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
A65084	Proposals humbly presented to His Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, &c. and to the High Court of Parliament now assembled for the calling to a true and just accompt all committee-men, sequestrators, treasures, excize and custom-commissioners, collectors of monthly assessments and all other persons that have been entrusted with the publick revenue or have in their custody any thing of value appertaining to the Commonwealth ... / by Tho. Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V585; ESTC R23589	138,237	248

people wherby many disherisons and divers great mischeifes and damages bee hapned aswell to the King as to his said people and to all his Realm wherof hee to the honor of God and for the weale of him and his Realm And for the quietness and Releif of him and of his people who have ben in divers manners greatly charged before this time willing with the grace of God against such mischeifes to provide a good and due remedy HATH of his free will and at the request of the Lords and Comons aforesaid ordayned made and assigned his great Officers that is to say The Chancellor Treasurer and keeper of his Privie Seale such as hee holdeth good sufficient and lawfull for the honor and profit of him and his Realm And moreover of his authoritie royall certain knowledg and good agree and freewill And by the advice and assent of the Prelats Lords and Comons aforesaid in the full Parlament in ayd of good governance of his Realm And good and due execution of his said Lawes And in releif of the Estate of him and his people in time to com uppon the full trust that he hath of good advisement witt and discretion of the Honorable Fathers in GOD William Arch Bishop of Canterbury and Alexander Arch Bishop of York his dear Uncles ●dmond duke of York and Thomas duke of Glocester the honorble Fathers in GOD William Bishop of Winchester Thomas Bushop of Exeter and Nicolas Abbott of waltham and his wellbeloved and Faithfull Richard Earl of Arundell John Lord of Cobham Sir Richard le Scrope John Devoreux hath ordained and assigned and deputed them by his Letters Patents under his great Seal to be of his greate and continuall Counsel from S. Edmonds Eve the Martyr by a whole year next following after the date of the said Letters Patens to survey and examine with the said great officers That is to say the Chancellor Treasurer and keeper of his privie Seal aswell the Estate and governance of his house and of all his Courts and places as of all his Realm as of all his officers and Ministers of whatsoever Estate Degree or condition hee bee aswell within the said Hous as without and to enquire and take Information by all the wayes which to them best shal seeme of al the rents revennues and profits that to him appertaneth and be due aswell within the Realm as without in any manner way or condition And of all manner of Gifts and Grants alienations and confirmations made by him of Lands Tenements Rents and ymmunities profits Revenues wards marriges Escheats forfeitures franchises liberties voydances of Archbushops Bushiprickes Abbies Priores Fermes of Howses and Possessions of Aliens And of all other possessions soms of money goods and Chattels and of all other things and to what persons and for what caus and how and in what manner And namely of those persons which have taken without desert And also all manner of Revenues and profits aswell of his said Realm as of Lands Seigniories Cities Towns Castles Fortresses and also of all manner his other posesons aswell on this side the Sea as beyond and of the profits and emoluments of his money bullions and of the taking of Prisoners Towns and Places Ships Carackes good and Ransoms of warre by land and by sea And of benifices and other possessions of Cardinals Rebels and all other aliens and also of carrying of money out of the Realm by the Collectors of the Pope Procurators of the Cardinals Lumberds other persons aswell aliens as Denizens And of the Emoluments and profits coming and rising out of the Customs Subsides of Wools Leather And woolfels and of smal Custstomes and other Subssedies of Cloethes Wynes and all other Marchandize And of disines quinzins And all other subsides and charges granted by the Clergie and the Comons and also of the receipt profits and payments of the hamper of his Chancery And of all other his receipts from the time of his Coronatiion tell And of fees Wages and rewards of officers and Ministers more and less Also of immunities and other Rewards And also guifts and grants made to any person by him and by his Father and his grand father in fee or for terme of life or in any other manner And if gre or payment bee to them thereof made and by whom and how And in what manner And also how much they have released or given to officers or others to have their payments to what persons how and in what maner And of Lands Tenements Rents Revenues and forfeitures barganed and sold to the prejudice and damage of him and of his Crown and by whom and to whom how and in what manner And of the Sale or bargain of Tallies and Patens of singular profits aswell in the tyme of his said grand-Father as in his own time and how and by what persons And also of all his jewells and goods which were his said Grandfathers at the time of his death and what and of what price or value and where they bee becom and how and in what manner And of all Cheviences any wise made to his use by any maner of persons And of all loss and damage hee hath had fustained by the same And by what persons how and in what manner and of charters of pardons generall and espcciall and also of the somes and payments and maner of expence aswell of his said hous as for the salvation and defence of his Realms Lands and seignioryes Towns Castles and fortresses and other Places on this side the Sea and beyond don and received by any persons aswell Soldiers as others and by any manner of way and how and in what manner and how much they have given to have their payments and of the concealments of rights and profits and by whom how and in what maner and of maintainers and takers of quarels embracers of enquests and of officers and ministers made by brockage and of their broggers and of them that have taken the said brocage and how and in what maner and also of all the defaults and offences that bee don aswell in his said hous as other places and courts aforesaid as in all other places within his realm of England by any manner of persons whereby the profit of him and of his crown hath been impaired and diminished or the common law disturbed delayed or other damage to him hapned giveing comitting by the same of his royall authoritie and by the advice and assent aforsaid to the said counsellors or any six of them and to the great officers full power authority generall especiall to enter his said hous all the offices of the same and all his other Courts places as often as them pleas to caus to com before them where when them pleaseth The Rols records and other minuments evidences such as them liketh and all the defaults waste and excesses found in his said hous and also all the defaults and

onely eaten the leavs but barked the trees of this Common-wealth using all opressions and fraud to grow rich bee made to restore it No doubt the work is pleasing and acceptable to God and all good men and then manie men who have made their religion a cloak to cozen the Commonwealth may bee made to restore their unjust deteined Treasure and Lands Many men under the shaddow of sanctitie having made gain to bee great godliness instead of godliness to bee great gain May it pleas your Highness your most humble and loyall Subject at your Highness's feet imploreth to bee relieved having been imprisoned almost four years in the Tower of London viz 1643. to 1647. and two years and nine moneths of that time kept close prisoner his estate in lands houses offices goods and moneys being taken from him to his dammage of eleven thousand pounds there being then at his bringing up the late Kings letter from Oxford in December 1643. no known law or publique Ordinance to prohibit him to bring up the said letter to the Lord Maior and Citie of London and hee had a Pass from the hous of Commons to go to Oxford as appears by the Journals in the Parlament-hous and hee had at the same time a Warrant from the Lord General Essex to go to Oxford procured by Mr Theophilus Ryley then Scoutmaster of of the Citie of London May it pleas your Highness by Gods Law Rom. 4. 15. Where there is no Law there is no Transgression and by the known Laws of this nation such and such Actions are declared Crimes and lawes and rules set for the degree of punishing And hee most humbly conceaveth it is not in any just Judges power to exceed the punishment for any offence more then is prescribed and set down by the Law And it is expresly provided for in Magna Charta that no Free-man shall bee taken imprisoned or distressed of his free-hold or liberties or any other waies destroied but by lawful judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land That no man should bee deferred or denied Justice or Right Whereas your Supplicant after he was out of the Tower petitioned for six years constantly at the Parlament doors the members and at the Counsel of State to have a legal Trial by the Parlament or els by the common Law And to that end delivered several Petitions to several members of Parlament yet your Supplicant could never have Justice Som of the members of the then Parlament after his many years constant attendance and great expence to com to a trial told him Had hee been guilty hee should never needed to have petitioned the Parlament for a Trial the Parlament would have granted him a Trial without petitioning for it May it pleas your Highness This is your most humble Subjects sad condition groaning under and having so heavy a sentence as the loss of almost all his estate to his dammage above eleven thousand pounds almost four years Imprisonment in the Tower when there was no law made at his acting this Business nor at the time of his Commitment for either punishing of him or any other for acting the same thing which was bringing up the late Kings letter to the City in December 1643 but Ordinances and Orders made after hee had brought up the King's Letter for the Confiscation of his Estate and Imprisonment of his Person and a great part of his Estate given to private and particular men Now with Tears and Sighs hee appeal's to Your Highness for restoring him to his Estate and just Reparation being oppressed and undon for a Pretended Crime when there was no Law no not so much as the Breach of the Good Behaviour made against it in December 1643 either to Prohibit him or any other to do the same Hee hath printed this Business with the several Houses Offices Bonds and Mony taken from him To which hee doth most humbly refer himself And Your Suplicant was daily faithfully promised by som worthy Members of the Long Parlament and Counsel of State who pittied Your Supplicant's sad Condition seeing his willingness to serve the Commonwealth to have Justice and Reparation and that held up his Spirits and kept him alwaies to bee willing to the uttermost of his power and strength-beyond the abilities of his Estate to engage both his time and estate for many years to do the then Parlament many and great services as appears by Your Loyal Subject sprinted Narrative 1653. The several Particulars were to his Charges and Expence of many Hundred Pounds as by many Witnesses hee can and hath proved Besides One most Remarkable Service to the Nation in General Your Supplicant did by the Command of the then Counsel of State which shall and ought to stop the mouths of every one and all his Adversaries that have or shall maliciously traduce him as a Malignant for a man disaffected to the State or to the true happiness of the Nation in General Your humble Subject did this service when Van Trump was in the Downes It was no small hazard his venturing to deliver in a Paper to the Counsel of Srate in December 1653. which Writing was by the Counsel of State referred to the Committee for Forrain Affairs Wherein Your Supplicant discovered the fraudulent Practises of the Spanish Embassadour and Duke Leopoldus and his Agents to defraud the Parlament of a Vast Summ of Treasure above three hundred Thousand Pounds which was brough● up into the River as a Prize in three Ships viz. The Sampson Salvador and George And this hee did at the same time when the Lord Embassador of Spain with many other Agents of Duke Leopoldus and Licensiados of the King of Spain 's living at Antwerp did all of them affirm both to the Judges in the Admiralty the Counsel of State and to the Parlament in November and December 1652 that all the Lading both Silver and Marchandize in the said Ships did appertain to the King of Spain and his Subjects and none other May it pleas Your Highness I was far more troubled to finde out the frauds of the Spania●ds Claims to the Silver in these Ships and to bring it forth to bee proved by good and Lawfull Witnesses as I have here out of the Admiraltie to Intitle the State to the Silver in these Ships Then I shall bee troubled to finde out the Frauds and Deceipts of all the Accomptants in General of this Nation if once I bee but impowered by your Highness to have an Inspection on the Accompts and such Rules followed and executed as by the Laws and Statutes of this Nation hath been formerly put in practice and the whole Charge of this Discovery will not stand the State in 12d the pound to bring the Monies into the Exchequer And it may bee so managed not Six pence Charge upon the Pound The Spaniards in the Court of Admiralty by their Counsel pleaded that they ought not to have the Onus probandum cast on them being their