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
A37642	Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo, at the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, Anno Dom. 1640 in the 16. year of the reign of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord, Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1641 (1641)	Wing E1246; ESTC R5264	8,420	13

promotion of any other person whatsoever urge inforce tender give or minister unto any Churchwarden Sideman or other person whatsoever any corporal oath whereby he or she shall or may be charged or obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offence or to confesse or to accuse him or her self of any crime offence delinquencie or misdemeanour or any neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof be or she shall or may be liable or exposed to any censure pain penaltie or punishment whatsoever upon pain and penaltie that everie person who shall offend contrarie to this Statute shall forfeit and pay trebble damages to every person thereby grieved and the sunt of one hundred pounds to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said trebble damages and sum of one hundred pounds shall and may be demanded and recovered by action of debt bill or plaint in any Court of Record wherein no priviledge Essoine protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed to the Defendant And be it further enacted That every person who shall be once convicted of 〈◊〉 or offence prohibited by this Statute shall for such act or offence be 〈◊〉 and after such conviction utterlie disabled to be or continue in any off●●● or imployment in any Court of Iustice whatsoever or to exercise or execute any power authoritie or Iurisdiction by force of any Commission or Letters Pattents of the King his Heirs or Successours And be it further Enacted That from and after the said first day of August no new Court shall be erected ordeined or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall or may have the like power Iurisdiction or authoritie as the said high Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have But that all and every such Letters Pattents Commissions and Grants made or to be made by his Majestie his Heirs or Successors And all powers and authorities granted or pretended or mentioned to be granted thereby and all Acts Sentences and Decrees to be made by vertue or colour thereof 〈◊〉 be utterlie void and of no●● 〈◊〉 ANNO XVII Caroli Regis ¶ An Act for regulating of the Privy Councell and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber WHereas by the great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is enacted That no Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or frée Customes or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not passe upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth yéer of the Reign of King Edward the third It is Enacted That no Man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or lim nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the great Charter and the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the five and twentieth yéer of the Reign of the same King Edward the third It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to His Councell unlesse it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawfull people of the same neighbourhood where such de●●● be done in due manner or by Processe made by Writ Original at the common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Frée-hold unlesse he be duly brought in to answer and fore-judged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth yéer of the Reign of the same King Edward the third It is amongst other things Enacted that no man of what estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due Processe of Law And by another Statute made in the two fourtieth yéer of the Reign of the said King Edward the third It is Enacted that no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due Processe and Writ original according to the old Law of the Land and if any 〈…〉 be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for 〈…〉 by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth yéer of the sa●● 〈◊〉 Edward the third It is amongst other things Enacted That all 〈◊〉 which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices 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 enrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third yéer of King Henry the seventh power is given to the Chancellour the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and Temporal Lord of the Kings most honourable Councel and the two chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed 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 yéer of King Henry the eighth The President of the Councell is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellour and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges 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 than by any Law is warranted And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-chamber may have their proper remedy and redresse and their due punishment and correction by the common Law of the Land and in the ordinary course of Iustice elsewhere And forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience béen found to be an intollerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an arbitrarie power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and partie and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subject contrarie to the Law of the Land and the rights and priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniences have arisen and happened and much incertaintie by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived cencerning mens rights and estates

For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Grdained and Enacted by authoritie of this present Parliament That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction power and authoritie belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the yéer of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fourtie and one cléerly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councell nor any Bishop Temporall Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudge or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonlie called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudiciall or Ministerial 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 Iurisdiction power or authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings 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 Iurisdiction now used and exereised in the Court before the President and Councell in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Duchie of Lancaster held before the Chancellour and Councel 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 Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August one thousand six hundred fourty and one be also repealed and absolutelie revoked and made void any Law Prescription Custom or usage Or the said Statute made in the third yéer of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the one and twentieth of Henry the eighth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrarie thereof in any wise notwithstanding and that from henceforth no Court Councell or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and enacted by authoritie of this present Parliament That neither his Majestie nor his Privy-Councell have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authoritie by English Bill Petition Articles Libell or any other arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdom But that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and enacted That if any Lord Chancellour or Kéeper of the great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councell Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellour Iudge or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do any thing contrarie to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtein Iudgment thereupon to be recorded in any Court of Record at Westminster by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoine Protection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledge Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more than one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Judgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecuse for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recorded in any Court of Record at Westminster by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoine Protection Wager of Law wid Prayer Priviledge Injunetion or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more than one Imparlance and if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof dulie convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to hear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveiance or other disposition of any his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveiance or Legacie to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved by any thing done contrarie to the true intent and meaning of this Law his trebble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoine Profection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledge Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or allowed nor any more than one Imparlance And be it also provided and enacted That if any person shall hereafter he committed restrained of his libertie or suffer imprisonment by she Order or Decree of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction Power or authoritie to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the Command or Warrant of the Kings Majestie his Heirs or Successours in their own person or by the Command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy-Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his