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	lord_n	treasurer_n	3,447	5	11.1666	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83529	Two acts of Parliament, the one for the preventing of the inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliament. : And the other for regulating of the Privie Councell, and for taking away the court, commonly called, The Star-Chamber.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1640 (1640)	Wing E2382C; ESTC R230802	14,291	17

yeer of the same King Edward the third It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any courts before any the Kings Justices or in His other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in latine And whereas by the statute made in the third yeer of King Henry the seventh power is given to the Chancellour the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Keeper of the Kings privie seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporall Lord of the Kings most honourable Councell and the two chief Justices of the Kings bench and common pleas for the time being or other two Justices in their absence to proceed as in that act is expressed for the punishment of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the statute made in the one and twentieth yeer of King Henry the eighth The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with Lord Chancellour and other Judges in the said statute o● the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Judges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrees for things having no such authoritie and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Judges o● in the Court commonly called the Star-chamber may have their proper remedy an● redresse and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the ordinary course of Justice elsewhere And forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and th● proceedings Censures and Decrees of that Court have by experience been foun● to be an intolerable burthen to the subject and the meanes to introduce an Arbitra●● power and Government And forasmuch as the Councell-Table hath of late time assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civill causes and matters onely ●● private interrest between party and party and have adventured to determine ●● the Estates and Liberties of the Subject contrary to the Law of the Land and th● rights and priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs an● inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of su●● proceedings hath been conceived concerning mens rights and estates For setli●● whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That t●● said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Jurisdiction power and a●● thority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Judges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the yeer or our Lo●● God one thousand six hundred fourty and one cleerly and absolutely dissolved takeaway and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the great seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Keeper of the King Privy-seal or President of the Councell nor any Bishop temporall Lord Privy-Councellor or Judge or Justice whatsoever shall have an● power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce deliver any Judgement sentence Order or Decree or to do any Judiciall or Minsteriall Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Jurisdiction power or authority is given limitted or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Judges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any proceedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise enacted That the like Jurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councell in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councell established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councell of that Court. And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councell of that Court The like Jurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August one thousand six hundred fourty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said ●tatute made in the third yeer of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made ●he one and twentieth of Henry the eight Or any Act or Acts of Parliament here●ofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councell or place of Judicature shall be erected or●ained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Jurisdiction as is or ●ath been used Practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and enacted by authority of this present Parliament That ●either his Majestie nor his Privy-Councell have or ought to have any Jurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libell or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose ●f the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects ●f this Kingdom But that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of Justice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and enacted That if any Lord Chancellour or Keeper of the great seal of England Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Kings Privy ●al President of the Councell Bishop Temporall Lord Privy Councellour Iudge 〈◊〉 Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do any thing contrary to the purport true in●nt and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum ●f five hundred pounds of lawfull money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain ●●dgement thereupon to be recorded in any Court of Record at Westminster by ●●ction of Debt Bill Plaint or information wherein no Essoine Protection Lager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledge Injunction or Order of restraint shall in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And ●ny person against whom any such Iudgement or Recovery shall be had as afore●● shall after such