Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	esq_n	henry_n	john_n	29,385	5	8.2958	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91614	The qualifications of persons, declared capable by the Rump, Parliament to elect, or be elected, Members to supply their House.		1660 (1660)	Wing Q37; Thomason E1015_6; ESTC R203349	7,291	18

and treasonable expressions Or hath call'd the present Parliament Rump Arse Bum Taile or Breech Or hath rejoyced at the interruptions thereof or wish'd it at an end Or hath Sued Arrested Revil'd Beaten Kickt Cookolded Trepand or refus'd to Trust any of the Members thereof during the intervalls Or hath any Action of Debt or Bill of Complaint against any Member now sitting and doth refuse to give the said Member a full discharge and generall release any and every such person is declar'd utterly in capable to Elect or be Elected to serve in this present or any future Parliament or of bearing any Office or place of Trust in this Common-wealth Qual VIII No man shall be judg'd rightly qualify'd nor admitted to fit in this House as a Member thereof that doth not first acknowledge this Parliament to be a Free Parliament unfounded by the Laws of God or Man that all things are expos'd to the will of the Members thereof who may freely dispose of the Estates Persons Consciences and Lives of men as they please and afterward make it lawfull That this House hath a greater power in Civill affaires then the Turk and in Spirituall then the Pope for it is Head of Churches not yet in being and judge of more Faith then all the Generall Councells ever were That it can damne and save and bind and loose in this World in dispight of the Next make what it pleases Holy or Profane True or False Scripture or Apocrypha and no man dares to question its infallibility and that every Member thereof can Vote and Swear Contradictions and make others do so too or pay them for it Qual IX No man shall be judg'd rightly qualify'd nor admitted to sit in this House untill he hath engag'd to use his Christian endeavour to carry on a thorough Reformation of the Calendar that the English Nation may no more use the Julian account nor reckon by the year of our Lord but by the Roman Indiction according to the custom of the Christians in Ancient times that is reckon the year by their Taxes and not their Taxes by the year A Reformation which this Parliament made some progresse in before their late interruption when they drew the whole year within the compasse of four months and do intend by Gods help to bring to perfection with all Convenient expedition Qual X. Whosoever makes profession of Godlinesse and holinesse of life although he be commonly reputed to be both a Fool and a Knave a notorious Villain and Diabolical Hypocrite shall neverthelesse be allowed if duly elected to be rightly qualifyed to sit in this present Parliament Provided that this capacity do not extend to Charles Fleetwood Esq John Disbrow Yeoman and Sr. Henry Vaine Knight lately Ejected John Hewson Cordwayner 〈…〉 of the City of London Ordered that Dr. John Owen Mr. Hugh Peters and Major John Wildman be included within this Qualifycation notwithstanding they are in Orders Qual XI Whosoever hath had a hand in the late Kings blood or Petitioned to bring him to tryal or hath demolished his Houses cut down his Woods or pulled down Churches to sell the materials Or can bring proofe that he hath been of one or more High Courts of Justice at one or more Committees of Sale or Sequestration of the Committee for Propagation of the Gospell Or hath been a Commissioner of the Excise a Sequestrator Treasurer or Trustee for the sail of Kings Lands or Goods or Bishops and Deanes and Chapters and Delinquents Lands And hath gotten a considerable estate by buying or selling the aforesaid Lands And can make it appear that his head is forfieted to the Tower on London-Bridge and the 4 Quarters of his Outward man to 4 respective Gates of the City if any Revolution should happen to the Generall settlement of the Nation Any and every such person is declared rightly Quallifyed to sit in this present Parliament and shall be admitted without taking any Oath at all for a mans skin is tenderer then his conscience and this world much nearer to him then the next Qual XII Whosoever can bring proofe by the losse of his eares or otherwise that hath stood the Pillory for Perjury Forgery Faction or sedition to hinder the government of the late King Or that he hath been burnt in the hand forehead or shoulder thrown over the Bar set in the stocks Carted or whipt at the tail of a cart for any thing by him done said or written against the said Government before the year 1642. shall be approved as most fitly qualified to sit in this present Parliament Provided that this shall not extend to William Prin of Swanswick Esq Utter Bencher of Lincolns-Inne nor to Major William Poe. Qual XIII Whosoever is Son Brother or Nephew or can prove himselfe to be the naturall Son or Bastard of any Member or of the Mother Sister or Wife of any Member of this Parliament now sitting or any Member thereof deceased that sate since the year 1648 and will engage to conform to the Sence of this House according to the example of the said Member unto whom he hath relation is hereby declared rightly qualifyed either to elect or be elected a Member of this present Parliament Qual XIV Whosoever can bring proof that he is a man of a publique Spirit fit for all times and occasions of approved liberty of Conscience and of courage and resolution to encounter any danger that extends to soul or body if need be rather then live out of Authority and Command or under the Laws of God or Man That he hath proper suit for the service of the present Government and can do the same things by the Spirit of God which other men are drawn to by the temptations of the Devil That he can break Oaths by providence and forswear himself to the glory of God deal falsly and treacherously with men out of Conscience and verily believeth it to be a greater sin to name Faith then to break it That Religion is his trade and God himselfe his occupation That he can hold forth any usefull though notorious untruth with convenient obstinacy untill he belives himself and so renders it no sin That he hath an excellent spirit to find out wayes of raising mony and will deserve his share both of the substance and curses of the People Any and every such Person is declared to be most aptly qualifyed to elect or be elected Member of this present Parliament Provided that this cappacity do not extend to Bullstard Whitlock Esq Richard Salway Grocer lately ejected this House Qual XV. Whosoever can produce testimony that he hath taken the late Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy the Protestation the Solemn League and Covenant the Engagement to be true and faithfull to the present Government without King or House of Lords That he hath subscribed the addresses to live and dye with Oliver and Richard Cromwell and taken the Oaths to be true and faithfull to the Governments under them and feels