Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	chancellor_n	lord_n	treasurer_n	4,725	5	10.9378	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26453	Advice to freeholders, and others, concerning the choice of members to serve in Parliament and the qualifications that render a gentleman worthy or underserving so great a trust: with a list of non-associators.		1698 (1698)	Wing A647A; ESTC R215659	15,301	26

Power and Influence of the Offenders but in this great and awful Senate before whom the haughtiest Criminals tremble and it has been observed that they scarce ever persecuted any tho never so great or highly in Favour at Court but sooner or latter they hit him and it proved his ruin Take a few Examples King Edw. II. dotes upon Piece Gravestone a French Gentleman he wasts the King's Treasures has undeserved Honour conferred on him affronts the ancient Nobility the Parliament in the beginning of the King 's 〈…〉 Reign complain of him he is banished into Ireland the King afterwards calls him home and marries him to the Earl of Gloucester's Sister The Lords complain again so effectually that the King not only consents to his second Banishment but that if ever he returned or were found in the Kingdom he should be held and proceeded against as an Enemy to the State yet back he comes and is receiv'd once more by the King as an Angel who carries him with him into the North and hearing the Lords were in Arms to bring the said Gravestone to Jutice plants him for safety in Scarborrough-Castle which being taken his Head was chopt off In K. Richard the 2d's time most of the Judges of England to gratify certain Corrupt and Pernicious Favourites about the King being sent for to Nottingham were by Perswasions and Menaces prevailed with to give false and illegal Resolutions to certain Questions proposed to them declaring certain Matters to be Treason which in truth were not so for which in the next Parliament they were called to account and attainted and Sir Robert Tresilian Lord Chief Justice of England was drawn from the Tower through London to Tyburn and there hang'd as likewise was Blake one of the King's Council and Vske the Under-sheriff of Middlesex who was to pack a Jury to serve the present turn against certain innocent Lords and others whom they intended to have had taken off and five more of the Judges were banished and their Goods forfeited And the Arch-Bishop of York the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk three of the King 's evil Councillors were forced to fly and die miserable Fugatives in Foreign Parts In the beginning of King Henry the 8th's Reign Sir Richard Empsom Kt. Edmond Dudley one of the Barons of the Exchequer having by colour of an Act of Parliament to try People for several Offences without Juries committed great Oppressions were proceeded against in Parliament and lost their Heads In the 19th Year of King James's Reign at a Parliament holden at Westminster there were shewn saith Baker's Chron. Fol. 418. two great Examples of Justice which for future Terrour are not unfit to be here related one upon Sir Giles Mompesson a Gentleman otherwise of good parts but for practising sundry Abuses in erecting and setting up new Inns and Ale-houses and exacting great Sums of Money of People by pretence of Letter Pattents granted to him for that purpose was sentenced to be degraded from his Knight-hood and disabled to bear any Office in the Common-wealth tho he avoided the Execution by flying the Land But upon Sir Francis Mitchel a Justice of Peace in Middlesex and one of the chiefest Agents the Sentence of Degradation was executed and he made to ride with his Face to the Horses Tail thro the City of London The other Example was one Sir Fran. Bacon Viscount St. Albons Lord Chancellour of England who for Bribery was put from his place and committo the Tower In King Charles the First time most of the Judges that had given Opinions contrary to Law in the case of Ship-money were called to account and forced to fly for the same And in the 19th Year of K. Charles the Second the Earl of Clarenden Lord Chancellour of England being questioned in Parliament and retiring thereupon beyond the Seas was by a special Act banished and disabled In a word it was well and wisely said of that Excellent Statesman Sir William Cecil Lord Burleigh and High Treasurer of England that he knew not what an Act of Parliament might not do Which Apothegm was approved by King James and alledged as I remember in one of his published Speeches I shall give a few Instances besides those before mentioned of what the House of Commons hath done in former Ages 1. Anno. 20. Jacobi Dr. Harris Minister of Beechingly in Surry for misbehaving himself by Preaching and otherwise about Election of Members of Parliament upon complaint was called to the Bar of the House of Commons and there as a Delinquent on his Knees had Judgment to confess his Fault there and in the Country in the Pulpit of his Parish-Church on Sunday before Sermon 2. Anno. 21. Jacobi Ingrey Under-Sheriff of Cambridg-shire refusing the Pole upon the promise of Sir Tho. Steward to defend him therein kneeling at the Bar receiv'd his Judgment to stand committed to the Serjeant at Arms and to make Submission at the Bar and acknowledg his Offence there and to make a further Submission openly at the Quarter Sessions and there also to acknowledg his Fault 3. Anno 22. Jacobi the Mayor of Arundel for misbehaving himself in an Election by putting the Town to a great deal of charge not giving a due and general warning but packing a number of Electors was sent for by Warrant and after order'd to pay all the Charges and the House appointed certain Persons to adjust the Charges 4. Anno 3. Car. 1. Sir Williaw Wray and others deputed Lieutenants of Cornwal for assuming to themselves a Power to make whom they pleased Knights and defaming those Gentlemen that then stood to be chosen sending up and down the Country Letters for the Trained-Bands to appear at the Day of Election and Menacing the Country under the Title of his Majesties Pleasure had Judgment given upon 'em to be committed to the Tower 2. To make Recognition of their Offence at the Bar of of the House upon their Knees which was done 3. To make a Recognition and Submission at the Assizes in Cornwal in a Form drawn by a Committee 5. But most remarkable were the Proceedings in the same Parliament Anno. 1628 against Dr. Manwaring who being there charged with Preaching and Publishing offensive Sermons and the same being referred to a Committee they brought in their Reports which was delivered to the House with this Speech as I find in Dr. Fuller's Church-History L. 11. Fol. 129. Mr. Speaker I am to deliver from the Sub-Committee a Charge against Mr. Manwaring a Preacher and Dr. of Divinity but a Man so Criminous that he hath turned his Titles into Accusations for the better they are the worse is he that hath dishonoured 'em here is a great Charge that lies upon him it is great in it its self and great because it hath many great Charges in it Serpens qui serpentem Dovorat fit Draco his Charge having digested many Charges into it is become a Monster of Charges The main and great one