Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	king_n	lord_n	privy_a	3,082	5	10.8865	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05252	Laws and acts past in the second [i.e. third] session of the first Parliament, of our most high and dread soveraign, Charles the second, by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith. Holden at Edinburgh, from the eighteenth of June, 1663. to the ninth of October thereafter, on which day the Parliament was dissolved; by a noble lord, John Earl of Rothes, Lord Lefly and Bambreith ... / with special advice and consent of the Estates of Parliament.; Laws, etc.	Scotland.; Rothes, John Leslie, Earl of, 1630?-1681.; Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1663 (1663)	Wing S1273A; ESTC R183990	41,021	57

moveables And His Majesty with advice foresaid doth hereby authorize and require the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to be carefull to see this Act put to due execution and for that end to call before them all such persons as after admonition of the Minister in presence of two sufficient witnesses and by him so attested shall be given up to the Council as transgressors of this Act in with-drawing from their Paroch Churches as aforesaid and the same after hearing of the parties being duly found to decern and inflict the censures and penalties above-mentioned and such other coporal punishment as they shall think fit and direct all execution necessary for making the same effectual and to do every other thing they shall find necessary for procuring obedience to this Act and putting the same to punctual execution conform to the tenor and intent thereof II. Additional ACT concerning the Declaration to be signed by all persons in publick Trust FOrasmuch as by an Act past in the second Session of this Parliament on the fifth of September last concerning the Declaration to be taken by all persons in publick Trust It is remitted to His Majesties Commissioner to take such course as he should think fit how these who are presently in Office may subscribe the Declaration And the King's Majesty being resolved that all in publick Trust should without further delay sign the same But considering that in this vacand time many of the Courts of Justice do not sit so as some longer time must be allowed unto them Therefore the King's Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament Statutes and Ordains all persons who enjoy or possess any publick Trust or Office within this Kingdom as Officers of State Members of Parliament Privy Councellors Lords of the Session Commissioners in Exchequer all Members of the Colledge of Justice Sheriffs Stewarts Bailies of Regalities Commissaries Justices of Peace and their respective Deputes and Clerks and all who enjoy any other publick Charge Office or Trust within the Kingdom to subscribe the Declaration hereunto subjoyned in presence of the several Courts they relate to betwixt and the eleventh of November next to come or sooner as they shall have occasion or be required thereto by His Majesties Council Discharging hereby all such of them who shall not sign the same as said is to exerce any publick Trust or Office within the Kingdom after the said eleventh of November And that a speedy account may be returned hereof It is hereby Ordained that the Sheriffs in the several Shires be carefull in requiring due obedience to this Act and that they and all others concerned therein make report thereof to His Majesties Council betwixt and the first of January next to come And seing the election of the Magistrates and Council of Burghs will occur about Michaelmass next and that some disaffected persons in Burghs having none or small advantages by their Magistracy may upon account of this Declaration refuse to accept any Charge or Trust It is therefore by His Majesty with advice foresaid Statute That at the next ensuing election of Magistrates within Burgh all such persons who shall continue in or be of new elected to be Magistrates Clerks or of the Council of Burghs shall at such their elections if they be present or otherwise how soon thereafter they shall be required thereto by those who did elect them sign the Declaration aforesaid Declaring hereby all who shall refuse or delay the same to be from thenceforth not only incapable of and to have forfaulted the priviledges of a Magistrate but also all the priviledges of Merchandizing Trading and others belonging to a Burgess And that the several Burghs make report of their proceedings therein to His Majesties Council betwixt and the foresaid eleventh of November as they will be answerable upon their duty and alleagiance And for such as shall hereafter be admitted to any publick Trust or Office they are to sign the Declaration in the maner and under the certifications exprest in the former Act of Parliament of the fifth of September And His Majesty doth hereby recommend to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council to be carefull that these Acts be put to due execution and receive obedience conform to the tenor thereof I Do sincerely affirm and declare that I judge it unlawfull to Subjects upon pretence of Reformation or other pretence whatsoever to enter into Leagues and Covenants or to take up Armes against the King or these Commissionate by Him and that all these Gatherings Convocations Petitions Protestations and erecting and keeping of Council-tables that were used in the beginning and for carrying on of the late troubles were unlawfull and seditious And particularly that these Oaths whereof the one was commonly called The National Covenant as it was sworn and explained in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty eight and thereafter and the other entituled A Solemen League and Covenant were and are in themselves unlawfull Oaths and were taken by and imposed upon the Subjects of this Kingdom against the fundemental Laws and Liberties of the same And that there lyeth no obligation upon me or any of the Subjects from the saids Oaths or either of them to endeavour any change or alteration of the Government either in Church or State as it is now established by the Laws of the Kingdom III. ACT against Protections THe King 's most Excellent Majesty being carefull that the benefit of the Law in the administrations of Justice be free to all His Majesties good Subjects And considering the prejudices many have formerly sustained in the stopping of the course of Justice by the too frequent granting of Protections against personal execution Therefore and for preventing of the like for the future His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates in Parliament Doth Ratifie Approve and Renew all former Acts of Parliament made against the granting of Protections And Dischargeth the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Session and Exchequer to grant Protections to any persons against personal execution certifying such as shall grant the same they shall be liable for the debt against which they grant the Protection and all execution shall pass against the havers thereof as if the same had not been granted It is alwayes hereby Declared That notwithstanding hereof it shall be free to the Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Lords of Session and Exchequer and to the Justice-general and his Deputes when any person or persons are summoned and appointed to appear personally before them to give order now as they have been in use formerly to do for suspending personal execution against the persons so summoned and appointed to appear for such few dayes as they may come to give their appearance and during their necessar stay and some few dayes for their return and that according as the saids respective Judges shall find reason upon the particular applications to be made thereupon IV. ACT for the establishment