Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	continue_v	parliament_n	session_n	2,943	5	10.7773	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92617	Three acts of the Committee of Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland; the first, for providing maintenance for the soldiers to be kept up within that kingdom; and for preventing their taking of free-quarter. The second, for appointing a sub-committee for the managing the affairs of the treasury, comptrolary, collectory and exchequer of that kingdom. The third, for summoning all those who are accessory to the late engagement against England, to compier before the Estates of Parliament of the fourth of January next, 1649.; Acts. 1648-11.	Scotland.; Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.	1648 (1648)	Wing S1349; Thomason E470_21; ESTC R205664	5,978	15

and by the forecited Acts and Publike Declaration we are obliged before the world to endeavor the Purgation and Reformation of our Judicatories and places of Publique Trust And forasmuch as the foresaid persons and all who are in Publique Trust or liable to the judgement and censure of Parliament for their proceeding in their several Places and Offices Like as by the Agreement at Edinburgh and Sterlin all such as have been employed in Publike Place and Trust and have been accessory to the late unlawful Engagement should forbear the exercise of their Places in the mean time and all questions are referred to the determination of the Parliament And whereas by the said Treaty all those who have been accessory to the said Engagement or challengeable for their said accession at the least in so far as concerns their Places and Publike Trust and the debarring of them from any of these Therefore the Committee of Estates doth hereby warn and cite all and every one of these who exercised any Office Publike Place or Trust or who were Members or Clerks of any publike Judicatory of whatsoever degree quality or condition soever in Burgh or Land within this Kingdom and hath been accessory to the late Engagement or are guilty of the faults mentioned in the Printed Acts of the Two and twentieth of September and fourth of October to compier before the Estates of Parliament at Edinburgh on the fourth day of January next to come in a peaceable way accompanied onely with their own Domestick servants to hear and see the Parliament take such course as they in their Justice and Wisdom shall think fit for purging of the Judicatories and for declaring of their places vacant and filling them with such as are able and qualified persons fittest for the service and may give most contentment and as hath continued constant to their Covenant and Cause in the time of tryal and for debarring them who are put out from any other Publike Places or Trust during such time and in such maner as the Estates of Parliament shall think fit with certification to every one of the persons concerned as is abovesaid and warned by this Publike Proclamation which the Committee of Estates Declares That they finde it a sufficient intimation in this our case of so great and publique a backsliding to all persons concerned therein for the effect aforesaid to be esteemed by them equivalent to a personal citation at their dwelling Houses upon particular summons against every one of them to compier before the Estates of Parliament as is aforesaid and compiereth not that then the Estates will proceed both to determine the general question and the particular concerning their places and trust and take what further course they shall think fitting for the good of the Kingdom Like as the Committee of Estates considering the present distractions of the times and that the Parliament so nearly approacheth they think fit to continue the down sitting of the Session until the Parliament give Order thereanent and for the acceleration of Justice to the Lieges the Committee of Estates Ordains the Clerks of Session to give out Acts and Letters of continuation upon the first Summons within the ordinary time of the sitting of the Session albeit they sit not And that none may pretend ignorance of what is mentioned in this present Act the Committee of Estates appoints it to be proclaimed at the Market Cross of Edinburgh Pier and Shore of Leith and to be Printed THO HENDERSON FINIS