Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	heir_n	power_n	successor_n	3,459	5	9.2559	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69363	The decree and establishment of the Kings Maiestie, vpon a controuersie of precedence, betweene the yonger sonnes of viscounts and barons, and the baronets and touching some other points also, concerning aswell bannerets, as the said baronets.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1612 (1612)	STC 9234; ESTC S105542	4,353	18

whatsoeuer now or hereafter to the contrary notwithstanding And that the wiues of the saide Baronets and of the heires males of their bodies shall likewise by vertue of the saide Dignitie of their said husbands in all places and vpon all occasions haue take and enioy their place and Precedencie during their liues next vnto and immediatly after that place that is due and belongeth vnto the wiues of the yonger sonnes of Viscounts and Barons and to the daughters of such Viscounts and Barons Any Constitution Vse Custome Ordinance or other thing whatsoeuer now or hereafter to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding ANd further his Maiestie doth by these presents for him his heires and successours of his certaine knowledge and meere motion promise and graunt to the said Baronets and euery of them already created and hereafter to be created and the heires males of their bodies That neither his Maiestie nor his heires or successours shall or will at any time hereafter erect ordaine constitute or create any other Degree Order Name Title Stile Dignitie or State nor will giue place Precedencie or preheminence to any person or persons whatsoeuer vnder or beneath the Degree dignitie or State of Lords of Parliament of this his Realme of England which shall or may be or be taken vsed or accompted to be higher before or equall to the Degree dignitie or place of the said Baronets or any of them AND therefore his Maiestie doeth for him his heires and successours ordeine graunt and appoint by these presents that all and euery the said Baronets and their saide heires males and the wiues sonnes sonnes wiues and daughters of the said Baronets and of their said heires males shall and may for euer hereafter freely and quietly haue hold and enioy their said Dignities Places Precedencie and Priuiledges before all other which are or shall be created of such Decrees States Dignities Orders Names Stiles or Titles or to whom such place Precedencie or Preheminence shall be so giuen as aforesaid their wiues and children respectiuely according to the true intent and meaning of these presents Sauing neuerthelesse to his Maiestie his heires and successors full and absolute power and authoritie to continue or restore to any person or persons from time to time such place and precedencie as at any time hereafter shal be due vnto them which by any accident or occasion whatsoeuer shall be hereafter changed any thing in these presents or other cause or respect whatsoeuer to the contrarie notwithstanding And now though this Precedent declaration doth clearely ridde all questions arising vpon the Letters Patents yet his Maiestie hauing vpon the occasion of this controuersie and hearing and of some of the Baronets grieuances propounded out of their owne mouthes considered more maturely vpon the points and latitude of their said Patents his Maiestie beeing resolued as out of his owne royall mouth it pleased him to declare vnto them to ampliate his fauour especially where it meetes with these so wel borne and wel deseruing Gentlemen this dignitie beeing of his Maiesties owne erection and the worke of his owne handes his Maiestie is therefore graciously pleased not contented with those markes of his fauour which alreadie they enioy by the wordes of their Patent which layeth such a marke of dignitie and precedence vpon them and their posterity further to strengthen and adorne his Maiesties gracious fauour towards them with addition of the priuiledges preheminencies and ornaments ensuing FIrst his Maiestie is pleased to knight the present Baronets that are no Knights And doeth also by these presents of his meere motion and fauour promise and graunt for him his heires and successours that such Baronets and the heires males of their bodies as herafter shal be no Knights when they shall attaine or be of the age of one and twentie yeares vpon knowledge thereof giuen to the Lord Chamberlaine of the houshold or Vice-chamberlaine for the time beeing or in their absence to any other Officer attending vpon his Maiesties person shall be knighted by his Maiestie his heires and successours His Maiestie doth also graunt for him his heires and successours that the Baronets and their descendants shall and may beare either in a Canton in their coate of Armes or in an Inscutchion at their election the Armes of Vlster that is in a field Argent a hand Geules or a bloudie hand And also that the Baronets for the time beeing and the heires males of their bodies shall haue place in the armies of the Kings Maiesty his heires and successours in the grosse neere about the royall Standard of the King his heires and successours for the defence of the same And lastly that the Baronets and the heires males of their bodies shall haue two assistants of the bodie to support the Pall a principall mourner and foure assistants to him at their funerals being the meane betwixt a Baron and a Knight And to the end that euery of the Baronets and the heires males of their bodies may haue vpon all occasions present vse and proofe of these his Maiesties fauours His Maiestie is graciously pleased that aswell the Baronets alreadie created as hereafter to be created shal and may haue and take Letters Patents vnder the great Seale of England to the effect of the said former Letters Patents of creation and of these presents either ioynt or seuerall as they shall be aduised by the learned Councell of his Maiestie his heires and successours and according to his Highnesse true intent and meaning In witnesse whereof We haue caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witnesse Our selfe at Westminster the eight and twentieth day of May in the tenth yeere of Our Raigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the fiue and fortieth