Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	aforesaid_a	manor_n	seize_v	1,923	5	10.3349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56311	A reply made by Mr. Thomas Pury, alderman of Glovcester, unto two gentlemen of the long robe and two knights of the Hovse of Commons touching episcopacy and den̂es [sic] and chapters : at a committee of the whole Hovse.	Pury, Thomas, ca. 1590-1666.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4246; ESTC R28465	3,953	11

afterwards estrated into his Majesties Exchequer But upon the Writ of Extent issuing out thereupon his Majestie as I have heard received no benefit of any such Lands wherof the Corporation was seized for the maintainance of any Hospitalls Bridges or other charitable uses or ought to have done as I conceive Seeing therefore the said Deanes and Chapters are but Trustees and the profits of the said Lands so ill imployed by them contrary to the trust reposed in them I am cleare of opinion that by a Legislative power in Parliament it is fit to take them away and to put them into the hands of Feoffees to be disposed of to such pious riligious and charitable uses as they were first intended But it was said by a worthy Knight That hee should be unwilling to take away their Lands and Possessions untill he first knew how they should be disposed of and how the persons who were many thousands in this Kingdome as he said that would want bread should be provided for Certainely Mr. Hide although that is not the worke at this time yet I account it no difficulty to satisfie that worthy Knight for I finde upon the survay of the Lands of the said Deanery of Gloucester that it hath above twelve Rectoryes of good value about thirty Vicaredges Pentions and Portions of Tithes which being at the first Deo consecraota most fit they should be still imployed for the maintenance of the Gospell and therefore if those Deanes and Prebends being but seaven in all to be now taken away will be Preaching Ministers there is I hope sufficient maintenance for so many of them as have not too much besides and yet to reserve as large a Salary as now they have for so many singing men there in holy Orders that cannot Preach And then there are left to be provided for but the Organist eight Singing boyes two Schoole-Masters foure poore Almesmen and some under-Officers whose yearely wages comes unto about one hundred pound per annum and the said Deane and Chapter have almost the third part of the houses of the City of Gloucester the old rent of them being yearly about 175. pound which will well defray that charge with a sufficient Surplusage for repairing the highwayes Bridges and twenty pound yearely to the poore as aforesaid But over and besides the said yearely revenewes before mentioned the said Deane and Chapter of Gloucester although but of the last Foundation and one of the least revenewes in this Kingdome yet they have eighteene goodly Mannors and also divers other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments besides the Mannors houses and premises the old rent of Assize of one of the said Mannors being 80. pound per annum out of which Mannors and Lands the said Cathedrall being to be made a Perochicall Church 200. pound per annum or more may be allowed for a learned Preaching Minister there and a hundred pound a yeare apeice for two such others to assist him with in few yeares one of the said Mannors will discharge and also smfficiently repaire the said Cathedrall Church and then the rest of the said Mannors and Lands may be imployed to other godly pious or charitable uses as the Wisedome of the King and Parliament shall thinke fit and sutable to this but in a more ample proportion of maintenance will be the allowances of all other Deaneryes in England Againe this I conceive will answer another Objection raised by a worthy Knight at the Bar touching the poverty of the Clergy of England if this Bill should take effect surely my opinion is quite contrary and to that purpose I call to minde the saying of a learned Divine Chaplaine to a Noble man upon some conference with him of our wished desire to remove scanlous Ministers and to reduce the Impropriations of Bishops and Deanes and Chapters to a Preaching Ministry if these things said hee take effect the Universities will not be able to supply the Churches And surely Sir if these things take effect I am confident we shall be so farre from having a poore beggerly Clergy as that no Kingdome in the Christian world will have a more rich and flourishing Clergy both for Nurseries and incouragements of Learning and for their maintenance in more plentifull manner than it is at this present Please you therefore to put the Question I am ready to give my ade thereunto FINIS