Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85701	Legis fluvius or, The fountain of the law opened. Shewing the manner method, and forms of proceedings, and pleas on all actions and informations, grounded on all the new and old penal statutes; and the statute it self quoted, upon which every action depends. With presidents for the most usual indictmens : [sic] applicable to all courts of record. Being useful for all atturneys, clerks, and informers. / By A.G.	A. G.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2; Thomason E1647_1; ESTC R209091	51,574	151

having sufficient within the County where such persons are so to be let to Bayl or Manucaption to keep their days in such places where the said Bills Writs or Warrants do require Such person and persons who are or hereafter shall be in their custody by condemnation execution Capias utlagatum Excommunication security of the Peace and all such persons who are or shall be committed by any special command of any Justice and vagabonds refusing to serve according to the form of the Statute of Labourers altogether excepted And that no Sheriff nor any of their Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall take or cause to be taken or made any Obligation for any cause before recited or by colour of their Office but onely to themselves of any person nor by any person which shall be in their custody by order of Law but in the name of their office and under a condition written that the aforesaid prisoners shall appear at the day in the said Writs Bills or Warrants contained and in such places where the said Writs Bills or Warrants require And if any Sheriff aforesaid or any Officers or Ministers aforesaid shall take any Obligation in any other form by colour of their Offices that then such Obligation shall be void And that they shall not take for the making of any such Obligation Warrant or Precept so by them to be made above four pence And also that all Sheriffs under-Sher●ffs Clerks Bayliffs Coroners Stewards Bayliffs of Franchizes or any other Officers or Ministers who shall do contrary to the Ordination aforesaid in any point shall therefore forfeit forty pounds for every time that they or any of them shall Act or do contrary to the said Statute or any point thereof of which forfeitures the King shall have one moyety to be imployed to the use of his houshold and no otherwise and the party who will prosecute shall have the other moyety as in the same Statute amongst other things more plainly it is contained And whereas in the Term of Saint Hillary in the year c. one W. M. prosecuted a certain Writ issuing out of the said Court of our Lady the Queen of Pleas before our said Lady the Queen at Westminster in the County of Middlesex aforesaid to the Sheriff of B. directed by which Writ the Sheriff was commanded that he should take E. F. I. Y. I. G. and W. C. and them safe keep c. so that he should have their bodies before the said Lady the Queen here at Westminster on Wednesday next after fifteen days of Easter then next following to answer the said W. M. in a Plea of trespass by virtue of which Writ one E. L. Gentleman the fifteenth day of February in the year abovesaid at Westminster in the County of Middlesex aforesaid then being the under-Sheriff of A. B. Esquire then Sheriff of the County of Berks for and in the name of the said A. B. Sheriff of the County aforesaid did make four several Warrants against the said E. F. I. Y. I. G. and W. C. directed to the Bayliff of the hundred of Reading and Theale in the said County of Berks to take the said E. F. c. so that he might have their bodies c. to answer the said W. M. according to the Exigence of the said several Warrants And whereas also in the Term of the Holy Trinity in the year c. the said W. M. prosecuted another Writ of our La. the Queen out of the said Court of our La. the Queen here at West to the said Sheriff of the County of B. directed by which Writ the said Sheriff was likewise commanded that he should take L. G. I. A. I. his wife I. Y. and W. B. and them safe keep c. so that he should have their bodies c. to answer the said W. M. in a Plea of trespass By pretext of which said Writ the said E. L. the thirteenth day of July in the year c. abovesaid at Westminster then and there being under-Sheriff of the said A. B. then Sheriff of the said County of Berks for and in the name of the said A. B. Sheriff of the said County of B. did make two several Warrants against the said L. G I. his wife I. Y. and W. B. directed to the Bayliff of the hundred of Reading and Theale to take the said c. so that he might have their bodies c. to answer the said W. M. according to the exigence of the said two several Warrants And whereas also in the same Term of the Holy Trinity in the year c. one A. P. prosecuted one other Writ of our Lady the Queen out of the same Court of c. at c. being to the said Sheriff of the County of Berks directed by which Writ the said Sheriff was likewise commanded that he should take W. G. F. M. and T. K and them safe keep c. so that he might have their bodies before the said Lady the Queen here at Westminster on Wednesday next after eight days of Saint Michael then next following to answer the said A. P. in a Plea of trespass By pretext of which Writ the said E. L. the said thirteenth day of July in the year c. abovesaid at Westminster then being under-Sheriff of the said A. B. then being Sheriff of the said County of B. for and in the name of the said A. B. Sheriff of the said County did make two several Warrants against the said W. G. W. F. and T. K. directed to the said Bayliff of the hundred of Reading and Theale in the said County of B. to take the said c. so that he might have their bodies c. to answer the said A. P. according to the exigency of the said several Warrants Nevertheless the said E. L. the Statute aforesaid not weighing nor regarding the penalty in the same Statute at Westminster the aforesaid fifteenth day of February in the year c. did receive of the said W. M. for the making of every one of the aforesaid first four several Warrants to the said Bayliff of the hundred of Reading and Theale in the same County of B. directed to take the said E. F. I. Y. I. G. and W. C. to answer to the said W. M. in a Plea of trespass on the said Wednesday next after fifteen days of Easter then next following in the said Court of our said Lady the Queen now here at Westminster aforesaid two shillings and the said E. L. being then the under-Sheriff of the aforesaid A. B. of the said County of Berks By colour of his Office as under-Sheriff of the said County of Berks did by way of extortion receive against the form of the Statute aforesaid two shillings six pence And the said W. M. for making of the said two several Warrants directed to the Bayliff c. to take the said c. to the said E. L. did give two shillings six pence c. and the said