Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	master_n	pound_n	russia_n	18	3	16.0072	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41238	Sir George Sondes his plaine narrative to the vvorld, of all passages upon the death of his tvvo sonnes.	Feversham, George Sondes, Earl of, 1599-1677.	1655 (1655)	Wing F823B; ESTC R213731	40,869	42

nor ever gamed for more then I was indifferent whether I won or lost I never played for love of Money onely for company and recreation And I dare confidently say it my Sonnes were also free from those vices except Gaming I doe not thinke they did ever swear or whore My youngest could not indure Wine or strong drinke and my eldest but seldome drank it To that foolish sport of Cocking they were addicted but the youngest most as also to Carding He would play somewhat deep at those games but never at Dice I often chid him but could never break him of it My eldest had handsomely left both and was ready to hearken to his Fathers advice and I thinke was virtuously disposed I am confident all the world could not make him commit a known sinne He never failed Morning and Evening to betake him selfe to his private Devotions that I observed neither do I know any vice that he was inclined to he was of an affable milde and soft nature which won him the hearts of his friends and acquaintance but his Brother of a contrary pleasing and courteous to none but crosse-grain'd to all as much to his Father as any and I knew not how to break him of it I was in hope that yeares and discretion might in time have made him to leave it and so possibly it might had not envy to his Brothers vertues and growing goodnesse thrust him upon that divellish fact which caused him most deservedly to be cut off by a shamefull death before he was come to the age of twenty yeares This is all I shall say for the Education of my Children I am sure night and day my care and my prayers has been for them More then I did I know not what to doe Many a Father who hath not been at halfe that care and cost I have been have had their Children doe much better could not doe worse But Gods will be done Many are made to believe that I kept the youngest very short of maintenance To that I shall say nothing here but what Master Boreman a Reverend and grave Divine had from his owne mouth and is ready to testifie That Gentleman who was with my Son Freeman to the last once put the question to him what maintenance his Father allowed him he answered I never asked any thing of my Father but I had it Indeed he might well say so for I ever gave them not onely when but commonly before they asked and then not bread for stones but usually better and more then they desired To the Charge about the younger Brothers To that of my younger Brothers by a second venter I say I did more for them then their Father either would or could have done had he lived I took the same care for them in their Education as if they had been my owne if they will not make good use of it when they come to age it is their owne fault not mine When my Father setled an Estate on me upon my Marriage he reserved at least one thousand pounds a yeare to raise Portions for his younger Children But before his death this was sold away and he was indebted beside neer four thousand pounds He had a Sister and another Son my whole Brother to whom he left nothing All his Estate and goods apprised amounted not to above a thousand pounds Yet I administred and paid all his Debts there was not any could justly demand a farthing Indeed I took some time to doe it but at last paid all which cost me three thousand pounds more then his goods were apprised at To my Fathers Sister during her life I gave her dyet with me and fifty pounds a year out of my own Estate and to my Brother who was a Student in the Law I gave one hundred pounds a year as long as he lived out of my owne Estate likewise My halfe brothers were thus provided for The eldest who was then a Man growne I sent to travaile and allowed him one hundred pound a yeare I am sure he never before spent my Father twenty pounds a yeare The second having something of a Scholler I sent with Letters of recommendation to Leiden to study Physick The third had a minde to be a Souldier in the Low-Countries thither I sent him and I furnished him with money to buy places of preferment as they fell and he is now a Captaine or a Major The fourth I put Apprentice to my Father in law a Merchant who loved him dearely and would have done much for him Before he dyed he run his Master fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds out of Cash and spent it and I am almost forced to pay it for him The fift I bound to a Russia Merchant and gave with him two hundred pounds During his Masters life he was imployed in Russia and after his Masters death returned but I sent him thither againe and to incourage him adventured two or three hundred pounds with him which he fairely spent then betook himself to other courses The sixt I bound Apprentice to a Wollen Draper in Pauls Church-yard and gave one hundred and twenty pounds with him He served out his time and was a Journey-man a while and had thirty pounds a yeare of his Master and twenty of me But he soon grew weary of his imployment and running into his Masters debt was forced to leave the Towne and then to mend the matter unfortunately Marryed The seventh was a Daughter to whom I allowed for her maintenance forty pounds a yeare and offered upon a convenient match to have given five hundred pounds Portion with her but she when I was Sequestred and in Prison before I ever knew any thing of it marryed her selfe to one of the Sequestrators of my Estate who is now he comes to live upon his owne worth I think but little This is a true relation of what I did for my halfe-Brothers and Sister which I think is not much amisse And I still continue to every one of them though they have not made good use of the courses they were put in an allowance of thirty pounds a yeare out of their Mothers Estate if they will take no course any wayes to help themselves and better their Fortunes the blame is not mine I am sure had I not used all the friends and interest I had and disbursed a good summe of money too a Courtier had begg'd their Mother being a Lunatick and then there had been nothing at all to maintaine them What their Mother doth not spend they have and shall have fairely distributed among them after her decease In the meane time they shall doe well to look out for some additionall subsistance for the divident will not be much And thus I have given you an account of the Education and maintenance of my halfe Brothers There is much fault found with me because I denyed to lend my third Brother a Summe of money about one hundred pounds which he lately writ to me