Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	bishop_n	king_n	person_n	2,621	5	4.6847	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32375	By the King, a proclamation commanding the immediate return of all His Majesties subjects who are in any foreign seminaries, and forbidding relief to be sent to them	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing C3249; ESTC R34802	1,207	1

By the King A PROCLAMATION Commanding the immediate Return of all His Majesties Subjects who are in any Foreign Seminaries and Forbidding Relief be sent to them CHARLES R. WHereas by a Statute made in the Seven and Twentieth year of the Reign of the late Queén Elizabeth it is amongst other things Enacted That if any of the Subjects of this Kingdom not being a Iesuit Seminary Priest or other such Priest Deacon or Religious or Ecclesiastical person ordained or Professed by any Authority or Iurisdiction derived challenged or pretended from the See of Rome shall be of or brought up in any Colledge of Iesuits or Seminary Erected or Ordained in paris beyond the Seas and shall not within Six months next after Proclamation in that behalf to be made in the City of London under the Great Seal of England return into this Kingdom and thereupon within Two days after such return before the Bishop of the Diocese or Two Iustices of the Peace of the County where he shall arrive submit himself to the Kings Majesty and his Laws and take the Oath of Supremacy That then every such person which shall otherwise return come into or be in this Realm for such offence of returning or being in this Realm without Submission as aforesaid shall be adjudged a Traitor and Suffer Lose and Forfeit as in case of High Treason And whereas by divers other Statutes of this Realm great Penalties are inflicted as well upon the Persons bred up in Foreign Seminaries as upon their Parents Guardians and Friends who shall send them thither or shall send any Relief or Maintenance to them there And whereas his Majesty hath been informed That many of His Subjects of this Kingdom do live in and are daily conveyed into Foreign Seminaries where they are brought up and Educated in Romish Superstition to the great Detriment of this Kingdom His Majesty doth therefore by this His Royal Proclamation with the Advice of His Privy Council straitly Charge and Command all His Subjects of this Kingdom who are in any Foreign Seminaries That they do with all speéd return into this His Kingdom and doth likewise Command and Require their respective Parents and Guardians to take the most effectual Care for such their Return And his Majesty is hereby Graciously pleased to promise His Royal Pardon for their Offence in going into Foreign Seminaries to such of His Subjects as being now there shall in Obedience to this His Royal Proclamation make their speédy Return and also to their parents Guardians and Friends for sending them thither if they shall procure their speédy Return And His Majesty doth hereby straitly Prohibit and Forbid all and every His Subjects of this His Kingdom whatsoever for the time to come from going to or residing in any of the said Seminaries And doth likewise Prohibit and Forbid all and every His Subjects to send any Relief or Maintenace to any of His Subjects or others who now are or shall hereafter be or reside in any Foreign Seminary To all which His Majesty doth expect all due Obedience Letting the Offenders to the contrary know That they shall not onely incur His high Displeasure but be proceéded against for their respective Offences according to the utmost Severities of Law Given at Our Court at Whithall the Eighth day of January 1678. In the Thirtieth year of Our Reign God save the King LONDON Printed by John Bill Christopher Barker Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1678