Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	year_n	4,245	5	4.7587	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06224	Orders taken & enacted, for orphans and their portions. Anno M D. LXXX.; Acts and orders. 1580	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1580 (1580)	STC 16708; ESTC S105583	4,873	18

Orders taken enacted for Orphans and their portions Anno MD. LXXX Imprinted at London for Gabriel Cawood ❧ Orders enacted AD Commune concilium tētum in Guildhaldia ciuitatis Lōdini xiii die Octob. Anno regni Eduardi sexti Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regis fidei defensoris in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremicapitis quinto coram Andrea Iudde Milite tunc Maiore Aldremannis Ciuitatis illius ordinata sunt inter alia inactitata concessa stabilita omnia singula subsequentia FOrasmuch as the Citie sof London is of late yeres sore decayed and dayly is lyke to decaye more and more A great cause occasion whereoff among other hath ben for that frée mens children Orphanes of the sayd Citie sometimes in the lyues of their Parents and sometimes after their deceases béeing lefte wealthy and rich doe bestow themselues in vngodly Mariages for the most part in their young age at their owne wills pleasures without the consent and against the mindes of their friends saying affirming that the Law custome of the said Citie giueth vnto them their portions whether they mary by the assent of their friends or not so do daily cast away vndoe themselues in trust to haue their saide portions whether their parents or friēds will or will not And therby doe they bestow themselues vpon simple light persōs hauing neither cūning knowledge substance ne good or honest cōditions By reason where-of● such Orphanes inordinately insolently do spende consume their patrimony portions in short time not only to the vndoing of themselues and to the great ignomie shame of their friends but also to the great slaunder of the Lord Maior Aldermen of this citie who bene reputed taken as Fathers Protectors of the same Orphanes to the great losse and hinderaunce of the sayd Citie And forasmuch as the sayd Lord Maior and Citizens haue by theyr lawes and customes power and authoritie to make lawes and ordinaūces by their common counsaile for redresse of the same It is therefore now to the intent to reduce the same to a more godly more profitable and decent order and conformitie by the said Lord Maior and Communaltie and Citizens in this present common counsayle assembled and by aucthoritye of the same common Counsaile enacted ordeined authorized established for a Law perpetually to be obserued kept within the said Citie That if any Orphane or child of anye frée man or frée woman of the sayd Citie doe offend in any the things héereafter expressed and be thereoff lawfully conuicted afore the Lorde Maior and the Aldermen or els where that then they and euery of them shall to al entents purposes constructions meanings be vnabled and barred to demaund and claime their portion or portiōs also shal lose forgoe be barred for euer of all and euery his hir or their part or parts portions to him or them belonging by and after the death of his or their said father or mother of the goods cattalles of euery such father mother by reason of any Law custome ordinance vsage fraunches priuiledge act of Cōmune counsale or other thing héeretofore had or vsed within the sayd Citie The same Law Custome Ordinaunce or other thing whatsoeuer heeretofore had made ordeined allowed put in vre to the contrarye in anye wise notwithstanding That is to wit First if any māchild or womāchild shal malitiously go about or attempt to do or cause to be done any bodily harme death or destruction to his or their Father or Mother Or if any manchilde do héerafter mary or contract mariage in the life of his father or mother by whom he will clayme any portion vnder the age of xxi yeres without the consent of his sayd Father or Mother by whom hée will claime any portion Or if any womanchilde doe héereafter mary or contract mariage in the life of hir father or other parent by whom she shall claime any portion before the age of xviii yeares without the consent of hir Father or such other Parent by whome shee shall or maye claime any portion Or if any man-childe bée a Thiefe or a Fellon or a common whore haunter a common Diser or a cōmon player at vnlawfull games notoriously known Or if any womanchilde shal héerafter commit any whoredome or be a common Picker that then euery of the persons so offending shal be barred excluded to haue or demaund any portion ¶ Prouided alwayes that it shal be lawful for the father or mother of any such childe or children to giue bequeath in Legacie to such childe or children as much as the portion of such child so offēding shal amoūt vnto by the custome of the said citie and then such childe therby to be enabled to haue demaund the same as portion this Act notwithstanding so that the same Legacie be conteined in his or their testament in writing not otherwise And that then and from thenceforth his said childe or childrē to be admitted and restored to claime such legacie or legacies in such sort manner forme as if there had bon neuer any such offence done or committed by any such childe Item it is further ordeined enacted authorized and established by the authoritie aforesaid that if any womanchilde being an Orphane vnder the age of xxi yeares at any time héerafter after the death of hir father do ensure or contract hir selfe in mariage or els according to the Ecclesiastical lawes of this Realine do perfectly solempnize or consumate Mariage with any frée man of this Citie the consent agréemēt of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this sayd citie of Lond●n for the time being not obteined had that then for euerye such default offence committed or done by any Orphane or Orphanes of the sayde Citie the same béeinge confessed or sufficientlye proued by two witnesses or otherwise before the said Lorde Mayre and Aldermen of this sayde Citie of London for the time béeing at and in a Court of Aldermen she or they that so happen to behaue hir or themselues as is afore sayde shall forfeit forgoe and loose ij d of and for euery pound so due or to be due vnto hir or thē by reason of any such Orphanage the summe of xij d. of euery li. to goe or to be to the vse of the chamber of the sayd citie according to the auncient custome before this time in such case vsed And if the said contract or mariage of the sayde Orphan or Orphans be made with any forrein not being frée of this Citie at the time of any such contract or mariage made that then the sayd Ophan or Orphans and euery of them shall forfait and loose iij. s. of euery pound or to be due vnto hir or them by vertue of any Orphanage or custome had and vsed within the sayd Citie The one shilling of the sayd iij. s.