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	person_n	say_a	4,455	5	7.0879	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82794	The humble address of the Right Honourable, the Lords Spiritual & Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled presented to His Majesty on the seventeenth of December, 1695.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1696 (1696)	Wing E1550C; ESTC R231771	1,375	4

The Humble ADDRESS Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual Temporal AND COMMONS In Parliament Assembled Presented to HIS MAJESTY On the Seventeenth of December 1695 Printed at LONDON and Re-printed at EDINBURGH 1696. Die Mercurij 18. Dec ' 1695. IT is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England do give Order That the Address made Yesterday to His Majesty by both Houses of Parliament be forthwith Printed and Published Matth. Johnson Cleric Parliamentor The Humble ADDRESS OF THE Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled Die Veneris 13 Decembris 1695. WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled having taken into our Consideration the State of the Trade of this Kingdom Do find That besides many other Disadvantages and Difficulties it now lies under An Act of Parliament that hath lately Received Your Majesties Royal Assent in Your Kingdom of Scotland for Erecting a Company Trading to Africa and the Indies is likely to bring many great Prejudices and Mischiefs to all Your Majesties Subjects that are concerned in the Wealth or Trade of this Nation and therefore in all Duty to Your Majesty and the Care we ought to have of this Kingdom We do humbly Represent to Your Majesty that the said Act does provide That all Ships Vessels Merchandize Goods and other Effects whatsoever belonging to that Company shall be free from all manner of Restraints or Prohibitions and of all Customs Taxes Sesses Supplies or other Duties Imposed or to be Imposed by Act of Parliament or otherwise for the Space of One and Twenty Years And father that the said Company whole Members Officers Servants or others belonging thereto shall be free both in their Persons Estates and Goods Employed in the said Stock and Trade from all manner of Taxes Sesses Supplies Excises Quartering of Soldiers Transient or Local or Levying of Soldiers or other Impositions during the space of One and Twenty Years By reason of which great Advantages Granted to the Scots East India Company and the Duties and Difficulties that lie upon that Trade in England a great part of the Stock and Shipping of this Nation will be carried thither and by this Means Scotland be made a Free Port for all East India Commodities and consequently these several places in Europe which were Supplyed from England will be Furnished from thence much Cheaper than can be done by the English And therefore this Nation will lose the Benefit of Supplying Foreign parts with those Commodities which hath always been a great Article in the Ballance of our Foreign Trade Moreover the said Commodities will unavoidably be brought by the Scots into England by Stealth both by Sea and Land to the vast prejudice of the English Trade and Navigation and to the great Detriment of Your Majesty in Your Customs And when once that Nation shall have settled themselves in Plantations in America our Commerce in Tobacco Sugar Cotton-Wool Skins Masts c. will be utterly lost because the Priviledges of that Nation Granted to them by this Act are such That that Kingdom must be the Magazine for all those Commodities and the English Plantations and the Traffick thereof lost to us and Exportation of our own Manufactures yearly Decreased Besides these and many other Obstructions that this Act will unavoidably bring to the general Trade of this Nation Another Clause in the said Act whereby Your Majesty Promises to Interpose Your Authority to have Restitution Reparation and Satisfaction made for any Damage that may be done to any of the Ships Goods Merchandize Persons or other Effects whatsoever belonging to the said Company and that upon the Publick Charge Does seem to Engage Your Majesty to Employ the Shipping and Strength at Sea of this Nation to Support this New Company to the great Detriment even of this Kingdom All which great Prejudices Inconveniencies and Mischiefs arising by the said Act we in all Duty and Faithfulness lay before Your Majesty Matth Johnson Cleric ' Parliamentor