Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	john_n	richard_n	thomas_n	15,103	5	8.7231	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03014	The ordinance and declaration of the Lords and Commons, for the assessing all such who have not contributed sufficiently for raising of money, plate &c. with His Maiesties [sic] declaration to all his loving subjects upon occasion thereof.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1771D; ESTC R209862	5,868	10

THE ORDINANCE AND DECLARATION of the LORDS and COMMONS for the Assessing all such who have not contributed sufficiently for raising of Money Plate c. WITH HIS MAIESTIES DECLARATION TO all His loving Subjects upon occasion thereof Charles R. OUr expresse pleasure is That this Our Declaration be Published in all Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales by the Parsons Vicars or Curates of the same Printed by His MAJESTIES Command at OXFORD Decemb. 8. By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. An Ordinance and Declaration of the LORDS and COMMONS in PARLIAMENT WHereas the King seduced by wicked Counsell hath raysed an Army and leavied Warre against the Parliament and great number of Forces are daily raised under the commands of Papists and other ill-affected persons by Commissions from His Majesty And whereas divers Delinquents are protected from publike Justice by his Majesties Army and sundry outrages and rapines are daily committed by the Souldiers of the said Army who have no respect to the Lawes of God or the Land but burne and plunder the Houses and seize and destroy the persons and goods of divers His Majesties good Subjects And whereas for the maintenance of the said Army divers assessements are made upon severall Counties and His Majesties Subjects are compelled by the Souldiers to pay the same which said Army if it should continue would soon ruine and wast the whole Kingdom and overthrow Religion Law and Liberty For suppressing of which said Army and ill-affected persons there is no probable way under God but by the Army raised by authority of the Parliament which said Army so raised cannot be maintained without great summes of Money yet for raising such summes by reason of His Majesties withdrawing Himselfe from the advice of the Parliament there can be no Act of Parliament passed with His Majesties assent albeit there is great Justice that the said Monies should be raised The Lords and Commons in Parliament having taken the same into their serious consideration and knowing that the said army so raised by them hath been hitherto for the most part maintained by the voluntary contribution of divers well-affected persons who have freely contributed according to their abilities But considering there are divers others within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs of the same and also within the Borough of Southwarke that have not contributed at all towards the maintenance of the said army or if they have yet not answerable to their Estates who notwithstanding receive benefit and protection by the same army as well as any others and therefore it 's most just that they should as well as others be charged to contribute to the maintenance thereof Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by authority thereof that Isaac Pennington Lord Major of the Citie of London Sir John Wollaston Knight and Alderman Alderman Towes Alderman Warner Alderman Andrewes Alderman Chambers Alderman Fowkes Sir Thomas Seham Knight and Alderman Samuel Vassell John Venn Morris Thompson and Richard Warrin Citizens or any foure of them shall hereby have power and authority to nominate and appoint in every ward within the City of London sixe such Persons as they or any foure of them shall think fit which said six so nominated or any foure of them shall hereby have power to enquire of any that shall remain or be within the said severall Wards that have not contributed upon the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament concerning the raising of Mony Plate Horse Horsemen and armes for the defence of the King both Houses of Parliament also of such as are able men that have contributed yet not according to their Estates and abilities And the said six persons so nominated or any four of them within their severall and respective wards and limits shall have power to assesse such person or persons as are of ability and have not contributed also such as have contributed yet not according to their ability to pay such sum or sums of Mony according to their Estates as the said Assessors or any foure of them shall think fit reasonable so as the same exceed not the twentieth part of their Estates and to nominate and appoint fit persons for the collection therof And if any person so assessed shall refuse to pay the money assessed upon him it shall be lawfull to and for the said Assessors and Collectors or any of them to leavie the said summe so assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of the person so assessed and refusing And if any person so distrained shall make resistance it shall be lawfull to and for the respective Assessors and Collectors or any of them to call to their assistance any the Trained Bands of the said City of London or any other His Majesties Subjects who are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said Assessors and Collectors in the premises And it is hereby further ordained that the respective Burgesses of Westminster and Southwark together with the severall Committees appointed for the subscriptions of Money Plate Horse Horsemen and Arms within the said City and Borough shall respectively have power hereby to nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough in such manner as the Lord Maior c. hath for the City of London and the said Assessors or any four of them to name Collectors as aforesaid Which said Assessors and Collectors shall have the same power respectively within their respective limits as those to be nominated within the said City of London have hereby limitted to them And for the Suburbs of London and Westminster the respective Knights of the Shires where the said Suburbs are shall have hereby the like power to name Assessors and they so named or any four of them and the Collectors by them to be nominated or any of them within their respective limits shall have the like power respectively as the Assessors and Collectors for London have by vertue of this Ordinance And be it ordained that the summes so assessed and levied as aforesaid shall be paid in at Guild-hall London to the hands of Sir John Wollastone Knight John Warner John Towes and Thomas Andrews Aldermen or any two of them And the Assessors and Collectors to be nominated by vertue hereof shall weekly report to the Committee of the House of Commons for the Propositions aforesaid what sums of Money have been assessed and what sums have been levied weekly according to the purport hereof and the said monies so levied and paid in shall be issued forth in such sort as the other monies raised upon the Propositions aforesaid and not otherwise destroy one another are the outward blessing only of peace property and liberty taken and forced from Our Subjects are their Consciences free and unassaulted by the violence of these fire-brands Sure the liberty and freedom of Conscience cannot suffer by these men Alasse all these