Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	supremacy_n	2,485	5	10.5338	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49060	By the mayor To the aldermen of the [blank] ward we charge and command you, that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next coming, you do hold your wardmote, and that you have afore us at our general court of aldermen to be holden [blank] the Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany next coming, ...	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2883R; ESTC R213716	6,245	3

By the Mayor To the Alderman of the Ward Wardmote WE charge and command you that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next coming you do hold your Wardmote and that you have afore us at our general Court of Aldermen to be holden _____ the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next coming all the Defaults that shall be presented afore you by Inquest in the said Wardmote and the said Inquest shall have full power and authority by one whole year to enquire and present all such Defaults as shall be found within your said Ward Inquest for the year as oftentimes as shall be thought to you expedient and néedfull which we will shall be once every month at the least Inquest dying 2 And if it happen any of your said Inquest to die or depart out of your said Ward within the said year that then in place of him or them so dying or departing out of your said Ward you cause to be chosen one able person to inquire and present with the other in manner and form abovesaid Non-appearance 3 And that at the said general Court you give afore us the names and surnames of all them of your said Ward that come not to your said Wardmote if they be duly warned so that due redress and punishment of them may be had as the case shall require according to the Law Watch light Vizard 4 And that you do provide that at all times convenient conveniable Watch he kept And that Lanterns with light by nightertail in old manner accustomed be hanged forth And that no man go by nightertail without light nor with Vizard on the peril that belongeth thereto Common-Council 5 And also that you do cause to be chosen men _____ of the most sufficient honest and discréet men of your said Ward to be for your said Ward of the Common-Council of this City for the year ensuing according to the custome in that behalf yearly used And also that you do cause the said men so to be chosen to be of the Common-Council to be sworn before you and in your presence according to the Oath by them used and of old time accustomed the tenor of which Oath hereafter ensueth Ye shall swear that ye shall be true to our Sovereign Lord the KING that now is and to his Heirs and lawful Successors and readily come when ye be summoned to the Common-Council of this City but if ye be reasonably excused and good and true Counsel ye shall give in all things touching the common weal of this City after your wit and cunning And that for favour of any man ye shall maintain no singular profit against the common profit of this City And after that ye be come to the Common-Council ye shall not from thence depart till the Common-Council be ended without reasonable cause be else by the Mayor's licence And also that all secret things that be spoken or said in the Common-Council the which ought to be kept secret ye shall in no wise disclose As God you help And that together with the said Oath of their Office you administer to the said persons that shall be chosen of the Common-Council the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and the other Oath hereafter following I A. B. Do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the KING's Highness is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highness'es Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no Forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Forein Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the KING's Highness his Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the KING's Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majestie 's Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majestie 's Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any Forein Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Majesty or to give License or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majestie 's Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majestie 's Subjects within his Majestie 's Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration of sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will doe my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traitorous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do farther swear th●t I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and he●etical this damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or me tal evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon