Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	court_n	defendant_n	1,397	5	10.0062	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94306	Sergeant Thorpe judge of assize for the northern circuit, his charge, as it was delivered to the grand-jury at York assizes the twentieth of March, 1648. and taken in shortwriting. Clearly epitomizing the statutes belonging to this nation, which concerns (and, as a golden rule, ought to regulate) the severall estates and conditions of men. And (being duely observed) do really promote the peace and plenty of this Commonwealth.	Thorpe, Francis, 1595-1665.	1649 (1649)	Wing T1071; Thomason E1068_1; ESTC R210315	21,832	31

of this Nation to serve a Forraigne Prince without leave and before Bond entered and Oath taken according to the Statute If any Soldier or Marriner who hath received Prest-wages according to the Statute do afterward depart from their Service without License If any such Souldier or Marriner do wander and begge without a Passe or if they counterfeit their Passe If any Person having the Custody of publike Stores of Victuall or Ammunition imbezzell or purloin any of it to the value of twenty shillings or above If any do the second time transport sheep beyond-Sea If any perswade another to commit any Felony or receive and assist any Felon after the Felonie committed these are Accessaries to the Felonie If any rescue a Felon from prison if any Felon break Prison and escape or be suffered to escape and be rescued Misprision of Felony is this If any know another to have committed Felony and do not reveal it Trespasses and Offences against the peace Finable are these If any Menace Assault Beat or wound another if any make unlawfull entry upon other mens Lands or unlawfully take away other mens Goods if any make unlawfull Assemblies Routs or Riots If any chide or brawle or draw a weapon to strike or doe strike in a Church or Church-yard if any keep a Fair or Market in a Church or Church-yard If any say or hear Masse If Papists be absent from Church a moneth together If any keep a Recusant Schoolmaster or other Recusant servant in his house If any shall voluntarily disturb the Preacher in his Sermon If any affirm that the eating of Fish or forbearing flesh at set times is necessary for our salvation or for other purpose then as a politick constitution If any frame make or publish any false scandalous or libellous Writing or Picture against another or to the disgrace of others or whereby to move contention amongst men And touching this devillish invention of Libelling and Defaming others in these dayes more frequent then ever by false and horrible lies and slanders and Pamphlets publisht even against the Parliament it self and every Member of it and every man that wishes well to it your selves can testifie how frequent it is and hath been of late and therefore I beseech you be carefull to finde out some of those who have been offenders in it And thus you have here mention of the Offences against Publike Peace which are as so many Diseases in the Heart of the Potique Body of the Commonwealth Next comes the Offences against Publike Iustice which are also to be found out by us and these are either against Iustice in the generall or are Offences by Officers trusted in particular Administrations or by Artificers and Labourers and Masters and servants Offences against Justice in generall IF any be a common stirrer and procurer of Law-Sutes or a common Brabler or Quarreller among his Neighbours this is Barratry If any Buy or Contract for a pretended Right or Title to Land or other thing in Controversie of Suite this is unlawfull buying of Titles If any maintain the Law-Suite of another to have part of the thing in demand or otherwise this is maintenance of Champerty If any get Goods of another into his hands by false Tokens and Messages this is a deceit punishable If any counterfeit any Deed or Writing and publish it as true this is Forgerie If any corrupt a Jurie man by Briberie or Menace to divert him from giving a just Verdict this is Imbracerie If any corrupt you of the Grand-Jurie by Bribes or otherwise to make favourable Presentments If any Informer upon Poenall Laws do not duely pursue his Information or if he sue out Processe before the Information be exhibited or compound before the Defendant hath answered or after answer without License If any wilfully and corruptly swear falsly in evidence to a Jurie it is perjury and to procure another so to do is subornation of Perjurie If any take more Interest upon Loan of Money then after 8 l. per Centum for a year this is unlawfull Usury and Extortion Touching publike Officers trusted in the administration of Justice and failing in their duty First the Sheriffe THis is a great Officer and is much trusted in the Service of the People and by the Statute of Articulum super Chartas is to be chosen yearly by the People that they might the better be assured of those they trusted But this Priviledge of Election among others the People have lost and the Court of later Times did learn how to make profit both by Electing Sheriffs as also by keeping them off from being Elected In his Office you finde him a Judge and a Minister of Justice He is a Judge in his Court called the Turne and sits as Judge and hath the profits in the Court called The Countie Court Touching the Turne If the Sheriffe or his Deputy do not send Indictments found in his Turne to the next Sessions If the Sheriff or Bailiffs arrest any person upon an Indictment in his Turne or levie the Fines or Amerciaments imposed in his Turne without Warrant indented from the Sessions Touching the Countie Court If the Sheriffe or his Bailiffe enter Plaints in his Countie Court in the Absence of the Plaintiffe or of some other known person authorized by him If the Sheriffe or his Bailiffs enter more Plaints then one in his Countie Court upon one Cause of Action If the Sheriffe or his Bailiffs fail to Summon the Defendant to appear at the County Court If the Sheriffe or his Bailiffs leavie the Amerciaments set in the Countie Court upon the Defendants for not Appearing call'd The Sheriffs Amerciaments without an indented Estreet between him and two Justices of the Peace as a Minister of Justice As a Minister of Justice If the Sheriffe let his Countie or Bailiwick to farme If the Sheriffe or his Bailiffes collect the Greenwax Estreats of the Exchequer without shewing the Estreats under Seal If the Sheriffs Officer or Gaoler for any cause but Court-Fees detain any prisoner in Gaol after the Court hath discharged him If any Sheriffe make out any Warrant to make an Arrest not having the Processe then in his custody If the Sheriff or his Deputie take for Breaking-up a Common Law mean Processe and making an Arrest above two shillings four pence viz. twenty pence the Warrant four pence the Arrest and four pence the Bond if the Defendant be bound or four pence the Gaoler if the Defendant come to the Gaole If the Sheriff or his Deputy take above one shilling at pound for raising an Execution under one hundred pounds six pence at pound for every hundred pounds more and this after the Execution is levyed If the Sheriff or his Bailiff take any Money or other Reward for sparing an Arrest or for letting to Bayl persons not Baylable or for shewing him any other favour If the Sheriffs refuse to let to Bayl persons Arrested upon mean Processes who are Baylable by Law If