Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	scotland_n	10,269	5	8.9956	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22282	By the King. A proclamation to restraine the excessiue carriages in vvagons and foure wheeled carts, to the destruction of the high-wayes; Proclamations. 1622-08-06	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1622 (1622)	STC 8689; ESTC S100920	1,508	1

By the King A Proclamation to restraine the excessiue carriages in Wagons and foure wheeled Carts to the destruction of the High-wayes WE haue many times heretofore expressed the great care and desire We alwayes had that the Common High-Wayes and Bridges within this Realme might be kept in due repayre for the generall ease and good of our louing Subiects and haue giuen many and often directions to Our Priuie Counsell Iudges and other officers for effecting thereof And finding a chiefe cause of the exceeding decayes thereof to be the extraordinary carriages with Carts and Wagons with foure wheeles carrying excessiue burthens whereby the High-Wayes are so galled and the very foundations of any ordinary Bridges shaken that no ordinary repayre can maintaine and keepe the same passable We did heretofore cause Our Iudges to aduise thereof by whom Wee were resolned that those extraordinary carriages were common Nusances and annoyances against the Weale Publique and the vse of them an offence against Our Crowne and Lawes Wee did therefore by Our Proclamation in the sixteenth yeere of Our Reigne of England prohibite the going or trauailing with any such Cart or Wagon Notwithstanding all which and the great care aswell of Our Priuie Counsell as of Our Iudges in their Circuites We sinde no amendement but that the High Wayes not onely in the remoter parts but also in places of Our owne vsuall accesse are still spoyled and ploughed vp by those vureasonable carriages so as they continue still so foule and deepe as they are oft times almost vnpassable We therefore intending redresse and reformation in the Premisses and being resolued that for the effecting thereof a more seuere and strict course be taken then hath beene heretofore haue thought it agreeable to Our owne puncely goodnesse once more to warne Our Subiects thereof that such as shall hereafter offend and shall be iustly punished therefore may be altogether vnexcusable And therefore We doe by this our Proclamation and by the aduise of the Lords and others of our Priuie Counsel straitly charge require and command That no common Carryer or other persons or persons whatsoeuer shal from and after the Feast of S. Michael the Arch-angel now next comming vse goe or trauell with any Cart or Wagon made with foure wheeles nor with any other Cart or Wagon whatsoeuer but onely such wagons and Carts as shall haue but two wheeles and that they doe not cary in any Wayne Cart or carryage to be after that time vsed any load or burthen aboue the Weight of twentie hundred nor shall draw or vse their said Carts or waynes or carryages with more then fiue horses at once in their sourney vpon paine of our heany indignation and displeasure and of the seuerest censure of our high Court of Star Chamber and such further paines punishments and imprisonments as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme may be in inflicted vpon the offendors for such their offence and contempt And therefore We doe hereby require our Atturney generall for the time being vpon notice giuen vnto him of any such offendor or offendors to prosecute him and them in the said high Court of Star-chamber there to receiue such censure and punishment by fine imprisonment and otherwise as their contempts and offences against this our Royall Command shall deserue And lastly We doe hereby will and require all Maiors Sheriffes Bayliffes Iustices of Peace and other Our Officers and Ministers in all Counties and priuiledged places whatsoeuer within this Our Realme That they and cuery of them in their seuerall Offices and places doe from time to time prouide and see to the due execution of this Our pleasure and Royall Commandement And that they discouer and make knownt all offendors herein that they may be seurely punished for their offences and contempts As also that they neglect not but continue the repaire and maintenance of High-Wayes Bridges and Causeys within this Our Realme according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances now in force and Our Commandement heretofore giuen as they tender our pleasure and will alswere the contrary at their vttermost perills Giuen at Our Court at Windsor the sixt day of August In the yeeres of Our Reigne of England France and Ireland the twentieth and of Scotland the sixe and fiftieth God saue the King Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie M.DC.XXII