Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	heir_n	hereditament_n	tenement_n	3,372	5	10.3874	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87444	A just and cleere refutation of a false and scandalous pamphlet, entituled, Babylons fall in Maryland, &c. and, a true discovery of certaine strange and inhumane proceedings of some ungratefull people in Maryland, towards those who formerly preserved them in time of their greatest distresse. To which is added a law in Maryland concerning religion, and a declaration concerning the same. / By John Langford Gentleman, Servant to the Lord Baltemore.	Langford, John, Gentleman, servant to Lord Baltimore.	1655 (1655)	Wing J1220; Wing L387; Thomason E853_25; ESTC R16909	16,616	35

Enemies owne Souldiers and so the rest of the Councellors were saved by the Petitions of the Women with some other friends which they found there onely Master William Eltonhead was shot to death whose death I much lament being shot in cold bloud and also Lievetenant William Lewis with one Mr. Leggat and a Germane which did live with Mr. Eltonhead which by all Relations that ever I did heare of the like barbarous act was never done amongst Christians They have Sequestred my Husbands Estate only they say they will allow a maintenance for me and my Children which I doe beleeve will bee but small They keep my Husband with the rest of the Councell and all other Officers still Prisoners I am very suddenly God willing bound up to see my Husband they will not so much as suffer him to write a Letter unto mee but they will have the perusall of what hee writes Captaine Tylman and his Mate Master Cook are very honest men and doe stand up much for your Honour they will informe you of more passages then I can remember at the present and I hope my Brother will be downe before Captain Tylman goes away and will write to you more at large for he is bound up this day for to see his Brother if they doe not detain him there as well as the rest the occasion I conceive of their detainment there is because they should not goe home to informe your Honour of the truth of the businesse before they make their owne tale in England which let them doe their worst which I do not question but you will vindicate my Husbands honour which hath ventured Life and Estate to keep your due heere which by force he hath lost And they give out words that they have won the Country by the sword and by it they will keepe the same let my Lord Protector send in what Writing hee pleaseth The Gunners Mate of Hemans since his comming down from Anne-Arundell to Patuxent hath boasted that he shot the first man that was shot of our Party All this I write is very true which I thought good to informe your Lordship because they will not suffer my Husband for to write himselfe I hope your Honour will be pleased for to looke upon my Sonne and for to wish him for to be of good comfort and not for to take our afflictions to heart And nothing else at present I rest Your Honours most humble Servant Varlinda Stone Post-script I hope your Honour will favour me so much that if my Sonne wants twenty or thirty pounds you will let him have it and it shall be payd your Honour againe Hemans the Master of the Golden Lion is a very Knave and that will be made plainly for to appeare to your Lordship for he hath abused my Husband most grosly A true Copy of the Oath of Fidelity to the Lord Proprietary of the Province of MARYLAND I A. B. Doe sweare that I will be true and faithfull so long as I shall be a member of this Province to the Right Hon. CAECILIUS Lord Baron of Baltemore Lord and Proprietary of this Province of Maryland and the Islands therunto belonging to his Heyres Lords and Proprietaries of the same and to his Lievetenant or Chiefe Governour heer for the time being And will not at any time by words or actions in publique or in private wittingly or willingly to the best of my understanding any way derogate from but will at all times as occasion shall require to the utmost of my power defend and maintain all such his sayd Lordships and his Heyres just and lawfull Right Title Interest Priviledges Iurisdictions Prerogative Propriety and Dominion over and in the sayd Province and Islands thereunto belonging and over the people who are or shall be therein for the time being as are granted to his sayd Lordship and his Heyres by the late King of England in his sayd Lordships Patent of the sayd Province under the Great Seale of England not any wise understood to infringe or prejudice Liberty of Conscience in point of Religion And I doe also sweare that I will with all expedition discover to his Lordship or to his Lievetenant or other Chiefe Governour of the sayd Province for the time being and also use my best endevour to prevent any Plot Conspiracy or Combination which I shall know or have just cause to suspect is or shall be intended against the person of his sayd Lordship or which shall tend any way to the disinherison or deprivation of his sayd Lordship or his Heyres their Right Title Jurisdiction and Dominion aforesayd or any part thereof And I doe swear that I will not either by myself or by any other person or persons directly or indirectly take accept receive purchase or possesse any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within the sayd Province of Maryland or the Islands thereunto belonging from any Indian or Indians to any other use or uses but to the use of his said Lordship and his Heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province or knowingly from any other person or persons not deriving a legall Title thereunto by from or under some grant from his said Lordship or his Heires Lords and Proprietaries of this Province legally passed or to be passed under his or their great Seale of the said Province for the time being So help me God c. THis Oath was appointed by my Lord to be taken by every one who had any Land granted to him in Maryland from his Lordship before any Patent thereof should passe the Seale to him and it was also appointed to be taken by a law made in Maryland in An. 1649. with the consent of the Protestāts as wel as the Roman Catholiks there by every inhabitant above the age of sixteene yeeres upon paine of Banishment in case of refusal and of fine in case of return and a second refusall but it was never yet imposed upon any nor any ever yet banished or fined for refusal of it onely they could have no land granted them from his Lordship unlesse they tooke it nor was there any other Oath appointed to bee taken upon any penalty whatsoever But there was another Oath appointed for the Governour and Councell onely in Maryland to take which have these clauses among others in them viz. That they shall not accept or execute any Place Office or Imployment in Maryland relating to the Government thereof from any Person or Authority but from the Lord Baltemore or his Heires and another Clause viz. that they shall not directly or indirectly trouble molest or discountenance any person whatsoever in the said Province professing to believe in JESUS CHRIST and in particular no Roman Catholick for or in respect of his or her Religion nor in his or her free exercise thereof within the said Province But this Oath was never imposed upon any body nor any penalty appointed for the refusall thereof for it was free for any man if hee did not like the Oath