Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	master_n	servant_n	6,134	5	7.3996	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65882	Proposals for subscriptions of money, &c. the ensuing proposals having the 19th of May last been reported to the Right Honorable Sir William Hooker, Lord Major ... of London, the aldermen and commons of the same city in Common Council assembled ... they have thought fit to order the same to be printed and published in their names ...	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712.	1674 (1674)	Wing W195; ESTC R16339	6,424	12

of G. H. he will be thereby ascertained either to receive a more considerable Annuity for his twenty pounds than is paid to G. H. if he continue to live long or if G. H. die then the fifty pounds per annum ceasing he will thereby become gainer but without such Means as are hereby proposed E.F. hath no opportunity of reaping of any such Benefit as may arise by advancing twenty pounds upon the same Life 17. Masters and Mistresses of Men and Maid-servants may have a good opportunity by this means to reward and prefer their Servants and to encourage them to be more faithful in the performance of their duties by advancing Twenty pounds in their Names always reserving the Annuity to themselves during their own Lives if they please and when they come to die then to leave the same for a Legacy to their Servant if they shall find it expedient or to dispose thereof to any other if the Servant prove undeserving 18. All Persons charitably inclined may advance twenty pounds in the Name of some Person of a temperate and sober Conversation and give the Annuity thereof to such pious and charitable Uses as are most agreeable to his intention which may in some years amount to a greater Annuity than the twenty pounds advanced whereby much good may be done in placing forth poor Children and relieving aged and impotent poor Orphans and poor Scholars 19. The Nobility and Gentry and other Persons may save out of their superfluous expences several Sums of Twenty pounds to be advanced in the Name of their younger Children by which means the longer they live the better they will be provided for and against the time of their Age of twenty one years they may enjoy a considerable Annuity and that raised insensibly for them without hazard charge or trouble 20. All such Person or Persons as would convert his her or their Annuities into ready Moneys may do the same by disposing thereof at so many years purchase as a Life is worth whereas if the Parents and Benefactors should be to furnish them with so much at once to be taken out of the main Stock perhaps it might not easily be compassed or at least may prove to be very incommodious for them but with a Portion thus to be raised from a small sum of twenty pounds thus to be advanced younger Children may be competently provided for to undertake such Professions or Trades as may best agree with their Inclinations and Educations 21. Widows Fatherless Children and Aged persons who are subject to many Infirmities and Casualties and often prove burthensom to those who expect some benefit by their death if they do advance twenty pounds upon their Lives then their long Lives will be wished for and their Relations will not neglect to take care of them it being apparent that the longer they live the greater their Annuities will be And such Widows Fatherless Children and Aged persons who are least able to help themselves or manage their Estates much less to improve the same will find great advantage hereby and be freed from all hard usage hazard trouble or care This Lawful way of improving Moneys may exceed any Benefit to be expected by any Trade or Traffick yet discovered for such as shall have the benefit of Survivourship or happen to be some of the longest Livers in that Rank wherein they shall be interessed may by this means namely by advancing twenty pounds grow rich which Money probably otherwise might be Dormant in Cash unprofitable to themselves and the Publick And by this means also all persons cencerned will be more studious of prolonging their dayes by Sobriety and Temperance 22. All Corporations Colleges Commonalties Towns Villages and Fraternities may enjoy benefit hereby namely by advancing Moneys in the Names of such particular persons as they shall please for the Use and Benefit of their Respective Societies it being not improbable that amongst many persons some one or more may live long enough to receive so considerable an Annuity as may far exceed the Money advanced by such Corporations Colleges Towns Villages or Fraternities c. 23. All Persons who by Intermarriage have made or hereafter shall make any Joyntures may by this means have opportunities to advance Money in the Name of the Joyntress whose Annuity the longer she lives the more it will increase and may arise to equal the Joynture which will be a great advantage to any Heir if the Joyntress should prove a long Liver Wagstaffe FINIS