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	york_n	15,008	5	9.9762	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56214	Summary reasons, humbly tendered to the most Honourable House of Peers by some citizens and members of London, and other cities, boroughs, corporations, and ports, against the new intended Bill for governing and reforming corporations.	Prynne, William, 1660-1669.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4096A; ESTC R219604	5,375	1

Summary Reasons humbly tendered to the most Honourable House of Peers by some Citizens and Members of London and other Cities Boroughs Corporations and Ports against the new intended Bill for Governing and Reforming CORPORATIONS FIrst this Bill deprives all Cities Boroughs Corporations Ports of England and Wales 8. times particularly named and comprised in the Act of Oblivion and Indempnity with all their Magistrates Officers and Members of the common benefit pardon grace therein intended and equally granted to them as well as to other Subjects without discrimination by the Kings Most Gracious Majesty who in his successive printed Messages Declarations Speeches to the last and present Parliament hath solemnly promised in his own Royal Person and Ministers and conjured all his Subjects and this present Parliament in their proceedings most religiously and inviolably to observe the same and every part and branch thereof without the least infringement By reviving not onely the former marks and names of distinction between his Subjects but also the memory infamy reproach and punishment of all their formerly remitted and forgotten Crimes even unto the un-magistrating dis-officing dis-franchising and dis-membring of them in the respective Cities Boroughs Ports and Corporations where they live to their own and their Posterities obloquy and disgrace even since his Majesties and this Parliaments fresh confirmation of that Act and his Royal advice and command to Both Houses of Parliament on Monday last only to look forwards but not back to any thing that was past 2ly It is directly contrary to the Great Charter of the Liberties of England made in the 9th year of King Henry the third c. 9 since ra●ified by near forty other Parliaments and special Acts That the City of London and all other Cities Boroughs Townes the Barons of the Cinque-ports and all other Ports shall have all their old Liberties and free Customes whereof this is one principal branch freely to elect place and displace their own Magistrates Officers Members and not to be visited placed or displaced by any Foreiners Visiters Commissioners as is evident by their respective Charters the Statute of 3. Ed. 1. cap. 5 the Customs of London and Ashe his Repertory Tit. London Sect. 6.38 39 40 c. 3ly It invalidates rescinds annulls all the particular Charters of former Kings and all private Acts of Parliament confirming them formerly granted to London and other Cities Boroughs Corporations Ports which all our Kings by their Coronation Oaths and his Majesty at his late Coronation have sworn to grant ratifie and maintain to their Power 4ly It gives the numerous Commissioners named in the Bill or any five of them who are all Commoners an absolute arbitrary power over the greatest Peers of the Realm as the Dukes of York and Ormond the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Earles of Pembroke Salisbury and other Lords who are Officers Stewards Wardens of several Cities Boroughs Ports Corporations of this Realm to remove and displace them at their pleasure and discretion without any legal tryal contrary to Magna Charta their Peerage and privilege of Parliament And it likewise impowers them or any five of them though no Members to remove and displace all the Members of the Commons House who are Magistrates Officers or Members of any City Borough or Port as divers of them are notwithstanding their Privilege of Parliament and so by consequence to make them no Members of this Parliament there being no exception nor provision for the Peers or Members in this Act to exempt them from this new Visitation 5ly It enables these Commissioners or any five of them joyntly and severally by their Warrants to summon all Magistrates Officers and Members of every City Corporation Borough and Port of England and Wales from out os their respective Precincts to what place soever they shall sit within the County where they are situated though 20 30 40 or 50. miles distant if they please to call them thither the Act confining them to no certain place or distance which how vexatious chargeable injurious it may prove to the Persons summoned and how destructive to many Cities Boroughs Ports and Corporations Charters prohibiting any to draw them out of their own Cities and Corporations for any matter or offence relating thereunto We humbly refer to your Lordships serious consideration 6ly It authorizeth the Commissioners appointed for the Cities and Corporations of York Glocester Exeter Bristol Newcastle Canterbury Lincoln Pool c. which are Counties within themselves to summon all their Magistrates Officers and Members to appear before them out of the limits of their particular Counties at any place of the Shire wherein they are situated contrary to their antient Charers and privileges the Law of the Land and Reason of the Statutes enacting That no man shall be compelled to go out of his own County for the publique defence and safety of the Realm unlesse in case of Necessity by reason of forein Enemies coming into the Realm nor cited out of his own Diocess to answer any particular offence much lesse then to go out of his own County and Precincts thereof upon such a strange unnecessarie Visitation and Occasion as this which hath neither president nor parallel in any Record or Historie that can be produced 7ly It utterly subverts annulls and extirpates the grand fundamental Law of England the Great Charter and all Acts of Parliaments antiently lately made for the securitie of the Subjects Freeholds Liberties Franchises and free Customes against Arbitrarie and Tyrannical invasions particularly the Statutes of Magna Charta cap. 29.25 Edw. 1. cap. 1 2.28 Edw. 1. cap. 1. and near 40. other Acts of Parliament for confirmation of the Great Charter in general 5 Ed. 3. c. 9.15 Ed. Parl 2. c. 5.23 Ed. 3. c. 4.28 Ed. 3. c. 3.38 Ed. 3. c. 9.42 Ed. 3. c. 2 3.2 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 60.20 H. 6. c. 6. the Petition of Right 3 Car. And the Act for regulating the Privy Counsel c. 17 Car. c 10. All which declare and enact That no Freeman shall be disseised or put out of his Freehold Franchises Liberties free Customes Lands or Tenements nor put to answer for the same unless he be brought in to answer by due processe of Law according to the old Law of the Land or fore-judged of the same by matter of Record in due Course of Law by the lawfull Tryal and Iudgement of his Peers and Law of the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void and nought in Law and holden fo● errour Now this Act authorizeth the Commissioners or any five of them to displace disseise out all and every Magistrate Officer Freeman Citizen Burgess Member of any City Borough Port or Corporation aforesaid both of his Office Franchise and Liberty wherein he hath as absolute and good a Freehold in Law as any Lord Knight Member of Parliament or other Freeman of England hath in his Lands Tenements