Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	alderman_n	lord_n	mayor_n	5,732	4	9.6939	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66128	The declaration of His Highness the Prince of Orange concerning papists not departing from the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles adjacent.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)	1689 (1689)	Wing W2326; ESTC R18879	1,141	1

THE DECLARATION OF His Higness the Prince of Orange CONCERNING PAPISTS not departing from the Cities of London and Westminster and Ten Miles adjacent WHEREAS the Lords Spiritual and Temporal by their Order of the Two and twentieth of December last past For the better preservation of the Peace and common Safety did Require That all Papists except as in the said Order is Excepted should within Five Days after the Date of the said Order depart from the said Cities to their respective Habitations from which not to remove above Five Miles distant as in and by the said Order Printed and Published more at large appears And whereas notwithstanding the said Order and the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom great Numbers of the said Papists not Excepted in the said Order are still remaining in the said Cities of London and Westminster and places within Ten Miles Adjacent raising and fomenting Jealousies and Discontents by false rumours and suggestions deluding and seducing the unwary and conspiring Civil Dissentions and Insurrections to destroy the Peace and Quiet of this Kingdom IN pursuance of the good intents in the said Order mentioned We do hereby Declare and Require all Papists and reputed Papists not Excepted in the said Order within Three Days after the Date hereof to depart from the said Cities and Ten Miles compass of the same or otherwise to be taken and proceeded against and expect the utmost severity that the Law for their Offences can inflict upon them AND for the better making this Our DECLARATION effectual We do hereby Require the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen of the said City and all Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Constables and other Officers within their respective Counties Cities Parishes and Places to cause diligent search to be made and such as they find abiding or lurking contrary to the said Order to Apprehend and as Papists and persons suspected to be Conspiring and Plotting against the Peace and Good of the Kingdom to Commit and Imprison to detain till discharged by due course of Law. AND for the better finding out and discovering all such Papists and reputed Papists We hereby Require the Constables and Beadles of every Parish within the said Cities and Limits to go through their respective Parishes and Precincts and to take Accounts in Writing from the respective House-keepers of the Names Qualities and Additions of all Lodgers within their respective Houses and whether they are Protestants or reputed Papists and their Accounts so taken under their hands to deliver to the next respective Justice or Justices of the Peace by them to be returned and certified to Us under their Hands and Seals And that the said respective Justices of the Peace cause also the Names of the said Constables of the respective Parishes to be certified to Us that thereby We may see how this Our DECLARATION is observed AND whereas We have granted Passes to several persons to Transport themselves beyond the Seas We do hereby farther Declare That if they do not depart from the said Cities of London and Westminster according to the Tenor of this our Declaration then all such Passes shall be void and of no effect Given at St. James 's the Fourteenth Day of January 1688. W. H. Prince of Orange LONDON Printed by J. Starkey and A. and W. Churchill MDCLXXXIX