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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	soul_n	16,341	5	5.1635	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31570	Angliæ notitia, or The present state of England together with divers reflections upon the antient state thereof.; Angliae notitia. Part 1	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1669 (1669)	Wing C1819; ESTC R212862	111,057	538

Wise Four Dressers Mrs. Katherine Eliot 200 l. Mrs. Margaret Dawson 150 l. Mrs. Lelis Cranmer 150 l. Lady Apsley 150 l. Starcher Mrs. Mary Roche 120 l. Semstress Mrs. Ellen Green 80 l. Laundress Mrs. Mary Cowerd 250 l. Lace Mender Secretary to her Highness Sir Phil. Froud 100 l. Two Gentlemen Ushers each 80 l. Six Gentlemen Waiters whereof one hath 100 l. The other five each 40 l. Four Pages of the Back-Stairs each 80 l. Yeoman of the Mouth 50 l. Tayler 90 l. Shoomaker 36 l. 10 s. Master Cook 40 l. Necessary Woman 40 l. Eighteen Watermen each 2 l. Master of the Horse to the Dutchess is Sir Richard Powle 266 l. 13 s. 4 d. Two Escuyries each 100 l. Four Pages each 52 l. Eight Footmen each 39 l. Four Coachmen each 78 l. for themselves Postillions and helpers Five Grooms each 32 l. 10 s. Two Chairmen each 39 l. Officers and Servants to the Duke of Cambridge GOverness Lady Francis Villiers 400 l. Under-Governess Mrs. Mary Kilbert 150 l. Wet Nurse 80 l. Dry Nurse 80 l. Tutor of the French Tongue Monsieur Lesne 100 l. Three Rockers each 70 l. Laundress to the Body 60 l. Semstress Laundress to the Table Page of the Back-Stairs 60 l. Necessary Woman 50 l. Cook 38 l. 5. s. Musitian 31 l. 4 s. Two Pages to the Duke of Cambridge each 52 l. Four Footmen One Groom One Coachman Postillion and Helper Officers and Servants belonging to the Lady Mary TWo Dressers Mrs. Anne Walsingham 80 l. Mrs. Mary Langford 80 l. Ro●ker Mrs. Jane Leigh 70 l. Semstress Laundress Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks 90 l. Page of the Back-Stairs 60 l. Dancing-Master 200 l. Singing-Master 100 l. Servants to the Lady Anne DResser Three Rockers Semstress Page of the Back-Stairs Necessary Woman His Royal Highness upon all occasions when he goes abroad without the King hath for his particular Guard a Gallant Troop of Horse commanded by Monsieur de Blancfort Of the Three States of England ALl the Subjects of England are divided into Clergy and Laity The Laity sub-divided into Nobility and Commonalty These are called Ordines Regni or the Three States and first of the Clergy As Heaven is more honourable than Earth the Soul than the Body so is the Spiritual Function more excellent than the Civil and the Sacerdotal Dignity higher than the Secular and therefore in England the Clergy caeteris paribus hath ever had according to the practice of all other Civilized Nations since the World began the preference and precedence of the Laity and hath in all times been reputed the First of the Three States The Clergy so called because they are Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Portion For although all Christians may be stiled Gods Portion as well as Gods Servants yet amongst Christians those Persons whom God hath set apart and separated from common use to his Service to be as it were his Domestick Servants are more peculiarly the Lords Portion and therefore from the first Age of Christianity the Persons so set apart have been called Clerici Clerks As in the State so in the Church the Laws and Constitutions of England would not that there should be a parity and equality of all persons Quippe in Ecclesia nihil magis inaequale quam aequalitas And therefore in conformity to the first Times and Places of Establisht Christianity so soon as the Christian Faith was by Authority received in England one of the Clergy was in every City ordained a Bishop who hath to avoid Confusion which usually springs from equality a pre-eminence over the rest of the Clergy within certain Precincts Afterwards the Bishops being necessitated to meet about Publick Affairs of the Church as Consecrations Consultations for remedy of general disorders for Audiences Judicial when the actions of any Bishop should be called in question or Appeals from Bishops c. It seemed requisite to our Ancestors according to other Christian Churches ever since the first Nicene Council to have amongst a certain number of Bishops one to be chiefest in Authority over the rest f●om thence named Archiepiscopus Arch or Chief Bishop For easing the Bishop of some part of his burthen as the number of Christians waxed great or the Diocess was large there were ordained in the Primitive Times Chorepiscopi Suffragan or Subsidiary Bishops Accordingly in the English Church of a long time there have been such ordained by the name of Bishops Suffragans or Titular Bishops who have the Name Title Stile and Dignity of Bishops and as other Bishops are consecrated by the Archbishop of the Province each one to execute such Power Jurisdiction and Authority and receive such Profits as is limited in his Commission by the Bishop or Diocesan whose Suffragan he is For a Supply of able and fit Persons to assist Bishops or to be made Bishops it seemed good to Reverend Antiquity that in every Diocess a certain number of the more prudent and pious Pastors should be placed in a Collegiate manner at every Cathedral or Episcopal See where they might not only be ready to assist the Bishop in certain weighty Cases but also fit themselves by gaining experience and loosing by little and little their former familiarity with the inferiour Countrey Clergy for Government and Authority in the Church Accordingly in every Cathedral Church in England there are a certain number of Prebendaries or Canons and over them a Dean in Latine Decanus from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because antiently set over ten Canons at the least who is sometime stiled Alter Episcopi Oculus the other being the Archdeacon who though a Presbyter himself is so named for his Charge over the Deacons who are to be guided and directed by him under the Bishop Next is the Rural Dean who was antiently called Arcbipresbyter and had the guidance and direction of the Presbyters In the last place are the Pastors of every Parish who are called Rectors unless the Predial Tythes be impropriated and then they are called Vicars quasi vice fungentes Rectorum In England are 2 Archbishops 24 Bishops no Suffragan Bishops at present 26 Deans of Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches 60 Archdeacons 544 Prebendaries many Rural Deans and about 9700 Rectors and Vicars besides Curates who for certain Stipends assist such Rectors and Vicars that have the care of more Churches than one These if it be considered of what great Learning and Abilities they are what great Authority and Sway they usually bear over the Laity to incline ●ead and draw them what great Priviledges and Immunities they do or ought to enjoy and how much means they possess may well be reputed as in all times they have been in all other States the first Member of the Three Estates of England It hath been provided not without singular wisdom that as the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general Laws so likewise mens rarer incident Necessities and Utilities should be