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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	allegiance_n	king_n	lord_n	1,610	5	4.1823	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26454	Advice to high-sheriffs about taking the poll of clergy-men at county-elections		1690 (1690)	Wing A648A; ESTC R214811	1,193	1

Advice to High-Sheriffs ABOUT Taking the Poll of Clergy-Men at County-Elections Since the Clergy of England not only are a dead Weight at Elections for Knights of Shires but are so many Sollicitors in every Parish for such as are most likely to carry on their separate Interest it has been no more than requisite to shew in the Observations upon one of their Circular Letters That if they keep to the sense of their Church express'd in the Homilies they cannot be true to this Government Nor ought a Man to omit the Observation That many of them who have sworn Allegiance to our present King and Queen declare That they did it with such a reserve as permits them still to believe the late King to be their Sovereign Lord and consequently That it is their Duty to promote his Interest in all things consistent with Self-preservation But all this Caution not being enough to draw off misled Men from their Party 't is now become a Duty to one's Countrey to shew That tho many of their Party have Legal Voices in the Choice of Parliament-men yet They themselves have none I. They never pretended to it nor was it in the least looked on as lawful in the time of the Lord Coke who speaking of the Procuratores Cleri the Proxies of the Clergy says Some have thought that because the Clergy were not Party to the Election of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses That those Procuratores Cleri were appointed to give their consent for them but then they should have had Voices which questionless they never had In another place he says None of the Clergy are eligible to be Knights Citizens or Burgesses of Parliament because they are of another Body viz. of the Convocation Let any one shew why this should be a good reason against their being chosen to sit in Parliament and yet not equally serve against their chusing Representatives II. The Statutes 8 and 10 H. 6. upon which the Clergy found their Right as having Forty Shillings per Annum Freehold-Estate can give them no colour because 1. The Statutes speak of such as have Forty Shillings a Year Freehold which implies having it in their own Rights whereas the Clergy are seized of their Livings only in the Right of the Church whose Rights are provided for by the Convocation 2. The Statutes are not enabling but restraining Statutes And whereas before all who owed Suit and Service to the County-Court had Voices at Elections if their Income were never so small the Statutes confine the Right to such as have Forty Shillings per Annum Freehold where the Right of Election must in the nature of the thing be limited to such as are of the same Body with that which is to be represented in Parliament 3. It is supposed to be of such as were obliged to attend at the County-Courts the Notice there being all that the Law ever required though the late interposition of the Clergy has occasioned the Proclaiming the Day and Place of Elections in the Churches but the Clergy I dare say will be loth to own that they are obliged to attend at the County-Courts It is therefore advisable for the Sheriffs to take the Poll of Clergy-men by themselves that if the Dead Weight cast the Ballance it may be left to the Judgment of the Parliament Whether they have Right to Vote or no LONDON Printed in the Year 1690. Inst 4. f. 4. F. 47.