Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	law_n	peace_n	statute_n	3,455	5	7.8676	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33193	The city of London's plea to the Quo warranto, (an information) brought against their Charter in Michaelmas term, 1681 wherein it will appear, that the liberties, priviledges, and customs of the said city cannot be forfeited, or lost by the misdemeanor of any officer or magistrate thereof, nor their Charter be seized into the King's hands for any mis-usage or abusage of their liberties and priviledges, they being confirmed by divers ancient records and acts of Parliament made before and since Magna Charta : also, how far the Commons of the said city have power of chusing and removing their sheriffs / published both in English and Latin.		1682 (1682)	Wing C4360; ESTC R15339	37,563	73

of Mayor have not born or four of them the Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of which the said Mayor or Recorder for the time being to be one shall be Justices of our Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and those Justices their Heirs and Successors for Himself His Heirs and Successors hath assigned for Ever to inquire as often and when they shall see most expedient by the Oath of approved and lawful Men not only of the City aforesaid but also of the Liberties of the same by which the very Truth may be the better known of all Murders Felonies Sorceries Inchantments Whoredom Magick-Art Trespasses Forestallers Regretters Ingrossers and Extortions whatsoever and all and singular other Misdeeds and Offences of which the said Justices of the Peace of our said Lord the King his Heirs and Successors may lawfully be or ought to be inquired by whomsoever and what sort soever within the said City and Liberties thereof before that time done and perpetrated or which from thence there shall happen to be done and attempted and not only of all those that shall in that City and Liberties thereof go to Conventicles against the Peace of the late King and His Successors in the disturbance of His People His Heirs and Successors or by force should go or ride Armed or from thence shall presume to ride or go Armed And also of those which there the People of our said Lord the King or His Successors shall lie in wait to kill or after shall presume to throw down Also of Hostilities and all and singular Persons who in abuse of the Weights and Measures or in selling Victuals contrary to the form of the Ordinance and Statute or any of them whereof the Common Advantage of this Realm and of the People of the late King His Heirs and Successors made and provided shall offend or attempt in the said City and Liberties thereof or from thenceforth shall presume to attempt or offend And also of Sheriffs Constables Keepers of Gaols and all other Officers who in the Execution of their Office about the Premisses or any of them where they ought not to have them or hereafter shall presume to have them where he ought not or carry himself remiss and negligent or from thence shall happen to be remiss or negligent within the said City and Liberties thereof And of all and singular the Articles Circumstances and others whatsoever by whomsoever and of what quality soever in the said City or Liberties thereof shall be done or committed and which from thenceforth shall happen to be done by any whatsoever in the Premisses or concerning any of them And to what Indictment soever which before the Mayor or Recorder of the said City for the time being and such of the said Aldermen or any four or more of them whereof the said Mayor or Recorder for the time being shall be one then afterwards shall be taken and inspected and Process thereof made to all and singular that are Indicted or shall happen to be Indicted until they shall be taken or restore themselves or shall be or restore themselves or shall be out-lawed and in making and continuing and to all and singular Murders Felonies Sorceries Inchantments Whoredom Magick-Art also false Conspiracies and other Misdeeds Forestallers Regretters Ingrossers Extortioners Conventicles Indictments aforesaid and all and singular other the Premisses according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm of England as in such like Cases have used to be done or ought to hear and determine And the Offenders and such of them for their Duties by Fines Redemptions Amercements Forfeitures and other manner according to the Laws and Customs of this Realm and Form of the Ordinances and Statutes of the same have been accustomed to be done or ought to be corrected and punished and all and singular others to do perform hear determine and execute within the said City and Liberties thereof which Justices of the Peace by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm to do exercise and inquire or may be Executed and of Force and in as ample manner and Form for any one or to any one Justice of the Peace in any other County of this Realm lawfully to do exercise inquire punish or in any other manner may be exercised or of Force as by the said Letters Patents among other things more fully appears And that our said Lord the King that now is by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing Date at Westminster aforesaid the 24th Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign which the Mayor and Commonality and Citizens of the City of London here brings in Court all Grants and other whatsoever in the said Letters Patent of King Charles the First above specified for the said King His Heirs and Successors to the Mayor and Commonalty and to the Citizens of the City of London and their Successors for ever did ratifie and confirm as by the said Letters Patents among other things may appear And they the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London further say that in the time of making the said Letters of the said King Charles the First and whilst before that and from that have hitherto been and still are Mayor and Recorder of the said City and Aldermen of the said City who have not been Mayor and sustained the burden of that Office and three and more Aldermen of the said City who have not underwent the burden of Mayor thereof And from that time of the making of the said Letters Patents of the said King Charles the First hitherto the Mayor and Recorder of the said City for the time being and such Aldermen for the time being as have not been Mayor of the said City also three of the Eldest Aldermen for the time being who shall be longest in that Office of Alderman and hath not been Mayor of the said City nor by vertue of the said Letters Patents have been Justice of the Peace within the said City or Liberties thereof or by vertue of the said Letters Patents and according to the Form and Effect of the same of the time in the time by the whole time they have holden Sessions of the Peace and Pleas of the Crown to wit such Pleas of the Crown as such Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep by the same time lawfully have held or may hold within the said City And by that Authority the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London by the time in the Information above-specified have been used or hitherto use and claim to have and use the Liberties Privileges and Franchises that the said Mayor of the said City and such of the Aldermen of the said City who have not been Mayor therrof or have been dismissed or three eldest Aldermen of the said City who have been longest Aldermen thereof or executed the Office of Mayor have been Justices of the Peace of our said Lord the King to preserve the Peace within the said City and to the Sessions of the Peace and Pleas of the Crown to wit such Pleas of the Crown as Justices of our said Lord the King lawfully assigned may hold within the said City and to all Felonies Riots Routs and unlawful Conventicles within the said City to inquire to hear and determine as to them may seem lawful or be lawful Without that the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London of their Liberties Privileges and Franchises upon our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is by the time in the Information above-specified have usurped or do usurp as by the Information for our Lord the King above mentioned it is supposed which all and singular the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London are ready to verifie whereof they pray Judgment and that their Liberties Privileges and Franchises to them and their Heirs for ever hereafter may be allowed and adjudged and that they as also the Premisies may be dismissed from this Court c. And as to the residue of the Liberties Privileges and Franchises in the said Information specified by them the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London above-specified not claimed they the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London those Liberties Privileges and Franchises were never used or do use but the same do uterly disclaim FINIS The Courteous Reader is desired to pardon the small Faults of the Press

City and County of the City of London and Sheriffs for the County of Middlesex and to name and chuse of themselves two Persons to be Sheriffs of the said City and County of the said City and Sheriff of the County of Middlesex and those so named and elected to make and constitute Sheriffs of the said City and County of the said City and Sheriff of the County of Middlesex and as Sheriffs of the said City and County of the said City to execute and return all Letters Bills and Precepts of our said Lord the King for the Administration and Execution of Justice within the said City and County of the said City to be done and performed as to the Office of Sheriff belongs and also to do and perform all and singular other things within the said City and County of the said City which belongs to the Office of Sheriff and as Sheriff of the County of Middlesex to serve for that County and all Writs Bills and Precepts of our said Lord the King within the said County of Middlesex for the Administration and Execution of Justice there to be performed and to make return thereof which belongs to the Office of Sheriff as to them it shall and may be lawful to do Without that That they the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London of their Liberties Privileges and Franchises upon our said Lord the King for the time in the said Information specified have usurped and do usurp as by the said Imformation for our said Sovereign Lord the King it is supposed and all and singular they the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London are ready to verifie whereof they require Judgment and that their Liberties Privileges and Franchises to them and their Successors henceforth for ever may be allowed and adjudged and that they may be dismissed as also the Premisses from this Court c. And they the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London so as the Liberties Privileges and Franchises following to wit the Mayor of the said City and such Aldermen who have executed the Office of Mayor and thereof be dismissed and that three Senior Aldermen of the said City who have stood longest in the Office of Aldermen thereof and have not underwent the Burden and Office of Mayor of the said City to be Justices of the Peace within the said City and at the Sessions of the Peace and Pleas of the Crown to wit such Pleas of the Crown as the Justices of our said Lord the King lawfully assigned to hold within the said City and all Felonies Riots Routs and unlawful Conventicles in the said City to inquire hear and determine in the said Information mentioned say That our said Lord the King them the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ought not by occasion thereof to impeach or hinder because they say the said City of London is and from that time beyond the memory of Man hath been an ancient City or ancient County of themselves and Citizens of the said City are and from that time beyond the memory of Man have been one Body Corporate and Politick in Marter Fact and Name by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London And that the said late King Charles the First by His Letters Patents under His Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Eighteenth day of October in the Fourteenth Year of His Reign which the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London brings here in Court for Himself His Heirs and Successors did grant to the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London and their Successors That the Mayor and Recorder of the said City for the time being and the Mayor and Recorder who for the time shall be and not only those Aldermen who have been before Mayors of the City but also those Aldermen who hereafter shall bear the Office of Mayor of the said City altho from the Mayoralty they should depart or be dismissed but those Aldermen should stand and the three eldest Aldermen for the time being who shall be in the Office of Alderman longest and before that time have not executed the Office of Mayor shall be for ever hereafter Justices of the Peace and every of them shall be a Justice of the Peace for our said Lord the King His Heirs and Successors within the said City and Liberties thereof And the said Mayor Recorder and Aldermen aforesaid to all and singular the Statutes and Ordinances for the good of the Peace of the King His Heirs and Successors and for the Preservation of the same and for the quiet Rule and Government of His People made and provided and in all their Articles not only within the Liberties of the same but also without the said City according to the force form and effect of the same made to be observed and to all those who according to the form and effect of the said Order and Statutes or any of them in the said City and Liberties thereof shall be found Offenders shall be corrected and punished according to the form of the Ordinance and of those Articles to be made And all those who to any of His Majesties Subjects of their Corporation who shall be found out in burning their Houses by Threatning shall find sufficient Security for the Peace or to his Good Behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all his People and if they shall refuse to find such Security then them to the Goal of Newgate or any other of the King's Prisons within the said City of London untill such Security shall be found shall be kept in safe Custody the Keepers and Justices of our Lord the King and every of them the Keepers and Justices and their Heirs and Successors within the said City and Liberties our late Lord King Charles the First for himself his Heirs and Successors hath Constituted made and Ordained by His Letters Patents aforesaid and to all singular any other to be Executed and Performed which the Justices and Keepers of the Peace their Heirs and Successors within any other County of England they might Lawfully exercise and perform and as they ought by vertue of any other Statute and Ordinance of this Realm or by vertue of any Commission of their Heirs and Successors the Peace in any such County he is willing to preserve Also our said Lord King Charles the First by His said Letters Patents for Himself His Heirs and Successors did grant to the said Mayor and Commonalty and to the Citizens of the City of London and their Successors That the Mayor and Recorder of the said City for the time being and such Aldermen as aforesaid for the time being who the Office or Place of Mayor of that City before that have executed and performed the same and such of the three Eldest Aldermen for the time being who the Place