Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	citizen_n	london_n	mayor_n	9,097	5	11.2140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49013	Com' Concil' tent' in Camera Guihald' civitat' London, die Martis undecimo die Septembris, anno regni Domini & Dominæ nostrorum, Willielmi & Mariæ ... an Act of Common Council for Regulating the Company of Masons, London.; Act of Common Council for Regulating the Company of Masons, London	City of London (England).	1694 (1694)	Wing L2861D; ESTC R39357	2,341	4

Com' Concil ' tent ' in Camera Guihald ' Civitat ' LONDON die Veneris Decimo nono die Octobr ' Anno Regni Domini Dominae Nostrorum WILLIELMI MARIAE nunc Regis Reginae Angliae c. Sexto Coram Willielmo Ashhurst Mil ' Major ' dictae Civitat ' Salathiel Lovell Mil ' Servien ' ad Legem ac Recordat ' ejusdem Civitat ' Humphrido Edwyn Mil ' Richardo Levit Mil ' Willielmo Hedges Mil ' Alderman ' Necnon Major ' parte Communiar ' dictae Civitat ' in eodem Com' Concil ' tunc ibidem Assemblat ' An ACT of Common Council for Regulating the Company of PLAISTEERERS London WHEREAS the Master and Wardens of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed MARY of PLAISTERERS London are and very anciently have been a Brotherhood or Guild and for confirmation and strengthning of Their Priviledges have obtained several ROYAL GRANTS whereby and by their Original Constitution the said Fraternity or Guild ought to be and consist of all Persons using the Trade of a ' PLAISTERER within the City of LONDON and Liberties thereof Nevertheless many Persons who use and exercise the Trade of a PLAISTERER have Obtained their Freedoms of other Companies by Patrimony Redemption and otherwise to the great Prejudice and Hindrance of the said Company of PLAISTERERS By reason whereof many and great Frauds and Deceits have been used practised and imposed upon the Citizens of this City and other Their Majesties good Subjects for want of due Government of the Artificers exercising the said Trade and for lack of frequent and due Inspection and Search of and in the Plaisterers Work which is wrought and done by them who are not Members of the said Fraternity or Guild and so not subject to the good Government of the said Company and to the good and wholsom Laws and Ordinances thereof and thereby also the said Company of Plaisterers is of late years much lessened decayed and diminished and in a short time will become Vncapable of supporting themselves and preserving the Iust and Honest use and exercise of the said Trade For Remedy and Reformation whereof and to the intent the aforesaid Mischiefs may be prevented in time to come and to the end the said Company may hereafter have the better and more easie and powerful View Search and Oversight of all Matters material and Things pertaining and used in the said Trade and to the Faithful Honest and Iust Workmanship thereof and for the more effectual punishing all Frauds Deceits Vnskilful Workmanship and other Offences in the said Art and Trade done and committed Be it Enacted Established and Ordained by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor the Aldermen his Brethren and Commons in this Common-Council Assembled and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth all and every person or persons hereafter Using or Exercising the said Trade of a PLAISTERER within the said City and Liberties thereof who hath or shall have Right or Priviledge to be made Free of this City by Patrimony Service Redemption or otherwise by virtue of his Father's Freedom in any other Company whereof his Father was is or shall be Free or by Service with any Freeman of any other Company shall at the next Court of Assistants of the said Company of PLAISTERERS after Notice thereof to him given by the Clerk or Beadle of the said Company by Order of the Master and Wardens of the said Company for the Time being accept and take upon himself the Freedom and be made a Free-man of the said Company of Plaisterers in like manner and form as he could or might have been in any other Company whereof his Father or Master was so Free as aforesaid Any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons using or exercising or which shall use or exercise the Trade of a PLAISTERER within the City of London or Liberties thereof who hath already served an Apprenticeship or shall hereafter serve an Apprenticeship in the said Trade and not yet made Free of this City or who shall procure his Freedom by Redemption Service or Patrimony of any other Company than of the said Company of PLAISTERERS and shall exercise the said Trade within the said City of London or the Liberties thereof not being Free of the said Company of Plaisterers Then all and every such Person and Persons so doing and offending in all either or any the said Cases shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Pounds of Lawful Money of England to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint to be Commenced and Prosecuted in the Name of the Chamberlain of the said City of London for the time being in Their Majesties Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be holden in the Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City of LONDON And that the Chamberlain of the said City for the Time being in all such Suits to be Prosecuted by virtue of this present Act against any such Offenders shall Recover his ordinary Costs of Suit to be Expended in and about the Prosecuting the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one Moiety of all such Forfeitures to be recovered by Virtue of this present ACT the Costs of Suit for recovery of the same being first deducted and allowed after recovery and receipt thereof shall be from time to time paid to the Chamberlain of the said City to the use of the Mayor Comminalty and Citizens of the said City of London and the other Moiety to the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Company of Plaisterers for the time being for the Vse of the Poor of the said Company And that in case the Chamberlain for the Time being shall be Nonsuited or any Verdict or Iudgment be given for the Defendant or Defendants in any such Action to be brought by virtue of this ACT That then the Costs of such Nonsuit Verdict or Judgment shall be paid and born by the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Company of PLAISTERERS for the Time being and the said Chamberlain to be fully indempnified and saved harmless by the said Master Wardens and Assistants of and from the same Any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons Vsing or Exercising the said Trade of a PLAISTERER within this City or the Liberties thereof shall be from henceforth Admitted by the Chamberlain of this City for the time being into the Freedom or Liberties thereof in any other Company than the said Company of PLAISTERERS Any Law or Custom of this City to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Goodfellow Printed by SAMUEL ROYCROFT Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON 1694.