Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	kingdom_n	person_n	scotland_n	2,494	5	8.3989	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03022	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: for the inabling of Sr. William Brereton baronet, one of the members of the House of Commons, speedily to put in execution the ordinances for the sequestraion of the estates of Papists and delinquents ... and all other ordinances of Parliament, within the county of Chester ... and to take subsscriptions for the better supply and maintenance of the forces under his command ... also allowing unto the said Sir William Brereton the personall estates of all Papists and delinquents, in and about London ... as are not yet sequestred, or discovered for the service aforesaid.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Brereton, William, Sir, 1604-1661.	1644 (1644)	Wing E1969A; ESTC R176133	4,725	9

other Officers could as yet put in execution any of the said Ordinances of Parliament And whereas some persons formerly appointed by authority of the Parliament to be Commissioners and Officers within the said County of Chester and County of the Citie of Chester to execute the Ordinances aforesaid for the service of the Parliament have since neglected and deserted the same and manifested their disaffections thereunto Be it therefore ordained by the said Lords and Commons that for the supply thereof the said Sir William Brereton together with such Deputy Lievtenants and Committees as aforesaid shall have full power and Authority to name and appoint such Commissioners Treasurers Collectors and other officers within the said County of Chester and County and City of Chester when the same shall be reduced as shall be necessary through the defect aforesaid for the better putting in execution of all and every the Ordinances of Parliament before mentioned and of all other Ordinances of Parliament in case either no Commssioners or other Officers be named by the Authority of Parliament to put the same in execution within the said County of Chester and County and City of Chester or either of them or in case the Commissioners or other Officers already named have neglected or deserted the said Service or otherwise discovered their disaffections to the proceedings of Parliament which said Commissioners and other persons so to be named and appointed by the said Sir Will. Brereton together with the Deputy-Lievtenants and Committees as aforesaid shall by vertue of this present Ordinance have as ful power and authority to put the said respective Ordinances in execution as if they were named by both Houses of Parl. and their names inserted into the said respective Ordinance And be it also ordained by the said Lords and Commons that the severall Summes of Mony which shall be lent for the advancement of the said Service and such increase as shall be due for every respective Summe so lent according to the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance shall be satisfied and paid out of the Moneys that shall be raised within the places aforesaid by vertue of the afore-mentioned Ordinances or of this present Ordinance And the said Sir William Brereton with such Deputy Lievtenants and Committees as aforesaid are hereby enabled and authorized to call to Accompt upon Oath all such persons of the said County of Chester as have received any Moneys by Authority from the Parliament As also to take Accompts upon Oath from time to time of the said Commissioners Treasurers and other persons who shall receive any Moneys within the said places by such Authority as aforesaid and the same to convert and imploy for the services aforesaid and to give such fitting and reasonable allowances unto such persons as shall be imployed in the execution of the Ordinances aforesaid and of this present Ordinance or any of them for their pains and charges therein as the said Sir William Brereton shal think fit provided that such allowance shal not exceed the respective Rates allowed in other Counties of the Kingdome for putting the said Ordinances in execution And if any Treasurers Collectors or others shall refuse to accompt or pay in the Moneyes wherewith they are charged then the said Sir William Brereton together with such Deputy Lievtenants and Committees as aforesaid shall returne their Names to one or both Houses of Parliament And the said Sir William Brereton together with such number of Deputy-Lievtenants or Committees as aforesaid is hereby Authorized to Administer the severall Oaths specified in the aforesaid Ordinances unto such Commissioners and Persons which have not already taken the same as by the true meaning of the said Ordinances or of this present Ordinance or any of them ought to take the same And be it further ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the Personal Estates of such Delinquents and Papists within the Cities of London and Westminster and within twenty miles of the same not yet sequestred nor discovered and which shall bee discovered by the said Sir William Brereton or such Person or Persons as he shall Authorize under his Hand and Seale for that purpose within two Months next after the publishing in Print of this Ordinance shall be allowed unto the said Sir William Brereton for the further Advancement of the said Service provided that the said concealed Estates exceed not the Summe of five thousand pounds And that the said Sir William Brereton or any Person Authorized by him as aforesaid nor any of them shall possesse themselves of the said Papists or Delinquents Estates before he or they acquaint the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations therewith to the end they may judge of the Delinquencie of the Persons before his or their Estates be sequestred and taken away And be it further Ordained by the Lords and Commons That the said Sir William Brereton shall have Power and Authority and is hereby required to Administer the Covenant appointed to be taken by the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to all Persons within the said County of Chester and the County of the City of Chester who ought to take the same by the late Ordinance and Instructions for that purpose and have not already taken it And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that the said Sir William Brereton together with the Deputy-Lievtenants and Committees as aforesaid shall have Power to call before them all Ministers and Schoolemasters within the County of Chester and the County of the City of Chester that are scandalous in there lives or ill-affected to the Parliament or Fomenters of this unnaturall Warre or shall wilfully refuse obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament or shal have deserted their ordinarie place of residences not being imploied in the Service of the King and Parliament and they shall have power to send for any Witnesses and examine any Complaint or Testimony against them upon Oaths of such Persons as shall and may be produced to give Evidence against them and upon such Proofs of the aforesaid Crimes the said Sir William Brereton together with the Deputy-Lieutenants and Committees aforesaid have hereby power to remove and eject all such scandalous Ministers Schoolemasters and in their places to nominate and apoint such learned able godly and fit Persons as they with the advice and consent of three or more godly and learned Divines of the said County of Chester which they shall call unto them for that purpose shall thinke fit and shall cause all such Ministers and Schoolemasters so nominated appointed and placed to be put into possession of the said Churches and Schools who shall and may respectively take receive and perceive to their own uses the Profits and Revenues belonging to the said severall Churches and Places in as large ample manner as the severall Ministers Persons in the said severall places have formerly used to do FINIS