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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	good_a	lease_n	rent_n	1,458	5	9.8141	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14395	The memorable and tragical history, of the persecution in Africke: vnder Gensericke and Hunricke, Arrian kinges of the Vandals. Written in Latin by the blessed Bishop Victor of Vtica, who personallie (as also S. Augustine the famous doctor) endured his part thereof. With a briefe accomplishment of the same history, out of best authors: togither vvith the life and acts of the holy Bishop Fulgentius, and his conflicts vvith the same nation; Historia persecutionum, quas in Aphrica olim circa D. Augustini tempora, Christiani perpessi sub Censerycho et Hunerycho Vandalorum regibus. English	Victor, Saint, Bishop of Vita, d. ca. 505.; Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1605 (1605)	STC 24714; ESTC S119124	68,537	182

farther respite of certayne dayes As soone as they shewed themselues ready for the conflict it was the first day propounded vnto them by our reuerēd Bishops that they should directly proue consubstantiality by the diuine Scriptures or at leastwise condemne that which was decided and cut off by more then a thousand Bishops from all partes of the world at the Councels of Arimini and Seleucia which thing they would not doe but drawing the matter to a sedition incensed also the people The second day likewise when we commaunded them to make answere concerning the same faith as it had beene proposed vnto them they enterprised their former rashnesse and misdemeanour perturbing all thinges with sedition and clamour that they might not at al come to the conflict Whereunto we them prouoking haue ordayned that their Churches shall be shut vp with this prouiso so long to remayne closed vntill they assent to proceede vnto disputation Which they waxing obstinate in their wicked deuises haue refused to accomplish So that it is in this case necessary and most iust with all to retourne vpon those men what in the corps of those lawes is expressed which the Emperors by them induced into errour did at seuerall times promulgate The substance of which lawes seemeth to contayne that no Church should be open to any other then to the Bishops of their owne institution that it should be lawful for none other to liue collegially to make assemblies or to haue or build any Churches at all either in the City or yet in the simplest places but that also attempted escheat to the Prince And moreouer that inheritances annexed to any Church of their faith should not any more be paide to their Prelates Nor that such persons should haue licence to passe vp and downe whither them pleased but should be banished from all Townes and Cities neyther haue authority either to baptize or to dispute of religion That also they should haue no leaue to giue orders either to Bishops or Priests or others appertayning to the Clergie a rigorous penalty being set downe that aswell they which should suffer themselues to receiue such honours as those also that were giuers of such orders should euery of them be fined in tenne pound of gold with their farther extension that they should not be permitted to make supplication about it Yea if so be they had by speciall seruice deserued respect yet should they not preuaile But in case that notwithstanding this detriment they persisted then should they by conuenient prosecution be exiled out of their Country Toward the comminalty extended likewise those Emperors their seuerity so that they might neyther bequeath nor giue or take euen that which was cast off and forsaken not as made ouer vpon trust not by legacy not by grantes not by executorship not by any bil or other manner of writinges They also made such as were pensioners in the pallace liable to penalty of an excessiue forfeiture after the rates of their degree and dignity that spoyled of all honourable priuilege they should incurre infamy and finde themselues noted for publike offendors To the offices also of seueral tribunals was prescribed the penalty of thirty pound of siluer which if they who persisted in their errour had fiue times paid then should such persons be conuicted whipped and so banished Next had they giuen in commaundement that the bookes of all those Priests whome they persecuted should be cast into the fire and all other such bookes which in like manner we also nowe commaund to be done with those bookes by meanes of which iniquity hath induced it selfe into errour of that name For as touching the seuerall persons of whome was spoken these ordinances they made that persons of excellency should euery of them forfeit fifty pound of gold the ⸬ honourable fourty pound Senators thirty common Gentlemen twenty Priests thirty decurions fiue marchants fiue common people fiue wandring ruffians tenne and who might happen to continue after this damage their goodes confiscated they should by banishment be punished vpon corporations in Cities procurators also and takers of leases this penalty they inflicted that if they concealed and did not disclose or atach such persons presenting them to iudgement they themselues shall make good the forfeiture Moreouer to those who tooke the landes of the Crowne to farme this mulct was set downe that as much as was their yearely rent to the Kinges houshold so much should they semblably pay into his Exchequor for a fine as in generall the like to be obserued in all either hyrers or possessors of lande which shall be minded to endure in the same superstition I here doe appoint Of Iudges farthermore that who so were found not to be most instant in prosecuting this affaire should be punished by outlawry and losse of life Also of the chiefe officers that three should be punished the rest be amerced and caste in twenty poundes of gold Of necessity therefore must all the Homousians be bound by the very like constitution whome it is euident indeede to haue held and still to hold the substance of ae wicked beliefe vnto whome we nowe by this our decree denounce that they abstayne from all the a fore-said matters which shall be prosecuted throughout all estates in the Cities as likewise vpon Iustices who neglecting the former ordinances can be proued not to haue grieuously punished such as withstand the same To all persons therefore intangled with the errours of the fore-mentioned faith of the Homousians which hath wholy beene heretofore so condemned by a Councell of such a great number of Priests we enioyne and giue commaundement that they abstayne from all the fore-said affaires and contracts Let them knowe that nothing is permitted vnto them but that semblable punishment attendes to inuolue them euery one vnlesse before the Calendes of Iune in the eight yeare of our Raigne they conuert vnto the true Religion which we reuerence and honour Which prefixed day for no other purpose hath our piety afforded then to the end that vnto such as before hand renounce their errour pardon be not denyed and the obstinate be by due punishmentes chastised But whosoeuer shall perseuer in that errour whither they enioy Knight-hood of our house or happely haue charge vnder seuerall Titles and imployments let them be compellable to infliction of those mulcts aboue prescribed according to the qualities of their degrees nothing in the meane season being of any validity which any of them may happen by surreption to obtayne against priuate persons of what calling and place soeuer they be This our proclamation willeth that to be obserued which in the former lawes was concerning such expressed that they may vndergoe congruent punishment Iudges prouinciall slackly putting our ordinances in execution we will that they be sentenced by their superior