Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	estate_n	heir_n	remainder_n	4,980	5	11.0190	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81325	To the supream authority of this nation, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. The humble petition of Charles Earle of Derby	Derby, Charles Stanley, Earl of, 1628-1672.	1651 (1651)	Wing D1090bA; ESTC R231391	743	1

To the Supream Authority of this NATION the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of England The Humble Petition of CHARLES Earle of Derby SHEWETH THat by Conveyances heretofore made in the life of your Petitioners Grandfather William Earle of Derby all his Mannors and lands in the Counties of Lancaster Chester Flint Yorkshire Westmerland and Cumberland and in divers other places in England and Wales and the Isle of Man were limited to James late Earle of Derby your Petitioners Father for his life only with remainder to the first Son of the said James which is your Petitioner and the Heires males of his body with other remainder over That the Estate of the said James Earle of Derby being according to the late Act of the 16. of Iuly last appointed to be sold your Petitioner hath preferred his Petition to the Committee by that Act appointed therein set forth his title to the premisses But most of the Deeds concerning the said Estate were imbezeled or burnt upon the taking of Latham-house in one part whereof the Evidences belonging to his Family were usually kept and if any do remain they are now in the Isle of Man so that your Petitioner cannot produce them timely enough to have allowance of his Estate according to the saving of that Act and the Order for further time He further sheweth that there was a Composition formerly set in Goldsmiths-Hall for the said Estate for his Fathers former Delinquency and humbly hopes his death will be accepted as an expiation for his later Delinquency Your Petitioner therefore who never acted or consented to any thing prejudicial to the Parliament or Common-wealth of England nor ever will act or consent to act any thing prejudicial to the same most humbly casts himself upon your clemency and humbly prays that you would be pleased to admit your Petitioner to have the said Estate upon such Composition as you shall in clemency and compassion to him thinkfit And to appoint and direct a stay of the sale of the said Estate or any further proceedings therein until you shall be pleased further to determine therein And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray