Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	king_n	viscount_n	14,472	5	11.3612	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39430	At the Court at Whitehall the third of October, 1676 present the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1676 (1676)	Wing E840; ESTC R27329	1,594	4

C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT At the Court at Whitehall the Third of October 1676. Present The Kings most Excellent Majesty His Highness Prince Rupert Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Earl of Ossery Earl of Sunderland Earl of Peterborow Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Carbery Viscount Fauconberg Viscount Newport Lord Bishop of London Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Secretary Williamson Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Master of the Ordnance WHereas His Majesty and this Boord are informed of the bold and open repair made to several Places and especially to Her Majesties Chappel at Somerset-House and the Houses of Foreign Ambassadors Agents and other Publick Ministers for the hearing of Mass and other Worship and Service of the Romish Church and that the said Ambassadors Agents and Ministers do permit and suffer both daily Masses to be said and other Worship and Service to be performed in their Houses in a publick manner by English Scotish and Irish Priests and also Sermons in English to be Preached in their said Houses and Chappels which the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom do expresly forbid His subjects to frequent or do His Majesty taking the same into serious Consideration and being sensible thereof as a matter highly tending to the violation of the Laws of the Realm and the scandal of Religion and Government and breach of good Order and in His Princely Wisdom weighing the dangerous Consequence thereof is Resolved to take strict Order for the stopping this Evil before it spread any further His Majesty therefore by the Advice of his Council doth hereby forbid any of His said Subjects hereafter to offend in the like kind at their utmost perils And straitly Commands That no others presume to Resort to Her Majesties Chappel but such as are Her Majesties Domestick Servants And to the end this Provision and Order may be the more effectual His Majesty doth Command That ●●●a smuch as concerneth the remi● to the Houses of forreign Ambassadors Agents and Ministers at the time of Mass or other Romish Worship or Service some Messengers of the Chamber or other Officers or persons fit for that Service be appointed to Watch at the sever●● Passages to their Houses and witho●●●●●ring in●● the said Houses or invading the Freedom and Priviledges belonging unto them observe such persons as go thither at such times without Stopping or Questioning any as they go thither but at their coming from thence they are to Apprehend and bring the said persons to the Boord and such as they cannot Apprehend to bring their Names And that the Ambassadors and other Forreign Ministers may have no cause to Complain for this Proceeding as if there were any Intention to wrong or disrespect them His Majesty doth likewise Order for the preventing of any such mistaking and sinister interpretation That His principal Secretaries of State according unto His Majesties express Commands now given unto them should be hereby authorized and required forthwith to repair to the said Ambassadors Agents and other Forreign Ministers to make known unto them His Majesties Pleasure concerning the same And that as His Majesty is careful not to have any the just Priviledges and Immunities of the said Ambassadors Agents or Ministers to be in any degreé infringed or violated so in the aforesaid Particulars of permitting Masses or other Service to be said by any of the said Priests or Sermons to be Preached in English in their Houses or Chappels things never heard of or attempted by any precedent Ambassadors or Agents here or in suffering His Subjects to resort unto them His Majesty is no less careful of preserving His Laws and conteining His Subjects in their due obedience to the same and doth therefore expect the said Ambassadors Agents and Ministers compliance accordingly And hereof His Majesty thinks fit that Notice should be first given to the said Publick Ministers ther rather to testifie His Respects unto them before the Stricter Course His Majesty hath Resolved be taken with His own Subjects by a Vigorous Prosecution and infliction of Penalties and Punishments for the preventing and repressing the like hereafter And it is likewise Ordered That the Messengers of the Chamber or others to be imployed in the Service before specified shall be appointed and receive their Charge from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Bishop of London and the said Secretaries or some of them who are to take special care to see this put in due and effectual Execution EDW. WALKER LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1676.