Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	king_n	london_n	time_n	5,435	4	3.5799	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84451	By the Committee of Safety of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A proclamation requiring the departure of the persons herein mentioned out of the cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent.	England and Wales. Committee of Safety.	1659 (1659)	Wing E747; ESTC R211387	2,205	3

By the Committee of Safety Of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland A PROCLAMATION Requiring the Departure of the Persons herein mentioned out of the Cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent THe Committee of Safety having received certain Information that great numbers of persons who have been in actual Arms under the late King and his Sonne or on their behalf have and do daily resort to the Cities of London and Westminster for the better carrying on some mischievous design against the said City of London and the Peace of the Common-wealth And that the Tumullts which have lately been in the said City of London have been not only promoted and designed by such dangerous persons but themselves have been the chief Actors in and Abettors of them although they have endeavoured to colour the same under the pretence and name of Apprentices some of which have been cunningly seduced and instigated by them that thereby they might take advantage to possess the wealth and riches of the said City to inrich themselves being for the most part persons of profligate Lives and desperate Fortunes And the said Committee being sensible in how great danger the said City and the Inhabitants thereof and the parts adjacent are by the residence of such persons here where they do but watch for an opportuuity to effect their malicious and cruel purposes to the ruine of the said City and the embroiling of the People of this Common-wealth in further troubles For preventing the said dangers and preserving the Peace and Safety of the said Cities and of the Common-wealth The Committee of Safety hold it necessary to publish and declare and they do hereby Order enjoin and require That all and every person and persons who have been in actual Arms under the late King or Charles Stuart his Son against the Parliament or this Common-wealth or have aided advised abetted or assisted the said late King in the War against the Parliament or in any War by or on the behalf of the said Charls Stuart do before One of the clock in the afternoon of Saturday the seventeenth day of December instant depart out of the Cities of London and Westminster and all other places within the late Lines of Communication or Weekly Bills of Mortality and twenty miles of the same and not return into any place or places within the said twenty miles until the third day of February next without license from the said Committee of Safety And that the Lord Mayor Aldermen Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace and Commissioners of the Militia and all Constables and other Officers of the said City of London and all Iustices of the Peace Constables and other Officers Civil and Military within the City of Westminster Counties of Middlesex Kent Surrey Hertford and Essex within their respective Liberties Precincts and Iurisdictions do cause search to be made for all and every the persons aforesaid so required to depart who shall from and after the said 17 day of December instant be and remain within the said Cities and places aforesaid or shall return thither within the time before limited without Licence from the said Committee of Safety and them and every one of them to apprehend or cause to be apprehended and committed to prison by warrant un●er the hands and seals of the said Lord Mayor Aldermen Iustices of the Peace or one of them respectively and forthwith return the names of such person and persons as shall be so apprehended to th● said Committee of Safety And all Keepers of Goals of Prisons are hereby authorized and require to receive all and every such person and persons into their respective Goals and Prisons and the● to keep under safe custody until they shall be discharged by Warrant or Order from the Committ●● of Safety as every such Keeper of any Goal or Prison will answer the contrary at his peril And ●hereas by an Act of Parliament published in print by Order of the 13 of July last It is Enacted T it all Popish Priests and Iesuits and all persons whosoever that have been in Arms against the ●arliament or Commonwealth since the year 1641. that ought to have made their compositions and have not finished the same or have not been pardoned by the Parliament and all Delinquent excepted from composition should then forthwith depart out of the said Cities of London and Wes●●insters and the Lines of Communication And that if any the aforesaid person or persons shoulde found within England after the first day of August 1659. that then all and every such person or ●sons being apprehended or taken should be proceeded against as Traitors to the Commonwealth ●●d should be so adjudged condemned and executed accordingly The said Committee of Saf● do hereby require the said Lord Mayor Aldermen Iustices of the Peace Commissioners for t●● Militia Constables and other Officers within the Cities and Counties aforesaid respectively ●au●e diligent search for all and every such person and persons and them and every of them except has have in pursuance of the said Act been licenced by the Parliament or Council of State to sta● Town to apprehend or cause to be apprehended and imprisoned and proceeded against accordi●● to the said Act. And it is hereby Declared That if any person or persons shall discover and ●rehend or cause to be apprehended any the last mentioned offenders such person so discovering or ●rehending or causing such offender to be apprehended shall have and receive to his own use all th●ods and personal estate of all and every such offender as aforesaid as a reward for his said ser● And that all and every person or persons who shall from and after the said 17 day of Decem●●● ●nstant discover and apprehend or cause to be apprehended and ●ther person or persons hereby re●ed to depart out of the said Cities of London and Westminster and places aforesaid and bring ●●●erson before the said Lord Mayor Aldermen Iustices of the Peace Commissioners of the 〈◊〉 or any of them respertively shall have and receive a reward according to their desert by Order ●he said Committee of Safety Given at Whitehall this 16. day of December 1659. ORdered by the Committee of Safety that this Proclamation be forth printed and published Wil●●●obinson Clerk of the Committee of Safety London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers Committee of Safety