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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
B08862	An ordinance declaring that the offences herein mentioned and no other shall be adjudged high treason within the common-wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and the dominions there unto belonging	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Scobell, Henry, d. 1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing C7125A; ESTC R172010	3,927	10

AN ORDINANCE DECLARING That the OFFENCES herein mentioned and no other shall be adjudged HIGH TREASON Within the COMMON-VVEALTH OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and the Dominions thereunto belonging Thursday January 19. 1653. ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector and His Council that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and published HENRY SCOBEL Clerk of the Council Printed at London and re-printed at Leith 1653. An ORDINANCE declaring that the Offences herein mentioned and no other shall be adjudged HIGH TREASON within the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging THE Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging and the Supreme Legislative Authority of the same being setled and established to be and reside in One Person and the People assembled in Parlament the stile of which Person is already declared to be LORD PROTECTOR of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Exercise of the chief Magistracy and Administration of the Government over the said Countries and Dominions and the People thereof to be in the Lord Protector assisted with a Council who have power untill the meeting of the next Parlament which is to be the third of Sept. next to make Laws and Ordinances for the Peace and Welfare of these Nations where it shall be necessary which shall be binding and in force untill Order shall be taken in Parlament concerning the same And it being a matter of greatest Importance to the just Government of a People That Crimes and Offences of highest nature punishment and forfeiture should be most clearly and fully expressed and reduced into such certainty as the People might readily know them and knowing them might the better shun and avoid the same And by reason that the Nation of Scotland is reduced unto and brought under this Government which must necessarily occasion an alteration of some Laws formerly in force His Highness revising and perusing the severall Laws heretofore made in Cases of High Treason and to the end the same might be brought into one Body Doth Declare Establish and Ordain And be it Established and Ordained by His Highness the Lord Protector by and with the consent of His Council That if any person or persons shal compass or imagine the death of the Lord Protector for the time being Or if any person or persons shall maliciously or advisedly either by writing printing openly declaring preaching teaching or otherwise publish That the Lord Protector and the people in Parlament assembled are not the Supreme Authority of this Commonwealth Or that the Exercise of the chief Magistracie and Administration of the Government over the said Countreyes and Dominions and the People thereof is not in the Lord Protector assisted with a Council Or that the said Authority or Government is tyrannical usurped or unlawful Or that there is any Parlament now in being or that hath any Continuance or any Law in force for continuing the Parlament which is hereby declared to have been absolutely dissolved and determined upon the twentieth day of April one thousand six hundred fifty and three and shall be adjudged and taken so to be Or shall plot contrive or endeavour to stir up or raise force against the Protector or the present Government or for the subversion or alteration of the same And shall declare such endeavour or endeavours by an open Deed Then every such Offence shall be taken and adjudged to be high Treason And whereas the Lord Protector and the Council for the just and lawfull defence of this Commonwealth are at present necessitated by reason of the manifold distractions within the same and Invasions threatned from abroad to continue Armies and Forces in England Scotland and Ireland which under God must be the Instrumental means of preserving the good People of these Nations in peace and safetie Be it further Ordained and Established by the Authority aforesaid That if any person not being an Officer Souldier or Member of the Armies or Forces shall plot contrive or endeavour to stir up any mutiny in the said Armies or among the said Forces or any of them Or to withdraw any Souldiers or Officers from their obedience to their Superiour Officers or from the present Government as aforesaid Or if any person or persons whatsoever shal procure invite aid or assist any Forreiners or Strangers to invade England Scotland or Ireland or any the Dominions thereunto belonging Or shall adhere unto any Forces raised by the Enemies of this Commonwealth Or if any person or persons shall plot contrive or endeavour the betraying surrendring or yeelding up any City Town Fort Mag●zine Ship Vessel or Forces by Sea or Land belonging to this Commonwealth Or if any person or persons shall counterfeit the Great Seal of England or of Scotland or Ireland for the time being used and appointed by Authority of Parlament or by the Lord Protector with the Consent of the Council Or the Sign Manual Privie S●gnet or Privie Seal of the Lord Protector for the time being Or if any person or persons whatsoever shall proclaim declare publish or any way promote Charls Stuart Eldest Son to the late King or James Stuart ●ne other of his Sons or any other the Issue or Posterity of the said late King or any other person or persons claiming by from or under him or them or either or any of them to be King or Chief Magistrate of England Scotland or Ireland or of either or any of them or of any the Dominions to them or either or any of them belonging Or if any person or persons shall give keep or hold any Intelligence whatsoever by Lette●s M●ss●g●s or otherwise to or with the sa●d Charles Stuart James Stuart the late Queen their Mother or any of th●m Or i● any person or persons shall counterfeit the Money of this Commonwealth or shall bring any false Money into this Land either Counterfeit or other like to the Money of this Common-wealth knowing such Money to be false to the intent to Merchandize or otherwise Or if any person or persons shall hereafter falsly forge or Counterfeit any such kinde of Coyn either of Gold or Silver which is not the proper Coyn of this Common wealth and yet is or shall be current within the same Or shall bring from the parts beyond the Seas into this Common-wealth or into any the Dominions of the same any such false or Counterfeit Coyn of Money being current within this Common wealth as is abovesaid knowing the said Money to be false and Counterfeit to the intent to utter or make payment with the same within this Common-wealth by Merchandize or otherwise Or if any person or persons shall Impair Diminish Falsifie Clip Wash Round File Scale or lighten for wicked lucre or gaines sake any the proper Moneys of this Common-wealth or of the Dominions thereof or of the Moneys or Coyns of any other place allowed or suffered to be current within this Common-wealth or the

Dominions thereof Then all and every the offences above-mentioned shall be and are hereby deemed ordained and adjudged to be high Treason And the Offenders therein and their Counsellors Procurers Aiders and Abetters being Convicted according to the Laws of this Nation of any of the said Offences shall be and are hereby deemed and adjudged to be Traitors against this Common-wealth and shall suffer and have such pains of death and incurre such forfeitures as in case of high Treason is used and Ordained Provided alwayes That neither this Ordinance nor any thing therein contained as touching the Moneys and Coynes aforesaid nor any attainder of any person or persons for the same shall in any wise be adjudged to make any corruption of blood to any the heir or heirs of any such Offender or Offendors nor to make the wise of any such Offenders to lose or forfeit her Dower of or in any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or her Title Action or Interest in or to the same Provided alwayes That no person or persons shall be Indicted or arraigned for any of the Offences before mentioned in this Ordinance unlesse such Offender or Offendors shall be indicted or prosecuted for the same within one year after the offence committed And it is lastly Ordained and Established That no other Matter Fact Crime or Offence whatsoever then onely such as are herein mentioned and expressed shall be deemed taken or adjudged to be high Treason any Law Statute Act or Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided neverthelesse and it is hereby declared to be the full purpose and true intent and meaning of this Ordinance That the Laws and Statutes made in the times of the late Queen Elizabeth and of King James against the pretended Authority of the Bishop of Rome and his See Jesuits Seminary Priests and Professors of the Romish Religion should not be repealed but stand be and continue in full force and effect in every Clause and part thereof And therefore If any person or persons shall attribute unto maintain or defend the Bishop of Rome or his See to have any Power Authority or Jurisdiction within this Common-weath Or if any Person hath procured or shall obtain from the Bishop of Rome or his See any Bulls writings or Instruments to absolve the People of this Common wealth from their obedience to this Government and to reconcile them to the Authority of the said See And hath used or put in ure or shall use or put in ure any such Instrument either upon or beyond the Seas or in any place within this Common-wealth Or if any person or Persons by colour of any such Instrument hath or have heretofore taken or shall hereafter take upon him or them to absolve or reconcile or to grant or promise any such Absolution or Reconciliation Or if any person or persons shall obtain or get any manner of Bull writing or other Instrument either written or Printed which shall contain any thing matter or Cause whatsoever Or shall publish or by any wayes or meanes put in ure any such Bull writting or Instrument Or if any person on persons shall pretend to have Power or shall by any wayes or meanes put in practice to absolve perswade or withdraw any of the people of this Common wealth from their obedience to the Government established in the same Or to move any of them to promise any obedience to any pretended Authority of the See of Rome or of any other Prince State or Potentate to be had or used within this Commonwealth And shall do any overt Act to that intent or purpose Or if any person shall by any means be willingly reconciled or absolved or withdrawn as aforesaid Or shall promise any obedience to any such pretended Authority Prince State or Potentate as aforesaid Or if any Jesuit Seminary Priest or such other Priest Deacon or Religious or Ecclesiasticall person whatsoever being born in any pa t s within this Commonwealth or the Dominions thereof that hath been or shall be made ordained or professed by any Authority or Jurisdiction dirived or challenged or pretended from the See of Rome by or of what Name Title or Degree soever the same be called or known and shall come into be or remain in any parts of this Commonwealth or the Dominions thereof That then all and every the offences above-mentioned shall be and are hereby deemed and adjudged to be high Treason FINIS