Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	marquis_n	16,891	5	10.6193	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38842	The Exact account and solemn manner of assembling the Parliament of Scotland on the first day of their convention at Edinborough on Thursday the 28th of July, 1681 being a true and full relation of the ancient order and custome then performed in their passage to the Parliament-house before His Majesties High Commissioner, His Royal Highness, James Duke of York and Albany, &c : as it was drawn up and presented to His Royal-Highness, and the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesties Privy-Council in that kingdom, by Lyon king at arms : as also the proclamation preparatory thereunto.		1681 (1681)	Wing E3559; ESTC R31461	3,218	7

THE EXACT ACCOUNT And solemn manner of Assembling THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND ON The first day of their Convention AT EDINBOROUGH On Thursday the 28th of July 1681. BEING A true and full Relation of the Ancient Order and Custome then performed in their passage to the Parliament-House before his Majesties High Commissioner His Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany c. AS It was drawn up and presented to his Royal-Highness and the Right Honourable the Lords of his Majesties Privy-Council in that Kingdom By Lyon King at Arms. As also the Proclamation Preparatory thereunto London Printed for Rand●lph Taylor 1681. EDINBVRGH the nineteenth day of July 1681. FOrasmuch as it hath pleased the Kings most excellent Majesty to call a Parliament of this Kingdom to meet at Edinburgh upon Thursday the twenty-eighth of July instant His Royal Highness His Majesties High Commissioner and Lords of Privy Council do hereby Command and Require the Lyon King at Arms and his Brethren Heraulds Macers and Pursevants to pass to the Market-Cross of Edinburgh and there by open Proclamation to Warn all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Officers of State Commissioners of Shires and Burroughs to convene at Holyrud-House the said twenty-eighth of July by nine of the Clock in the forenoon the Lords furnished with their Gowns Robes Horses and Footmantles and the Commissioners of Shires and Burroughs with their Horses and Footmantles to attend His Royal-Highness His Majesties High-Commissioner on Horseback in his going to the Parliament House and in his return And to the end it may be known who are to be admitted as Commissioners for Shires and Burroughs that all Persons having Commissioners any Shire or Burgh deliver in their Commissions to the Clerk of Register upon the twenty-fifth instant in the forenoon in the Parliament House that accordingly they be admitted as Commissioners to this Parliament WIL. PATERSON Cl. Sti. Concilij Printed by the Relict of Andrew Anderson Printress to his most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1681. And Reprinted at London The Manner and Order of the Procession and other things preparatory thereto according to Custome in Riding to the Parliament H●●se at Edinburgh in Scotland on Thursday the 28th of July 1681. 1. THe Regi●ter and Lyon King at Arms meet and adjust the Rolls of Parliament and each of them take an exact Duplicate thereof 2. His Majesties Privy-Council some days before the Sitting of the Parliament use to give Lyon King at Arms such Orders as are necessary to the orderly proceeding especially to determine who shall carrie the Honours viz. The Crown Scepter and Sword and usually the Marquess of Douglass carried the Crown the eldest Earl the Scepter and the next the Sword 3. The Citizens in Arms make a Lane from the Entry to the Parliament Closs to the nether Bow and the Kings Foot-Guards make a Lane from the nether Bow to the Pallace 4. It is always ordered that there be no Shooting under the highest Pains and Penalties all that day neither displaying of Ensigns nor beating of Drums during the whole Cavalcade 5. The Constable and Marshall-Guards of Partizans must make the Lane from the Lady-Steps the Constable without and the Marshal within the Dore. 6. There must be four conveniencies with easie Steps or Degrees that the Members without difficulty may mount and dismount two above the Cross and two at the Abby 7. Every Member of Parliament must Ride on Horseback and the absent Members fined conform to the Act of Parliament made 1663. 8. Where there be double Elections of Members neither of them are to Ride by Act of Council 1669. 9. The Officers of State not being Noblemen must Ride in their Gowns 10. The Nobility to Ride in their Robes and Foot-mantles and the rest with their Foot-mantles 11. The whole Members to Ride Covered excepting those that carry the Honours 12. Lyon King at Arms the Heraulds Pursevants and Trumpets to Ride immediately before the Honours Lyon with his Coate and Robe the rest in their Coats and Foot-mantles barcheaded conform to an Act in 1606. 13. The two Mace-Bearers of Council and the four Mace-Bearers of Session to Ride on each side of the Honours Bare-headed 14. The highest of Degree and the most honourable of that Degree to Ride last XV. Every Duke to have Eight Lackeys every Marquess Six every Earl Four Every Viscount Three every Lord Three every Commissioner for Shire Two every Commissioner for Burghs One Every Nobleman to have a Gentleman to hold up his Train by Act of Council in 1669. And they may have their Pages also though not mentioned in that Act. XVI The two Archbishops are to have each of them Eight Lackeys and every other Bishop Three And if they please they may have a Gentleman to hold up their Trains XVII The Noblemens Lackeys to have over their Liveries short Velvet Coats with their Badges Crests and Mottos done in Plate or Embroidered on the Back and Breast as hath ever been the Custom and now to be observed for the Decency and the Antiquity thereof XVIII The High-Constable and the Mareschal going to the Abby in the Morning to receive the High Commissioners Commands and returning privately the Constable comes out of his Lodging on Foot and having viewed the Rooms under and above of the Parliament-House puts on his Robes and being attended with his Friends and having his Battoon in his Hand seats himself in a Chair at the Entry of the Parliament close under the Lady-Steps by the outmost of the Guards from which he rises and salutes the Commissioners as they alight from their Horses and recommends them to the Gentlemen of his Guards to be conducted to the Mareschal's Guards XIX The Mareschal also attends in his Robes being set in a Chair at the Head of his Guards and receives the Members having his Battoon in his Hand as they enter the Door XX. The Great Officers of State so many of them as are within the Kingdom ride up from the Abby about half an hour before the Cavalcade in their Robes attended with their Friends on Horseback and wait within the House and when the Commissioner enters the House the Chancellor takes his own Purse and Ushers him from the Bar to the Throne except when the King is present or that now His Royal Highness being Commissioner the Chancellor receives him at the Door and Ushers him up to the Throne XXI The whole Members of Parliament wait on the High Commissioner in the Guard-Hall the Noblemen in their Robes and their Servants and Horses attend in the outward Close XXII The Lyon King at Arms in his Coat and Robes and Battoon in his Hand to whose Charge the Order of the Procession is committed with the Six Heralds Six Pursuivants and Six Trumpets in their Coats attend there likewise XXIII So soon as the High Commissioner is ready the Register and Lyon standing together each of them having a Roll in his Hand and the Roll being read the Lyon calls the Names of such as are to ride according to their Order and a Herald crieth aloud at one of the Windows and one other Herald stands at the Gate to see them do accordingly XXIV The Members ought to ride as they are called and if they think themselves prejudiced they must protest in such manner as at the calling of the Rolls in the House it self XXV The Dukes and Marquesses to make the Train and ride after the Commissioner by the Act of 1606. XXVI When the King is present the Master of the Horse rides easie but a little aside by the same Act in 1606. The whole Assembly being in the manner aforementioned met at the Abby to convey his Royal Highness thence to the Parliament-House the Procession begins in Order as followeth 1 The Lord Chancellor and Lord Privy Seal with all their Friends and Followers being come up on Horseback the Chancellor on the Right Hand with the Purse and Mace born before him and the Privy-Seal on the Left 2 Two Trumpets in their Coats Bare-headed Usher the Way Two Pursuivants in their Coats Bare-headed Usher the Way 3 The Commissioners from Burghs Two and Two 4 The Commissioners from Shires Two and Two 5 The Officers of State not Noblemen Two and Two 6 The Lords and Barons of Parliament Two and Two 7 The Bishops Two and Two 8 The Viscounts Two and Two 9 The Earls Two and Two 10 The Two Archbishops 11 Four Trumpets in their Coats Bare-headed Two and Two 12 Four Pursuivants in their Coats Bare-headed Two and Two 13 Six Heralds in their Coats Bare-headed Two and Two 14 The Usher Bare-headed 15 Lyon King at Arms with his Coat and Robes and Footmantle and his Battoon in his Hand Bare-headed 16 The Sword of State 17 The Scepter 18 The Crown 19 On each side the Honours Three Mace-bearers Bare-headed 20 A Noble-man Bare-headed with a Purse and in it His Royal Highnesses Commission 21 His Royal Highness High Commissioner attended with His Pages and Lackeys The Duke of Hamilton with the Marquess of Huntley on His Right Hand and the Marquess of Montross on his Left 22 The Captain of His Majesty's Guard at the Head of his Troop And they return in the same Order back to the Palace only the Constable and Mareschal ride on the Commissioners Right and Left Hand with Caps of Permission and that the Chancellor and Privy-Seal stay behind until all march away and then return a little behind FINIS