Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	city_n	london_n	mayor_n	10,714	5	9.7889	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39402	By the Committee of Safety of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A proclamation prohibiting the contrivance or subscription of any petitions or papers for the promoting of designs dangerous to the peace of the Common-wealth	England and Wales. Committee of Safety.	1659 (1659)	Wing E746; ESTC R215005	991	1

By the Committee of Safety Of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. A PROCLAMATION Prohibiting the contrivance or Subscription of any Petitions or Papers for the promoting of Designs dangerous to the peace of the Common-wealth FOrasmuch as this Committee hath received certain Information of several designs and endeavours of persons ill-affected to the publique Peace and good of this Common-wealth by untrue reports and suggestions to beget and foment distempers in the mindes of the People and thereby under specious pretences to promote their own private and sinister ends and designs to the endangering the Peace and Safety of the Common-wealth And that in order to such attempts divers of the said ill-disposed persons have set on foot Papers under colour of Petitions of their own framing and labour to get subscriptions thereunto in and about the City of London and other parts the better to countenance their own mischievous intentions against the Peace of the Nation The Committee of Safety knowing of how dangerous consequence it may be to the Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster as well as the whole Common-wealth if the same be not prevented And least any may by the plausible pretences of such men be seduced and drawn in to write their names to such Papers for the carrying on of designs tending to the ruine of themselves and these Nations The said Committee of Safety have thought fit to Publish and declare their resentments of such undue and dangerous practises And do hereby prohibite and forbid all and every person and persons whatsoever to contrive promote or subscribe any such Papers as are now or shall be on foot in and about the Cities of London and Westminster for the ends and designs aforesaid or to endeavour or sollicite the getting hands or subscriptions unto any such Papers And that if any such Paper be offered to any person or persons to be by them subscribed that such person to whom the same shall be tendered do suppress the same or give information thereof to the Lord Mayor of the City of London the Alderman of the Ward or next Iustice of the Peace who are hereby enjoyned and required to cause the person so endeavouring to get hands thereunto to be apprehended and kept in safe custody and such Papers suppressed And this Committee do require and enjoyn that no person or persons whatsoever do after the Publication hereof promote such Papers or Subscriptions or endeavour to get hands or subscriptions thereunto as they tender the good and peace of the said Cities and this Common-wealth and as they desire to avoid being accounted disturbers and enemies thereof Given at the Committee of Safety at Whitehall the first day of December 1659. ORdered That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published William Robinson Clerk to the Committee of Safety London Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to the Committee of Safety