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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83273	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the speedy raising and leavying of money thorowout the whole kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, for the relief of the Common-wealth, by taxing such as have not at all contributed or lent, or not according to their estates and abilities. Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown. Cleric. Parl. H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2051; Thomason E101_18; ESTC R21221	9,851	15

to be called are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said respective Collectors in the premisses as they will answer the contrary thereof And if any under-tenant shall be distrained for any sum to be assessed by vertue of this Ordinance which the Land-lord ought to pay according to the purport and true meaning hereof Then it shall be lawfull for such Tenant to deduct such sum out of the next payment of his Rent and this Ordinance shall be his discharge And if no sufficient distresse bee found then the said Collectors respectively shall have power to inquire of any summe or summes of money due or to be due unto the persons respectively so assessed as aforesaid from any person or persons for any Rents Tythes goods or Debts or for any other thing or cause whatsoever And to compound any of the said Rents Tithes Goods or Debts due unto the said person so assessed respectively as aforesaid with any person or persons by whom the said Rents Tithes Goods or Debts are or shall be owing as also to give full and ample discharge for the money by them so received upon Composition or otherwise which discharge shall be good and effectuall to all intents and purposes And be it further Ordained that if any person or persons shall find themselves aggrieved that he or they are or is over-rated such person or persons at any time before distresse taken of his or their goods he or they then paying the one moity of what he or they shall bee assessed at to the Collectors for the place or places where such person or persons shall bee assessed may complaine to the respective Committees who have executed this Ordinance within the division or limit where any such person or persons over-rated shall inhabit which said respective Committees or any two of them shall have power upon examination to releeve such person or persons if they shall see cause And for the better incouragement of the Collectors in the said service It is ordained That the said respective Collectors shall have for the money so to be Collected by them which they shall pay in to the said Treasurers at Guild-hall London two pence in the pound for every summe by them or any of them paid in there according to this Ordinance which said allowance the treasurers aforesaid are hereby Authorized to make accordingly And to the end all the moneys aforesaid may be duly collected Bee it further Ordained that the severall and respective Assessors within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales shall within one weeke next after their respective Assessements made returne their severall Assessements unto the respective Committees aforesaid for the respective divisions or limits where the said Assessements shall be made who or any two of them are hereby respectively required within ten dayes after the respective returnes of such severall Assessements to deliver a Copie thereof subscribed with their or two of their hands to the severall Collectors within their said respective Divisions or Limits And also within the like ten dayes to send up another Copie thereof to the said Treasurers in Guild-Hall London to the end the said Treasurers may thereby know what they are to receive of every Parish and place within this Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales And if any Assessor or Collector nominated as aforesaid shall be negligent or faulty in the said service The said Committees for the Division or limit where such Assessor shall so be negligent or faulty or any two of them shall have power to commit such Assessor or Collector to Prison and to set such fine upon him as they shall thinke fit not exceeding the summe of one hundred pounds the same to be leavied by distresse and sale of the offendors goods to the uses herein mentioned in such sort as is herein before appointed for such as refuse to pay the Rates assessed upon them And shall have power to nominate other Assessors and Collectors in their Roomes and shall also certifie the said Offence to the Lords and Commons in Parliament And it is further Ordained that if any person or persons so assessed as aforesaid shall within tenne dayes next after the Assessement made and demand thereof made or notice left in writing at his or their usuall place of residence or aboad of the summe so assessed voluntarily pay the summe on such person or persons assessed to the Collector or Collectors for the place where he or they shall be assessed without being distrained for the same Then the said Collector or Collectors shall give such person or persons an Acquittance for such summe and summes of money and the same shall be repaid upon the publicke faith in such sort as moneys lent upon the Propositions aforesaid are to be repaid And if any person or persons so assessed and rated as aforesaid shall conceale or convey away his or their goods so that no distresse can be taken or that the said summe or summes so assessed upon him cannot bee had or levied by any the wayes or meanes in this Ordinance mentioned then the said Collectors shall respectively certifie the same to the Committee of the Commons house in Parliament for Examinations who shall hereby have power to send for such person or persons as Delinquents and to commit him or them prisoners to such place or places within this Kingdome and for so long time as the said Committee shall by the said Ordinance appoint Provided also that where any former Ordinance of both houses of Parliament hath beene made for the taxing and assessing of any County City or place according to the Tenor or effect of this present Ordinance Which former Ordinance is by the Committees therein named executed in part and not wholly That there the Committees appointed by such former Ordinance shall proceed in the full and through execution of the same former Ordinance and that this present Ordinance shall not be there executed Provided alwayes and be it further Ordained that such which have beene rated and Assessed in London Westminster Southwarke or the Suburbs of London or Westminster by vertue of an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament of the twenty ninth of November last past and have paid their Assesments or their said assesments fully satisfied by distress shall not again be rated in any other place by vertue hereof And be it lastly ordained That all and every the Assessors and Collectors aforesaid and all that shall assist them in the premisses shall be protected by both Houses of Parliament from all damage that may come to them or any of them by this service And shall further receive such allowances for their pains and charges in the execution of the premisses as the Committee of Lords Commons for advance of moneys and other necessaries for the Army raised by the Parliament shall limit and appoint Provided also That no person shall be rated or assessed by force of this Ordinance who is not truly worth ten pounds per annum in Lands or other yeerly profits or worth one hundred pounds in goods or personall estate at the time of such Assesment Lastly be it ordained That where no Committees are by this Ordinance named for any County City or place That such other Committees as shall be hereafter nominated by both Houses of Parliament or any two of such Committees shall and may put this Ordinance in execution within any such County City or Place in such manner and forme as the Committees herein named or any two of them may according to the purport and true meaning thereof Provided that no Evidences or Conveyances or Writings concerning Lands of any person or persons whatsoever shall be distreined or taken away by vertue of this Ordinance or any thing herein contained Provided always that no Member of either of the Houses of Parliament or any assistant of the House of Peers shal be rated assessed taxed distremged or otherwise molested by vertue or reason of this Ordinance or any thing herein contained in any wise But that the Members of either House shall be assessed by that House whereof they are Members and the assistants of the Peers by the Peers by the House of Peers FINIS