Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	mary_n	4,039	5	8.8071	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39731	An Impartial relation of the whole proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon, in the year of our Lord 1687 containing only matters of fact as they occurred.	Fairfax, Henry, 1634-1702.; Fairfax, Henry, 1634-1702.; Aldworth, Charles, 1648 or 9-1720.; Hough, John, 1651-1743.; Bagshaw, Francis, b. 1653 or 4.	1688 (1688)	Wing F124; ESTC R25079	42,768	47

they shall depute in their behalf to appear before Us in the Council-chamber at White-Hall upon Monday the Sixth of the next Month of June at Four in the Afternoon to answer to such Matters as shall be objected against them concerning the Premises and of the due execution thereof You are to certifie Us then and there To Thomas Atterbury and Robert Eldows Or to either of them Given under our Seal the 28th of May 1687. The Answer of the Vice-President and other Fellows of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxon who were deputed by the said Colledge to the Question propounded by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Affairs Viz. Why they did not obey His Majesty's Letter requiring them to Elect and Admit Mr. Anthony Farmer President of the said Colledge THE said Vice-President and other deputed Fellows answered and said That the said Colledge of St. Mary Magdalen in Oxon is a Body Corporate governed by Local Statutes granted and confirmed to them by His Majesty's Royal Predecessor King Henry the 6th for Him and His Heirs and Successors under the Great Seal of England which are also since confirmed by several other Letters Patents of others of His Majesty's Royal Predecessors under the Great Seal of England That by the said Statutes of the Colledge to the observation of which each Fellow is sworn it is ordered that the Person elected President thereof shall be a Man of good Life and Reputation of approved Understanding and good Temper Discreet Provident and Circumspect both in Spiritual and Temporal Affairs And at the time of Election of a President the said Fellows are bound by the said Statutes to take an Oath that they shall nominate none to that Office but such as are or have been Fellows of the said Colledge or of New-Colledge in Oxon or if they are not actually Fellows at that time of Election that they be such as have left their Fellowships in their respective Colledges upon credible accounts And when two qualified persons shall be nominated at the time of Election by the greater number of all the Fellows to the said Office of President the thirteen Seniors also swear that they will Elect one of them whom in their Consciences they think most proper and sufficient most discreet most useful and best qualified for the Place without any regard to love hatred favour or fear And every Fellow when he is first admitted into his Fellowship in the said Colledge swears that he will inviolably keep and observe all the Statutes and Ordinances of the Colledge and every thing therein contained so far as does or may concern him according to the plain literal and grammatical sense and meaning thereof and as much as in him lies will cause the same to be kept and observed by others and that he will not procure any Dispensation contrary to his aforesaid Oath or any part thereof nor contrary to the Statutes and Ordinances to which it relates or any of them nor will he endeavour that such Dispensation shall be procured by any other or others publickly or privately directly or indirectly And if it shall happen that any Dispensation of this sort of whatsoever Authority it shall be whether in general or particular or under what form of Words soever it be granted that he will neither make use of it nor in any sort consent thereunto That upon Notice of the Death of Dr. Clark Late President of the said Colledge the Vice-President called a Meeting of the said Fellows in order to the appointing a day for the Election of a new President and the 13th of April was the time prefix'd with power to prorogue the same as they should see cause till the 15th beyond which time they could not statutably defer their Election and in pursuance thereof a Citation or Premonition was fix'd upon the Chappel-door of the said Colledge signifying the same and by which the absent Fellows were Summoned to repair home as the Statute in the Case requires And the said Vice-President and other deputed Fellows farther say that on the 11th of April aforesaid they received His Majesty's Letters Mandatory to Elect and Admit the said Mr. Anthony Farmer President of the said Colledge But forasmuch as the said Vice-President and Fellows apprehended the right of Election to be in them and believed His Majesty never intended to dispossess them of their Rights And forasmuch as the said Mr. Farmer had never been Fellow either of Magdalen or New-Colledge in Oxon and had not those Qualifications which in and by the said Statutes of the Colledge are required in the Character of a President as they in their Consciences did or do verily believe and in regard that they could not comply with His Majesty's Letter without the violation of their Oaths and hazard of their legal Interest and Property wherewith they are by their Statutes possessed and which by their Oaths they are bound to maintain they represented the same by their humble Petition to His Majesty And having deferred their Election of a President to the last day limited by their Statutes then they proceeded to Election and having first received the Eucharist and taken the said Oaths as the Statutes enjoyn to choose a Person so qualified as is before expressed they did Elect the Reverend Mr. John Hough B. D. and one of the Fellows of their Colledge a Person every way qualified to be President who has been since confirmed by the Bishop of Winton their Visitor as the Statutes of the said Colledge direct And that they might not lye under His Majesty's Displeasure by their Proceedings they did on the 19th of April make an humble representation thereof to His Majesty by his Grace the Duke of Ormond Chancellor of the University of Oxon setting forth their indispensable obligations to observe their Founder's Statutes All which Matters the Vice-President and other deputed Fellows do humbly offer to your Lordships and pray to be dismissed with your Lordships favour The Fellows Reasons why they Elected not Mr. Farmer c. WHereas the Vice President and other deputed Fellows of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon have in their Answer to your Lordships set forth that by the Statutes of the said Colledge it is ordered That the Person to be elected President thereof should be a man of good Life and Reputation and of good Manners and Temper and likewise that Mr. Anthony Farmer hath not those Qualifications which in and by the said Statutes are requir'd in the Character of a President as they in their Consciences did and do verily believe They humbly crave leave to represent to your Lordships some of those Reasons which induced them to such belief viz. That Mr. Farmer did mis-behave himself in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge That he received Admonition from the Master of the Colledge in order to his Expulsion which remains in the Register of the said Colledge under his own hand That having left Cambridge he taught School at Chippenham in