Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	kingdom_n	part_n	5,398	4	4.2683	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79013	By the King. A proclamation forbidding all assessing, collecting, and paying of the twentieth part and of all vveekly taxes by colour of any order or ordinances, and all entring in protestations and associations against his Majestie.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2641; Thomason 669.f.5[148]; ESTC R211768	1,367	1

CR DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King ❧ A Proclamation forbidding all Assessing Collecting and Paying of the Twentieth Part and of all VVeekly Taxes by Colour of Orders or Ordinances And all entring into Protestations and Associations against his Majestie WHereas an actuall and open Rebellion being raised against Vs under the Command of Robert Earle of Essex and diverse other Traiterous Persons for the destruction of Vs and Our Posterity and the subversion of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Our Kingdom great Endeavours are daily used to perswade and fright Our good Subjects in Our City of London and thorowout this Kingdom to submit to severall illegall Impositions by pretended Orders or Ordinances of one or both Houses of Parliament for the levying of the Twentieth Part of their Estates and for VVeekly Taxes upon the same and to engage them into unwarrantable Protestations and Associations to no other end then to foment and maintain this unnaturall VVarre against Vs All which Contributions Protestations and Associations are by the known Law of the Land Acts of High Treason and Endeavours to take Our Life from Vs VVe do therefore strictly charge and command all Our loving Subjects whatsoever and particularly of Our Counties of Norfolk Suffolke Hertford Essex Cambridge Kent Surrey Sussex South-Hampton North-Hampton Leicester Derby Rutland Nottingham Huntingdon Bedford and Buckingham where this Association hath been already attempted upon their Allegiance not to enter into any such Association or Protestation And all Our loving Subjects in what parts of this Our Realm soever particularly of Our City of London not to submit to any such Imposition Levy or Tax as aforesaid nor to presume to be assistant thereunto by Assessing Taxing Levying or Collecting thereof And VVe do hereby publish and declare That VVe are resolved to grant out Our Commissions for the seizing of the Goods and the sequestring of the Estates of all such Persons as shall rebelliously disobey Vs herein To the Intent that such their Goods and Rents may be safely deposited untill such time as the Offendors can be brought to a Legall Tryall which shall speedily proceed against them as soon as they can be apprehended and delivered into the hands of Iustice And VVe do hereby will and command all Persons who are any wayes indebted unto and all the severall Tenants of all such Persons who shall by submitting to or assisting of any such Imposition Levy or Tax contribute to the maintenance of the Armies in Rebellion against Vs or that shall joyn in any such Traiterous Association or Protestation That they forbear to pay any Rents or Debts due to the said severall Persons but detain the same in their hands towards the maintenance of the Peace of the Counties and the Reparation of such men who have suffered by the Violence of the aforesaid Armies The same course being already taken by publique Order and directions against such as have faithfully and according to their Allegiance assisted Vs against this unnaturall Rebellion And as VVe have heretofore declared That whosoever sould lose his Life in this Our necessary Defence the VVardship of his Heire should be granted by Vs without Rent or Fine to his own use so on the other side VVe do here by publish and declare That whosoever of Our Subjects shall not make use of this Our gracious VVarning but persist in or hereafter engage themselves into either actuall bearing Arms against Vs or any such Traiterous Assistance of those that do bear Arms either by Contribution or Association as aforesaid in case they dye or be so killed during this Rebellion that the Coroner cannot have Inspection of their bodies their Heires shall have no benefit by Our Instructions of Grace to Our Court of VVards The Benefit of which VVe shall ever be carefull that all Our good Subjects may fully enjoy Given at Our Court at Oxford the Eight day of March in the eighteenth yeer of our Reign 1642. God save the King