Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	lord_n	majesty_n	sir_n	8,203	5	6.8163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75877	An address from the justices of the peace of the county of Middlesex as it was ordered by the court at Hicks's Hall, and humbly presented to His Majesty by the body of the said justices, on Monday, the eighteenth of April, 1681. With His Majesties gracious answer.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1681 (1681)	Wing A541B; ESTC R229468	1,398	4

AN ADDRESS From the JUSTICES of the PEACE Of the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX As it was Ordered by the Court at HICKS'S HALL And Humbly presented to His MAJESTY By the Body of the said Justices on Munday the Eighteenth of April 1681. WITH HIS MAJESTIES Gracious Answer C 2 R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Dublin Reprinted by Benjamin Tooke and John Crook Printers to the King 's Most Excellent Majestie And are to be sold by Mary Crook and Andrew Crook at His Majesties Printing-house in Skinner-Row 1681. Midd ss Ad generalem Quarterialem Sessionem pacis Domini Regis tent ' per Adjornament ' pro Com' Midd ' apud Hicks's-hall in St. John-street in Com' praed ' die Sabbati scil't decimo sexto die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Angl ' c. Tricesimo Tertio The ANSWER of His Majesties Justices of the Peace to the Message sent to them from His Majesty by the right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins Principal Secretary of State as also their Humble and Thankful Acknowledgment of His Majesties Grace and Favour to His Subjects expressed in His Majesties Declaration lately Published by His Command May it please your Majesty WE your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects your Majesties Justices of the Peace for this your County of Middlesex having by your Majesties Command received a Signification from the right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins by Letter dated the Fifteenth of April instant That it is your Majesties Pleasure we should Depute some of our Body to Wait upon the right Honourable the Lords of your Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council to propose Ways and Methods for the putting in Execution with Effect the Statute made in the 43 Year of Queen Elizabeth for the Relief of the Poor in pursuance of a Petition heretofore by us presented to your Majesty for that end have with all readiness obeyed your Majesties Command and have Deputed some of our Body to wait upon the Lords And as we cannot but with all Humility acknowledge your Majesties transcendent Goodness and Charity to the Poor in reminding us of our Duty for their Relief so with your Majesties leave we must presume to say That we esteem our selves obliged to lay hold on this seasonable Opportunity to make our further Humble Acknowledgment to your Majesty withall Gratitude for that most Gracious Declaration lately Published by your Majesties Command by which your Majesty is pleased to put your People in mind of the Miseries they endured when the Monarchy was shaken off by those most Illegal and Arbitrary Powers who most Tyrannically disposed of the Lives and Fortunes of your good Subjects at their pleasuers and left them neither Religion Liberty Property And that your Majesty is Graciously pleased to give us your Royal Word to Govern according to the Laws of the Kingdom which cannot but Extinguish and thereby quiet the Fears and Jealousies of all rational and good Men and we hope bring them to a right Sense of their Duty to your Majesty and their own Interest and make them confident they shall enjoy their Religion Liberty and Property And for our own parts we do assure your most Sacred Majesty It hath made so deep an Impression in us that we unanimously Resolve our Lives and Fortunes shall be at your Majesties Service for the Defence of your Majesties most Sacred Person from Danger whom God preserve and for the preservation of the true Protestant Religion and your Majesties Government in Church and State as by Law established Per Cur ' ADDERLFY Presented to His Majesty by the Justices of the Peace of the said County in a Body Whereunto His Majesty was pleased to return this Gracious Answer Gentlemen I Heartily thank you for your Address and for your Assurance of Assisting Me in the Support of the Church of England as by Law it ●●s Established I am an utter Enemy to all Arbitrary Proceedings and shall Endeavour much as in Me lies to Maintain the Legal Rights and Properties of My Subjects it being the best if not the only Way for the Preserving the publick Peace FINIS