Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	county_n	say_a	sheriff_n	8,049	5	11.8418	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85701	Legis fluvius or, The fountain of the law opened. Shewing the manner method, and forms of proceedings, and pleas on all actions and informations, grounded on all the new and old penal statutes; and the statute it self quoted, upon which every action depends. With presidents for the most usual indictmens : [sic] applicable to all courts of record. Being useful for all atturneys, clerks, and informers. / By A.G.	A. G.	1657 (1657)	Wing G2; Thomason E1647_1; ESTC R209091	51,574	151

death of the said F. H. the Testator to pay the Load of Straw and therefore the Jurors do assess vj d. for Damages and Costs of Suit ij d. therefore it was considered by the said Court that the said R. S. should have thereof Execution c. And for any other Record of any Judgement against the said R M. as Executor of the said F. H. in this Record mentioned we have no Judgement before us in the Court of Record of the said Keepers c. of the said Town of Wokingham aforesaid c. besides this to certifie as by this Writ to us it is commanded The Record and Process of the aforesaid Plaint with all things thereunto belonging before the said Keepers c. wheresoever c. at the day within specified we have sent in a certain Record to this Writ annexed as within it is to us commanded c. After this Writ was thus returned before it could be gotten out of their hands in the absence of the Defendants Attorney another Record was certified for the Plaintiff and in the Defendant's Writ of Error R. was turned into T. and S. into K. c. That is in plain English T. S. the Prosecutor and Son of the Plaintiff was then and since hath been a suborning Knave and by his Subornation and Practice he procured in this Cause an Action to be brought against Magwick in the Court of the Honor and Castle of Windsor and then while and afterwards our VVrit of Error was reformed as before they by the knavery or foolery and both together of J. H. the Steward by a VVrit of Certiorare certified a Judgement upon the second part of the Declaration of the Oath hem vah of T. Syms desparately sworn VVhereupon by surprize in Term-time they obtained a Judgement against Magwick in the Court of the Castle of Windsor and I paid the money and Case I record to Posterity for a president of the Town of Wokingham de quo nil bonum nisi ut frugam to be practised by Knaves and Fools who there grow naturally as Gold in the Indies And now since T. S. is a suborning K. and suborned his own Son H. S. to commit as he did wilful Perjury which was plainly proved at the Sessions at W. and yet c. and suborned Shag-bag to swear against F. VV. at A. and outlawed him thereupon I shall proceed to and conclude with a President for that wicked Crime equivalent to Murder Perjury Perjury Stat. 5. Eliz. Cap. 5. L. ss I. S. late of H. in the County N. Gent. was summoned to answer unto A. C. who as well for the Lady the Queen as for himself in this behalf prosecutes of a Plea that he render unto the said Lady the Queen and to the said A. 20 pounds which to the said Lady the Queen and to the said A. he oweth and unjustly deteineth c. And whereupon the said A. who as well for the said Lady the Queen as for himself prosecutes by G. H. his Attorney saith That whereas in a certain Statute in the Parliament of our said Lady the Queen now held at Westminster in the County of Middlesex the 12 day of January in the fifth yeer of Her Raign amongst other things it stands enacted by the said Lady the Queen by the consent of ●he Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in the same Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons after the 10 day of April then next following either by subornation illegal procurement sinister perswasion or any other meanes or by their own proper Act Consent or Agreement voluntarily and corruptly should commit any wilfull Perjury by his or their depositions in any Court of Chancery of our said Lady the Queen Star-Chamber White-Hall or in any Court of our Lady the Queen of Record or in any Leet view of Frank Pledge Law day Court of Antient demeasne Hundred Court Court Baron or in any Court or Courts of Stannaryes in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal or being examined ad perpetuam rei memoriam That then every person and persons so offending and being thereof lawfully convicted or atainted by the Lawes of this Land for his or their said offence shall lose and forfeit 20 pound and shall suffer imprisonment by the space of six months without bail or mainprize and that the oath of such person or persons so offending shall not from thenceforth be rendred in any Court of Record in England or Wales or the Marches of the same until the Judgement given against such person or persons be reversed by attaint or otherwise and that upon every such Aversment the parties grieved shall recover his or their damages against all every such person persons which shall recover the said Judgement so revers'd to be giv'n against them or any of them by action or actions upon the case to be prosecuted against them according to the course of the Common Law of this Land and if it shall happen that the said offender so offending have not any Goods and Chattels to the value of 20 pound that then he or they shall be set upon the Pillory in some Market-place within the County City or Burrough where such offence shall be commited by the Sheriffe or his Ministers if it shall happen to be without any City or Town-Corporate and if it shall happen to be within any City or Town-Corporate then by the chief Officer or Officers of such City or Town-Corporate or by his or their Ministers and there to have both his Ears nailed And from thence shall be for ever after disabled to swear in any Court of Record aforesaid until the Judgement shall be reversed and thereupon shall recover his damage in form aforementioned one moyety of which said forfeitures shall be to the use of our Lady the Queen her Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to such person or persons who shall be grieved or damaged by reason of such offence or offences aforementioned who shall prosecute for the same by Action of debt Bill Plaint Information or otherwise in any Court of Record wherein no wager of Law Essoyne Protection or Injunction shall be allowed as in the same Statute amongst other things more plainly appeareth Neverthelesse the said I. the Statute aforesaid little weighing nor the penaltie in the same contained any wise fearing after the said 10th day of April in the yeer c. at L. c. before I. M. c. then being Commissioners c. by vertue of a certain Comission to them and others directed out of the Court of Chancery at Westminster in the County of Middlesex to examine Witnesses upon a certain Issue between c. And the said I did then and there voluntarily and corruptly commit willful Perjury against the form of the Statute aforesaid that is to say by speaking in English these words following c. whereas in truth the said I. and A. did never c. by reason