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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	1,396	5	9.6726	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42371	Englands grievance discovered, in relation to the coal-trade with the map of the river of Tine, and situation of the town and corporation of Newcastle : the tyrannical oppression of those magistrates, their charters and grants, the several tryals, depositions, and judgements obtained against them : with a breviate of several statutes proving repugnant to their actings : with proposals for reducing the excessive rates of coals for the future, and the rise of their grants, appearing in this book / by Ralph Gardiner ...	Gardiner, Ralph, b. 1625.	1655 (1655)	Wing G230; ESTC R3695	131,711	221

Controlers do imbezel the Kings Customes the Merchants be greatly hindred because that the Warrants might plainly shew and declare their due custome when they be often and unduly impeached in the Kings Exchequor in consideration of the said deceits it was Enacted that the said Customers and Controlers shall write and deliver sufficient Warrants sealed with the Seal of their Office to that end ordained to the said Merchants not anything to begiven for the same but their due Custome And that in case any Customer or Controler do the contrary then the Merchant may have an action by vertue of this Ordinance to pursue every Customer or Controler that doth the contrary in every Court of Record and being thereof attainted shall forfeit to the King for every default ten pounds and to the Merchant grieved that sueth five pound 11. Hen. 6. 15. See Chap. 45. E. The great danger occasioned by small Riots B In the 37. year of his Reign began such Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies that it produced a worse effect then in King Richard the seconds daye● which was occasioned between a Yeoman of the Guard and a Serving-man of the Earle of Warwick which so far increased not being timely prevented that it proved the root of many a woful Tragedy brought to death the Duke of York who was proclaimed Successor to the Crown the King Prince Edward his Son all or most of the Peers of the land destroyed by sidings and at least six and thirty thousand of the common people cut off at one battel at Toughton in Yorkshire the King Queen and Prince put to flight to Barwick See Richard the second what was done See Chapter 37. A. 3. Hen. 6. See Rich. 2. E. Sheriffs Fees none of his Officers shall be returned upon Inquests letting to Bayl c. C Stat. 23. Hen. the sixth Chapter 10. The King considering the great-Perjury Extortion and Oppression which be and have been in his Realm by his Sheriffes Under-Sheriffs and their Clerks Coroners Stewards of Franchizes Bayliffs and keepers of prisons and other Officers in divers Counties of this Realm have ordained by the Authority aforesaid in eschewing of all such Perjury Extortion and Oppression and that because the Sheriffe of every County is a great and necessary Officer in the Commonwealth and used as a special instrument to the furtherance of Justice in all Suits pursued at the Common-Law and his service is imployed in the beginning prosecuting and ending of the most of them therefore as the Law hath alwayes had a special regard of him and foreseen that he shall be a man of wisdome of worth of credit countenance and ability this is not William Fenwick of North-Riding in Northumberland for he derogates from them all and that he shall be allowed a convenient stipend and sallary for his pains in most cases so doth she carry a vigilent and watchful eye upon him and his inferiour Officers or Substitutes knowing what grievous Oppressions might ensue if she should leave a man of his Authority and necessary imployment at liberty to dive at his pleasure into other mens purse and to take what he would as William Fenwick doth therefore she hath restrained him his Under-Sheriff Bayliffe of Franchizes and other Bayliffes most of which are forsworn within certain Lists and assigned them what they shall take for Arrests Attachments Mainprizes letting to Bail and serving of Executions which if any of them do exceed he shall forfeit forty pound a time and shall be adjudged an extortioner in which said Statute it is Enacted that no Sheriffe Under-Sheriffe or any Bayliffe by occasion or under colour of his Office shall take any other thing by themselves or any other person to their use or to their profit of any person by any of them Arrested or Attached nor of any other for them for the omitting of any Arrest or Attachment to be made by their bodies or of any person by any of them by force or colour of their Office Arrested or Attached for Fine Fee Mainprize letting to Bail or for shewing any ease or favour to any such person so Arrested for their reward or profit but such as follows the Sheriffe twenty pence the Bayliffe which maketh the ☜ Arrest or Attachment four pence the Gaoler if the prisoner be committed to his Ward four pence for making of a Return or Paniel and for the copy of a Paniel four pence no Bond to be made by them under colour of their Office but onely to themselves for the appearance of any prisoner at the day prescribed and what Bond is otherwise is void and he shall take no more for making such Obligation Warrant or Precept by him to be made but four pence And all Sheriffes Under-Sheriffes Clerks Bayliffes Gaolers Coroners Stewards Bayliffes of Franchizes or any other Officer or Ministers which doth contrary to the aforesaid Ordinances in any point of the same shall lose to the party in this behalf endamaged or grieved his treble damages and shall forfeit forty pounds at every time that any do the contrary in any point of the same whereof the King shall have the one half to be imployed only to the use of his house and the other to the party that will sue for the same by Bill Plaint c. I shall lay open the excessive Fees extorted by the Sheriffs of Northumberland against the Law viz. Return a tales 6 s. For allowance of a pony 9 s. 2 d. For allowance of a Writ false judgement 16 s. 6 d. Upon Execution granting out 15 s. And all upon the Defendant after Execution 1 l. 11 s. 6 d. For breaking open an original Proces 2 s. 6 d. For the Warrant thereof 6 d. Bayliffs for the Arrest from the Plaintiff 1 s. From the party Arrested 1 s. 8 d. To file Bayl above and taking the Declaration 8 s. This is costly Law This Justice is both bought and sold c. A Bill of Indictment before a Judge would reduce these c. The Form of an Indictment for Sheriffs D London ss The Juros for the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. Upon their Oaths do present That John Butler of London Sheriffe the 20. day of August in the year of our Lord God 1652. being then Sheriffe and Keeper of the Prison of the Newgate in London the day and year aforesaid did by force or colour of his said Office as Sheriffe and Keeper of the said Prison unlawfully and extortionously exact and take of one John Cuthberton then and there being arrested and imprisoned in the said Prison under the custody of the said Sheriff at the Suit of John Roe the sum of six shillings and eight pence for the Fee of the said Sheriffe and Keeper for the custody of the said John in the said Prison from the 20. day of the Month of May in the year aforesaid untill the 20. day of August then next following to the great damage of the