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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	constable_n	officer_n	peace_n	4,647	5	6.0431	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76320	Bedlam broke loose, a review of that boist'rous uproar, whereby the lives of the right honourable Digby Lord Gerard and his mother were eminently endanger'd, June 1677.		1659 (1659)	Wing B1674A; ESTC R172684	5,067	15

rage no Remonstrances of reason could be heard neither Beauty which has disarm'd Conquerors in the heat of battel nor Eloquence that has calm'd the wildest Tumults nor Youth which usually engages pitty nor Obliging condescentions which are wont to soften the most obdurate and insensed to terms of moderation could here prevail The Tears of an innocent affrighted Lady the Prayers of an indulgent Mother desiring only common justice for her endangerd Son were slighted nay all Authority contemn'd and abused for the very Constables and Officers that guarded my Lord stood in need of a Guard for themselves being threatned to be torn to pieces for endeavouring to keep the Peace and restrain them from Murdering him So that my Lord was forc'd to quit his Coach and to avoid being Assassinated by these Ruffians make a Sanctuary of the Counter where through Gods mercy his life was saved though the Rout was so set upon mischief that they broke and began to untile the place to get at him threatning to pull it down which in all likelihood they had accomplisht had not the Sheriff Sir Thomas Stamp the only great officer that could be found been sent for to quell them who were grown to such a Head that the Lady GERARD has seriously profess'd she thinks she should if not been kill'd by their actual violence have dyed with the just apprehension of her sons danger had it not been for the generous and Christian charity of four persons of Quality two valiant Brothers and two as worthy obliging Ladies their near Relations meer strangers to her Honour who yet Rescued and assisted her and my Lord and left them not till safe and out of danker Nor can she forget with Gratitude to acgnowledge the civilities of a worthy Citizen and his virtuous wife who secured and entertain'd them in his house to the hazard of having it pull'd down over his head by the Bedlamiz'd multitude To give an exact account of that motley crew is impossible it comprehended more sorts of Beasts than Noah's Ark and as many Sects of No-Religion as Presbytery ever spawn'd many of them pretended themselves London Prentices famous for offering to demolish Bawdy-houses out of a politick design I le warrant you to be Brib'd with money to spend in them For in earnest we may guess they had rather pull down all the Nobility and Gentry than one of those elce t is strange not only the Lord Gerard and his Mother too should not by their will be suffered to live but that another Noble Lady coming in her Coach occasionally to Bedlam whilst this godly work was carrying on should be no less sawcily affronted by a pestilent corporation of this Rabble crying out Tear her to pieces knock out her brains This is the Bitch his Mother c. breaking her Coach and hurting several with her The first time I dare affirm either that Honourable Lady or the Lady Gerard ever received such usage or Language yet would I not charge this Rudeness on the Apprentices of London in general as hoping that the better sort of them as they are more generously descended so they scorn to mix with such a mischievous Rascally Rout but in all Tumults there are a parcel of Beggarly Filching Vermine that assume their names and under that pretence Ravage at their pleasures and commit the most nefarious Crimes But now t is high time to see how the Porter does Life you know is sweet and had it not been for the Cordial drinking of Ale and smoaking Tobacco our man of Carriage might possibly have miscarryed for that night his Surgeon took a Corporal oath in spight of his Soul that his wound was mortal and indeed To a Bruit that had neither Brains nor Heart the Likeliest Inlett of Death was in the Paunch yet the man of Art never dress'd it for fear of making too speedy a Cure and the very next day made a civil Affidavit that he was in no danger whence we may conclude that he heald him and his own Conscience both by Sympathy But notwithstanding in the vulgar Creed he has been mortally wounded dead and buried yet he is since curs d into a Resurrection by living again though in a perpetual Purgatory with that she-Fiend before mentioned to whom he durst not but retorne dwelling at this instant near Newgate a place as fit as any I know for him nor is his name less suitable for he calls himself J. NOISE and all the Neighbourhood can witness that his spouse whether the Ceremony ever pass'd between them or not may yet very justly lay claim to that Name as well as he And now one would think the Hurricane were pretty well laid but I should be unjust to the Shomakers excellent grace of perseverance if I omit his Lasting valour and Christian charity who several dayes after when one might have hoped the Fermentation of his cholerique blood had been somewhat abated very gravely declared That it was a world of pitty my Lord Gerards brains had not been knock'd out and some of this godly crew have threatned to have another bout with him if ever he come into the City Yet if we enquire into the worthy reasons of their spight they have never been able to alledge the least shadow of pretence their greatest Plea being That they knew not that he was a Lord nor is it like they should unless set on as the manner of their Attempt induces many judicious persons to beleive they were hower t is not imaginable they would have paid any Respect to that QUALITY who by this very excuse do as bad as acknowledge that they count all below it at least though never so much their Betters fit objects of their Abuses In a word all circumstances considered this Honourable Child being though of English and Loyal Parents an absolute stranger to the Town and one that none of them ever lost by but some on the contrary gain'd the common measures both of their Love and Religion T was as grand and Fanatical an insolence bateing but the bloodyfreaks of the Fifth Monarch-men as ever was acted since the Restauration of our sacred King who as he is never wanting in Acts of Goodness and Justice even to the meanest of his Subjects was graciously pleased on the first humble Address to deliver this oppressed young Gentleman by giving orders to the Magistrates but 't was so long before any of them could be found that Ten thousand Lives might have been lost if not within the Pale of God's especial Protection and had not his Creator bless'd him with an Excellent Constitution the hard and different usage from that of all his Life which he received as well by the Cold as Bruises he had suffered without application of any remedy not being allow'd to go to his Lodging was enough to put a period to his Life they so much thirsted after no body knows why Yet must it be acknowledg'd that my Lord was very civily and Hospitably treated at that worthy Gentleman Sr. William Turner's house but was not dismiss'd till next day and then not without City Bail to appear at the next Sessions of the Peace at Guild-Hall where he was discharged And though there was all done that could be there and perhaps more than can be justified against this Noble Innocent yet I know not how nor why it happen'd that there was not the least Prosecution admitted or notice taken of any of those insolent Rioters that so barbarously injured him and notoriously broke the Peace in affront of Law and to the scandal of that City heretofore for Civil Government renowned throughout Europe FINIS