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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	aforesaid_a	lord_n	say_a	4,576	5	7.0353	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82991	An ordinance by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, enabling all persons approved of by Parliament, to set forth ships in war-like manner, for the guarding of the seas, and defence of His Majesties dominions. Die Jovis, ult. Novemb. 1643. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing E1778; Thomason E77_11; ESTC R21193	4,127	8

further ordained that the said Adventurers nor any of the ships imployed by them shall be at or under the command of the Lord High-Admirall or his Vice or Rere-Admirall or the power or command of any whatsoever acting by his authority under him or by the authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to ride at Ancor or otherwise saile to any Port or place whatsoever without the free consent of the Adventurers or those they shall so imploy except it be in case of extreame necessity for preservation of any of His Majesties Dominions but that they and every of them shall have liberty to seeke and take their purchase where and how they please according to such instructions as shall be from time to time given them by the Lord high Admirall of England or the Commissioners of the Admiralty appoynted by both Houses for the time being without the let molestation or command of the said Lord high Admirall or any person or persons whatsoever And it is farther ordered that the Captaine Master and chiefe Officers of every of the Ships and Pinnaces so to be set forth upon the said enterprize shall before their going to Sea enter into a bond in the high Court or Admiralty in the summe of two thousand pounds or upwards according as the Lord high Admirall of England appointed by both Houses for the time being shall thinke fit that the said Ships and Pinnaces respectively their Captaines Masters or Companies under colour or pretence of this Ordinance shall not rob spoile or endammage any of the Kings subjects friends or allies other then such as are intended by this Ordinance nor shall take or surprize any Ships or Goods other then such as they shall finde in or to be outwards bound from some port or place within any of His Majesties Dominions that are or shall be in hostility against the King and Parliament or comming or returning to some such Port or place or that shall be found to have traded with the inhabitants of any such port or place since their defection from the King and Parliament or shall belong to some Irish rebell or rebels or to some Pirate or Sea-rover as aforesaid And that for the justification of their prize they shall bring into the regestry of the high Court of the Admiralty all such Coquets Bils of lading and other documents and writings as they shall take or finde in any such Ship or Vessell and shall bring in with such ships and Vessell two or three of the principall Officers of every such Ship or Vessell taken in the same to be examined by the Iudge of the Admiralty or such Commissioners as he shall appoint concerning the property of the same Ship and Goods and such other questions and interrogatories as he shall thinke fit to administer unto them and shall not breake bulke sell spoile waste or diminish any of the said Ships or Goods untill they shall be adjudged in the high Court of the Admiralty to have been lawfully taken according to the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance and a true and just Inventory and appraisment shall be taken and made of the same and that they shall truely pay or deliver to such Collectors or Receivors as the Lord high Admirall of England appointed by both Houses for the time being shall appoint the full tenths of the said prizes And it is hereby ordered ordained and commanded by the said Lords and Commons That the Iudge and other Officers of the high Court of Admiralty aforesaid shall proceed to the adjudging of such prizes as shall be taken by vertue of this Ordinance and shall be by them saved harmlesse and indempnified for adjudging the same and for doing such other acts according to their severall Offices as shall be requisite thereunto And it is hereby further ordered and ordained That this Ordinance nor any benefit thereby shall extend to the setters forth of any Ship or other Vessell upon the enterprize aforesaid where Bonds shall not be given as is before expressed and a Certificate under the Admiralty Seale obtained of the putting in of such caution And lastly it is hereby further ordered and ordained That all Owners and adventurers by Sea that shall make use of the power of this Ordinance for the seizing or surprizing of any Ship Goods Plate Armes Ammunition victuals pillage and spoyle occasionally in their lawfull imployments or voyages at Sea and not as men of Warre set forth for that purpose and to no other end shall not have nor be allowed any money for or towards their victuals as aforesaid and that whatsoever prize or purchase shall be taken by vertue of this Ordinance shall not be disposed of or shared untill notice thereof given in the high Court of Admiralty and a judgement or sentence obtained for the same and an Inventory and an appraisement thereof shall be taken and made according to Order of that Court. FINIS