Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	dominion_n	england_n	wales_n	2,369	5	9.5124	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90125	The preservation of the King's Majestie's royal person, crown and dignity the preparing of the fishing trade, maintenance of the poor, preserving of peace and safety of the kingdomes. By W. O. Gent.	Okeham, William.	1664 (1664)	Wing O190A; ESTC R230749	6,496	16

THE PRESERVATION Of the KING'S MAJESTIE' 's Royal Person Crown and Dignity The Preparing of the Fishing Trade Maintenance of the Poor preserving of Peace and Safety of the Kingdomes By W. O. Gent. AD ARDUA PER ASPERAT ENDO London Printed by R. D. and are to be sold by Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in S. Paul's Church-yard 1664. To the KING' 's most Excellent MAJESTIE That your Majestie would be pleased to consider the Book hereunto annexed which your Petitioner humbly presented to your Majestie and also of this Petition which your Petitioner humbly presents to your Majesties most gracious consideration Humbly shewing THat the Charge of your Majesties Subjects in the maintenance of the Poor by Assessements in the several Parishes of your Majesties Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales is conceived to amount unto above Six Hundred Thousand Pounds per an besides all Free gifts Almes houses and other Benevolencies given towards their maintainance which sum being levied at one entire Sessement together with their other Free gifts Revenues and many other gifts which would be given if your Majesties Subjects were sure the Poor should be set on work and provided for with it and the Trade of Fishing already graciously propounded by your Majestie and other things in your Petitioners Book were enacted and put in execution would undoubtedly set all the Poor on work and in a small time wholly ease your Majesties Subjects of their Taxes in maintaining them in idlenesse and the profit of their work will amount to more then their Taxes by which means the Fishing Trade will be more advanced your Majesties Sea-men and shipping have more necessaries and employment your Majesties Seas more guarded and strengthned your Merchants would have more Trade and encouragement your Majesties Customes and Revenues much more encreased all your Subjects more benefited besides a sufficient maintenance for the Poor in all Counties All which might be fully accomplished if this work of the Poor were effectually put in execution That your Majestie would be graciously pleased to consider the neglect and oppression of the Poor and how many of other Nations lives here and eats the bread out of your Poor Subjects mouthes and how strict they are over all Strangers under their Government not suffering them to work as Masters but as Slaves who under them live That your Majestie would be pleased to pardon your poor Petitioner in presuming to present these rude Lines unto your Majestie And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray for your Majesties long life happy and prosperous Reign in this world and life everlasting in the world to come To the KING' 's most Excellent MAJESTIE Humbly desiring Your most Gracious Majesty to take these Propositions into your Princely consideration The Preservation of Your Majestie 's Royal Person Crown and Dignity The Preparing of the Fishing Trade Maintenance of the Poor Preserving of Peace and Safety o● the Kingdomes THat Your Majestie would be pleased that an Act ma● be prepared to Incorporate all Hundreds in Englan● and Wales as a body Corporate onely for the preparing of Work-houses in every Hundred for the setting of the Poor on work and Work-houses in every Parish for all Poor people and Idle persons to be set on work in every Parish and such Work houses in every Parish and Hundred to be erected and built in such convenient places on every Lords wast or other places as two Justices of the Peace one to be of the Quorum together with the assistance of the Masters and Wardens of every Work-house in every Hundred and of the High Constables Constables Church-wardens and ●…eadboroughs in every Parish in every Hundred or the ma●…r part of them shall think fit and convenient That all Parish stocks and other gifts and levies and other ●…fts for the maintenance of the Poor may be laid out and im●…oied in buying of Hemp Flax Timber to be hewed for boards ●nd Vessells and old Ropes for making of Occom for Ships Wheeles and other necessaries for Spinning of Yarn for Nets ●nd Cloath for Sailes Cords Ropes fit for Cables and other ●mall Ropes and other Tackle for ships and boards and Hoops ●or Vessels and other Commodities for Fishing and for Mer●hants and that every week or moneth as occasion shall re●uire the same to be conveyed to the grand Work houses in ●very hundred there to be made into small Ropes fit for Ca●…les and other Ropes Nets Sails Boards for Vessels and o●her Tackle for ships Busses for Fishing with power for the ●odies Corporate in every Hundred to see the Work-house ●nd Poor in every Parish to be set on work and provided for with necessaries That the Timber fitted for Busses Small Ropes Yarn for Nets Cloth for Sails and other Cloth for your Majesties service for Soldiers Poor people and other necessaries except ●he Cloth for the Poor be sent to London and other Seaport Towns into the Work-houses prepared for your Majesties service for the making and fitting of Busses Ropes Sails Cables Nets and other Tackle for Ships and there to be made fit to be sold and delivered for the use of your Majestie and the Merchants at such rates and prices as shall be thought fitting to buy them and the money or Commodities to be returned to every grand Work-house from whence they come And that true and speedy return may be made to every Work-house in every Hundred from whence they shall be sent and to be paid to the Poor of every Parish and Work-house That in every grand Work-house in every Hundred there be provided necessary Lodgings for all such persons as shall be found idle a begging and for such persons as shall be there sent and that no single person be suffered to live out of service without ability to maintain themselves or their parents or friends maintain them That if any person so sent to such Work-houses depart without Licence such persons to be apprehended and there to remain and work for one whole year without Bail or Main-prize or to be immediately transported to your Majesties Garrisons and Plantations beyond the Seas and that if any person whatsoever knowingly shall harbour such persons or give relief to such persons such persons so harbouring or relieving to pay 40 s for every night so harbouring or giving relief to such persons to the Treasurer of every Work-house within the Hundred where such offence is committed for the use of the Poor That there be all manner of Trades-men provided in the grand Work-house in every Hundred and Corporation as shall be thought meet as Hewers of Timber for Busses Rope-makers Smiths Knitters of Nets Weavers of Cloth for Sailes and other cloth and Commodities and other Trades as well for Ships and Busses for Fishing as for other things That no Commodities or Merchandises whatsoever concerning any handecraft Trade which can be made in England except Silk and Linnen Cloth be brought over under penalty of Fellony and forfeiture of