on the left side of the Rhine into which I entered and did see poore people praying where dead bones were in a little old house and here his Excellencie gave some reliefe to the poore which were almost starved as it appeared by the violence they used to get it from one another from hence by Geisenhem Elfeld and Wallaff three Townes on the left side of the River and then we crossed over the Rhine unto the other side Then to Mentz a great City seated close by the Rhine on the right side against which wee cast Anchor and lay on ship-board for there was nothing in the Towne to relieve us since it was taken by the King of Sweden and miserably battered there the King of Bohemia dyed in a faire corner house towards the Rivers side heere likewise the poore people were almost starved and those that could relieve others before now humbly begged to bee relieved and after supper all had reliefe sent from the Ship ashore at the sight of which they strove so violently that some of them fell into the Rhine and were like to have bin drowned The next day being the third of May from hence wee departed leaving the Rhine halfe a league above the City on our right hand and entered into a shallow River called the Maine passing by a place which the King of Sweden was building for a Fort but could not finish it then by Cassell on the left side thence by Flersheim on the left side to Russelsheim on the right of the Maine and then to the stately City of Francfurt adjacent to the Maine on the left side where we landed and lay from Collein hither all the Townes Villages and Castles bee battered pillaged or burnt and every place wee lay at on the Rhine on ship-board we watched taking every man his turne heere wee staid foure daies untill our carriages were made ready where we saw the place wherein they keepe the Dyet afterward entered into the Church called Saint Bartholmews where the Emperours use to bee crowned and take their oath the City is inhabited with Lutherans and Iewes for in the Iewes Synagogue I entered in to see the manner of their service which is an undecent way making a hideous noise having on their heads and about their neckes things called Capouchins the women are not admitted into their Synagogue but in places about And on Sunday the seventh of May by waggons through the City over two Bridges which are alwaies guarded with Souldiers leaving the Maine on our left hand from hence we tooke a Convoy of Musketiers along being wee went through much danger by Offenbach Selgenstat seated betweene us and the Maine passing thus along through a great Forest in much danger hearing the great Peeces so swiftly discharge off at Hannaw which the Swedes subdu'd and now besieged by the Emperors Forces being not above three English miles off then by a very great Mountaine two English miles long all beset with Vines untill we came at a poore little Village where wee staid and dined with provision of our owne and after dinner departed passing through Plaines untill wee came at the Maine and there ferried over into a towne called Klingenberg passing through this we came to a very high hill the way up being all stone 2. English miles up to the top and then through a Wood after we were past this we came to a poore little Village called Neunkirchen where we found one house a burning when we came and not any body in the Village heere we were constrained to tarry all night for it grew very late and no Towne neere by 4. English miles spending the night in walking up and downe in feare with Carrabines in our hands because we heard Peeces discharg'd off in Woods about us and with part of the coles of the consumed house his Excellency had his meat rosted for supper the next morning earely his Excellency went to view the Church which we found rifled with the pictures and Altars abused in the Church-yard we saw a dead body scraped out of the grave in another place out of the Church-yard there lay another dead body into many of the houses wee entered and found them all empty From this miserable place we departed and heard after that they in the Village fled by reason of the sicknesse and set that house on fire at their departure that Passengers might not be infected Then came we into Wijrtzburg-land and descended downe another steep hill and there crossed over a little River call'd Tauber and through Keichelsheim to Neubruim a poore Village where wee dined after dinner passing by the side of the Maine and through Woods and Plaines untill we came to Wijrtzburg a faire City passing over a bridge first standing over the Maine into the Towne seated on the left side of the River and a faire Castle opposite to the Towne on the other side in which the Towne put all their riches when they heard the king of Sweden was comming thinking there it would not be gain'd but they hearing of it surprised and pillaged it in 3. daies and it was 3. or 4. moneths before the Emperors forces could regaine it the next day earely departed being the 10. of May and entered Marggrafen-land and to Kiteingen to diner after diner thence through Ipza a City and so to Marckbibrach where we lay all night on the plancher for the Village was pillaged but the day before earely the next morning wee went away and passed through Neustadt which hath beene a faire City though now pillaged and burnt miserably heere we saw poore children sitting at their doores almost strav'd to death to whom his Excellency gave order for to relieve them with meat and money to their Parents from hence we went to Eilfkirchen a poore Village where wee dined with some reserv'd meat of our owne for there was not any thing to be found after diner thence we passed by many Villages pillag'd and burnt down and so into Nurnberger-land passing through the place where the King of Swedens Leaguer lay when the King of Bohemia was with him and my Lord Craven and in sight of the place the Emperors Army had intrenched themselves by the side of a great wood here the King of Sweden set upon poles alive three of his souldiers for killing 2. of their Commanders and flying presently to his Enemy and at the end of a Battaile that was then fought he tooke them prisoners and so executed them then drawing neere Nurnburg a great City seated in a Plaine which the King of Sweden relieved at that time against the Emperor being not above two English miles off heere we passed by some of