Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	england_n	rome_n	5,202	5	6.8819	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53097	Captain Charles Newy's case impartially laid open, or, A true and full narrative of the clandestine proceedings aginst [sic] him as it was hatched, contrived, and maliciously carried on by Mrs. Margaret Newey, widdow.	Newey, Charles.	1700 (1700)	Wing N917; ESTC R42213	29,009	19

me who fetcht him out of the Savoy to the hazard of my Life and made him deny that and return what Money he had got to pursue that Trade which was not denyed by my Brother before his Neighbours or disown'd now by my Enemies tho' not in full This with my being told that my Sister design'd to charge me with some such thing induced me to go with the aforesaid Jones before Justice Ellis not as a Prosecutor which I protested against but to clear my self of what she might lay Maliciously to my Charge In fine she was admitted to Bail and the said Jones for want of Sureties was Committed to Newgate who if he had been suborned by me or any other Person would then have declar'd it purely that he might not have gone to Prison In which he was a Month before he could be wrought upon by my Enemies as he himself acknowledged to Swear that I was to give him 10 Guineas to Swear against my Sister and the aforesaid Hannah Goodridge which he the sooner did because that his intended Escape out of Prison was discovered and he for the same put into the Hole with Notice that I was a Prisoner in the Press-Yard and that I would certainly be Hanged and that he had no way to save his Life but by making himself an Evidence against me which Honest Mr Allen the famous Sub-Ordinary of Newgate perswaded him to telling him that he with the rest of the World believed him Perjured For Mrs. Newey was a good Woman and to be his Wife and if he would Write a discovery to the Lord Mayor and Recorder he would carry it which Office my Reader will find Honest Mr. Allen did But neither that or any thing else would the said Allen do without a Bribe But that you may be more particularly acquainted with his Honesty and the Transactions of his Life I only desire all Mankind to satisfy themselves how this pretended Priest behaved himself in the Colledge of Dublin and how he left it how he came to abandon that Kingdom and whether he has not a Wife there how he came to fly into Italy and what Religion he there professed seeing he was forced there to Live upon the Charity of others as may appear by his Poverty before he became the Ordinary of Newgate and what Trickes he play'd before he had it for a Maintenance What Cheats he hath from time to time fixed on the poor Prisoners of Newgate But to conclude with that which is most Notorious the said Allen went to one Capt. Riggby now a Prisoner in the Press-Yard and desired him to put into his Hands what Mony he design'd to leave the Poor he the said Capt. Riggby being at that time very Sick replyed that he had already dispos'd of his Charity to the Poor of the Parish but seeing he was disappointed that way he Begg'd the said Captains Morning Gown considering it better to play at a small Game than stand out But to let my Reader know what a famous Pillar of the Church of England Mr. Allen is pray satisfy your self whether he did not inform on Mr. Tooley who was afterwards Hang'd in Chains on Finchley-Common for some notorious Crime whether he did not I say inform the said Tooley and Preach'd the same Doctrin in his Pulpit to the Prisoners of Newgate on the 21 of April Last that it would not be asked them in another World what Religion they professed here but what good they had done now if this famous Doctors Opinion be True as certainly it is not then it is no matter of what Religion or Profession so ever a Man be of And if so then farewel the Church of England which by his conclusion is no better then the Church of Rome These with many other Crimes of the like nature the said Allen is daily Guilty of But for my part I judge him not worth my Trouble so leave him to the result of better Penns to display him in his own Colours and return to prosecute my former matter Jones whom before I gave you some account of had Linnen and 10 s. at a time sent him which can be proved before he could be brought to Unswear what he had already Sworn which if they would have produced in Court would have been the clearest Evidence for me But I could not get what he unswore before Justice Ellis at the Dog Tavern and charg'd me with till of late and then not intire Oh! that I were but capable of comparing Evidences times place and Persons I should then find such a Latitude for Exceptions Distinctions Evasions and Interpretations as authentickly would serve to clear up the whole matter so much allowance for not knowing what an Oath mean'd and pretext of surprises slips of Memory and upon the whole so strong a prepossession in favour of my Enemies and against every thing that could be said for me My Prosecutors would have been believed without opening their Mouths specially in a time when Oathes are grown as cheap as stinking Mackarel and the common People as ready to give Credit to false reports as Tinder is to take Fire at the least Spark There can be little said to Invallidate a positive Oath for the King the matter will be this That True or False Credible or Incredible Possible or Impossible it comes all to one point But I hope it will appear that my Sister's Malice is to me as if so many Rogues in Red-coates should Robb the Kings Chappel and cry the Guards did it The Fact with which I am charg'd lyes all open to every individual Person done or not done is the question how then can any man believe that I endeavoured to Hang my Brother when the thing for which he was Indicted was but a breach of trust or how can any Man believe that I gave 10 Guineas to a Villain that never was master of one or that could not be trusted to fetch six penney worth of Turnips by any but a Mad Man and all this to prove a thing of which I wanted no proof having Witnesses sufficient for any C that had not resolv'd upon my Ruin or how can any man disbelieve what has been falsly reported of me without the utmost abhorrence of the practises and indeed of the practisers too If found at last to be most notoriously False or that their monstrous Snake in the Grass should be found but a Glow-worm Edward Jones own'd in Court that he had perjur'd himself before Sr. Robert Jefferies by the Name of Ambrell tho' his Name was Clement and that he was brib'd and not only promis'd his Liberty as a reward of his Perjury but a summ of Money appears in some Measure to be Promised him likewise as by his own Letter to me may more fully appear Here is the Copy of the Letter it self Honoured Sr. I Intend to Morrow to send a Letter to the Warden of the Mint to acquaint him how by under hand dealings they would