Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	person_n	possession_n	tenement_n	1,318	5	10.9693	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80879	His Highness's commission under the great seal of England directed to the lords commissioners of the treasury, barons of the exchequer, and others, for satisfying the fifths of such discoveries as have or shall be by any person or persons made out before the Commissioners for Discoveries at Worcester-House in the Strand ...	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing C7049; ESTC R210689	7,149	15

HIS HIGHNES'S COMMISSION UNDER The Great Seal OF ENGLAND Directed to the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the Treasury Barons of the Exchequer and others For satisfying the FIFTHS of such DISCOVERIES As have or shall be by any person or persons made out before the Commissioners for Discoveries at Worcester-House in the Strand Of any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Money Plate Jewels Goods Chattels and other things belonging to his Highness the Lord Protector in right of the Commonwealth and unjustly concealed and detained and for seising the same by due Proces out of the EXCHEQUER LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb dwelling in Thames-street over against Bainards Castle 1657. HIS HIGHNES'S COMMISSION UNDER The Great Seal of England DIRECTED To the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury Barons of the Exchequer and others OLIVER Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging To our right trusty and welbeloved the Commissioners of and for our Treasury the Barons of our Exchequer and our Attorney General for the time being And all other our Officers and Ministers of or in our Exchequer And all others to whom these presents shall appertain and to every of them Greeting Whereas by our Letters Patents under our Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Three and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fifty and six we have for the Reasons therein expressed nominated constituted and appointed Ralph Hall Peter Elliston John Griffith Edward Carey John Wilsby William Bridges and Nathaniel Stirrup Esquires to be our Commissioners and have thereby impowred and authorized and appointed them or any four or more of them to receive for and on our behalf all such Informations as should by any person or persons be exhibited before them touching or any way concerning our Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods Chattels or other things belonging to us in right of the Commonwealth and not pardoned but unjustly concealed and detained And by all such good and lawful ways and means as to them or any four or more of them should seem meet to send for any Persons Parties Witnesses Records Accompts Books and Writings whatsoever And if upon any such Information Examination and Inquiry and full hearing of the parties concerned and mature consideration had of the whole matter it should appear unto them our said Commissioners or any four or more of them That any such Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Goods Chattels Plate Iewels or other things so belonging to us in right of the Commonwealth and not pardoned be unjustly concealed or detained as aforesaid then they our said Commissioners or any four or more of them should forthwith from time to time under their Hands and Seals certifie all such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Goods Chattels Plate Iewels and other things so discovered together with the whole matter touching such Discovery or Discoveries to you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to the end you our said Commissioners of our Treasury might forthwith cause the premises by Proces out of our Court of Exchequer to be duly seised into our hands and to that purpose put in charge in the great Roll of the Pipe there which said Commissioners for Discoveries or four or more of them we did in and by our said Letters Patents command and require to meet upon Monday the Six and twentieth day of May last past by nine of the clock in the morning at Worcester-House in the Strand in the County of Middlefex then and there to enter upon the execution of that our Commission and to proceed therein for the space of one whole year from the date of our said Commission or until we should signifie our pleasure to the contrary And whereas for the Reasons in our Letters Patents at large expressed We have declared our will and pleasure to be and have thereby with the advice and consent of our Council granted That all and every person and persons who before you our said Commissioners of and for our Treasury had then discovered or upon any Information or Informations to be afterwards exhibited before them our said Commissioners for Discoveries or any four or more of them should discover or upon any Bill or Information then exhibited or afterwards to be exhibited in our said Court of Exchequer had then discovered or should after discover any such Manors Lands Tenements Money Plate Iewels or any other the premises so belonging to us and not pardoned but unjustly concealed or detained as aforesaid and the respective Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of all and thery such person and persons so discovering should from time to time and at all tiems have and enjoy to their own use and behoof one full Fifth part or so much more as you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being should think fit to allow of all Annual and other sum and sums which should be paid into the Receipt of our Exchequer upon any such Discovery or Discoveries and upon the prosecution of any such person or persons so discovering respectively And that if any persons or persons be seised of any such Manor Lands Tenements Rents Moneys Plate Iewels Goods or Chattels or owing any such Arrears of Rents Debts and Duties so belonging to us and not pardoned but unjustly concealed or detained as aforesaid should voluntarily first discover the same unto you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being before any such discovery thereof made as aforesaid and should submit unto such Orders and Directions as should by you our said Commissioners of our Treasury be given for the more speedy seising into our hands and due charging in the great Roil of the Pipe aforesaid all such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Goods and Chattels so voluntarily discovered as aforesaid then and in such case onely We have in and by our said Letters Patents declared our will to be That such person and persons so voluntarily discovering and his her and their respective Heirs and Assigns should from time to time and at all times have and enjoy to their own use one full Fifth part or so much more as you our Commissioners of our Treasury should think fit to allow of all Annual or other sum or sums of Money which should be paid into the Receipt of our Exchequer upon voluntary discovery or discoveries of any such Manors Lands Tenements Goods Chattels or other the premises and should likewise have Allowance Deduction Defalcation and Retainer to him her or themselves of one full Fifth part or of so much more as you our said Commissioners of our Treasury should think fit to allow of all such Arrears of Reants Debts Duties Plate Iewels and sums of Money so voluntarily discovered to be in his her or their possession or by him her

or them owing concealed or detained as aforesaid And whereas in and by our said Letters Patents we have declared our further will and pleasure to be That if any person or persons having compounded and having any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods or Chattels omitted out of his her or their Composition or Compositions not pardoned but unjustly concealed or detained as aforesaid or being then under Sequestration for the Delinquency or Recusancy and having any Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods or Chattels not sequestred nor pardoned but concealed or detained as aforesaid or being comprised in any Act for Sale and having any Copihold or Customary Lands or Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Goods or Chattels not sequesrred nor pardoned but concealed or detained as aforesaid Do and should before any such discovery thereof made as aforesaid Petition you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to be admitted to compound for the same Then we have thereby willed and authorised you our said Commissioners of our Treasury That in such case you compound with such person or persons so petitioning after the rate of one Fourth part of the value of such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Goods and Chattels respectively and have by our said Letters Patents delared and granted by and with the advice and consent of our Council That all andevery such person and persons who should compound as aforesaid and after submit unto such Orders and Directions as by you our said Commissioners of our Treasury should be given for duly charging such sum or sums of Money as should be due and owing upon such Composition or Compositions in the Roll of the Pipe and should duly pay the same into the Receipt of our Exchequer and the Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of such person and persons so compounding submitting and paying should and might peaceably hold and enjoy all such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Goods and Chattels so compounded for free and clear of and from any Seisure Sequestration or Molestation whatsoever any thing in that our said Commission or otherwise to the contrary notwithstanding as in and by our said Letters Patents relation being thereunto had more at large amongst other things it doth and may appear And whereas we have received Information that the said Nathaniel Stirrup one of our Commissioners beforementioned is lately dead Know ye That we by the advice of our Council have nominated and assigned and by these presents Do nominate and assign our trusty and welbeloved Robert Griffith Esq to be One of our Commissioners as aforesaid in the stead and place of him the said Nathaniel Stirrup deceased to do and execute all and singular the Powers and Authorities in our said Letters of Commission mentioned and all and every other thing and things therein contained together with our said other Commissioners surviving according to the purport and intent thereof and that in as full and ample manner and form to all intents and purposes as if he the said Robert Griffith had been specially and expresly named One of our said Commissioners in that our Commission aforesaid And our will and pleasure is That he the said Robert Griffith be reputed and taken as one of our Commissioners aforesaid by force and vertue of these presents to do and execute the premises accordingly And to the intent and purpose That our will and pleasure in and by our said Letters Patents so as above declared may be put in due execution And all such Fifths Allowances Defalcations and Compositions may be duly had and made according to the true intent and meaning of our said in part recited Letters Patents Know ye further That we have authorised and required and by these presents do authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any Two or more of you from time to time to receive as well all such Certificates of any such Discovery or Discoveries made or to be made before our said Commissioners for Discoveries or any four of them as also all such voluntary Discoveries as have been or shall be first made before you our Commissioners of our Treasury or any two or more of you as aforesaid And we have authorised and required and by these presents do authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury Barons of our Exchequer and our Attorney General for the time being and all other our Officers and Ministers of and in our said Exchequer whom it may concern That according to the duties of your several places you causeall such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods Chattels and other things so as above certified to be discovered before our said Commissioners for Discoveries or any four of them or so as above voluntarily first discovered before you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to be seised into our hands by due Proces out of our said Exchequer or put in charge either in the great Roll of the Pipe or with the Auditors of our said Exchequer As to you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being shall be thought most advantagious for the Commonwealth in that behalf And we have authorised and required and by these presents do authorise and require you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time to allow unto all and every such person and persons who before you our said Commissioners of our Treasury have at or before the day of the date of our said Commission so as above discovered or before our said Commissioners for Discoveries have so as abovesaid discovered or shall hereafter discover or upon any Bill or Information exhibited or to be exhibited in our said Court of Exchequer have so as above discovered or shall hereafter discover and to the Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of all and every such person or persons so discovering one full Fifth part of all such Annual and other sum or sums of Money whatsoever as by the joynt or several Certificate or Certificates of the Clerk of the Pells of the Receipt of our Exchequer and other our Officer or Officers unto whom it shall appertain shall appear unto you the Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you to be paid into the Receipt of our Exchequer upon any such Discovery or Discoveries and upon the prosecution of such person or persons so discovering respectively And we do also by these presents authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time to grant your Warrant or Warrants for the due payment out of the Receipt of our Exchequer of such Fifth part or Fifth parts unto such person or persons so

discovering and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively Nevertheless if any person or persons being so as above said seised or possessed of any Manors Lands Tenements Moneys Plate Iewels Goods Chattels or other things or owing any Rents Arrears of Rents Debts or other things so as above belonging unto us and concealed or detained as aforesaid have so as above voluntarily first discovered or shall voluntarily first discover the same unto you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being before any such discovery thereof made as aforesaid and have submitted or shall submit unto such Orders and Directions as by you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you have been or shall be given for the due seising into our hands the premises so voluntarily discovered or to be discovered and putting the same in charge in the great Roll of the Pipe or with the Auditors of our Exchequer Then our will and pleasure is and we do by these presents authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time and at all times to make allowance by way of Deduction Defalcation and Retainer to such person and persons so voluntarily discovering and his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively of one full Fifth part of al such Rents Arrears of Rents Moneys and Debts so voluntarily first discovered and also to make allowance unto such person and persons so voluntarily discovering and his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively of one full Fifth part of all such Annual and other sum and sums of Money as by such Certificate or Certificates of our said Clerk of the Pells of the Receipt of our Exchequer and other our Officers to whom it shall appertain shall appear unto you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to be paid into the Receipt of one Exchequer upon such voluntary Discovery or Discoveries of any such Manors Lands Tenements Plate Iewels Goods and Chattels And also we do by these presents authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time to grant your Warrant or Warrants as well for striking of Tallies for such Fifts by way of Deduction Defalcation and Retainer as also for the due payment out of the Receipt of our Exchequer of such Fifths of all such Annual and other sums of Money unto such person or persons so voluntarily discovering and submitting and his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively And for the better satisfaction unto all and every such person and persons any ways intitled unto any such Fifths as aforesaid We do by these presents authorise and require you our said Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time to contract with any person or persons so intitled unto any such Fifths for any Lease or Leases of any such Manors Lands or Tenements so discovered for any term of years to be made unto such person or persons so intitled in full satisfaction of such their Fifths as abovesaid And such Lease and Leases so to be contracted for and made shall pass under our Great Seal of England or the Seal of our Exchequer by Warrant under the hands of you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or of any two or more of you And we do by these presents further authorise and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you from time to time to receive the Petition and Petitions of all and every such person and persons as having compounded and having any such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods or Chattels omitted out of his or their Composition or Compositions and so unjustly concealed or detained as aforesaid and being now under Sequestration for Delinquency or Recusancy and having any such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods or Chattels not sequestred but concealed or detained as aforesaid or being comprised in any Act for Sale and having any Copihold or Customary Lands or Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Goods or Chattels not sequestred but concealed or detained as aforesaid or the Petition and Petitions of the Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns of such person or persons having so compounded or being or having been so under Sequestration or being so comprised in any Act for Sale as aforesaid respectively as shall before any discovery thereof made as aforesaid and before the expiration of our said Commission Petition you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being to be admitted to compound for the same respectively and to compound with all and every such person and persons so Petitioning after the rate of one Fourth part of the value of such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Goods and Chattels respectively and also to make and give such Orders and Directions as to you our Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being or any two or more of you shall be thought fit for the due charging the great Roll of the Pipe all and every such sum and sums of money so due or owing upon any such Composition or Compositions respectively and for the speedy payment thereof into the Receipt of our Exchequer accordingly And we do by these presents authorise will and require you our Commissioners of our Treasury Barons of our Exchequer and our Attorney General for the time being and all other our Officers and Ministers of and in our Exchequer whom it may concern To permit and suffer all and every such person and persons that shall so Petition and Compound and shall likewise observe and perform such Orders and Directions and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively from time to time quietly and peaceably to have hold and occupy all such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Arrears of Rents Debts Duties Moneys Plate Iewels Goods and Chattels so compounded for free and clear of and from any Seisure Sequestration or other Molestation whatsoever Any Law Statute Act Ordinance or any other matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for so doing and for observing and executing our will and pleasure herein expressed and the several Authorities hereby given These presents shall be unto you and every of you respectively a good absolute and sufficient discharge In witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patents witness our self at Westminster the Twelfth day of March One thousand six hundred fifty and six FINIS

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