Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	act_n	parliament_n	year_n	2,273	5	5.2206	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74294	An Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament: for setling the militia of the city of Westminster, and liberties thereof, with the parishes and places adjacent of the county of Middlesex, within the weekly bills of mortality, and late lines of communication, except the hamblets of the Tovver.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_17; ESTC R208566	3,675	11

Committee or any seven or more of them to levy the same by distresse and sale of the goods of such person and persons so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid restoring the overplus to the owners And the said Commitee or any seven or more of them shall have likewise power and are hereby authorized from time to time to nominate and appoint Treasurers and by order under their hands or the hands of any seven or more of them to dispose of all moneys raised or to be raised by the means aforesaid for the payment of such debts and giving of such allowances and salaries as by the former Committees of Militia appointed by Ordinance of Parliament within the limits aforesaid or by this Committee have been or shall be contracted for the service of the said Militia and not otherwise And bee it further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid That if the persons to bee arrayed and weaponed as aforesaid or any of them shall by the said Committee or any seven or more of them bee deemed adiudged for or by reason of his her or their age quality sex or any known or open disaffection to the Publick unfit to have or bear their own arms That in such case the said Committee or any seven or more of them shall have power and are hereby authorized to order and appoint some other honest fit and well-affected persons to bear the arms of the persons so excepted and shall and may order every such excepted person to find arms and to pay to every such person as shall bear the same for them for every dayes drawing forth the sum of sixteen pence And if any such person excepted as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to find such arms wherewith they or either of them from time to time shall bee charged or to pay the sum of 16 d. for every dayes drawing forth as aforesaid that then the said Committee or any seven or more of them upon complaint thereof made unto them shall send for such person before them and shall upon his her or their refusall to pay the same commit such person to prison there to remain without bail or mainprise untill such person shall conforme and pay the same And bee it further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid that all such persons within the particular limits aforesaid as shall be thought fit to bear arms and shall bee listed upon the Trained-band Companies and shall not from time to time appeare compleatly armed and serve at the beat of Drum or other summons that in such case the Colonells Captains and Lieutenants of the said Trained-bands within the limits aforesaid may inflict the punishment of two dayes imprisonment without bail or mainprise or the mulct of five shillings for the supply of the service And bee it further enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid That all high and petty Constables and all other officers and ministers within the limits aforesaid are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Committee Colonells Captains Lieutenants and their Marshalls of the said Trained-band Companies in execution of the premises as they will answer the contrary at their perills And all and every person and persons who shall act or doe any act or thing whatsoever by vertue of this or any former Order or Ordinance of Parliament concerning the said Militia shall be saved harmelesse and indempnified concerning the same by authority of Parliament and shall also have the benefit and advantage of the Ordinances of Parliament formerly made for saving harmlesse and indempnified all persons that have acted by Authority and for the service of the Parliament Provided alwaies that this Act shall continue in force for one whole year from the 14 th of March 1648. and no longer Hen. Scobell Cleric Parliament FINIS