Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	lord_n	parliament_n	20,596	5	6.9552	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40899	The Lord Cravens case stated; and the impostor dethron'd by way of reply to Captain George Bishop, a grand Quaker in Bristoll. Wherein is briefly hinted, the rottenness of the Quakers conversion, and perfection, in general, exemplified in this busie bishop; in special instanced in his practises against the estate of the Lord Craven, life of Mr. Love. By occasion whereof, this truth is asserted, viz. if we may judge of the conscience, honesty, and perfection of Quakers in general, by this man in particular, a man may be as vile a person, as any under heaven, and yet a perfect Quaker.	Farmer, Ralph.; Bishop, George, d. 1668. aut	1660 (1660)	Wing F442; ESTC R218269	94,789	137

in many particulars For to come to his dealings and practises and to begin and to consider what he begins with how vainly and like the bragging souldier in the Comedy how Thrasonically and with long-winded expressions doth he lift up the hands of that blaspheming wretch James Naylor And how daringly doth he ask the question What law hath he broken Or what offence against man hath he committed Whom the Parliament hath censured and in part punished as a horrible blasphemer It 's free to this man Geo. Bishop to arraign and censure the actions of the Parliament but is James the Champion of the Lord of Hosts before whom none of the Priests could stand as George sayes And was his light so clear so infallible so sure How comes it to pass that this glorious son of the morning is like Lucifer so cast down and darkned by that woman and her company Martha Simons with all their filthiness and deceit as he phrases it page 5. beg What Spirit was that and what darknesse was that which he speaks of page 4. that clouded him When began it And is it not still upon him And how came it to pass that being delivered he became dark again page ead These things would be known that so wee might say when James is in the dark or when he is in the light that so we might not be mistaken in him for we must not be altogether led by George Bishop lest wee agree not with those who notwithstanding his and his fellow Foxes disclaimes did and do still own James Naylor But to let this pass for he is not worth inquiring after by the wisdome of God that fore-sees all things sayes he page 5. it was so ordered that there was found among the papers that were about James Naylor one paper wherein that spirit good or bad the woman and her company Martha Simons This was the Letter sent from Fox and Bishop to Naylor mentioned both in my Narrative and Geo. answer In which Letter they disclaim and judge James Naylor and his crew as deceivers and their practises were expresly discerned and judged But now mark horrendum facinus the false and mischievous spirit of the Priest that publish'd that Narrative and his foul and dishonest dealing and how unfaithful he is in his relation The Priest out of devillish wickedness Georges words forges such a word as had it been truly so might have rendred George Fox a blasphemer under his own hand and this is such a fact that words need not further to express it which in its very face is so manifestly wicked and abominable a wickedness not found in the roll of those evils which the Apostle mentions should make the last daies perillous and 't is manifest this act is wilfull All this and more page 7 8. of his Pamphlet and part of the 9. To all this out-cry by way of answer one would have expected that one so eminently perfect in charity as George is for if hee have not charity hee is nothing hee is not what hee pretends would have judged the best which is one main property of charity it would have taught him as v. 5. not to be ready to think evil of another 1 Cor. 13.1 2. and not to have triumph'd and rejoyced in my sin and made so many words of it and to aggravate it so highly Charity would have suggested this or the like Possibly through his the Priest and his Scribes neglect or mistake or the hand of the Clerk from whom hee received the Copy of that Letter being obscurely written there being not much difference between these two words own and am as they may be written might mislead both or either of them Or it may be a mistake of the Printer and the Priests over-sight in correcting Or if none of this could have pleaded my excuse to clear me from so great a crime as foul forgery he might have in reason considered me from his own condition before he became so singularly illuminated For I ask was he never in the time of his darkness and ignorance guilty indeed of forgery of which hereafter Or was it not because he had been so often criminous in such practises that hee so easily so readily and so confidently charges others I leave it to his light within him But to satisfie every honest person the truth is It is just so as I have set it down in the Copy of the Letter which I received from the hands of the Clerk who took the examination and that as plainly written as any words in the world which Master Dorney will acknowledge and which the Copy it self will justifie which I have to shew to all that desire it As for the Letter it self it was sent up to London to the Parliament and there continues And as Mr. Dorney said upon sight of the Copy it might be so as I have exprest it for ought hee knew in the original which whether it be or no in this case is not material I am clear I did not forge it and yet upon this base doth he build the great weight of his discourse charging and re-charging like a doughty Captain again and again in several places of his Pamphlet making this his great Achilles And so much in discharge of that great calumny which he makes so much use of And I wish him to consider whether hee did not willingly take it up as a matter to reproach mee when as probably hee might bee informed I followed my Copy For sure I am I have been divers times asked before the publication of his scurrilous Pamphlet how it was in my president or copy To which I gave satisfaction if he did it wilfully the Lord humble him and forgive him And whereas he saves page 9. that what I have publish'd in my Narrative p. 10 11. of the examination of Martha Simons is enough to prove mee my design and title and book to be a lie Surely he presumes highly upon the blindness ignorance or negligence of his Reader for it clearly demonstrates that Fox and his Crew were against Naylor and his and so that they were not all guided by one spirit or at best by that spirit which is the spirit of division which was part of the design and title of my book and so not a lie But that which sticks much in the Captains teeth and puts him to picking from page 11. of his Pamphlet to 24. is the Quakers confusion with which I charge them And truly I believe had he been left at large to choose his own testimonies and to have suborn'd and produc'd his own witnesses he would perhaps have pack'd his matter handsomer and more to his own purpose but being confin'd to my relation how miserably is he be-dabled and confounded in seeking confusion where it was not in my book The sum of all that matter is this for I could not bring you into every stinking corner of his discourse but help you to view it

the high dishonour of God in their unchristian principles and practises too well known and in prophaning the Sabbath by multitude of their Proselites flocking from all parts of the Country round about us upon that day But now so it is that one James Naylor a most eminent Ring-leader and head of that Faction hath lately appeared here among us more high than ever in horrid and open blasphemies expressy avowed and owned by his neerest followers as that hee is the onely begotten Son of God and that there is no other than hee that hee is the everlasting Son of righteousness and that in him the hopes of Israel stands that hee is the King of Israel and Prince of Peace and calling him Lord and Master saying his name shall bee no more called James but Jesus All which are no other than the natural issue of their Scripture-denying principles And now wee desiring to follow the Ductures of Divine Providence which hath brought their iniquitie to a height at such a time as this is when the Legistative power of the Nation is sitting in whom it is to provide wholesome and good lawes against the growing evils of the times wherein the Lord eminentlie in our apprehensions calls for your zeal for his glory Wee humbly make our applications to your Honours and with profession of our abhorrency and utter detestation of the damnable and blasphemous Doctrines of the Quakers which tend in their own nature to the utter ruine of the true Christian Religion and civil Government both in Cities families and all relations as would too soon appear had they power in their hands and who now not as heretofore tacitly and by way of implication but openly and expresly dishonour that sacred Name by which wee are called and trample upon that blood by which wee are justified by making others sharers with him in his incommunicable excellencies And do therefore humbly pray that your Honours would now take up the reines of Government into your hands which have too long lain loose in this particular and to curb the insolencies of all ungodly persons who in this or any other way do or may eclipse the glory of our Christian Profession by their unbridled and licentious liberties that so the reproach not only of this City but of the whole Nation and Government may bee rolled away And the glory of this work being acted by your hands might render your names worthy to bee enrolled amongst the number of those faithful Confessours to whom the honour of our dearest Lord hath been more precious than their lives and all worldly enjoyments And wee shall daily pray c. So that here you see George can make and feign an occasion to usher in his friendlie Letter in Naylors behalf and yet would not seem to own him this is not the first of Georges collusions and packing in this kinde I 'le but minde him of the like practise and that was about our Burgesses chosen for the Parliament 54. where having fram'd a Petition against the Election putting to the hands of several persons that knew not of it in a base and wicked way as was proved to the Lords of the Councel Besides this piece of knavery which was most gross their Petition presented to his Highness and his Councel with their Narrative of the proceedings in that Election petitioned that the parties nominated by them might bee approved and established And who were they but George himself for one as by their Narrative Art 5. appeareth Now when they thought to have surpriz'd us by short summons to appear before the Councel as one of their own party acknowledged afterwards and supposed wee would not appear or not provided which contrary to their expectation wee were having gotten Copies of their Petition and Narrative before hand and so were fitted accordingly when wee came to the hearing they had foisted in another Petition not that which was presented with their Narrative And in this second there was no Petition to confirm himself as the former with reference to the Narrative as aforesaid prayed And then George very finely with his guilt sword did not appear there as hee said for himself but for those honest men that were with him Seriously you would have smiled knowing of him how demurely and how simply honest hee did look Now this trick George wee took notice of but never told you of it till now having enough else to lay you then But now wee tell you of it that you may see wee know you better than you are aware of And that the world may know further what a one you are I 'le acquaint them with one thing more Do not you know who it was that a little before that Election said that wee must chuse such Parliament men as should hold my Lord Protectors nose to the grinde-stone And yet see how this lamentable creature doth glose and glaver and cog and fawn and flatter speaking against the very light within him And this is in their said Petitions which that you may see that base practise and the high conceits of himself and his party as the only Saints and fit for Quakers I 'le lay before you To his Highness Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. The humble Petition of divers free Burgesses and Inhabitants of the City and Councel of Bristol Sheweth THat your Petitioners and divers other Burge sles and Inhabitants of the City and Councel of Bristol viz. the generality of the godly faithful and constant friends to the Parliaments interest came to the place and at the time appointed by the Sheriffs for the chusing of Burgesses to sit in Parliament according to the qualifications in the instrument of Government supposing that those that had been faithful to the cause of God and the Nation should have received countenance and have been owned by those who were to execute your Highness Commands in a business of so great weight and concernment as the Election of Burgesses to sit in Parliament for the carrying on and securing the common interest of liberty contended for and brought through by the good hand of the Lord such Seas of Bloud and multitudes of other unspeakable sufferings and ruines of the Saints and good people of the Nations amongst whom that your Petitioners and their friends have borne no small share and proportion That contrariwise they found those who all along both in principle and practise have bitterly opposed the cause of God in the behalf of the late King and your Petitioners and other their friends from prosecuting the same countenanced and incouraged to avote and undertook by the Sheriffes to bee born out in so doing and your Petitioners with other friends with a very high hand affronted abused threatned and some of them though rightlie qualified denied to vote as by the Narrative of proceedings hereunto annexed more particularly may appear to which your Petitioners humbly refer your Highness as that which they own

in presence with the said King and every day with the said King at the Court there hee being there with the Queen of Bohemia and her two daughters to take their leave as they said of the King of Scots before hee went to Scotland That several Officers about thirty in number made a Petition to the said King to entertain them to fight for him against the Commonwealth of England by the name of barbarous and inhumane Rebels either in England or Scotland for the recovering of his just rights and re-instating him in his Throne and deputed this Informant and Colonel Drury to present the said Petition who indeed drew the same that when the Informant and some other Officers came to the Court at Breda intending to present the said Petition immediately to the Kings hand but finding the Lord Craven very neer to him likewise the Marquess of New-castle who presented his brother Sir Charles Cavendish to kiss the said Kings hand the evening before the said Kings departure who this Informant saw kiss the Kings hand accordingly The Lord Wilmot the Earl of Cleveland the Queen of Bohemia the Lord Gerrard c. and a great buttle of business This Informant with Colonel Drury applied themselves to the Lord Craven entreating him to present the Petition to the Queen of Bohemia to present it to the King of Scots The said Lord Craven taking the Petition and reading the same cheerfully said to Colonel Drury and this Informant there is the Queen of Bohemia deliver it to her and I will speak for you upon which they applyed themselves to the said Queen and shee presented the Petition after which the King of Scots the Lord Craven the Marquess of New-castle the Queen of Bohemia with some other Lords went into a with-drawing room where this Informant and company could not enter but the Lord Craven came forth of the with-drawing Chamber and told this Informant and company that they should receive an answer from the Queen of Bohemia to their Petition and that hee had spoken to the Queen of Bohemia in their behalf who afterward came and told this Informant and company that shee had delivered their Petition and that the King had taken order for it The next morning at three of the clock the King departed but this Informant and company had their quarters satisfied by the Princesse of Orange according to the said Kings Order upon their Petition and thereby to inable them to follow the said King in the prosecution of these wars against the Parliament of England which was the effect of their aforesaid Petition That this Informant saw the Lord Craven very often and familiar with the said King and enter with the said King into the with-drawing Chamber and staid there the last night the said King was at Breda very late Richard Faulconer To this were added these two following examinations Colonel Hugh Reyleys Examination Who saith THat during the late Treaty at Breda this Informant did oftentimes see my Lord Craven with the now King of Scots in his Bed-chamber and also walked abroad with him there being no man more conversant with the King than hee That the said Lord Craven during the said Treaty did twice go to Rotterdam and Dunhagh and back again being imployed as was commonly reported at Court there by the said King that the said Lord Craven had a charge from the King to look to one Mrs. Barlow who as is reported and he believes to bee true had a childe by the King of Scots born at Rotterdam which hee did and after the King was gone for Scotland the said Lord Craven took the childe from her for which shee went to Law with him and recovered the childe as is reported Hugh Reyley Captain Kitchingmans Examination Who saith THat the said Captain Thomas Kitchingman in April and May 1650. saw the Lord Craven several times with the King of Scots at Breda and waiting upon the said King several times at his Table at Breda This Informant also saw the Earle of Oxford at the same time with the King of Scots at Breda waiting upon the said King at his Table and saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford many times going into the withdrawing rooms after the said King This Informant also saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford in a Bowling-alley in Breda Castle with the said King Tho. Kitchingman In these two latter Examinations Reyl●ys was but report you see there was nothing that would render Lord Craven criminous But upon this his estate was ordered to bee confiscate and afterward sold and sold it was and is accordingly Of the endeavours of the Lord Cravens friends to prevent it and what was agitated in Parliament I shall not mention for that I refer the Reader to a printed piece entituled A true and perfect Narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven printed by R. White 1653. Now if this information of Faulconer bee the onely material testimony upon which the Lord Cravens estate was sequestred and that Faulconer in this information was perjured and forsworn and this bee a false information then this will clearly follow that there was indirect proceedings in some body in this business and that this information of Faulconers was and is false and hee perjured in it and forsworn appears by two most pregnant testimonies neither of them to be denied First by his legal tryal and conviction Secondly by his own confession on his death-bed For Faulconers tryal and conviction of perjury in and for this very information that appears by the Records thereof for the Lord Cravens friends prefer'd an Indictment of perjury against him in the County of Middlesex which Indictment was found against him one Sir Henry Blunt being foreman of the Jury Delayes were used to hinder Faulconers pleading to it notwithstanding the Prosecutors for the Lord Craven had procured a Habeas Corpus to bring him to the Bar to plead to the Indictment which hee failing they procure another Habeas Corpus hee yet gets further time and a peremptory day assigned by the Court or else Judgement to bee entred against him And the very last day when needs must and not before when the last roll was out hee pleaded not guilty Now Paulconer having pleaded not guilty a Jury is summoned Councel appear in the Vpper Bench at Westminster Mr. Maynard Mr. Hales Mr. Twisden Mr. Philips Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Drury for the Commonwealth and the Lord Craven Mr. Windham Mr. Letch Mr. Lechmore and Mr. Haggat of Councel for Faulconer where upon five hours debate the said Faulconer was found guilty of perjury in this very matter against the Lord Craven the whole proceedings whereof you have fully related in the Narrative before mentioned This tryall and conviction of Faulconer was May 20. 1653. Hereupon Faulconer was committed to the Upper Bench prison in Southwark where hee lay till hee died Now for the second evidence of Faulconers perjury in