Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	viscount_n	17,931	5	11.9058	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43097	The English school-master compleated containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven, and eight syllables, both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces both before and after meat, and rules for childrens behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also brief and easie rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English according to the present pronunciation thereof in the famous University of Oxford, and City of London. To which is added, an appendix containing the principles of arithmetick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. Copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities, bills of parcels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youths accomplishment in the way of trade. John Hawkins school-master at St. Georges Church in Southwark.	Hawkins, John, 17th cent.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1175; ESTC R213434	60,375	140

deduced the following Table 2● Grains   a Peny weight 20 Peny weight make an Ounce 12 Ounces   a Pound With the foregoing Weights are weighed Bread Gold Silver Jewels and Electuaries Apothecaries Weights THE Weights used by Apothecaries are no other than Troy Weight only the Pound is otherwise subdivided according to the following Table 20 Grains   a Scruple   ℈ 3 Scruples make a Dram thus marked ʒ 8 Drams   an Ounce   ℥ 12 Ounces   a Pound   lb Averdupois Weight 16 Drams   an Ounce 16 Ounces   a Pound 28 Pounds make a Quarter of an Hundred 4 Quarters   an 100 weight consisting of 112 l. 20 Hundred   a Tun Weight By this Weight is weighed all Grocery Wares Butter Cheese Flesh Wax Pitch Rosin Tallow Hemp Lead Iron Copper Tin and all other Commodities from whence there may issue a waste All Measure whether of Longitude or Capacity are deduced from a Barley Corn whence comes the following Table Of Long Measure 3 Barley-Corns   an Inch. 12 Inches   a Foot ● Foot   a Yard 3 Foot 9 Inches make an Ell English 6 Foot   a Fathom 5 yards and an half   a Pole or Perch 〈◊〉 Poles or Perches   a Furlong 8 Furlongs   an English Mile By the foregoing Table you may understand that 5 yards and an half which is 16 foot and an half make a Pole or Perch from whence is deduced the following Table Of Land Measure 4● square Perches or Poles make a Rood or quarter of an Acre 4 Roods   an Acre of Land Liquid Measure by which is sold Beer Ale and other Liquors i● by the Statute in this manner setled viz. The Beer Gallon to contain 282 Cubick Inches each Inch being a solid like a Dye each side of which is an Inch in length viz. its length breadth and thickness an Inch. And the Gallon is customarily subdivided into Pottles Quarts and Pints whence is deduced the following Table Of Liquid Measure 2 Pints   a Quart 2 Quarts   a Pottle 2 Pottles   a Gallon of 282 solid Inches 8 Gallons make a Firkin of Ale Soap Herring 9 Gallons   a Firkin of Beer 10 Gallons and an half   a Firkin of Salmon or Eels 2 Firkins   a Kilderkin 2 Kilderkins   a Barrel of Beer or Ale But Wine Measure hath by the same Statute 231 Cubick Inches to the Gallon which is likewise subdivided into Pottles Quarts and Pints as Beer Measure is from whence cometh the following Table Of Wine Measure 2 Pints   a Quart 2 Quarts   a Pottle 2 Pottles   a Gal. of 23● solid Inches 42 Gallons make a Tierce of Wine 63 Gallons   a Hogshead 2 Hogsheads or 3 Tierces   a Pipe or Butt 2 Pipes or Butts or 6 Tierces   A Tun of Wine Wheat Barley and other Grain Salt Coals Sand all dry Goods and such as have substance in them are measure by dry measure the least of which is a Pint according to the following Table Of Dry Measure 2 Pints   a Quart 2 Quarts   a Pottle 2 Pottles   a Gall. 2 Gallons   a Peck 4 Pecks make a Bushel Land Measure 5 Pecks   a Bushel Water Measure 8 Bushels   a Quarter 4 Quarters   a Chaldron 5 Quarters   a Weigh Of Time The Original measure of Time is a year which is the time where in the Sun performs his natural Motion or Course through the Ecliptick beginning at Aries and so going through the 12 Signs of the Zodiack till he return again to the first scruple of Aries which he performs in 365 days and almost 6 hours and the 6 hours are reckoned only every fourth year and then there is a day extraordinary added to the year making in all 366 days which day is added to February and that year is called Leap-year and according to the foresaid measure is the year divided and subdivided as in the following Table of Time 60 Seconds   a Minute 60 Minutes   an Hour 24 Hours   a Day natural 7 Days make a Week 4 Weeks   a Month. 13 Months 1 Day and 6 Hours   a Year But the Year is most commonly divided into 12 unequal Calendar Months whose Names and the number of days contained in each take as followeth   days Ianuary 31 February 28 March 31 April 30 May 31 Iune 30 Iuly 31 August 31 September 30 October 31 November 30 December 31 But they are more briefly sum'd up for the Memory in the four following old Verses Thirty days hath September April Iune and November But February hath twenty eight alone And all the rest have thirty one Titles of Honour for Superscription or Appellations in Letters TO the King Sir or may it please your Majesty Sacred Sir Dread Sovereign To the Queen Madam or may it please your Majesty To the Princess Madam or may it please your Royal Highness To a Duke My Lord or may it please your Grace To a Dutchess Madam or may it please your Grace To a Marquess My Lord or may it please your Lordship To a Marchioness Madam or may it please your Ladiship To an Earl My Lord or Right Honourable To a Countess Madam or Right Honourable The same to a Viscount or Viscountess To a Baron My Lord or may it please your Lordship To a Baroness Madam or may it please your Ladiship To all Ladies and Gentlewomen indifferently Madam To a Baronet or Knight Sir or Right Worshipful To an Esquire May it please your Worship To a Gentleman Sir or much Honoured To the ●lergy Reverend Sir the Archbishop of Canterbury having the Stile of Grace and the other Bishops the Stile of Right Reverend Several Examples of Letters Bills of Exchange Bills of Parcels Receipts c. A Letter from a Youth at the Writing School in London to his Father in the Country Honoured Father London March 11. 1692. MY Humble Duty presented to you and to my Mother and I Return you hearty thanks for all your kindnesses shewed to me I make bold to present you with these few Lines being the first fruits of my Endeavours in this kind and I hope you will please to pardon the imperfections of my performance and I doubt not but in a short time to ●e so well accomplished as to give you a Better Account of the Expence of your Money and my own Time wherefore at present let me crave your acceptance of this from To his Honoured Father Mr. Gardner at Southampton These Your Dutiful Son Thomas Gardner A Letter from one lately gone from School to his School-fellow there Loving School-fellow London May 12. 1692. I Return you many thanks for all the kindnesses which you have been pleased formerly to shew me and I now heartily wish when too lat● that while I had the opportunity which you now enjoy I had made a better Improvement of those precious moments which I then too much