Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	2,817	4	5.6006	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44760	The trve informer who in the following discovrse or colloqvie discovereth unto the vvorld the chiefe causes of the sa[]d distempers in Great Britanny and Ireland / deduced from their originals ; and also a letter writ by Serjeant-Major Kirle to a friend at VVinsor.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Kirle, Robert.	1643 (1643)	Wing H3122A; ESTC R30343	38,453	46

Atheists than Christians to live in for God Almightie is here made the greatest Malignant in regard his House is plunder'd more than any There is no Court left to reforme Heresie no Court to punish any Church Officer and to make him attend his Cure no Court to punish Fornication Adulterie or Incest Me thinkes I hear Her crie out against these her Grand Reformers or Refiners rather that they have put division 'twixt all degrees of persons They have put division 'twixt husband and wife 'twixt mother and childe the son seekes his fathers bloud in open field one brother seekes to cut the others throat they have put division 'twixt Master and Servant 'twixt Land-lord and Tenant nay they have a long time put a sea of separation 'twixt King and Queen and they labour more and more to put division 'twixt the Head and the Members 'twixt his Majestie and his politicall Spouse his Kingdom and lastly they have plung'd one of the flourishingst Kingdomes of Europe in a War without end for though a Peace may be plaster'd over for the time I fear it wil be but like a fire cover'd with ashes which will break out again as long as these fierie Schismatickes have any strength in this Island so that all the premisses considered if Turke or Tartar or all the infernall spirits and Cacodaemons of Hell had broken in amongst us they could not have done poor England more mischiefe Sir I pray excuse this homely imperfect relation I have a thousand things more to impart unto you when we may breathe freer aire for here we are come to that slaverie that one is in danger to have his very thoughts plundered therefore if you please to accept of my companie I will over with you by Gods helpe as soon as it may stand with your conveniencie but you must not discover me to be an Englishman abroad for so I may be jear'd at and kickt in the streets I will go under another name and am fix'd in this resolution never to breathe English aire again untill the King recovers his Scepter and the People their Senses A Letter writ by Sergeant-Major KIRLE to a Friend at Windsor Sir YOu were pleased to command a constant account from me as the onely requitall you would receive for admitting me an Officer in the Parliament Armie and though divers things have come from us which have been either doubted or contradicted and seem to have no other credit than the Close Committee yet what I am now about to tell you shall run none of those dangers but that with a great deal of confidence you may report both in publique to the House and in private ●o my friends that I am now at Oxford nor shall your wonder last long for by that time I have declared upon what grounds at first I undertook that service and upon what reasons I have since deserted it I shall without doubt where there is Charitie or Reason free my selfe from the imputation of dishonour and undeceive others that are as I was seduced About the time these distempers began here I returned from serving the Swede in Germanie and the States of Holland in both which Countries I cannot without vanitie say I did nothing to the dishonour of mine own as this absence made me ignorant of the condition of the Kingdom so it rendred me more inclinable to receive an imployment from the Parliament for though neither my youth nor this profession are curious after the affaires of State yet so common were the grievances in that unhappy conjuncture of time when I went abroad that I retain'd the same impressions in me at my comming home especially when I saw the complaints remain but did not know that the Causes were taken away thus possessed with prejudice it was no hard thing for me to believe that the pretences of War in themso specious and the imployment therein to be full of Honour Justice and Pietie and that there needed not the importunitie of my nearest friends or an argument from the necessitie their former severitie had cast upon me nor an invitation from your selfe to seek for the preferferment you speedily procured me How I behaved my selse while I was of your mind and in that service will be best judged by those that know that from a Lieutenant I was soone preferred to be Captaine of a Troop raised to my hand and shortly after to be Sergeant-Major to the Earle of Stamfords Regiment of Horse what prisoners I took what contribution I brought in what places and Townes I secured appeares by the testimony given of me and the thankes I received from you It is not therefore necessity has made me leave you to goe to the King from whom you have taken not only His revenues which should give Him bread but the benevolences as far as in you lies of His people that should maintaine His Army It is not ambition to forsake a certaine benefit for an uncertaine imployment and in justice as doubtfull a pardon it is not malice for any particular neglect or injury for I must confesse no man received greater kindnesse from his superiour Officers or more ample thankes from your selves then I have done no civill humane respect but a perfect discoverie of those false lights that have hitherto misled me and the deepe apprehension of the horrour which attends the persevering in such errours I must confesse though you would little thinke it that Master Sedgwicke Chaplaine to that Regiment first opened my eyes and moved me to that reflection upon my self which set me since in the right way not by his perswasions or conversion for I can assure you you may still confide in him but by the Spirit not that pretended to of meeknesse and peace but of fury and madnesse he revealed the mystery of this war and in his inspired rage brake the shell Religion safety of the King Libertie and proprietie and shewed us the kernell Atheisme Anarchie Arbitrary government and confusion what was meant else by his sawcie and impertinent talking to God Almightie whom he seemed rather to command than intreat what was meant else by his traducing the King and cursing him while he seemed to pray for him and presently with a tone as gentle as his language magnifie the Worthies the Estates assembled in Parliament what was meant else by incouraging violence and sharing in things plundered nor had one man given me a just prejudice of the cause but that I saw the whole lump of these pseudo clergie seasoned with the same leaven who hate and so instruct the people an innocent ceremony but thirst after blood who abhorre learning and Bishops but adore ignorance and division who while they are severe and therein they doe well against drunkennesse and adultery they make robbery rebellion sacriledge and murder become vertues because they are in order to effect their designes and truly I had not trusted my eares if the same and much more had not beene confirmed by my