Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	king_n	queen_n	2,864	5	7.0730	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38873	An exact account of the whole proceedings against the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of London, before the Lord Chancellor and the other ecclesiastical commissioners	Compton, Henry, 1632-1713.; England and Wales. Ecclesiastical Commission (1686)	1688 (1688)	Wing E3591; ESTC R5368	18,930	34

and I beseech you to correct and pardon me if unwittingly any thing should fall from me that is liable to Censure I am far from disowning any part of the King's Supremacy I acknowledge it and am so bound to do in its just Extent over all Persons and in all Causes what I have to offer in Plea to your Jurisdiction is That I conceive this Commission you act by is not good as being contrary to an Act of Parliament upon which Point I beg my Counsel may argue L. Ch. Your Lordship knows my Lords minds in this matter B. L. If then your Lordships over-rule me I must beg leave to protest to my Right in this or any other Plea that may be for my advantage The Bishop of London's Plea which he would have given in if the Lords Commissioners would have suffered it to be argued I Henry Bishop of London do declare and acknowledge that the Kings Majesty is the only Supream Head and Governour of this Realm and all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Causes as Temporal Nevertheless I the said Bishop by Protestation not acknowledging any just or legal Authority in your Lordships otherwise than as by Law I am bound to question or censure me in any matter or thing Ecclesiastical whatsoever Do offer and shew to your Lordships That at the Parliament of King Charles I. of blessed Memory late King of England holden on the 3. day of November in the sixteenth Year of his Reign a certain Act and Statute was made Entituled A Repeal of the branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical setting forth That in the Parliament holden in the First Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth there was an Act made and established Entituled An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient Iurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual And abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same In which Act among other things there is contained one Clause Branch Article or Sentence whereby it was Enacted to this effect namely That the said late Queens Highness her Heirs and Successors Kings or Queens of this Realm should have full Power and Authority by virtue of that Act by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to assign name and authorize when and as often as her Highness her Heirs or Successors should think meet and convenient and for such and so long time as should please her Highness her Heirs or Successors such person or persons being natural born Subjects to her Highness her Heirs or Successors as her Majesty her Heirs or Successors should think meet to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness her Heirs and Successors all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges and Preheminences in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within these her Realms of England and Ireland or any other her Highnesses Dominions and Countries and to visit reform redress order correct and amend all such Errours Heresies Schisms Abuses Offences Contempts and Enormities whatsoever which by any manner of Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction can or may lawfully be reformed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God the increase of vertue and the conservation of the Peace and Vnity of this Realm And that such person or persons so to be named assigned and appointed by her Highness her Heirs or Successors after the said Letters Patents to him or them made and delivered as aforesaid should have full Power and Authority by virtue of that Act and of the said Letters Patents under her Highness her Heirs or Successors to exercise use and execute all the Premises according to the Tenor and Effect of ●he said Letters Patents any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And setting forth likewise that by the colour of some words in the foresaid branch of the said Act whereby Commissioners are authoriz'd to execute their Commission according to the Tenor and effect of the Kings Letters Patents and by Letters Patents grounded thereupon the said Commissioners have to the great and unsufferable wrong and oppression of the King's Subjects used to Fine and Imprison them and to exercise other Authority not belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction restor'd by that Act and divers other great mischiefs and inconveniencies have also ensued to the King's Subjects by occasion of the said branch and Commissions issued thereupon and the Executions thereof and therefore for the repressing and preventing of the aforesaid abuses mischiefs and inconveniencies in time to come It was by the said Act made at the said Parliament of the said King Charles the First Enacted that the aforesaid Branch Clause Article or Sentence contain'd in the said Act of Primo Elizabethae and every Word Matter and Thing contain'd in that Branch Clause Article or Sentence should from thenceforward be repeal'd annul'd revoak'd annihilated and utterly made void for ever any thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it was thereby also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Arch Bishop Bishop nor Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudge Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other Person or Persons whatsoever Executing Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the King's Majesty his Heirs or Successours or by any Power or Authority derived from the King his Heirs or Successours or otherwise should from and after the first day of August in the year of our Lord 1641 award impose or inflict any Pain Penalty Fine Amerciament or Imprisonment or other Corporal Punishment upon any of the King's Subjects for any Contempt Misdemeanor Crime Offence Matter or Thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Cognisance or Iurisdiction or shall ex Officio or at the instance or promotion of any other Person whatsoever urge enforce tender give or minister unto any Church-Warden Sides-Man or other Person whatsoever any Corporal Oath whereby he or she shall or may be charg'd or oblig'd to make any presentment of any Crime or Offence or to confess or accuse himself or her self of any Crime Offence Delinquency or Misdemeanor or any other neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof he or she shall or may be liable or expos'd to any Censure or Punishment whatsoever upon pain and Penalty that every Person that shall offend contrary to this Statute shall forfeit and pay treble damages to every Person thereby-grieved and the sum of 1001. to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said treble damages and sum of a 1001. shall and may be demanded and receiv'd and urg'd by action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record wherein no Priviledge Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allow'd to the Defendant And it was thereby further Enacted That every