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
A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

such maner and forme as the Iustices of Peace in any Countie may or ought to doe within the same Countie by vertue of this Acte Any thing in this Acte to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the poore people for the time being in the Hospitall called Saint Thomas Hospital otherwise called the Kings Hospital in the Borough of Southwarke neere adioyning to the Citie of London but that the Maior Communaltie and Citizens of the sayde Citie of London for the time being shall and may haue the rule order and gouernment of the sayd Hospitall and of the poore people therein for the time being any thing in this Acte to the contrary notwithstanding Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thing therein contained or any authority thereby giuen shall not in any wise extend to disinherite preiudice or hinder Iohn Dutton of Dutton in the Countie of Chester Esquire his heires or assignes for touching or concerning any liberty preeminence authoritie iurisdiction or inheritance which the said Iohn Dutton now lawfully vseth or hath or lawfully may or ought to vse within the County Palantine of Chester and the Countie of the Citie 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 Acte except such as are otherwise limited and appointed by this present Act shall wholly goe and be imployed to the vse of the reparations and maintenance of the said houses of Correction and stocke and store therof or reliefe of the poore where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the Iustices of the Peace of the same limit Citie 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 Citie Borough or Towne corporate bee leuied 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 bee prooued 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 authoritie aforesaid that any two or more Iustices of the Peace within all the said seueral Shires Cities Boroughs or Townes corporate wherof one to be of the Quorum shall haue full power by authority of this present Acte to heare and determine all causes that shall growe or come in question by reason of this Acte 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 aswell by the othes 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 mony 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 worke or for the maintenance therof at any time after the seuenteenth day of Nouember in the eighteenth yeere of the Reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 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 imployed And to call all euery such person persons and their suerties 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 to heare and determine the same and to leuie such money and things as they shal find not to haue been duly imployed vpon the said houses of Correction or stocks 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 authoritie 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 sayd Commissioners shall bee deliuered and employed for the erecting or maintenance of the same Prouided alwayes neuerthelesse that euery Seafaring man suffering shipwracke not hauing wherewith to relieue himselfe in his trauailes homewards 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 penaltie 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 shal be necessarie 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 yeeres nor to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and doe trauaile in or through any Countrey without begging hauing licence for their trauailing vnder the handes and Seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same Countie where they trauell whereof one to be of the Quorum And be it also further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that this present Act shall be proclaimed in the next quarter Session or Sessions in euery Countie and in such other market Townes or places as by the more part of the Iustices of the Peace in the sayd Sessions shal be agreed and appointed This Acte to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament ❧ Certaine branches of the Statute made in the first yere of the Reigne of King IAMES concerning Rogues Vagabonds and sturdie Beggars FOrasmuch as sithence the