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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	maintain_v	true_a	2,911	4	4.9844	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29340	A breviate of the state of Scotland in its government, Supream Courts, officers of state, inferiour officers, offices, and Inferiour Courts, districts, jurisdictions, burroughs royal, and free corporations		1689 (1689)	Wing B4415; ESTC R19116	15,422	20

A BREVIATE OF THE STATE OF SCOTLAND IN ITS GOVERNMENT Supream Courts Officers of State Inferiour Officers Offices and Inferiour Courts Districts Jurisdictions Burroughs Royal and free Corporations LICENSED April 1. 1689. James Fraser LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX A ABREVIATE Of the STATE of SCOTLAND In its Government Supream Courts Officers of State Inferour Officers Offices and Inferiour Courts Districts Jurisdictions Burroughs Royal and free Corporations THE Ancient Kingdome of Scotland being governed for many Ages by Kings Upon the Death Removal or Incapacity of their Kings or in extraordinary Cases there was always an extraordinary meeting of the Three States who appointed Governours during the inter Regnum or the same States being as the representative of the whole Body called the great Assembly of the Nation Proclaim d a King who being King by Vertue of the whole Bodies proclaiming of him King called a Parliament or more ordinarily a Convention of States who had not power tho' they were the same Members that Constitute a Parliament to make Laws but only to lay impositions upon the Subjects for some exigences A King being once thus proclaim'd vertute officii Coronae inherent to the Office though it wants the Ceremony or Solemnity of Coronation Names the Officers of State Greater and Lesser grants Commissions to the Judges fit for every Soveraign Court Inferiour Courts and Jurisdictions and grants Commissions to the Officers of the Crown of the Army the Lyon Herauld Governours of Forts and all other Inferiour Officers in Civil and Military Assairs c. Sometimes the King calls a Parliament which is the great Council of the Nation to Crown him and to make Laws to corroborate or ratifie the old wholsome Laws something in desuetude which makes them New Laws because when in desuetude and not put recently in Execution the penalty incurr'd is become so Universal to the Nation that the Execution in that case of them would prove dangerous Thus a Parliament lawfully called hath the Chancellor to preside if no Chancellor they choose their Preses the Register and the Clerks of Session his Deputies are Clerks of Parliament and the same are as to a Convention But a general Meeting of the Three States choose their Preses Clerks and other Officers and Servants except such as are heretably so In time of Popery when not only our Kings but all in Europe had enslaved themselves to the Court of Rome there was no Oath which tyed King and People to the True Apostolick Doctrine and Worship Yet when Scotland was Reformed and the Protestant Religion established by Law there was an Oath enjoyned and always taken by the King except of late for professing and maintaining the same Religion and our Kings were never used to come to any part of the Regal power till they took this Oath The Officers of State in that Kingdom are Eight in Number The Great Officers are The Lord High Chancellor who is President in all Courts he sits in except the Thesaury and Exchecquer he has a Pension and a Sallery The Lord High Thesaurer or Commissioners who presides only in the Thesaury and Court of Exchecquer A Pension and a Sallery The Lord Privy Seal Keeper thereof the Emoluments thereof The Lords Secretary one or more who most ordinarily attends at Court A Pension and the Emoluments of the Office. The Lesser Officers of State are The Lord Register who is keeper of the Register and Rolls of Parliament c. being a place of the greatest trust and Emoluments in that Kngdom and is ordinarily a Lord of Session and has a Sallery likewise The Lord Advocate who advises and pleads all the Kings Causes c. a Pension and Emoluments The Lord Justice Clerk which though a very Old Office has no Emoluments but a Pension The Lord Thesaurer Deputy who has the same Emoluments in his degree with the Thesaurer and presides in the Thesaury and Exchecquer in the Thesaurers absence both have pensions The Officers of the Crown besides the Officers of State are The President of the Council and so takes his place next the Chancellor a Pension Collectors General Master of Requests Directors of the Chancery which is an Old and Honourable Office the Emoluments of the Office. The Director of the Rolls The First Supream Court of the Nation is the PARLIAMENT IN this Court which is so called by the Kings Proclamation in needful places The King himself sits immediately upon a Throne under a Canopy of State or in his absence since King of England by his Commissioner and this Court consists of three States In time of Popery the Bishops and Miter'd Abbots made the first State but since of Arch-Bishops and Bishops sometimes the Nobility and Gentry the Second the Burroughs the Third though there be Persons that urge good Arguments to maintain that the Nobility the Gentry who are represented by certain Commissioners from each Shire and the Commssioners from Burghs c. with the assistance of a General Assembly sitting makes the three States of Parliament The King or his Commissioner with the three States the day of their meeting ride in their Robes and foot Mantles with their Attendants from the Kings Palace in a Parliamentary way the meanest State by way of precedency by two and two riding formest so by degrees and the King or his Commissioner last to the Parliament House then the King or his Commissioner is conducted to the Throne Prayer being said after all placed the Rolls are called the Court fenced the King if present tells them the reasons of calling them or the Commissioner by the Kings Letter presenting of his Commission and by a Speech to the Parliament tells the reasons of their meeting next they choose the Lords of the Articles but the old Form is altered for one State used to choose eight out of another State which being thirty two with the eight Officers of State makes forty but now by Act of Parliament it s settled that the King or Commissioner choose the eight Clergymen the Nobility choose their own eight and those sixteen choose eight of the Barons and eight of the Burgesses which way of choosing of the Members of the Articles would insinuate a fourth State besides Officers of State or else one of these called the States would seem to be superfluous or at least not essentially necessary to constitute a Parliament which would make the foresaid Argument good This is all that is done the first day and so they ride in the same order to the Kings Palace The next day or sometime that afternoon the Commissioners meets with the Lords of the Articles to prepare matters brought into the Parliament When any thing is past in the Articles and Parliament by the Major Vote the King or Commissioner touches it with the Scepter which imports the Kings consent without which it is of no force and their Votes they approve or not approve or say non