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	william_n	13,965	5	8.4905	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30697	The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work.	Bush, Rice.; England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1647-12-17.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6231A; ESTC R214161	19,460	30

fourteen daies caused an Ordinance to be drawn up and the same soon after concluded and sent down unto the Commons which was likewise by them committed and perfected and sent down to the right Honourable John Warner then Lord Major of London and the Corporation appointed for that purpose to put in execution the afore-mentioned Ordinance which Ordinance I have here inserted Die Veneris 17. Decemb. 1647. An Ordinance for the Relief and Imployment of the Poor and the Punishment of Vagrants and other disorderly Persons VVHereas the Necessity Number and Increase of the Poor is very great within the City of London and Liberties thereof for want of the due execution of such wholesome Laws and Statutes as have been formerly made For remedy thereof and for other the purposes herein after specified Be it and it is Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That from henceforth there be and shall be a Corporation within the said City of London and Liberties thereof consisting of a President Deputy to the President a Treasurer and fourty Assistants whereof the Lord Major of the said City for the time being to be the President eight of the said Assistants to be of the Aldermen of the said City for the time being and the other thirty and two to be Free-men of and Inhabitants in the said City chosen out of the severall Wards of the said City equally and that John Warner Sir George Clarke John Foulke William Gibbs Samuel Avery John Bide George Witham Thomas Viner Aldermen of the said City shall be the first eight Aldermen of the present Assistants and that Francis Waterhouse shall be the present Deputy to the said President And that Maurice Gething shall be the present Treasurer and that John Offeild Richard Morrall James Russell Walter Pell Ralph Hough Robert Mainwaring Anthony Webster William Adams Richard Glide William Jesson Tempest Milner Thomas Arnold William Kendall Toby Lisle Nathaniel Hall Humphrey Hawley William Antrobus John Green Edmund Whitwell John Cooke Robert Meade Robert Dallison William Bromewich John Everet Thomas Clowes John Jones John Bellamy Abraham Chamberlaine John Babbington Richard Garsorth John Perryn and Stafford Clare shall be the other thirty two Assistants And that the Deputy and Treasurer from henceforth shall be Eligible by the Common Councell of the said City yearly on the 25th of June or at the next Common Councell following or within twenty eight daies next after the said 25th of June and that such two of the eight Aldermen being Assistants and eight of the other thirty two Assistants as the said Common Councell shall think fit shall fall off or be amoved yearly at the said day and time of election and that two other Aldermen and eight other Commoners Citizens of and Inhabitants in the said City shall be yearly elected by the said Common Councell on the day and time aforesaid to be Assistant in the place of such as shall so fall off or be amoved And it is further Ordained that the said President Deputy Treasurer and Assistants for the time being shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetuall Succession and shall be called by the name of The President and Governours for the Poor of the City of London and Liberties thereof And by that name shall and may without Licence in Mortmeine purchase or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not exceeding the yearly value of two thousand pounds of the Gift Alienation or Devise of any Person or Persons who are hereby without further Licence enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or Summes of Money whatsoever to the use intent and purpose hereafter limited and appointed And sue or plead and be sued or impleaded by the name aforesaid in all Courts and places of Judicature within this Realm And the said Corporation or any nine of them whereof the said President or any of the said Aldermen or the Deputy to the President or the said Treasurer to be one shall have hereby power and authority from time to time to meet and keep Court for the ends and purposes herein expressed at such time and place as the said President or his Deputy shall appoint And shall have hereby authority from time to time to make and appoint a common Seal for the use of the said Corporation and to chuse such Officers and them or any of them from time to time to remove as they shall see cause and upon the removall or death of them or any of them to chuse others in their places for the carrying on of this work and to make and give such reasonable allowance to them or any of them out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation as they shall think fit and shall have hereby full power and authority to doe and execute all such other Acts and things as are hereby ordained and appointed for the effecting the work hereby intended to be done and executed And be it ordained by the authority aforesaid for the further relief and employing of the said poor within the said City and liberties thereof that the said Corporation or any nine of them whereof the said President or any of the said Aldermen or the Deputy to the President or the said Treasurer to be one shall have power to Erect one or more Work-houses for receiving relieving and setting the poor on work and one or more houses of Correction for punishing of Rogues Vagabonds and Beggers as they shall think fit And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid that in regard of the great inequality in the ordering and relieving of the poor through the different abilities of the severall and respective Wards in the City of London and Liberties thereof the said Corporation or any Nine of them shall hereby be authorised with consent of the Common Councell of the said City to divide the severall Wards with the poor and stock to them belonging into four equall parts or proportions for the more effectuall and indifferent relief of the poor and the avoiding future differences and dissentions between the rich and the poor Parishes provided this division of the said City and Liberties thereof shall not be any prejudice to the relief of those parts of Parishes which lie without the Liberties of the City which Parishes lie part within the Liberties and part without but that those parts which lie without the Liberties of the City shall and may have such relief from Parishes within the City as formerly they have had And be it ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the further relief and imploying of the said poor within the said City and Liberties if the said Corporation shall finde that the Annuall Rates and Levies or other Stock come to their hands shall not be sufficient for the effecting the purposes aforesaid that then and from time to time it shall and may