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
A80528	A coppie of the bill against the xiij. bishops, presented to to [sic] the Lords, by the Commons, Octob. 25. 1641. Entituled An act for dissolving all persons in holy orders to exercise temporall jurisdiction and authority. With the names of the XIII. bishops lately impeached. VVhereunto is added the substance of a letter presented to Mr. Pym, containing very wicked and bloody expressions.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6206; Thomason E173_21; ESTC R17768	1,307	6

A COPPIE OF THE BILL Against the xiij Bishops presented to to the Lords by the Commons Octob. 25. 1641. ENTITULED An Act for dissolving all persons in holy Orders to exercise temporall Jurisdiction and Authority With the Names of the XIII Bishops lately Impeached Whereunto is added the substance of a Letter presented to Mr. PYM containing very wicked and bloody Expressions LONDON Printed for JOHN THOMAS 1641. Reader behold and pittie the decay Of this late great man who the other day Liu'd great and gratious in his Princes eyes But being fallen all people him despise Deplore his sad sate pray that he may prove As once on Earth so great in Heaven above A Copy of the Bill against the Xiij Bishops presented to the Lords by the Commons Octob. 25. 1641. Being intituled an Act for dissolving all persons in holy Orders to exercise any Temporall Iurisdiction or Authority WHereas Bishops and other persons in holy orders ought not to bee intangled with secular Iurisdiction the offices of the ministery being of such great importance that it will take up the whole man And for that it is found by long experience that their Intermedling with secular Iurisdiction hath occasioned great mischiefe scandals both to Church and state his Maiestie out of his Religious Care of the Church and the soules of his people is gratiously pleased that it may be enacted and by the authority of these presents Be it enacted that Arch-Bishops or Bishops or any other person that now is or hereafter shall be in the holy orders shall at any time after the tenth day of November in the Yeare of our Lord God 1641. have any suffrage or vote or use or execute any power or authority in the Parliament of this Realme Nor shall be of the Privie Councell of his Maiesty his heires or successors or Iustices of the Peace of Oyre or Terminor or Goale deliuery or execute any temporall authority by vertue of any Commission but shall be wholly disabled and be vncapable to have receive vse or execute any of the said Offices places powers authorities and things aforesaid and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all Acts from and after the said 10. day of November which shall be done by any Arch-bishops or Bishops or other persons whatsoever in holy Order and all and every sufferage or vote given or delivered by them or any other thing done by them or any of them contrary to the purport or true meaning of this present Act shall be uterly voyde to all intents Constructions and purposes The Namet of the xiij Bishops lately Impeached VValter Bishop of Winchester Robert Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Godfrey Bishop of Glocester Ioseph Bishop of Excester Iohn Bishop of Asaph VVilliam Bishop of Bath and Welles George Bishop of Hereford Matthew Bishop of Ely VVilliam Bishop of Bangor Robert Bishop of Bristoll Iohn Bishop of Rochester Iohn Bishop of Peterborough Morgan Bishop of Landaffe Together with VVilliam Arch-bishop of Canterbury and others of the Clergie of that Province at a Convocation or Synod for the same Province begun at London 1640. who contrived and made and promulged severall Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall containing in them divers matters contrary to the Kings Prerogative to the fundamentall Lawes and Statutes of the Realme to the Rights of Parliament to the propriety and liberty of the Subjects and matters tending to Sedition and of dangerous consequence The Substance of a Letter presented to Mr. Pym on the 26. of October 1641. contai●ing very bloody and wicked expressions O Trayterous PYM that betrayest thy King and Countrey and subvertest the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome take this for thy reward which if it doth not end thee when God shall inable me to come abroad without prejudice to honester men then thy selfe my dagger shall dispatch FINIS