Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	chancellor_n	great_a	seal_n	2,853	5	8.3166	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06288	Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Maiesties subiects / set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Maiesties speciall command ; with sundry orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Priuie Councell, to be carefully executed for preuention of the plague ; also certaine select statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme ; together with His Maiesties proclamation for further direction therein, and a decree in Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.	Royal College of Physicians of London.	1636 (1636)	STC 16769.5; ESTC S108814	57,021	154

for touching or concerning any liberty preheminence authority iurisdiction or inheritance which the said Iohn Dutton now lawfully vseth or hath or lawfully may or ought to vse within the County Palatine of Chester and the County of the City of Chester or either of them by reason of any ancient Charters of any Kings of this land or by reason of any prescription vsage or title whatsoeuer And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by this present Act except such as are otherwise limited and appointed by this present Act shall wholly goe and be unployed to the vse of the reparations and maintenance of the said houses of Correction and stocke and store thereof or reliefe of the poore where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the Iustices of the Peace of the same limit City Borough or Towne Corporate And that all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by conuiction of any person according to this present Act shall by warrant vnder the hands and seales of any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace of the same County City Borough or Towne Corporate bel●ied by distresse and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender which sale shall be good in the Law against such offender And that if any of the said offences shal be confessed by the offender or that the same shall be proued by two sufficient and lawfull witnesses before such two or more Iustices of the Peace That then euery such person shall forthwith stand and be in the Law conuicted thereof And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid that any two or more Iustices of the Peace within all the said seueral Shires Cities Boroughes or Townes corporate whereof one to be of the Quorum shal haue full power by authority of this present Act to heare and determine all causes that shall grow or come in question by reason of this Act. And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seale of England for the time being shall and may at all times hereafter by vertue of this present Act without further warrant make and direct Commission or Commissions vnder the great Seale of England to any person or persons giuing them or some of them thereby authority as well by the oaths of good lawfull men as of witnesses or examination of parties or by any other lawfull wayes or meanes whatsoeuer to enquire what summes of money or other things haue been or shall bee collected or gathered for or towards the erection of any houses of Correction or any Stockes or other things to set poore on work or for the maintenance thereof at any time after the seuenteenth day of Nouember in the eighteenth yeere of the Reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty and by whom the same were or shall be collected or gathered and to whose hands commen and to what vse and by whose direction the same was or shall bee employed And to call all euery such person persons and their sureties and euery of their executors or administrators to an accompt And to compell them and euery of them by attachment of their goods or bodies to appeare before them for the same and to heare determine the same and to leuie such money and things as they shal find not to haue been duly employed vpon the said houses of Correction or stockes or vpon other like vses hauing in such other like vses respect of things past by the said Commissioners to be allowed of either by distresse sale of the goods and chattels of such persons as they shall thinke fit to bee chargeable or answerable for the same or by imprisonment of their bodies at their discretion And that the said Commissioners shall haue full power and authority to execute the same Commission according to the tenor and purport thereof And that all their proceedings doings iudgements and executions by force and authority thereof shall be and remaine good and auaileable in the Law which said money so leuied by the said Commissioners shall bee deliuered and employed for the erecting or maintenance of the same Prouided alwayes neuerthelesse That euery Sea-faring man suffering shipwracke not hauing wherewith to relieue himselfe in his trauailes home wards but hauing a Testimoniall vnder the hand of some one Iustice of the Peace of or neere the place where he landed setting downe therein the place and time where and when he landed and the place of the parties dwelling or birth vnto which he is to passe and a conuenient time therein to be limited for his passage shall and may without incurring the danger and penalty of this Act in the vsuall wayes directly to the place vnto which he is directed to passe and within the time in such his testimoniall limited for his passage aske and receiue such reliefe as shall be necessary in and for his passage Prouided also that this Statute nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any children vnder the age of seuen yeares nor to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and doe trauaile in or through any Country without begging hauing licence for their trauailing vnder the hands and seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same County where they trauaile whereof one to be of the Quorum And bee it also further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that this present Act shall bee proclaimed in the next quarter Session or Sessions in euery County and in such other market Townes or places as by the more part of the Iustices of the Peace in the said Sessions shal be agreed and appointed This Act to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament ¶ Certaine branches of the Statute made in the first yeere of the Reigne of King IAMES concerning Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars FOrasmuch as sithence the making of the Act of 39. Eliz. diuers doubts and questions haue been mooued and growen by diuersitie of opinions taken in and vpon the letter of the said Act For a plaine declaration whereof Be it declared and enacted That from henceforth no Authoritie to bee giuen or made by any Baron of this Realme or any other honourable Personage of greater degree vnto any other person or persons shall be auaileable to free and discharge the said persons or any of them from the paines and punishments in the said Statute mentioned but that they shall be taken within the offence and punishment of the same Statute And whereas in the said Statute there is a Prouiso conteined that the said Statute nor any thing therein conteined shall extend to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and shall trauell in or thorow any Countie without begging hauing Licence for their trauelling vnder the hands and Seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same County