Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	say_a	sovereign_a	6,197	5	10.5774	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59721	The justice of the peace, his clarks cabinet, or, A book of presidents, or warrants, fitted and made ready to his hand for every case that may happen within the compass of his masters office for the ease of the justice of peace, and more speedy dispatch of justice / by William Shepard ...	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1660 (1660)	Wing S3190; ESTC R31195	70,352	144

personal appearance at the next general Gaol delivery or Quarter Sessions to be holden for this County then and there to testifie their knowledge concerning a Felony supposed to be done by A B. now a Prisoner in the Castle of G. And that you do then go with them to the same Justice with this Warrant And hereof c. Or thus W S. c. You are hereby required forthwith to warn the persons undernamed of your Parish to be before me at my dwelling house in D. upon Monday next by nine a clock in the morning to testifie their knowledge concerning certain felonious acts supposed to be done by A B. and C D. of c. And that your self be then there with this Warrant to shew how you have executed it And hereof c. Observations here We have seen a President in this form for this purpose That you cause to come before me the persons undernamed to ●estifie c. which we cannot but disallow for it's ambiguity For how shall he cause him to come Besides the word seems to import that he shall bring him in the nature of a prisoner which is not lawfull to do in this case To all Constables and other his Majesties Officers as well within the County of Gloucest as elsewhere in the Kingdome of England 6 Glouc. ss To command hue and cry W S. c. Whereas complaint hath been made unto me by L M. of c. Husbandman That upon Tuesday at night last being the tenth day of this instant November he was robbed of certain Linnen taken out of his house with some other things and that he hath manifest cause of suspicion of one N K. a lewd rogue here describe his personage and apparel These are therefore to require you and every of you to make search within your several Precincts for the said N K. and also to make Hue and Cry after him from Town to Town and from County to County and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen And if you shall find him the said N K. that then you carry him before some one of the Justices of the Peace within the County where he shall be taken by him to be dealt withal according to Law c. And hereof c. To all Constables and Tythingmen of the Parishes and Tythings within the County of Gloucest and every of them c. 7 Glouc. ss To apprehend one that hath dangerously hurt another W S. c. Forasmuch as I am credibly informed that I B. of your Town Blacksmith hath now lately dangerously hurt one T G. of your said Town Husbandman by a blow which he hath given the said T G. on the face and another on the back so as the said T G. is in dange● of death thereby These are therefore straitly to charge and command you that immediately upon the sight hereof you or one of you do bring the said I B. before me or some other of his Majesties Justices of the Peace of this County to find sufficient sureties as well for his appearance before the Justices at the next Gaol-delivery to be holden for this County then and there to answer unto the premises and to do and receive therefore that which by the Court shall be enjoyned him as also that he the said I B. shall in the mean time keep the Peace towards our Soveraign Lord the King and all his Liege people but especially towards the said T G. And hereof fail you not at your peril Dated c. In some cases where any Statute doth give power to the Justices of Peace out of their Sessions to hear and determine either upon the confession of the offenders or upon examination of witnesses in all such cases it seemeth the Justices of Peace may grant out their Warrants against such offenders to appear before them to answer to their offences and thereupon may proceed to examine hear and determine the offence as being convict thereof upon such confession or examination without any indictment or process But where process are requisite they may be as followeth First if the offender be absent a Venire facias shall be awarded by the Justice or Justices of Peace under his or their own Tests and if thereupon the offender be returned sufficient and maketh default then a Distringas must be awarded which Distringas shall go forth infinite till the offender come in But if a Nihil habet c. be at the first returned then after the Venire facias first a Capias then an alias and after a pluries shall issue and after that an Exigent till the party be taken or yield himself or else be outlawed And these are the ordinary Process upon all Indictments of Trespass against the Peace or of other offences against penal Statutes not being Felonies or greater But these several Processes are usually grounded upon an Indictment to cause the offender to come in and to make his answer and therefore if he be present and confess such indictment information or offence then needeth no process for he must be committed to prison until he hath paid his Fine or given Sureties for it And these Process must be directed to the Sheriff except he be party and if so to the Coroners of the County and must be in the Kings Name and with a Non omittas but the Teste thereof may be under the Name of the Justice of Peace The form of these Process out of Sessions you may see in the Treatises of Justices of Peace at large Nevertheless all such process as well of Capias c. as of Outlary may be stayed by a Supersedeas issuing from other Justices of Peace out of Sessions testifying that the party hath come before them and hath found Sureties for his appearance to answer to the Indictment or to pay his Fine c. CHAP. V. About a Riot and forcible Entry The Record of a force found by the Justices own view 1 Glouc. ss MEmorand That the first day of March I S. complained to me W S. one of the Justices of Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King for the County of Gloucest that I D. of S. in the said County Yeoman and divers others unknown persons troublers of the Peace of the Kingdome the first day of May into the dwelling house of the said I S. in Dale in the said County with strong hand did enter and him the said I S. thereof disseised and the same house with strong hand and armed power doth yet detain and hold and therefore desired of me relief on this behalf to be yielded Whereupon I the said W S. immediately in person came to the said dwelling house to view the same And in the same house I then found the said I D. E F. of c. and G H. c. the same house with force and arms a strong hand and armed power to wit with Bows and Arrows Swords and Daggers Guns and other Arms defensive and offensive holding against