Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	day_n	great_a	town_n	4,664	4	6.2812	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12719	Whereas at the late rising of the first session of our Parliament, wee did prorogue the same vntill the seuenth day of February next, ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1604 (1604)	STC 8365; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 506.h.10[47]	921	1

❧ By the King WHereas at the late rising of the first Session of our Parliament Wee did prorogue the same vntill the seuenth day of February next intending then to holde at that time another Session thereof Wee haue since bene informed from diuers parts of our Realme that some contagion of Sickenesse doeth yet so continue in many of our principall Cities and Townes and is also scattered in diuers other places of lesse note as if we should against the Spring of the yeere draw so great a concourse of people together as the assembly of the Parliament bringeth with it the continuance whereof is vncertaine it were much to be doubted that the infection of the Plague might be renewed againe in our Citie of LONDON which is our Chamber and the place of our most ordinary residence as it did the first yeere of our entry by reason of the great assembly at our Coronation which if the setling of our State here had not necessarily required to be then performed Wee would haue forborue And forasmuch also as for these two yeeres past by reason of our entry into this our Kingdome our Coronation the holding of our Parliament and such other Solemnities requiring the presence of persons of the best sort the most part of the Gentlemen of qualitie of this Realme haue bene absent from the places of their ordinary aboad whereby the Countreys haue wanted their assistance in the gouernment of them and our people the comfort of their presence and Hospitalitie Wee haue therefore thought it conuenient to prorogue our said Parliament vntill the thirde day of October next ensuing at which time we intend by Gods grace to hold another Session thereof And in the meane time all those who repaired hither about the Commission concerning the Vnion or doe now reside here in expectation of that Session of our Parliament at the time appointed may returne to their owne homes vntill the said third day of October when Wee will expect againe their attendance And in the meane time Wee doe straightly charge and command them and all others who haue any trust to them from Vs either in the Commission of the Peace or otherwise for the good gouernment of our people that they doe immediatly repaire home to their owne dwellings to attend to such Seruices as to them belong to doe whereof by their absence both Wee and our Subiects are defrauded Giuen at our Pallace of Westminster the xxiiij day of December in the second yeere of our Reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland God saue the King Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO DOM. 1604.