Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	sovereign_a	3,527	5	9.3552	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02945	Anno regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, decimo sexto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the eighth day of May, Anno Dom, 1661 ... and on the fifth of April, 1664, in the 16th year of his Majesties reign, two bills passed the royal assent.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1664 (1664)	Wing E1090B; ESTC R176079	1,201	4

Anno Regni CAROLI II. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DECIMO SEXTO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May Anno Dom 1661. in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of GOD of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued till the 19th of May in the 14th year of His Majesties said Reign And thence prorogued to the 18th of February then next following And there continued to the 27th of July in the 15th year of His Majesties Reign And thence prorogued to the 16th of March then next following And on the 5th of April 1664. in the 16th year of His Majesties Reign two Bills passed the Royal Assent C R HON SOIT QVI MAT Y PENSE Edinburgh Re-printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1664. CUM PRIVILEGIO Anno XVI CAROLI II. Regis An Act for the assembling and holding of Parliaments once in three years at the least And for the repeal of an Act Entituled An Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments WHereas the Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November in the sixteenth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles of blessed memory Entituled An Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments is in derogation of His Majesties just Rights and Prerogative inherent to the Imperial Crown of this Realm for the calling and assembling of Parliaments and may be an occasion of manifold mischiefs and inconveniences and much endanger the Peace and Safety of His Majesty and all His Liege people of this Realm Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty 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 of the same That the said Act Entituled An Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments and all and every the Articles Clauses and things therein contained is shall be and are hereby wholly repealed annulled and utterly made void and are hereby declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if the said Act had never been had or made any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And because by the ancient Laws and Statutes of this Realm made in the Reign of King Edward the third Parliaments are to be held very often Your Majesties humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled most humbly do beseech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Declared and Enacted and be it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That hereafter the sitting and holding of Parliaments shall not be intermitted and discontinued above three years at the most but that within three years from and after the determination of this present Parliament and so from time to time within three years 〈◊〉 the determination of any other Parliament or Parliaments or if there be occasion more often Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors do issue out Your Writs for calling assembling and holding of another Parliament to the end there may be a frequent calling assembling 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 once in three years at 〈…〉 EDINBURGH Re-printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1664.