Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	peace_n	popish_a	recusant_n	4,523	5	13.9656	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82835	Instructions agreed upon by the Lords and Commons assmbled [sic] in Parliament for Sir Thomas Barrington, Sir William Masham, Sir Martin Lumley, Sir Henry Mildnay of Wansted, Sir Thomas Cheek, Harbottle Grimston Esquire. : Members of the House of Commons and deputie-lievtenants for the county of Essex and committees to be sent into the same county. : And for Sir William Hicks, Sir Richard Everard, Sir Tho. Honywood, Sir Henry Holdcroft, Sir William Roe, Sir William Martin, Sir Iohn Barrington, Timothy Middleton and Iohn Sayer esquires, the rest of the deputy-lievtenants of the said county for preservation of the peace of the said county.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1590A; ESTC R175118	5,742	17

any of you be put in execution and shall require the Sheriffes and Justices of the Peace and all other His Majesties Officers and Subjects of the said County to be aiding and assisting unto you every of you for that purpose You shal likewise declare unto all men that it hath ever been and still shall be the care and endeavours of the Parliament to provide for His Majesties safety and that they doe not nor never did know of any evill intended towards His Majesties Person which might move him to require any extraordinary Guard that his greatest safety is in the affections and fidelity of His Subjects and in the advice and counsel of His Parliament and His greatest danger in withdrawing himselfe to such disaffected and malignant persons obnoxious to justice for their great enormities who under colour of doing Him service have raised forces which they labour to encrease to the hazard of ruining Religion and the whole Kingdom And you or any one or more of you shal in the name of the Lords and Commons require the Sheriffs of the said County to publish throughout the same the Declarations commanded to be published by both houses of Parliament And you and every of you shall endeavour to cleere the proceedings of Parliament from imputations and aspersions and shall from time to time certifie us of all things which you conceive necessary for the present service and that we may have a speedy account of it and that our directions to you aswel as your advertisements to us may have cleere and speedy passage you and every of you shall lay a strict charge upon all Postmasters and Messengers that they doe not suffer any Letters or other dispatches to or from the Parliament to be intercepted or stayed and if any shall presume to make stay of any such dispatches you and every of you shal direct the Postmasters and Messengers to repaire to t●e Justices of the Peace Constables and other Officers for their aid and assistance who are hereby required to take speciall care that there be no such interruption You or any two or more of you are hereby authorised and required forthwith to disarme all Popish Recusants and other dangerous and ill-affected persons as well Clergymen as others as have testified or shal testifie their ill dispositions to the peace of the Kingdom and proceedings of Parliament and all such Armes and all other Armes formerly taken from Popish Recusants shal be imployed by you for the defence of the said County You or any one or more of you shal take care that none of the Recusants Armes or other Ammunition of the said County shall be taken or carried out of the same upon any pretence or command whatsoever without warrant from both Houses of Parliament And you or any one or more of you shal give order and directions to the Sheriffe of the said County Justices of the Peace and other Officers to require and command all Popish Recusants in the said County to confine themselves to their dwelling places according to the Statute in that case provided and if any such Recusant shal be found to transgresse therein you or any one or more of you shal cause the Justice of Peace forthwith to bind them to their good behaviours and upon refusall or neglect to give security accordingly to commit them to prison and further proceed against them according to Law You or any one or more of you shal also in the name of both houses of Parliament require all such persons who have in their custody any part of the publique Magazine of the said County to deliver the same to you or any two of you to be disposed of and imployed for the defence of the County and in case of refusall you are hereby authorised to seize take carry away and dispose of the same for the purpose aforesaid And you or any two or more of you are likewise to give charge from both houses of Parliament to all Collonels Captaines Lieutenants all other Officers for the Militia that they shall be observant to such directions as they shal from time to time receive from the Lord Lieutenant of the said County or his Deputy or any of them for the due performance of any the commands of the said Houses You or any one or more of you shal resist and repell and are hereby authorised to resist and repell by the power of the said County and by all other waies and means all such force and violence as shall be raised or brought by any person or persons to the hinderance or disturbance of this present service or for the Arresting or seizing of the persons of you or any of you or any other which shal be imployed in performance of the Ordinance instructions and commands of both houses of Parliament for any thing done in execution thereof And the Sheriffs and Justices of peace of the said County and all other Officers subjects are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to you and every of you for the better and more speedy execution of the premisses You or any two or more of you shall hereby with the consent of two of the Members of the house of Commons aforenamed have power and authority to fortifie any part or place of the said County in such manner and sort as you or any two or more of you with the consent of two of the Members of the house of Commons as aforesaid shal think fit for the safety of the said County and for the more security of the same shall set such severall guards and forces in all places and Towns of the said County as you or any two or more of you with the consent of any two of the said Members of the house of Commons shall thinke fit and requisite and to cause the Beacons within the said County to be watched guarded and fired as occasion shall require You and every of you shall take care to put in execution the Propositions and Orders made by the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament for bringing in money or Plate to maintaine Horse and Armes for the preservation of the publique peace and for the defence of the King and both houses of Parliament As also other instructions and additions for Deputy-Lieutenants which are Members of the house of Commons and other Deputy-Lieutenants of severall Counties concerning the last propositions according to a Declaration of the Lords and Commons made thereupon You or any three or more of you shall or may call together the Inhabitants of the County at such times and places as you shall thinke fit and propound to them what Horse Men and Armes they will finde and maintaine or what money they will contribute for the defence of the said County which forces and all other forces that shall be raised in that County by the authority of the Lords and Commons in Parliament and their Officers you or any two or more of you shall lead conduct and imploy for the defence of the said County and you or any two or more of you shall have power to appoint Treasurers to receive the said Monies so raised as aforesaid who are hereby required to issue forth the same as they shal receive order or warrant from you or any two of you under your hands for the providing of Armes and Ammunition for the defence and security of the said County as also for the paying of such Officers and Souldiers as shall be leavied and imployed for the purpose aforesaid and of all other necessaries for the defence of the said County You or any three or more of you shall or may in the absence of the Lievtenant of the said Countie make and appoint such Captaines and other Officers as shall be requisite for the service and defence of that Countie and to remove them out of their places and to make others from time to time as you shall thinke fit for that purpose You or any two or more of you shall or may require strong Watches and Wards to be set by the Constables or such other persons as you shall thinke meete in all convenient places in that county for the peace and safetie thereof You or the greater part of you whereof two to be Members of the house of Commons may joine in assotiation with the adjacent counties for the mutuall defence each of others county You or any one or more of you shall or may apprehend all such persons as shall oppose you or refuse to obey you in the premises and to send him or them in safe custody up to the Parliament or the Committte of Parliament for the defence of the Kingdome to be proceeded with according to justice You and every of you shall observe and execute all such further directions and instructions as you shall from time to time receive from both houses of Parliament as likewise from the Committee of the Lords and Commons appointed to take care for the surety of the Kingdome and whatsoever you shall doe therein or any other person in ayd arid assistance of you it shall be accepted as good and acceptable service to the Kingdome And for their and your so doing they and you shall be defended and protected by the authority of Parliament and resolution of the Lords and Commons to protect those that shall obey and further their commands you shall publish and declare upon all occasions for the better encouragement of the Subjects of this Kingdome in that behalfe 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