Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	estate_n	hereditament_n	tenement_n	1,902	5	10.2775	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12804	By the King. A proclamation declaring His Maiesties royall grace, to confirme to his subiects their defectiue titles or estates.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 8600; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 1851.b.3[4]; ESTC S100755	1,270	2

HONI SOIT Q●● MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT ¶ By the King ❧ A Proclamation declaring His Maiesties Royall grace to confirme to his Subiects their defectiue Titles or Estates THe Kings most Excellent Maiesty taking notice that there are sundry Manors Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments in the actuall possession of diuers of His louing Subiects either by descent from their ancestors or by their owne purchases which neuerthelesse doe in truth and right belong vnto His Maiesty as His owne proper inheritance The pretended owners thereof either hauing no Grant at all from the Crowne whereby to deriue good tytles to themselues or else such grants as haue beene surreptitiously gotten vpon false suggestions or by other deceitfull courses or are otherwise defectiue and insufficient in Law So as His Maiesty might by His royall prerogatiue and right take aduantage thereof to seize the same Mannors and Lands into His hands and so leaue the said pretended owners without reliefe Which might vpon iust reason be done considering that both the late Queene Elizabeth in Her time and His Maiesty sithence haue by seuerall Commissions of Grace awarded for confirmation of all such defectiue tytles and by former publique proclamations as by so many solemne warnings summoned and inuited all persons whom the same might concerne vpon easie and honorable compositions to preuent their owne dangers in this behalfe which hitherto they haue contemned or neglected to doe Notwithstanding His Maiesty out of His Princely clemency and vnwillingnesse to take any strict courses against His louing Subiects hath beene graciously pleased once more to renew His said Commission to sundry of His Priuy Councell and others of His Iudges Councell learned authorizing them to treat compound with any person or persons on His Maiesties behalfe for confirming making good of their defectiue Titles or Estates according to the course heeretofore vsed in like Commissions But with this expectation that as it pleaseth His Maiesty in his gracious well-wishing to the peace and quiet of His louing Subiects thus to incline to them and forbeare to take notice of their former negligences So now they will be aduised vpon this renewed offer of his Grace to neglect the same no longer lest after so many warnings the same be iustly taken from them And therefore His Maiesty doth straitly charge and command all persons whom it may concerne by this publike declaration of His Will and Pleasure to take such notice thereof that voluntarily or vpon letters to them directed from His Maiesties Commissioners with a draught of the particular case whereupon their Title shall be questioned they faile not at their perills to attend the said Commissioners for such moderate and reasonable compositions as shall be found fit and equall for confirmation of their estates and cleering all doubts of the same Letting them all to wit that in case they shall neglect this offer of his Princely goodnesse and fauour towards them in not appearing or not compounding for the setling of their lands and possessions in peace As His Maiesty intends not to make any second or new treaties with those that shall shew themselues wilfull and refractary in this behalfe So they shall haue no iust cause to complaine of any but themselues if contrary to His Maiesties princely inclination he be inforced to more seuere courses for recouering and maintaining the Reuenues of His Crowne against all intrusions and vnlawfull vsurpations and possessions whatsoeuer Giuen at Whitehall the thirteenth day of February in the sixteenth yeere of our Raigne of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the two and fiftieth God saue the King ❧ Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO. M.DC.XVIII