Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	honourable_a	lord_n	right_n	5,719	4	7.1392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72796	Commune concilium tentum in camera Guild-hall, civitatis London, tricesimo primo Augusti, anno Regni Domini nostri, Jacobi nunc Regis, Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hibern. fidei defensor. &c. decimo nono Coram Francisco Jones milite, Majore Civitat. London, ... Forasmuch as the due execution of the place and office of constable hath of late beene more neglected then heretofore, ...; Acts & Orders. 1621-08-31	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; Jones, Francis	1640 (1640)	STC 16737.7; ESTC S125097	1,950	3

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Commune Concilium tentum in Camera Guild-hall Civitatis London tricesimo primo die Augusti anno Regni Domini nostri JACOBI nunc Regis Angliae Franciae Hibern Fidei Defensor c. decimo nono Coram Francisco Jones milite Majore Civitat London Heanagio Finch Armigero Recordatore ejusdem Civitat Thoma Bennet milite Thoma Low milite Johanne Leman 〈◊〉 Alexandro Prescot Martino Lumley Willielmo Gore Willielmo Holliday Hugone Hamarsly Jacobo Cambel Nicholas Aldermannis ac Edwardo Allen Roberto Ducy Aldermannis Vicecomit● 〈…〉 Civitatis 〈◊〉 majori parte Commun … 〈◊〉 Civitatis existent assemblant c. FOrasmuch as the due execution of the place and Office of Constable hath of late beene more neglected then heretofore aswell for that by reason that men of ability and the better sort are for small fines discharged of that seruice as also for that such as are Constables are not ready to be found and many times turn the seruices which themselues ought to performe to inferiour ministers For reformation whereof and for the better direction and ordering of the election of Constables within this Citie and Liberties and Suburbs thereof It is ordained and enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Maior and the right Worshipfull the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in this common Councell assembled and by the authority of the same That no person shall be from henceforth freed or exempted from bearing the Office of Constable within any the precincts of this City or the Liberties therof if he be thereunto duly elected except Strangers born and such as by the Lawes of this Land ought to be exempted bu● shall vndergo and serue the same Office in his own person and shall be sworne for the due execution thereof Neuerthelesse if any person hereafter to be chosen Constable shall after such Oath taken make known to the Alderman of the Ward within which precinct he shall be chosen Constable for the time being or to the Deputie or Deputies and common Councell of the same Ward That he is not able to execute the same in regard of age or weaknesse of body or by reason of some necessary affaires beyond the Seas or other occasion and that they or the greater number of them shall allow of such cause If then such person so elected shall procure a fit person such as shall be allowed and approued of by such Alderman Deputy or Deputies and common Councell of such Ward or the greater number of them to serue him and as his deputie in the Office of Constable then such person so to be procured shall be admitted and sworne to serue the same place and Office And it is further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That euery Constable or his deputie to be allowed and sworne as aforesaid shall watch in his owne person as his turne or watch night commeth about and shall not put in his place the Beadle of the Ward or some one of the watch-men as hath too commonly been accustomed except such Constable or deputie shall be then sick or hindered or letted by any reasonable or lawfull cause And for that the Ward of Faringdon without is very spacious and many dangerous suspected persons inhabite lodge and resort thither It is therefore ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid That the sixteen Constables of the said Ward shall by two in a night within their precincts watch in seuerall places of the said ward viz One on S. Sepulchres side and the other on Fleetstreet side And that the seuerall Deputies of the seuerall wards may haue from the Chamber of London printed Pasports to be delivered to the seuerall Constables or their deputies as cause shall require to passe and send away such rogues and vagrants as appeare not to be incorrigible from Constable to Constable to the proper place of their abode according to the Statute in that behalfe made And forasmuch as the City generally is more full of able and sufficient men to beare the Office of Constable then hath beene heretofore It is therefore enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That if any Constable hereafter be chosen and sworne and shall haue serued one yeere in precincts where they haue formerly been chosen two yeers before and that there bee sufficient choice of men in the precincts Then the Inhabitants within the seuerall precincts may haue libertie at their pleasure to excuse and dispense with that Constable for his second yeers seruice prouided That he pay towards the necessary charges and seruice of the ward in any extraordinary accidents or occasions such summe of money and not exceeding fiue pounds as by the Alderman his Deputy and common Councell men or the greater part of them shall be appointed the same to be paid to to the Church-wardens of the Parish wherein the said precinct is to the vse of the ward and to be called for by the Alderman or his Deputie or Deputies when occasion shall require And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That such persons as now serue or hereafter shall be chosen to the place of common Councell men in the seuerall wards of this City and Liberties thereof if they shall alter their habitations from the ward wherein they were so chosen to another ward that then they shall not be chosen in that second Ward to inferiour place of Scauenger or Constable nor be returned by the Wardmote Inquest to be of the grand or petty Iuries if there shall be other able and sufficient men to serue and supply those places and seruices any thing heretofore vsed to the contrary notwithstanding G●●●a●● the King Printed by Robert Young Printer to the Honourable Citie of LONDON Anno Dom. 1640.