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	king_n	year_n	5,954	4	4.7354	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49068	By the maior whereas divers rude and disordered young-men, apprentices and others, do now of late presume and take to themselves a liberty ... to throw about squibs and fireworks in the streets ...	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.; Hooker, William, Sir, 1612-1697.	1674 (1674)	Wing L2885U; ESTC R41752	918	1

By the Maior WHereas divers rude and disordered Young-men Apprentices and others do now of late presume and take to themselves a Liberty beyond what hath ever been in former times to throw about Squibs and Fire-works in the Streets and Publick Passages of this City and especially in Places and at Times of greatest Resort whereby great and intolerable Mischiefs are continually done proceeding sometimes even to Murder itself as is too too evident by a late sad Example and very many Persons especially Women and Children are terrified and affrighted not daring to adventure themselves in the Streets for fear of such rude and barbarous Usage which is no where else to be parallelled in the whole World and almost all Persons of Quality upon whom the Trade of this City does very much depend being so frequently assaulted in their Coaches in that rude manner are driven and kept out from the City to secure themselves from those dangers Which disordered Practices although they have been constantly disowned and prohibited by the Authority of this City yet nothing hitherto hath been sufficient to prevent them to the great Dishonour of the Magistracy of this City the great Prejudice and Hindrance of the Trade thereof and the Scandal of this once renowned City in all civilized parts of the World The Right Honorable the Lord Maior of this City doth therefore think it fitting and necessary and highly incumbent upon him to take all possible care to obviate and prevent so rude and disordered a Practice and he doth hereby streightly charge and command that all Persons do for the future altogether forbear to throw about any Squibs Fire-brands or Fire-works at any time or upon any occasion in any the Streets or Publick Passages of this City And that all Masters of Families within the same be very diligent and careful and use their utmost endeavours to keep in and restrain their Children and Servants from doing the same In default whereof his Lordship is resolved and he doth hereby publish and declare that he will certainly inflict the utmost and severest Punishment with all possible rigor upon all such who shall hereafter be found to transgress herein And wherever any person shall be so apprehended besides their personal Punishment their Parents or Masters for neglecting the Government and their Remisness to contribute their Endeavours to the Weal and Publick Benefit of this City in the restraint of such Rudeness and Abuses shall also have marks of his Lordships Displeasure inflicted on them Given this third day of November 1674. and in the six and twentieth year of His Majesties Reign God save the King Printed by Andrew Clark Printer to the Honorable City of LONDON 1674.