Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	borough_n	sir_n	thomas_n	31,898	5	10.8634	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83504	Three ordinances, declarations and votes of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the present assessing of all such within the cities of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, that have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament. With the additionall instructions to the Lord Maior, &c. and the assessors and collectors of the said contributions.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2358; Thomason E83_3; ESTC R776	6,569	12

THREE ORDINANCES DECLARATIONS and VOTES of the Lords and Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT For the present assessing of all such within the Cities of London Westminster and the Borough of Southwark that have not contributed upon the propositions of both Houses of Parliament With the Additionall instructions to the Lord Maior c. and the Assessors and Collectors of the said Contributions Die Martis 20 Decemb. 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that these Ordinances Declarations Votes be forthwith printed and published I. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright in the Old-baily Decemb. 22. 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the King seduced by wicked Councell hath raised warre against the Parliament and great numbers of Forces are dayly raised under the command of Papists and other ill affected persons by Commissions from his Majesty and whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publique Justice by His Majesties Army and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Souldiers of the said Army who have no respect to the Lawes of God or the Land but burne and plunder the houses and seize and destroy the persons and goods of divers His Majesties good Subjects And whereas for the maintenance of the said army divers assessements are made upon severall Counties and his Majesties Subjects are compelled by the Souldiers to pay the same which said army if it should continue would soon ruine and waste the whole Kingdome and overthrow Religion Law and Liberty For suppressing of which said army and ill affected persons ther 's no probable way under God but by the army raised by authority of the Parliament which said army so raised cannot be maintained without great summes of money yet for raising such summes by reason of his Majesties withdrawing himselfe from the advice of the Parliament there can be no act of Parliament passed with his Majesties assent albeit there is great Justice that the said monies should be raised The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said army so raised by them hath beene hitherto for the most part maintained by the voluntary contributions of divers well affected persons who have freely contributed according to their abilities But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs of the same and also within the Borough of Southwarke that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said army or if they have yet not answerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army aswell as any others and therefore 't is most just that they should aswell as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by authority thereof That Isaac Pennington Lord Major of the City of London Sir Iohn Wollaston Knight and Alderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowke Sir Thomas Soams Knight and Alderman Samuell Vassell Iohn Venn Morris Thompson and Richard Warring Citizens or any four of them shall hereby have power and authority to nominate and appoint in every Ward within the City of London fix such persons as they or any foure of them shall thinke fit which said six so nominated or any foure of them shall hereby have power to enquire of any that shall remaine or be within the said severall Wards that have not contributed upon the propositions of both houses of parliament concerning the raising of money plate horse horsemen and armes for defence of the King and both houses of parliament and also of such as are able men that have contributed yet not according to their estates and abilities And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their severall and respective Wards and limits shall have power to assesse such person and persons as are of ability and have not contributed and also such as have contributed yet not according to their ability to pay such sum or sums of money according to their estates as the said assessors or any four of them shall think fit and reasonable so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their estates and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection thereof and if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the money assessed upon him It shall be lawfull to and for the said assessors and collectors or any of them to leavy the said sum so assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of the person so assessed and refusing and if any person so distreined shall make resistance It shall be lawfull to and for the respective assessors and collectors or any of them to call to their assistance any the Trained bands of the said City of London or any other his Majesties Subjects who are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said assessors and collectors in the premisses and it is hereby farther ordained that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwarke together with the severall Committees appointed for the subscriptions of money plate horse horse-men and armes within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough in such manner as the Lord Major c. hath for the City of London and the said assessors or any four of them to name Collectors as aforesaid Which said assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits as those to be nominated within the said Citie of London have hereby limited to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the shire where the said suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name assessors and they so named or any foure of them and the collectors by them to be nominated or any of them within their respective limits shall have the like power respectively as the assessors and collectors for London have by vertue of this Ordinance And be it ordained that the sums so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild-Hall London to the hands of Sir Iohn Wollaston Knight John Warner John Towes and Thomas Andrews Aldermen or any two of them and the assessors and collectors to be nominated by vertue hereof shall weekely report to the committee of the House of Commons for the propositions aforesaid what sums of money have bin assessed and what sums have bin levied weekely according to the purport hereof and the said monies so levyed and paid in shall be issued forth in such sort as the other monies raised upon the propositions aforesaid and not otherwise Die Martis 29 Novemb. 1642. WHereas a late Ordinance is passed by both houses of Parliament for the reasons therein declared for the assessing of all such persons within the Cities of London and Westminster and the