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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	king_n	send_v	14,315	5	6.2156	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29340	A breviate of the state of Scotland in its government, Supream Courts, officers of state, inferiour officers, offices, and Inferiour Courts, districts, jurisdictions, burroughs royal, and free corporations		1689 (1689)	Wing B4415; ESTC R19116	15,422	20

and their Six under Clerks and all Extracters in the Three Offices All buy their places of the Lord Register Emoluments The Clerks of the Bill Chamber and several other Clerks there which is a great Office and of Great Emoluments The Sheriffs Rolls and Stewards Rolls Clerks who are not many but these are called Clerks of Exchecquer and the Lord Register gets entry Mony for them and their Deputies Fees. The Clerks of the Baily Rolls Ibidem Fees. The Clerks of the Burrough Rolls and their Deputies Ibidem Fees. The General Register of Saisings c. Fees. The General Register of Hornings and Inhibitions Fees. All the particular Registers of Saisins Inhibitions c. in every Shire and Burrough of the Kingdom Fees. The Clerk for admission of publick Notaries in the whole Kingdom Fees. Of late the Keeper of the Rolls of the Outer Session House and the Keeper of the Minute Book of all things done in the Inner and Outer-House though it properly belonged to the Lord President with advice of the Lords All Clerks to the Justices of Peace in the Kingdom Emoluments The Keepers of all the Registers and Rolls of Parliament and Session laid up in the lower Parliament house within the time prescribed to be there kept with all his Substitutes and Sub Clerkswithin the Kingdom This is a great Emolument likewise and is one of his casualities what Fees they please There is another Office added to him Parliament 1685. in the Clerks Office called Keeper of the Register which is beneficial and seems to be a grievance to the Nation by the addition of half a Mark Scots mony to him for every Subscription The Kings Advocate He grants only deputations to persons in his own Office in any part of the Kingdom where his presence cannot be in Criminal or Circuit Courts His own Principal Servant who in his name passes all extraordinary Bills competent to him for his dues and Summons that are not priviledged without his marking and Commissions for Trial. The Justice Clerk. He grants only Commission to the Clerk of Justice Court some servile Macers and the Doomster of that Court. Town of Edinburgh The Two Town Clerks and the several Deputies and Dependers in City and Suburbs the Emoluments of which are great and a place of great Trust who ought to be known Lawyers and Men of great skill as well as Integrity Agents for the Burroughs chiefly dispos'd of by the Provost A Pension Keepers of the Tolbooths or Prisons of Edinburgh Leith and Cannongate Emoluments Clerk to the Meetings of the whole Burroughs Emoluments Clerks to the Kings Customs there Pensions The disposal of many other beneficial places within the City and Suburbs which with their other Priviledges Rents casual and real and Stems makes a great publick good but how imployed being seldom called to an account though the Lord Thesaurer or Collector General or Commissioners of the Thesaury are obliged yearly to call them by vertue of an Act of Parliament to an account in the Exchequer neglecting of which proves a great Detriment to the publick Good of the place Sheriffs and their Deputies only the Fees and Emoluments Most of the Sheriffs were anciently heritable and being a matter more of Profit than of Charge our Kings bought many of their Rights so that there are now some of them heritable some by the Kings Gift The Sheriff may sit by himself or his Deputy who judges in ordinary Causes as also in Thefts Murder and lesser Crimes but in Murder when the Criminal is taken in hot Blood though there be no Appeal in this Kingdom yet any Cause may be taken from it by Advocation before Sentence or Suspension of the Decreit after Sentence by the Lords of Session in Equity c. and are the ordinary Reasons given in their Petitions or Bills these Courts are much encroached upon by some later Regalities by Repledgiations A List of the Sheriffdoms of the Shires of Scotland and their Sheriffs 1 The Shire of Edinburgh comprehending Midlotham By the Kings Gift 2 The Shire of Berwick containing Merce Earl of Hume 3 The Shire of Peebles containing Tweddall Earl of Tweddall 4 The Shire of Selkirk containing the Forrest Murray of Philiphaugh 5 The Shire of Roxburgh containing Tevidale c. Duke of Buccleugh 6 The Shire of Drumfreis containing Nidisdale c. Formerly Earl of Drumfreis now Duke of Queensberry 7 The Shire of Wigtoun containing the West part of Galloway to Carruck Sir Andrew Agnew but for present the Viscount of Dundee by the late incroachment 8 The Shire of Air containing Kyle Carret and Cunningham By the Kings Gift 9 The Shire of Ranfrew containing that Barony Earl of Eglintoun 10 The Shire of Lanerk containing Clidisdale Duke of Hamilton 11 The Shire of Dunbarton containing Lenox Duke of Lenox 12 The Shire of Boot containing the Isles of Boot and Arran Stuart of Boot 13 The Shire of Interara containing Argile and some of the Western Islands Earl of Argile 14 The Shire of Perth containing Atholl and much Highlands with the Earldom of Monteith and Trathern Marquess of Atholl 15 The Shire of Striveling lies on both sides of the River of Forth Earl of Marr. 16 The Shire of Linlithgow containing Westlothian Hopetoun 17 The Shire of East Lothian Earl of Wintoun 18 The Shire of Clackmannan containing a part of Fiffe Bruce of Clockmannan 19 The Shire of Kinross containing another part of Fiffe Earl of Mortoun 20 The Shire of Coupar contain the third Division of Fiffe Earl of Rothes 21 The Shire of Forfar containing Angus with its pertinents Earl of Southesk 22 The Shire of Kinkardin containing Merms Earl of Marshal 23 The Shire of Aberdeen with its several pertinent of great extent By Gift 24 The Shire of Bamfey containing part of Buchan c. Baird of Auchmedan 25 The Shire of Elgin containing the Eastern part of Morray Dumbar of Westfield 26 The Shire of Naim containing the West part thereof Sir Hugh Cambell of Calder 27 The Shire of Innerness containing Badzenoch Lochqualer and the South part of Ross but formerly contained all beneath it Earl of Morray 28 The Shire of Cromartie containing that part of Ross within its Frith Viscount of Tarbat 29 The Shire of Ross containing the Sky Lewis and Harrick By Gift 30 The Shire of Sutherland containing Strathwater Earl of Sutherland 31 The Shire of Cathnes containing that Country Earl of Cathnes 32 The Shire of Orkney By Gift The Burghs of Regality and Barony being no State sending no Commissioners to Parliament or Convention and having less Priviledges and belonging to particular persons as the Kings Grants and where these Lords or Barons hold their own particular Courts but have power of Pit and Gallows they are not to be treated of here not concerning the Government much except it be where late Grants encroaches upon old Jurisdiction Constabularies Stuarties and Bailaries Constabulary of Haddingtoun containing East Lothian and Lautherdale Earl of Lautherdale if he