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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	good_a	know_v	5,793	5	3.8366	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31499	Certaine observations upon the tryall of Leiut. Col. John Lilburne	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing C1715; ESTC R12622	13,558	20

the best of the Laws of England I mean the Petition of Right and others consonant to it and I thought I had a pretty competency of knowledge to preserve my own self But yet at my late Triall at Guild-Hall I found my ignorance was very great in divers essentiall things I ought to have known for my full and clear preservation according to the formalities or practick part of the Law but my good God by his speciall or miraculous over-ruling providence so judged by me having graciously delivered me out of that transcendent snare and setting my body as well as my soul at liberty I had immedidiately two things in my eye First whether it were better for me and more conducing to my own peace and happinesse to depart the nation seeing in the first year of Englands Liberty words and speeches are become Treason that thereby no man knowes well how to behave himself Or that I should resolve with all the understanding I could enjoy from God to rub it as wisely out in the land of my nativity as I could And truly Sir as for the first there was an impossibility upon me at the present in that I have now been above nine years in pursuit from your House for my Star-chamber reparations in the following of which I do with safety aver it I have really spent almost 2000.l and yet am not much the nearer then I was the first day I begun because that which was in part first and most justly assigned me out of the Lord Cottrington's and Sir Francis Windebank's Estates the two Houses gave away to the Lord Sey and otherwayes disposed of and then by severall Votes and an Ordinance fixed my reparations totally upon the Lord Coventry's estate which in my eye was very just in regard he was my chiefest unjust Judge in both my Star-chamber bloudy Sentences But truly Sir to deal ingeniously with you I was then informed by a Member of your House that your self was then one of the principall instruments to get it after my Ordinance had past once or twice in your House off from my Lord Coventry out of fear of the future danger of the president of it and yet I must confesse that the same party and my own knowledge told me you were not a little active to get it fixed upon some Delinquents estates as the States debt where I might be sure in the eye of reason in a very short time to have it and accordingly it was fixed upon the Estates of Sir Henry Bellingham Sir Henry Gibbs and Sir Thomas Bowes lying in the County of Durham whose estates in Land in good times at wrack'd Rent amounted to about 900.l per annum and Sir Henry Gibbs his Wood in Bransburth Park whcih was commonly in that County accounted his and much of it sold by his appointment and for his use and which Wood was the principall security that I had in my eye for my 3000. l. without which I should never freely have given my consent to have left my Lord Coventry and acquiesced in that security of Delinquents Lands and which I was enabled by your House to fell and sell to make up my mony speedily though the House of Lords were pleased to restrain me from felling any more Timber-trees and only tyed me to make my best of that which was already felled which at my first journey to Durham upon the place was told me to be worth betwixt 1000 and 2000 l. but before the second time I could get down into the Country to take possession of it old Sir Henry Vane one of my Star-Chamber-Judges who in Law and equity ought to be one of my repairers had by an Order out of the Exchequer seized upon it all as his pretended right so that thereby I was deprived of the greatest part of my security that I rested upon for my 3000. l. And afterwards the Committee of Durham sold for me as many of Sir Thomas Bowes his Coals and Iron to Sir Arthur Haslerigge as he paid me 400.l for and put me in possession of the Land and by vertue thereof I received in rents above 100.l more so that there remained about 24 or 2500 l. behinde and upon my last imprisonment in March last Sir Arthur as also Colonell George Fenwick told my father c. I was a Traitor and he would seize upon my estate and did so accordingly and compounded with Sir Henry Bellingham and Sir Thomas Bowes whose estates should have paid me proportionable to my remaining security about 1600 l. as a favourite of his said to be Mr. Cuthbert Siddenham the Independent Minister of Newcastle in a late Book against me in his 8. Page tels me for 402. l. And also stopt the rents of Sir Henry Gibbs his lands for a whole year together so that my all is destroyed by him c. For want of which I can neither travell nor well follow any trade to get a bit of bread for the subsistance of my family And then Sir in the second place being I am thereby nolens volens compelled to live in England I confesse in reason and prudence it is not safe for me here to abide having so many potent and malicious adversaries as I have without the attaining to the knowledge of all the formalities punctillioes and niceties of the practick part of the Law that study and unwearied industry can furnish me with that so if ever malice lay hold of me again I may be my own Counsellour and Lawyer and stand in need of the help of no others especially considering at my late Triall at Guild-Hall I was denied all those priviledges that are an Englishmans right and ought to be the means of his preservation in the day of his triall and which priviledges of the help of Counsell c. was granted to the Earl of Strafford Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Macguire called the grand Irish-Rebel and Duke Hammilton and which was granted to my self by the Cavalier Judges at Oxford as my right by Law and which was granted by some of the present Judges to Major Rolph the last year in a most eminent manner when he was accused of the highest Treason that the letter of the Law of England ever knew And Sir knowing my own ignorance in the Latin and French tongue without the knowledge of which I cannot reade the practick part of the Law of England more is the pity and misery of the plain men of England I repaired to the Temple to some of my acquaintance and spoke with your self and severall other learned in the Law of England who all unanimiusly told me that neither I nor any other free Englishman could be denied admittance into the Temple if we desired to study the Law upon which I went to the Butler to enter my name and paid my entranoe money that being the instructions I received from those that for many years have been Students of that House and the Butler told me your Attourney-Generoll Mr. Prideaux