Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	pay_v	say_a	sum_n	3,002	5	8.9846	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80264	At Edinburgh, the 9th day of July, 1696 Whereas the books of subscription to the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, have continued open at Edinburgh for the twenty sixth day of February last, to this instant; ...	Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5593; ESTC R231864	906	1

AT EDINBURGH The 9 th Day of July 1696. WHEREAS the Books of Subscription to the COMPANY of SCOTLAND Trading to AFRICA and the INDIES have continued open at Edinburgh from the Twenty Sixth Day of February last to this Instant And altho' continuing the Subscriptions in SCOTLAND so long hath been very prejudicial to the Affairs of the COMPANY at Home and Abroad Yet in regard that all Doubts and Difficulties may be fully Obviated and no reasonable Means or Opportunity omitted to make this the most Diffusive and National Joynt-Stock in the World The COURT of DIRECTORS of the said COMPANY Do hereby Agree and Declare that the said Books of Subscriptions shall continue open until Saturday the first Day of August next at Six a Clock in the Afternoon And the said COURT of DIRECTORS do further Resolve Publish and Declare that if any of the Subscribers of the said COMPANY shall neglect to pay the first Quarter-part of their Subscriptions until the Tenth Day of the said Month of August That then and from thence-forward the Share of Stock belonging to such Person or Persons shall either be Pursued for according to Law or Transferr'd and Dispos'd of by the said COURT to such as will Adventure and pay the Sum or Sums required at the Pleasure of the said COURT of DIRECTORS Published by Order of COVRT ROD. MACKENZIE Sec ry EDINBURGH the 3 d of August 1696. THE above-written ACT of the said COVRT of DIRECTORS was Read Considered and Approved of by the COVNCIL-GENERAL of the said COMPANY And the said COVNCIL-GENERAL Doth hereby further Enact and Declare That the said COVRT of DIRECTORS may at any time after the said Tenth Day of August instant Invest in themselves for the COMPANY' 's Vse the respective Shares and Interests of such Subscribers or Proprietors in the Joynt-Stock of the said COMPANY as shall either neglect or refuse to Pay or Cause Pay the first Fourth-Payment of the respective Sums Subscribed by them as aforesaid before the said Tenth Day of August And that upon such Investment the said COVRT of DIRECTORS or any appointed by them for that intent may thereafter Transferr the several Shares and Interests not paid as aforesaid to such as by advancing the several Sums required shall become Proprietors thereof Then a Report being made to the said COVNCIL-GENERAL by the COMPANY' 's Chief-Accomptant that the compleat Sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling was Subscribed in the Books of the said COMPANY by Persons residing in SCOTLAND The said COVNCIL-GENERAL have Ordered the said Books of Subscription to be closed and that the same be hereby Published and Declared accordingly DAVID HOME P.