Selected quad for the lemma: daughter_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
daughter_n	henry_n	king_n	mary_n	6,135	5	9.0678	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54680	The ancient, legal, fundamental, and necessary rights of courts of justice, in their writs of capias, arrests, and process of outlary and the illegality ... which may arrive to the people of England, by the proposals tendred to His Majesty and the High Court of Parliament for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of justice, and the establishing of a new, by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt / by Fabian Philipps, Esq.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1676 (1676)	Wing P2002; ESTC R3717	157,858	399

ends of Justice and those that seek it as it verifies and gives us the benefit and right use of that moderation and care of our Laws in that rule and maxime of it to threaten more then execute ut metus ad omnes poena ad pauco● that the punishment of a few may operate as much as if all did partake thereof the affright being most commonly that which makes the suffering to be so disproportionate and less then what was necessarily or otherwise threatned For if four thousand Writs of Exigent be awarded and issued out of the Court of Common Pleas in the year 1674. which is very near an exact accompt taken thereof not much above one thousand of them do come to be returned filed or outlawed But the residue and those very many which are not are either stayed by Agreements or Retraxits and Complyance betwixt the Attorneys or in order to appearances upon new Originals without returning and filing the Writs of Exigent And may be taken to be no fancied Calculation when the number of all the Capias utlegatums special or general made by the Clark of the Outlaries in the year 1674. were no more then 1034. the Outlaries reversed no more then 27. And the Outlaries certified into the Exchequer no more then sixteen And all the Prisoners that were for Debt and other actions not Criminal in the Prison of the Kings Bench being the greatest in England and Wales either in the Prison or the Rules or abroad by Writs of Habeas Corpus the third day of May 1653. were under the hand of Sir John Lenthal Knight Marshal of the Court of Kings Bench with the several times of their Commitments certified upon the special order and command of the then miscalled Parliament to be no more then three hundred ninety one of which there appears to have been committed in the year 1616 but one In the year 1631-one In the year 1633 one In the year 1636 one In the year 1637-one In the year 1638-one In the year 1639-one In the year 1640 nine In the year 1641 five In the year 1642 two In the year 1643 three In the year 1644 four In the year 1645 seven In the year 1646 fourteen In the year 1647 fiveteen In the year 1648 twelve In the year 1649 fourty-six In the year 1650 thirty-two In the year 1651-fourty-one In the year 1652 one hundred thirty And in the year 1653 fourteen And it must needs then be a wonder and none of the smaller sort or size of wonders how or upon what ground cause or reason that so very ancient rational legal necessary and useful way of Capias Proces and Outlary derived and deduced from the Laws of God Nature and Nations should either deserve or come into so ill an opinion with some of the People or that it should be called or understood to be an Illegal Iron sharp and cruel Law a Tyranny thraldom mischief slavery lamentable bondage terror and sorrow of heart and utter ruin● of the free born People of this Nation founded upon a misconstruction and inadvertency of the genuine sense of the Common Law it self and contrary to thirty Acts of Parliament made in Confirmation of Magna Charta or should be repealed by the Act of Parliament made in the 28th year of the Reign of King E. 3. ca. 3. and by the Statute of 42. E. 3. 〈◊〉 3. Or should now in its old age have no better a title then a grievance and those unjust Rabsheka railing reproaches when it hath been helpful to multitudes of men in several Ages cast upon it CHAP. X. The way of Capias and Arrest is no oppression or Tyranny exercised upon the People since the making of the Statute of 25 E. 3. ca. 17. or hath been hitherto or may be destructive to their liberties WHen as Tyranny in the known and general definition and understanding of it is a cruelty or power executed by one or more at pleasure contrary to Laws Divine and Humane and inconsistent with the Laws of that Place or Country wherein it is exercised For Laws do or at the least should intend to prohibit things unjust and to order things good and useful for that People and Nation unto which they are applied The intent of a virtuous and good Lawmaker being as Aristotle saith To make the People good and conduct them to virtue Or how it can be called Tyranny when it is no less then right reason which should be the Parent and Director of all Justice when as God himself the most just and rational Law-giver the Watch-man of Israel and the Keeper of the liberties thereof that gave unto Mankind a reasonable Soul and that great blessing of reason which is the Divini luminis radius A beam or ray of his own Excellency did in the Laws which he gave to Moses when he talked with him enact and ordain That if a man shall deliver unto his Neighbour money or stuff to keep and it be stoln and the Thief be not found the Master of the house shall be brought unto the Judges to see whether he hath put his hands upon his Neighbours Goods which was nothing less then an Arrest The Law of Nature that giveth every man leave and enjoyneth them to work rather then to be idle and want allows them not to hinder publick good or disturb the Rules of Civil Society and work within the City of London or the Liberties thereof if they be not thereunto authorized as Free-men of the said City or was it an oppression by an Act of Parliament as King Edward the 3. did in the 25th year of his Reign to limit Artificers Labourers and Servants wages or as Queen Elizabeth did by an Act of Parliament yet in force and unrepealed made in the 5th year of her Reign or when King Henry the 8th did limit the price of Victuals and Houshold Provisions by an Act of Parliament made in the 25th year of his Reign or an oppression of the People by Sumptuary Laws for Apparel made in his Reign and of his Daughter Queen Mary's which otherwise in a private man according to the bent and rules of Nature giving every one a liberty In rebus licitis non prohibitis in thing lawful not sinful and consistent with the Laws of publick good and Civil Society would have been within the freedom and dispose of his own will Neither do the People of Spain and Italy in their submission to a Banda or Rate imposed upon the Sellers of Victuals and Houshold Provisions or the Natives of France Spain and the elective Kingdom of Sweden think themselves to be too much or any thing at all abridged of their natural liberty by yielding for publick good a just obedience to their Sumptuary Laws lately made and ordained For there is no Law extant of this Nation so made but the Subjects might chuse to incur the penalty or hardship of it or if they should happen to be too severe or unfit