efflagitation

Some men knowing this to bee their prerogative, […] that their Wives are bound by Gods Law to submit to their manly spirits, and riper judgements, may perchance out of their earthlinesse, and intolerable worldly-mindednesse, […], take the advantage and unconscionablely stand off, and refuse to give their consents unto their wives pious efflagitations and intreaties.

This temper of solicitation, or more properly efflagitation, amongst his other qualifications, had greatly conduced to procure for him and his children some honourable and lucrative employments and reversions, […]