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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	hold_v	lord_n	tenant_n	7,424	5	10.2399	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54694	Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2017; ESTC R7102	61,608	114

dayes often committed oppression by a tyranny of the rich over the poor and needy and to keep the Wolves from their morning and evening preys and rejoycing in the spoil of the widdows and fatherless the hungry and necessitous which by a cheating and blinding of their consciences they will whether the Laws of God and man will or no suppose to be lawfull because it is their Trade and the misteries of it or because their Fathers or their Masters did it before them every one else doth it and every man must live and make use of their time labour calling or opportunities The people of this Kingdom being so universally endamaged by the evils happening by them and concerned and like to be benefitted by the remedies may as those of Spain Florence and other forreign Countries who in bearing some burdens and Taxes laid upon them are many times rather gainers then losers by the benefit of a Bands or rule of rating Butchers and many other Commodities to be bought or sold so as children cannot be cozened Be very willing that their representatives in Parliament shall consent That upon every Tun of wine French Spanish and Rhenish to be vented in England there be by the first buyer forty shillings per Tunne paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and accounted for half yearly in the Court of Exchequer That instead of an Excise upon Ale Beer Perry and Sider every one that shall in a publick Alehouse sell Ale Beer Perry or Sider shall yearly pay to the King his Heirs and Successors forty shillings per annum and every publick Brewer twenty pounds per annum and a further rate proportionable to the quantities of their Brewings And that to restore this antient Monarchy and heretofore famous and flourishing Kingdome to its former honour safety and defence and an ease from the charge of mercenary Armies and Guards and to prevent the great and many dangers and inconveniencies which may happen thereby as also to fatherless Children by Guardianships and breaches of trust his Majesty and his Heirs and Successors may have and enjoy his and their antient rights of Tenures in Capite and by Knight Service and all mesne Lords their Heirs their Tenures by Knight Service with all incidents thereunto belonging allowing unto every one holding of the King by those Tenures the liberty of being freed from the marriage of his Heir to be compounded for by yearly paying unto the King into the Exchequer or into the Court of Wards next after his age of one and twenty years and livery sued forth the sum of twenty pounds per annum rent for every Knights Fee which he shall hold or proportionably according to the partes thereof 1. That in the granting of Wardships to the Mother or next friends according to the Instructions of King James with those reasonable cares and considerations of debts and younger children used by the Court of Wards and Liveries the marriages of the Wards and Rents of their Lands during all the time of their minorities computed together be never above one years improved value which will be but the half of that which is now accompted to be a reasonable Fine and is frequently paid by many Copihold Tenants whose Fines are certain 2. That the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Durham who by antient exemptions and priviledge are to have the wardships of Tenants holding of them by Knight service in their minorities though they hold other Lands in Capite and by Knight service of the King may be ordained to doe the like favours 3. That all that hold in Capite and by Knight service be according to their antient liberties and rights granted by the Charter of King Henry the first freed as in reason they ought from all Assessments of their demeasn Lands touching warre 4. That Primer Seisins be taken away of such kind of Tenures and no more paid 5. That the Lands holden in Socage or of any other mesne Lords in case of minority of any in ward to the King by reason of Tenure in Capite or pour cause de gard being taken into consideration only as to the Fine for the marriage may not be put under any Rent or Lease to be made by the Court of Wards but freed as they were frequently and antiently by Writs sent to the Escheators 6. That the King in recompence thereof may have and receive of every Duke or Earl dying seized of any Lands or Hereditaments in Capite and by Knight service two hundred pounds of every Marquess Viscount and Baron two hundred marks and of every one that holdeth by a Knights Fee twenty pounds for a Relief or proportionably according to the quantity of the Fee which he holdeth 7. That incroachments and wast grounds holden in Capite and by Knight Service may be no cause of wardship or paying any other duties incident to that Tenure if it shall upon the first proof and notice be relinquished 8. That only Escuage and Service of warre except in the aforesaid cases of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Durham and all other incidents except Wardships due by their Tenants which hold of them by Knight service be restored to mesne Lords and that the Reliefs of five pounds for a whole Knights Fee or proportionably according to the quantity of Lands of that kind of Fee holden shall be after the death of every such Tenant twenty pounds 9. That to lessen the charges of Escheators and Juries for every single Office or Inquisition to be found or taken after the death of every tenant in Capite and by Knight Service the time of petitioning within a moneth after the death of the Ancestor may be enlarged to three moneths and the Shire Town City or principall place of every County be appointed with certain dayes or times for the finding of Offices to the end that one and the same Meeting and one and the same Jury with one and the same charge or by a contribution of all parties concerned may give a dispatch thereunto 10. That in case of neglecting to petition within three moneths after the death of the Tenant in Capite and by Knight Service or otherwise concealing any Wardships or not suing out of Livery if upon information brought issue joyned and witnesses examined or any time before Hearing or Tryall of the Cause the party offending or concerned shall pay the Prosecutor his double costs and satisfie the King the mesne rates he shall be admitted to compound 11. That the unnecessary Bonds formerly taken in the Court of Wards at two shillings six pence or three shillings charge upon suing out of every Diem clausit extremum or Writ to find an Office obliging the Prosecutor thereunto may be no more taken when as the time limited for petitioning to compound for Wardships and the danger of not doing of it will be engagement sufficient 12. That Grants Leases and Decrees of the Court of Wards may not to the great

Magna Charta and Charta Foreste fortieth part of every mans goods towards the payment of his debts and a thirtieth part afterwards granted by Act of Parliament much of his Forrests and Woods converted to errable land his Parks of Woodstock and Gillingham ploughed many Grants made in his minority revoked his great Officers as Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent Chief Justice of England and others called to account Ranulph Britton Treasurer of his Chamber fined in one thousand marks a great summe of money given by the City of London to be made Toll-free every one that could dispend in land fifteen pound per annum ordered to be knighted or pay a Fine great summes of money gained by composition with Delinquents at seven years value of their Lands by the Dictū de Kenilworth his houshold charges lessened a meaner Port kept less Almes given his Jewels and the Crown royal pawned Plate sold to pay his debts at no greater a value then the weight though the workmanship did cost as much and the golden Shrine of Edward the Confessor forty shillings for every Knights see twice assessed for his warres in Gascony great sums of money raised of the Iewes the banishment of the Poictouins and his half-brothers who had made it too much of their business to beg what they could of the Revenue and by his own sometimes sitting in the Exchequer to preserve it thirty two thousand pounds sterling received of Leolin Prince of Wales propaee habenda and a resumption of divers of the Crown Lands which had been aliened Nor by an Inquiry in Anno 4. of King Ed. 1 by Act of Parliament of the Castles Buildings Lead and Timber of the Kings his Demeasnes Parks Woods extent of Manors forrain Parks and Woods Pawnage Herbage Mills Fishings Freeholds Cottages Curtilages customary Tenants Patronages Perquisit●s of Courts Liberties Customes and Services a Subsidie in Anno 6. of his reign of the twentieth part of every mans goods towards the charges of his warres in Wales the Statute of Quo warranto in Anno 18. to inquire and seise into the Kings hands all liberties usurped a Subside in anno 22. of his reign upon Woolfels and Hydes transported a tenth of all goods the eighth of the goods of the Citizens and Burgesses a twelfth of the rest of the Laity and a moiety of the Clergy in anno 25. and in anno 26. the ninth penny of the Commons the tenth penny of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury and the fifth of York taking away much monies from the Priors Aliens payment by the Clergy in anno 23 of all such summes of money which they had promised to pay to the Pope towards the maintenance of the Holy warres and half a years value of their Ecclesiasticall livings and promotions abased monies four hundred and twenty thousand pounds fifteen shillings and four pence raised from the Jewes and a farre greater summe afterwards contribution of ships and ship-money by the maritime Coasts and Counties in case of danger and invasion sixty five thousand marks of silver received for Fines of some corrupt Judges and great summes of money likewise for forfeitures by an Inquisition or Commission of Trail Baston A fifteenth of the Clergy and a twentieth of the Temporalty to King Edward the Second in anno primo of his reign the moveables and personal Estate of the Knights Templers in England Contribution of ships and ship-money by the maritime Counties a fifteenth in anno 6. and the great and rich confiscated personall Estates of the two Spencers Father and Son and an Ordinance made pro Hospitio Regis concerning the regulation of his Houshold Thirty thousand marks paid to King Edward the third in anno 2. of his reign by Robert Bruce King of Scots to release his Soveraignity to that Kingdom a tenth of the Clergy Citizens and Burgesses and a fifteenth of others granted in anno 6. of his reign Aids of ships ship-money by the Sea-coasts and in an 13. the tenth sheep of all the Lords Demeasnes except of their bound Tenants the tenth fleece of wool and the tenth lamb of their store to be paid in two years and that such of them or their Peers as held by Baronie should give the tenth of their grain wool and Lamb and of all their own Demeasnes and two thousand five hundred sacks of wool given by the Commons anno 14. the ninth of the grain wool and lamb of the Laity to be paid in two years the ninth of the goods of the Townsmen and the fifteenth of such as dwelt in Forrests and Chases anno 17. forty shillings for every Sack of wool over and above the old rate anno 18. a Disme by the Clergy of Canterbury for three years two fifteenths of the Commons and two dismes of the Cities and Towns to be levied in such wise as the last in an 20. two fifteens to be paid in two years anno 21. two shillings upon every Sack of wool granted by the Lords without the Commons in anno 22. three fifteens to be paid in three years All such treasure as was committed to Churches throughout England for the Holy warre all the goods of the Cluniacques Cistercians and some other Orders of Monks half the wools of the Laity and the whole of the Clergy the jewels of the Crown pawned imprisonment of his Treasurer abasing some of his 〈◊〉 and ordaining some of his Exchanges of money to be at London Canterbury and York monies abated in weight and made to pass according to former value and the profits which the forrain Cardinals enjoyed in England during their lives taken into his hands one hundred thousand pounds received for the ransome of John King of France great sums of money for the ransoming of David King of Scotland Philip afterwards Duke of Burgogne Jaques de Bourbon and many of the French Nobility fifty shillings granted by Parliament in anno 43. for every sack of wool for six years by which imposition only as the Trade of Wools and Cloathing then flourished the King as it was computed might dispend one thousand marks per diem fifty thousand pounds by the Laity and as much by the Clergy granted him by the Parliament in anno 45. to resume his right in France a Poll-money by Act of Parliament of four pence for every person of of the Laity that took not almes of every Clergy-man beneficed twelve pence and of every Religious person four pence in anno 50. and a resumption of divers of his Crown Lands A Subsidie in the first year of K. Richard the second levied upon the great men to spare the Commons Poll-money of every person above fifteen years old Fines of seaventeen shires in anno 21. and causing them to pay great summes of money for aiding the Duke of Gloucester and Earles of Arrundel and Warwick the Bohemians which pestered his Court banished and a resumption of divers of his Crown Lands A tenth of the Clergy and a Subsidie

and other vanities imported should not deterre him and his great Councel from attempting when the prevention of the great wast of gold and silver in making lace and habiliments for such as ought not to wear them the vent of our Cloth and other English Manufactures in stead of them suppressing of an universall pride and Sinne which the land groaning under is not able to bear the causing of a greater duty and obedience to superiors which is now too much wanting and the pacifying of Gods wrath and Judgments which are ready to fall upon the Nation for it will abundantly recompence That seeing the Excise of Beer Ale Perry and Sider greatly discontents and lies heavy upon the People and the management and way of gathering it adds to their affliction and makes them repine at the Nobility and Gentry upon a supposition that to ease themselves of that which was surmised to be a burden by Tenures in Capite and by Knight service with the wardships and incidents thereof they have contrived and raised the burden of more then one hundred thousand pounds per annum Excise to be laid upon them whereas the losses and damages of the Nobility and Gentry of England besides what they may sometimes save in their own wardships and by reason of Lands holden of the King in Capite and by Knight Service in the profit and honor of Tenures holden of them by Knight service and of Wardships and other Incidents and their just and legal superiorities and commands over their Tenants which will now be wanting will if rightly estimated amount to as much yearly dammage and inconveniencies as that one hundred thousand pounds per annum or more will come to by that Excise in which their expences may tell them they bear a share likewise with the common people some of the Knights and Gentry loosing as much by the taking away of Tenures in Capite and by Knight service as two hundred pounds per annum communibus annis and some of the Nobility four or five hundred pounds per annum and the least of what every of the Nobility and Gentry doe yearly loose thereby will be more then any particular Brewer or Aleseller can be damnified when as the Beer and Ale and next buyer or expender are sure enough to pay for that and many times more That for the remedying of the great Deceipts and Sophistications used by Brewers of Ale and Beer as their false gaugings and measures not half or not enough boyling it to spare fewel and fire putting in Broom Coriander-seed Wormwood and many other newly devised and noxious ingredients instead of Hops or to make it taste the stronger which may much endanger the lives and health of the people And the abuses of Merchants Wine-Coopers and Vintners in conjuring their Wines as they call it mingling it with Stum Molosse or scum of Sugar Perry Sider Lime Milk Whites of Eggs Elder-berries putting in raw flesh and using so many Adulterations and mixtures as the Taverns and places of retail doe too commonly vent intoxicating and unwholsome drink by the name of wine whereby the Wine-coopers whose Trade was originally and properly only to make and amend vessels for wines are now by a knowledge and taste of wines pertaking of the Merchants evil secrets and doings and bringing some ease and conveniences to them by uttering and taking off their hands great quantities of wines upon long dayes and many moneths of payment given them become as it were the Merchants Masters and the only Merchants and Sellers of wine to the Vintners and Retailers which was formerly forbidden them after they have adulterated unwholsomed and almost poysoned them to the distemper and breeding of sickness in the bodies of men who for a little wine to warm and chear their hearts or stomachs or entertain one another with mutuall refreshments are by such ungodly tricks and devices to purchase to the Merchants Wine-Coopers and Vintners filthy and wicked gain and lucre many times enticed into the confines of death and their own destruction And the many deceipts and abuses of Bakers whose weights of bread and honest gains of their Trade is by the Statutes of Assisa Panis Cervisiae in Anno 51 of King Henry the third to be yearly regulated by the Kings Baker of his Houshold and the bread of his Court according to the several yearly rates and prices of corn and their transgressions contrary thereunto by many other Lawes to be severely punished and the offendors put upon the Pillory Which this last Century or Age by a Non-execution of Lawes have not been so happy to see But the Bakers are now so disused to these antient good Laws and Regulations and so used to a custome and cunning of blinding the Magistrates or such Officers as they entrust therewith or by evading or diminishing their punishments as they can by a custome or necessity of sinning which their deluded consciences do perswade them to be lawfull and warrantable enough make their bread 5 or 6 ounces too light or short of the legal proportions nor assize when corn is very dear and a great deal to light when it is cheaper And to add to their wickedness as if otherwise it would not be enough are suspected to mingle chalk and lime amongst their meal which makes the white bread and do by combination with the Vintners Inn-keepers and Chandlers who are the Belly-Brokers to the poor make their white bread so little as to afford them 16. or 18. to the dozen and if the Mayor and Sheriffs of London or the Magistrates of other Cities or great Towns doe sometimes goe about to trie and weigh their bread and find any Basket or small parcel of bread to be faulty which by the Serjeants and under Officers too often giving notice over night or before hand what day or way the scrutiny goes makes their care and diligence to be most commonly ineffectuall or to little purpose or may be easily prevented by some bread honestly made when all the rest doe want waight laid in their passage and seised and sent to prisons the next dayes or weeks bread shall be sure to be made the lighter to recompence the loss of the former And lesser Corporations being most commonly governed by retailing Tradesmen and such as have a fellow feeling of one anothers mysteries or that which they suppose to be their Callings but are usually attended with fraud and cheatings doe take no care at all to obstruct discover or punish one anothers knaveries by which the poor and their wives and children whose daily hard labours can scarcely bring them to other diet then brown bread and skummed cheese and a cup of good beer when they can get it are daily and very much oppressed and their poverties made to encrease the riches of those who are so farre from relieving their miseries hardships as they are a great part of the cause and increase of it by which great and