Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	parliament_n	time_n	15,513	5	3.9937	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05685	A proclamation for securing the peace of the shire of Caithness	Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1680 (1680)	Wing S1912; ESTC R183540	1,147	1

CR HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A PROCLAMATION For securing the Peace of the Shire of CAITHNESS CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To Macers or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as notwithstanding by Our Laws and Acts of Parliament the convocating of Our Leidges without Our special Authority and Warrand therefore be expressly discharged Yet We are informed that certain broken and lawless Men within Our Shir● of Caithness have from time to time convocate themselves in Arms within the said Shire and have most unwarrantably first besieged and then thrown down the Houses bel●●ging to the Earl of Caithness and continues still to exact upon and oppress his Tenant● taking away the Corns out of his Girnels exacting sums of Money and free Quarter t● the great contempt of Our Authority And We being resolved to protect all such as 〈◊〉 peaceably under Us and in Obedience to our Laws Have therefore with Advice of Our Privy Council thought fit to Declare and Testifie Our Abhorrence of all such atrocious Crimes of Oppression and Illegal Procedure and that We will with all speed and rigor punish all such as shall be found to have had any accession to the same before our ordinar Judicatures But least in the mean time the Rents and Victual payable out of the said Earls Lands should be transported so that reparation could not be had We do therefore expressly discharge any Merchants to buy or any Skippers to transport the Victual growing upon any of the said Earls Lands without his own or his Chamberlains Licence and consent under the pain of the confiscation of the said Ship wherein the said Victual shall be transported Likeas to prevent the transporting of the same under the name and colour of Victual belonging to private Persons We do hereby Declare that any such Persons who shall lend their Name to such a Transportation shall be lyable to the said Earl in the sum of Ten Pounds Scots for every Boll so transported And to the end the said Earl may have peaceable access to his own Estate in Caithness We hereby discharge all Our Subjects of what quality soever to stop him his Friends and Followers in their Journey to and from Caithness Commanding also hereby all such as have Ferry-Boats to give him the ordinary and speedy Passage and Our Subjects upon his Way to provide him and them with Entertainment at the ordinary Rates of the Country as they will be answerable Commanding hereby all Our good Subjects to countenance and assist Our Heraulds Pursevants and Messengers at Arms either for citing the Persons concerned in Our Name or for executing Our Laws against them and more especially in the publication hereof And ordains these Presents to be Printed and Published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh Aberdene Inuerness Thurso Caithness-weik and other places needful that all Persons concerned may have notice of the same Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the fourth day of March one thousand six hundred and eighty Years And of Our Reign the thirty and two Year Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii A L. GIBSON Cl. Sti. Concilii GOD save the King Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1680.