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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	church_n	civil_a	magistrate_n	1,328	5	8.0220	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34836	Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c.	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.; Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.; Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6697; ESTC R35660	25,788	40

proposed to the Sole Power of granting Licences and Indulgences for Liberty of Conscience within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick may be vested in the Persons under named for the Term of seven years under the Farm Rent of an hundred Thousand Pounds per Annum to Commence from the twenty fifth day of March next under such Rates and Qualifications as are hereafter specified The Names of the Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience proposed on Monday March 2. 1662. being the day of a private Fast kept by Mr. Calamy Mr. Baxter and others at Mr. Beal's house near my Lord of Ely's Chappel in Holborn Mr. Edmund Calamy Mr. Titham late of Colchester Mr. Philip Nye Mr. Feak Mr. Stanley of Dorchester George Fox Executor of the last Will and Testament of James Nailor deceased Doctor Lazarus Seaman Mr. Dell late of Cambridge Doctor Owen Mr. Bryan late of Coventry Mr. Matthew Mead. Mr. John Coppin Dr. Manton Mr. Kiffen The Executor of Mr. Venner lately executed Mr. Thomas Case Mr. Reynor late of Lincoln Mr. Ralph Venning Mr. Rogers Mr. Benn late of Dorchester Mr. George Griffith late of Charterhouse The Executor of Hugh Peters lately executed Mr. George Newton late of Taunton Mr. Dan. Dyke late of Hertfordshire Mr. William Jenkins Mr. Fisher late of Kent Doctor Thomas Goodwin Mr. Hammond late of New-castle Mr. Peter Sterry Mr. Bridges late of Yarmouth Mr. Joseph Carryll Mr. Tombes late of Lemster Mr. Leegh late of Lumbard-street Mr. Mayo late of Kingston Mr. Joshua Sprigg Mr. Henry Jessey Mr. Newcomen of Dedham in Essex Doctor Tuckney of Cambridge Doctor Cornelius Burges Mr. Zachary Crofton Doctor Holmes Mr. John Cann Mr. Thomas Brooks That the Persons aforesaid may be constituted Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick and may be impowred to set up one publick Office within the City of London and to nominate and elect a convenient number of Registers Clerks and other Officers And for the more certainty of all Certificates to be granted as is hereafter appointed the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may forme a common Seal to be known and called by the common name of The publick Seal of the Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience engraven An Ass without Ears Braying with this Motto encircled Stat pro ratione Libertas And the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or any twenty four of them in the said Office assembled may from time to time compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience with any Person or Persons under such Rates and Qualifications as are hereafter specified That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or any twenty four of them may constitute and appoint under the Publick Seal of the Office Sub Commissioners and other Officers for every County within the said Kingdom not exceeding the number of twelve for each County whereof seven to be a Quorum who may compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience with any person or persons Select Congregations Cities Towns Corporate Parishes Hamlets and Villages by the great or otherwise within their respective Countries not exceeding the Rates hereafter mentioned Rates to be observed in all Compositions for Liberty of Conscience Per Annum A Presbyterian Minister 500 A Ruling Elder 400 A Deacon 300 A Hearer Male or Female in Fellowship to all Ordinances 200 A Common Hearer only 100 An Independant Pastor 5 A Teaching Elder 400 A Helper in Government 300 A Deacon 300 A Hearer Male or Female in Fellowship to all Ordinances 200 A common Hearer only 100 A Baptist admitted to the Administration of all Ordinances 500 A preaching Assistant 400 An Elder in Office 300 A Deacon 200 A Hearer in Fellowship Male or Female to all Ordinances 200 A common Hearer only 100 A Fifth Monarcher admitted to hold forth 500 An Elder under the same Administration 300 A Deacon under the same Administration 300 A Hearer Male or Female in Fellowship according to the value of his or her Estate 2 s. per l. per annum A common Hearer male or female according to the value of his or her Estate 12 d. per l. per annum A speaking male Quaker 400 A speaking female Quaker 300 A common Quaker male or Female 200 A Confessor 600 A Seminary of Mass-Priest at large 500 A private Mass-priest 400 A Roman Catholick in any other Order 300 A Roman Catholick not in order Male or Female 100 An Officer under any Administration not mentioned in the Rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand Conformable to the Church of England 500 A common person under any Administration not mentioned in the Rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand Conformable to the Church of England 200 An Officer under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 1000 A private person under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 500 Rates to be observed in compounding for Liberty of Conscience in the Particulars following viz. FOR Liberty to assert the Pope's Supremacy 1000 For Liberty to write speak or preach against the Government as they shall be inwardly moved 500 For Liberty to keep on their Hats before Magistrates or in Courts of Judicature 200 For Liberty to rail publickly against the Bishops and Common-Prayer 100 For Liberty to refuse all manner of Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or in Cases Civil or Criminal 200 For Liberty to deny Tithes and other Church Duties 100 For Liberty to expound the Revelations and the Book of Daniel 100 For liberty to disturb any Congregation after Sermon 0100 For Liberty to assert the Solemn League and Covenant 150 For liberty to instruct youth in the short Catechism set forth by the Assembly of Divines 0100 That any Person or Persons gifted for any the Particulars abovesaid may have Liberty therein either as an Itinerate in private or publick at the Rates abovesaid That no person or persons be admitted to compound for Liberty of Conscience untill he or they have first taken and subscribed to the Solemn Protestation following before the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or their Sub Commissioners respectively I A. B. do here solemnly protest That I judge my self still bound by the Solemn League and Covenant by the Engagement by private Church-Covenant or by any other Oath which I have taken ever since the Year 1641. And that so far as with Safety to my Person and Estate I may I will endeavour the utter Ertirpation of Episcopacy and to the utmost of my Power will abett and promote all Schism Faction and Discord both in Church and State according to the best form and manner prescribed and laid open in the Sermons of many of the Grand Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament appointed to be Printed and now called the Homilies