Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	king_n	let_v	time_n	1,504	5	3.4958	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46071	A proclamation for publishing an act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the Advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture, and for remitting the penalties thereby incurred, and for inlarging several periods of time in the said act contained by the Lord Lieutenant and Council.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1661-1669 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1667 (1667)	Wing I625; ESTC R36844	6,113	3

BY THE Lord Lieutenant and Council A PROCLAMATION For publishing an Act of Parliament intituled An Act for the advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture and for remitting the penalties already thereby incurred and for inlarging several periods of time in in the said Act contained ORMONDE WHereas in and by one Act of Parliament lately passed in this His Majest Kingdom of Ireland intituled An Act for the advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture it is declared and enacted in these words following Whereas the Advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture in this Kingdom would very much conduce to the publique good thereof May it therefore please Your Excellent Majestie That in Order thereunto it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority thereof That no person or persons whatsoever having any estate or interest in any Lands in this Kingdom shall at any time after the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six set or let to any person or persons any Cottage or Cabbin upon any Lands not being within any City or Suburbs thereof or any walled Town in this Kingdom unless the person or persons to whom such Cottage or Cabbin upon any Lands not being within any City or Suburbs thereof or any walled Town in this Kingdom unless the person or persons to whom such Cottage or Cabbin shall be so set or let shall therewith hold one Acre of Land at least of Plantation Measure containing One and twenty foot to the Pearch and shall after the first day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and six yearly sow one Eighth part of such Acre of land with Hemp or Flax upon pain that every Landlord setting or letting any such Cottage or Cabbin without covenanting with his Tenant to sow one eighth part of such Acre of Land yearly with Hemp or Flax shall lose and forfeit the sum of Forty shillings sterling for every such default And also every such Tenant who shall not sow one eighth part of such Acre of land with Hemp or Flax yearly shall lose and forfeit the sum of Ten shillings sterling for every such default And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who after the First day of February in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six shall plow or till any quantity of lands in this Kingdom shall for every Thirty Acres of the measure aforesaid which he or they shall so till or plow sow or cause to be sowed half an Acre of land of like measure with Flax or Hemp and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of land upon pain that every person who after the said first day of February shall plow or till Thirty Acres of land and shall not sow half an Acre thereof of the measure aforesaid with Hemp or Flax as is above mentioned shall lose and forfeit the sum of Five pounds sterling and upon pain that every person who shall after the time aforesaid plow or till any lesser quantity of land of the measure aforesaid and shall not sow Hemp or Flax according to the aforesaid proportion shall lose and forfeit the sum of Three pounds sterling for every such default And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six no Linen Cloath shall be woven in this Kingdom which shall not be at the least Three quarters of a yard broad out of the Loom And that from and after the first day of February in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six no Linen Cloath under the aforesaid breadth of Three quarters of a yard shall be bought sold or exposed to sale in any place within this Kingdom and that every person in this Kingdom who after the respective times aforesaid shall weave buy or sell or expose to sale any Linen Cloath vnder the aforesaid breadth shall lose and forfeit for every such piece of Cloath so woven bought sold or exposed to sale the sum of Twenty shillings And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That at every Lent Assizes to be yearly held in every County within this Kingdom for the space of Twenty years from the time of the passing of this Act the sum of Twenty pounds sterling shall be by the Grand Iury of every County applotted upon the several Baronies of every such County and upon the several Parishes in every County of a City in this Kingdom except onely the County of Dublin and County of the City of Dublin and County of Kerry wherein the said Applotment is to be made at the next Sessions of the Peace that shall be yearly held after Easter in the said Counties and a copy of such Applotment made within four days after the end of such Assizes or Sessions shall be by the respective Clerks of the Peace of each County delivered to the respective Sheriffs of every such County wherein such Applotment shall be made under the hand of such Clerk of the Peace or his Deputy under the penalty of the sum of One hundred pounds to be forfeited to His Majestie by every Clerk of the Peace neglecting the same And that every Sheriff of every County of a City in this Kingdom shall according to such Applotment so delivered unto him or in default of such Applotment yearly made according to the last Applotment that was thereof made by the Grand Iury of the said County wherein he shall be Sheriff equally and indifferently raise and levy the said sum of Twenty pounds out of the several Baronies Parishes Lands and Tenements in his County so as to have the same ready at the next Summer Assizes yearly in the several Counties of this Kingdom except the County and County of the City of Dublin yearly and so as the respective Sheriffs of the said County and County of the City of Dublin yearly have the same ready at the next Sessions of the Peace to be held in the said Counties after Trinity Term yearly And for the better encouragement of all persons imployed in the Manufacture of Linen Cloath to excel each other in the Improvement thereof Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That at the said Summer Assizes and Sessions aforesaid it shall and may be lawful for all and every person and persons in this Kingdom to bring unto the said Assizes and Sessions any such pieces of Linen Cloath as have been made in the County wherein such Assizes or Sessions shall be holden of the growth spinning weaving and bleaching of the said County which said pieces of Cloath shall contain Thirty ells at the least in the length and one yard at the least in the breadth out of the