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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	night_n	time_n	11,545	5	3.7585	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00646	The compters common-wealth, or A voiage made to an infernall iland long since discouered by many captaines, seafaring-men, gentlemen, marchants, and other tradesmen but the conditions, natures, and qualities of the people there inhabiting, and of those that trafficke with them, were neuer so truly expressed or liuely set foorth as by William Fennor His Maiesties servant.	Fennor, William.	1617 (1617)	STC 10781; ESTC S102012	60,732	92

They haue other tricks as bad as these as for example when they haue arrested any man either vpō an execution or action if any Gentleman or Tradsman or of what fashion so ere he be by chance do but iustle them as they are bringing their prisoner to the Compter for if they call them by their right names Varlets they without warrant or any authority from some Superiour power as Iustice or Constable but by the vertue of their owne office will carry him to prison and either lay my Lord Maiors command on him or clap some heauy action on him that except he haue good friends or a fat purse to compound with them he may lie and rot there for all them * I know a poore man that did but offer to rescue his friend was clapt vp by them and could neuer get free from them while hee was worth a tester and if the Iudge before whom hee was bail'd had not beene more pitifull then they were conscionable he had beene in prison all his life time If any man they arrest in his struggling to make an escape from them chance to hit any of them either on the legs face or brest so that they haue no hurt at all they will gripe beat and pinch the poore man so miserably that hee shall not bee able to lift his arme to his head and then enter an action of battery against him which will more vex and disturbe him then all the rest I my selfe haue beene eye-witnesse of the like for in the beginning of August 1616. they arrested a poore Seruing-man who had an action entered against him by them because hee offered to make an escape from them and when he had all his other actions withdrawn he could by no meanes get free from them they were so vnreasonable in compounding with him that hee tooke a strong conceit and the nineteenth of the same month ended his life Thus haue I portrayed foorth in my freshest cullours the abuses and wrongs his Maiesties subiects daily sustaine by these Sargeants for which they can haue little or no remedy and as well as I could waded through the third arme that paies tribute to the Maine Ocean the Compter Now will I proceede to the fourth and last CHAP. VII Containing 1. The nature of a Constables office 2. An obiection concerning the abnses his Maiesties subiects suffer by Beadles and Watch-men that vnderstand not the vertue of their office 3. And lastly an answer in their defence REason the Soule of Law and Law the life of a Common-wealth should shine and be tralucent in those that beare the office of a Constable for hee being the Kings Deputy for the night is the King of the night therfore being so he should impartially with his staffe which representeth Iustice beate downe disorder and defend Equity Peace and Innocence but there are many Constables in these dayes that through their ownenegligence not wilfulnesse doe contrary to the nature of their office for very often the Beadle and Watch-men in his absence commit that which the Constable himselfe is much blam'd for who vnder the pretence of seeing good order kept as I haue heard are the first that breed disorder but for mine owne part I neuer was eye-witnesse of any of their misdemeanours but onely as I haue heard it reported therefore I dare nor will goe no further then truth doth guide me For first I should wrong that worthy office in relating what I haue no probability for and secondly my selfe in making my selfe a dishonest man in print Why Sir said I I haue often heard it reported that the Beadles and Watch-men are in fee with the Keepers of both the Compters and that for euery man they commit they receine a groat and therefore onely for gaine will vpon any light or slight fault carry any man that comes in their way to prison or if any man fee them they will if he be neuer so drunke vnruly or disordered conuay him to his lodging or otherwise if hee bee vnfurnisht conuay him to one of the Compters And to mine owne knowledge I haue knowne a Beadle committed to the Gatehouse for committing a Noblemans seruant who went vpon speciall busines for the Lord his Master therefore if he had not first wronged this Gentleman and secondly the force and nature of his Office why should he being an Officer be committed for his misdemeanour Againe I haue seene many men come into prison since I came hither that haue been extreamly hackt and maimed with their halberds which in my opinion they cannot answer for though they haue authority to commit they haue none to kill or wound therefore in my iudgement these abuses are vnsufferable and onely are vpholden by their Head the Constable Sir said he you must vnderstand that a Constable is but an Iland brooke that paies but small tribute to the Ocean the Compter he is but causa accidentalis an accidentall cause and by chance fattens the grosse and vast body of it for after his watch is set hee is bound by oath to performe his office both for the discharge of his owne conscience and the good of his Prince and Countrey in which duty euery good subiect is bound in duty to assist him For a Constable is the preseruer of peace the attacher of vice and the Intelligencer of iniuries and hath as strong and forcible power to commit Offendors in the night as any Iustice of peace hath in the day nay if any Lord Knight or Gentleman of what degree or fashion soeuer he bee comming in the night-time through the watch in an vnruly fashion is as subiect to his command and authority as the poorest subiect that walkes the streetes and if hee should not sometimes nay many times clappe vp such personages they would be thought very slacke in their office and not worthy of that authoritie and power the King hath giuen them for many men though they haue braue outsides may commit or act as great or more heinous mischiefe then those that are of a poore ranke for if the Constable should not stand Centinell how many men would beerob'd in the space of one weeke nay of one night which by his industry and care hee preserues But here it is obiected that the Beadle and Watchmen haue for euery man they commit a groat whether it be true or false I neuer could confidently speake of if they haue it is fit that for so many nights as they sit vp for the good of the Commonwealth they should haue something allowed and who is the fittest to allow it but such as haue offended and they haue beene troubled with the night before Againe you say they will commit such as haue no mony to giue them though it be vpon a sleight occasion and let such passe though their fault bee neuer so heynous so they will grease them in the fist This obiection I will thus answer if this abuse is offered it cannot enter into my