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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	esquire_n	john_n	thomas_n	20,115	5	10.2328	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22610	Charles by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., to all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deanes, and their officials ... to whome these presents shall come, greeting whereas we are credibly giuen to vnderstand, that by reason of grieuous visitation in this time of the great contagion of the plague amongst our poore subiects ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1636 (1636)	STC 9074; ESTC S3768	2,198	1

DIEV ET MON DROIT CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France Ireland defender of the Faith c. To all and singular Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Deanes and their Officials Parsons Uicars Curates and to all Spirituall persons And also to all Justices of Peace Maiors Sheriffes Bailiffes Constables Church-wardens and Headboroughes And to all Officers of Cities Boroughes and Townes corporate And to all other Our Officers Ministers and Subiects whatsoeuer they be aswell within Liberties as without to whom these presents shall come greeting Whereas we are credibly giuen to vnderstand that by reason of grieuous visitation in this time of the great Contagion of the Plague amongst Our poore Subiects in the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwarke and parts adioyning the inhabitants of some Parishes and places are brought into such distresse as that the Parishes are not able of themselues to support and relieue the poore of the said Parishes and to prouide for the infected and for the necessary watching and warding of the houses which are shut And albeit the Justices of Peace haue done their best endeauours by taxing the Parishes and Townes adiacent to supply these wants and necessities yet so many difficulties haue occurred that although for the time past they haue prouided in some competent measure yet by the continuance of the Infection they finde the burden to grow euery day more and more heauy Whereof Our selfe being informed on the twenty fifth of September last haue with the aduice of Our Councell thought fit that for the present a Collection should be made of the charitable Beneuolences of well disposed people within the Cities of London and Westminster and in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey and Borough of Southwarke and to the Beneuolence of all Cities Townes Corporate Villages and Priuiledged places within the said Counties not extending the same further for the present because it is hoped that by Gods goodnesse the Infection will abate the Winter season and cold weather now approaching before it shall be needfull to pray the ayde of more remote Counties Not doubting but that all good Christians duely considering the misery and pitifull calamity which so many poore distressed and deiected Christians doe vndergoe by such an ineuitable and grieuous visitation will in their owne pious commiseration of their great extremity be herewith moued out of the bowels of compassion and forward as feeling members one of anothers miseries freely and willingly to extend their liberall Contributions towards the reliefe and comfort of a number of wretched creatures in this their great necessity KNOW YE therefore that We well weighing the wofull and lamentable estates of Our said poore and distressed Subiects and commiserating the same of Our especiall grace and Princely compassion doe order and grant that a Collection be made of the charitable deuotions and liberalities of all Our louing Subiects within the seuerall Counties Cities and Townes Corporate aboue named for and towards the reliefe and succour of the said poore inhabitants of London and other Infected places adioyning Which Collection We will grant appoint and require shall be ordered in manner and forme following That is to say We will grant appoint and require all and singular Parsons Vicars Curats of the seuerall Churches and Chappels within the said Counties Precincts Cities Villages and Townes Corporate aboue mentioned with all possible speed to publish and recommend this Collection to the charity of all well disposed persons within their Churches and Precincts with an especiall exhortation to the people for the better stirring vp of their liberall and extraordinary Contributions in so good and charitable a deed And We will and command that you the Churchwardens of every Parish within the Counties Cities and places aforesaid respectiuely to take a care of the furtherance of the said Collection And if any housholder or parishioner be absent when these Our Letters Patents shall be there published you the said Churchwardens to goe to the habitations of such persons and to aske their charity for the purpose aforesaid And what shall be by you so gathered to be by the Minister and your selues endorsed on the backside of these Our Letters Patens or the Copy or Briefe hereof in words at length and not in figures with your names subscribed thereunto And the summe and summes of money so gathered and endorsed to be paid ouer as is hereafter mentioned And lastly Our will and pleasure is that the moneys Collected in Surrey be paid ouer to the hands of Sir Thomas Grymes Knight and Edward Bromefield Esquire Justices of Peace in the said County of Surrey for the present reliefe of Southwarke Newington and other places adiacent as stand in need by reason of the Infection And the moneys collected in Middlesex to be paid to the hands of Thomas Gardiner Esquier Recorder of London and to Iohn Herne Esquier two of the Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex or to either of them for the present reliefe of Westminster and other places in Middlesex adiacent or neere to the Cities of London and Westminster as stand in need by reason of the Infection And the moneys Collected in London to be paid to the Lord Maior there for the time being and by him to be deliuered euer as there shall be any remainder at the end of his yeere to his Successor Which moneyes so Collected in London to be vpon conference betweene the said Lord Maior and Recorder of the City of London disposed as shall be most needfull not onely for the reliefe of such places as by reason of the Infection doe or shall stand in need in London Westminster and Middlesex but also as occasion and necessity shall require shall out of the same adde thereunto to the ayde and reliefe of Southwarke Newington and other places in Surrey in manner and forme before recited according to the true meaning of Our gracious intention by these Our Letters Patents Any Statute Law Ordinance or prouision heretofore made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding IN WITNES whereof We haue caused these Our Letters to be made Patents for the space of foure whole moneths next after the date hereof to endure WITNES Our selfe at Copt-hall the seuenth day of October in the twelfth yeere of Our Reigne Dawe God saue the King ¶ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie And by the Assignes of IOHN BILL 1636.