Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wit_n	woman_n	year_n	23	3	4.6292	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48987	An Act of Common Councell, concerning orphans	City of London (England). Common Council.	1663 (1663)	Wing L2852X; ESTC R216715	4,866	31

AN ACT OF Common Councell Concerning ORPHANS Printed by James Flesher Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON 1663. Commune Concilium tentum in Guildhald ' civitatis London decimo tertio die Octobris anno regni Edwardi sexti Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regis fidei defensor ' in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hiberniae supremi capit ' quinto coram Andrea Judde mil ' Major ' civit ' praedict ' Recordator ' Laxton Bowes Hill Jervis White Turk Hinde Lyon Kirton Offley Aylyffe Wyther Huett Robins Lambard Vic' ac majore parte Commoniar ' c. sic ordinat ' fuit c. FOr as much as the City of London is of late years sore decayed and daily is like to decay more and more a great cause and occasion whereof among other hath been for that free-mens children Orphans of the said City sometimes in the lives of their parents and sometimes after their deceases being left wealthy and rich do bestow themselves in ungodly marriages for the most part in their young age at their own wills and pleasures without the consent and against the minds of their friends saying affirming that the Law and custome of the said City giveth unto them their portions whether they marry by the assent of their friends or not and so doe daily cast away and undoe themselves in trust to have their said portions whether their parents or friends will or not and thereby do bestow themselves upon simple and light persons having neither cunning knowledge substance ne good or honest conditions by reason whereof such Orphans inordinately and insolently doe spend and consume their patrimony and portions in short time not onely to the undoing of themselves and to the great ignominy and shame of their friends but also to the great slander of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City who being reputed and taken as fathers and protectors of the same Orphans and to the great loss and hinderance of the said City And for as much as the said Lord Maior Citizens have by their laws and customes power and authority to make laws and ordinances by their Common Councell for redress of the same It is therefore now to the intent to reduce the same to a more godly more profitable decent order and conformity by the said Lord Maior Commonalty Citizens in this present Common Councel assembled by the authority of the same Common Councel ordained enacted authorised and established for a Law perpetually to be observed and kept within the said City That if any Orphan or child of any free-man or free-woman of the said City do offend in any the things hereafter expressed and be thereof lawfully convicted afore the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen or elsewhere that then they and every of them shall to all intents purposes constructions and meanings be unabled and barred to demand and claim their portion or portions and also shall lose and forgoe and be barred for ever of all and every his her or their part or parts and portions to him or them belonging by and after the death of his said father or mother of the goods and chattels of every such father and mother by reason of any law custome ordinance usage franchise priviledge act of Common Councel or other things heretofore had or used within the said City the same Law custome ordinance or other thing whatsoever heretofore had made ordained allowed and put in ure to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding That is to wit First If any man child or woman child shall maliciously go about or attempt to doe or cause to be done any bodily harm death or destruction to his or their father or mother or if any man child do hereafter marry or contract marriage in the life of his father or mother by whom he will claim any portion under the age of one twenty years without the consent of his said father or mother by whom he will claim any portion or if any woman child doe hereafter marry or contract marriage in the life of her father or other parents by whom shee shall claim any portion before the age of eighteen years without the consent of her father or such other parent by whom shee shall or may claim any portion or if any man child be a thief or a felon or common whorehaunter or common dicer or common player at unlawfull games notoriously known or if any woman child shall hereafter commit any whoredome or be a common picker that then every of the persons so offending shall be barred excluded to have or demand any portion Provided alwaies that it shall be lawfull for the father or mother of any such child or children to give and bequeath in legacy to such child or children as much as the portion of such child so offending shall amount unto by the custom of the said City and then such child thereby to be enabled to have and demand the same as portion this act notwithstanding so that the same legacy be contained in his or their testament in writing and not otherwise and that then and from thenceforth his said child or children to be admitted and restored to claim such legacy or legacies in such sort manner form as if there had been never such offence done or committed by any such child Item it is further ordained enacted authorised and established by authority aforesaid that if any woman child being an Orphan under the age of xxi years at any time hereafter after the death of her father doe censure or contract her selfe in marriage or else according to the Ecclesiasticall laws of this Realm do perfectly solemnize or consummate marriage with any free-man of this City the consent agreement of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said City of London for the time being not obtained had that then for every such default offence committed or done by any Orphan or Orphans of the said city the same being confessed or sufficiently proved by two witnesses or otherwise before the Lord Maior Aldermen of this said City of London for the time being at in a Court of Aldermen she or they that so happen to behave her or themselves as is aforesaid shall forfeit and forgoe and lose xii d. of and for every pound so due or to be due unto her or them by reason of any such Orphanage The summe of xii d. of every pound to goe or be to the use of the Chamber of the said City according to the ancient custome before this time in such case used And if the said contract or marriage of the said Orphan or orphans be made with any foreine not being free of this City at the time of any such contract or marriage made that then the said Orphan or Orphans every of them shall forfeit lose three shillings of every pound due or to be due unto her or them by vertue of any Orphanage