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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84511	At the court at Whitehall, this 26th day of March 1686. Present, the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... : Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people, called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized, and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America ...; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Bridgeman, William, Esq.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); England and Wales. Privy Council.	1686 (1686)	Wing E851; ESTC R223035	1,968	2

At the Court at WHITEHALL This 26th day of March 1686. Present The Kings most Excellent Majesty His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Chamberlain Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Peterborough Earl of Craven Earl of Berkeley Earl of Plymouth Earl of Morray Earl of Middleton Lord Viscount Fauconberg Lord Viscount Preston Lord Viscount Melfort Lord Bishop of Durham Lord Dartmouth Lord Godolphin Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy WHereas it has been Represented to His Majesty That by reason of the frequent Abuses of a lewd sort of People called Spirits in Seducing many of His Majesties Subjects to go on Shipboard where they have been seized and carried by force to His Majesties Plantations in America and that many idle Persons who have Listed themselves Voluntarily to be Transported thither and have received Money upon their Entring into Service for that purpose have afterwards pretended they were betrayed and carried away against their Wills and procured their Friends to Prosecute the Merchants who Transported them or in whose Service they are by Indictments or Informations in the Crown Office in His Majesties Name which is a great Discouragement to them and an Hindrance to the Management of the Trade of the said Plantations and Navigation of this Kingdom And several Merchants and Planters having made humble Applications to His Majesty That he would be Graciously pleased to Direct such Methods for their Retaining of Servants to Serve in His Majesties Plantations as in His Royal Wisdom he should think meet whereby His Majesty may be so satisfied of their Fair Dealing as to take off all Prosecutions against them at His Majesties Suit And also that the Scandal that now lies upon them in general by reason of such Evil-disposed persons may not remain upon such as shall for the future follow such Methods as His Majesty shall think fit to be pursued His Majesty taking into His Royal Consideration the said Request is Graciously pleased to Declare That such ●●●hants Factors Masters of Ships or other Persons that shall use the Method hereafter following in the Hirin● of Servants for His Majesties Plantations shall not be Disquieted by any Suit on His Majesties behalf but upon Certificate thereof that He will cause all such Suits to be stopped to the end they may receive no further Molestation thereby I. Such Servants as are to be taken by Indenture to be Executed by the Servant in the presence of the Magistrate or Magistrates hereafter appointed One part thereof Signed by such Servant and also Vnderwritten or Endorsed with the Name and Hand-writing of such Magistrate which is to remain with the Clerk of the Peace to be Returned to the next Sessions there to be Filed upon a distinct File and Numbred and kept with the Records II. The Clerk of the Peace is to keep a Fair Book wherein the Name of the Person so bound and the Magistrates Name before whom the same was done and the time and place of doing thereof and the Number of the File shall be Entred And for the more easie finding the same the Entries are to be made Alphabetically according to the first Letter of the Sirname III. All Persons above the Age of One and twenty years or who shall upon View and Examination appear to be so in the Iudgment of the Magistrate may be bound in the presence of One Iustice of the Peace or of the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of the Place where they shall go on Shipboard who is to be fully satisfied from him of his free and voluntary Agreement to enter into the said Service IV. If any Person be under the Age of One and Twenty years or shall appear so to be he shall be bound in the presence of the Lord Mayor of London or One of the Iudges or an Alderman of London being a Iustice of Peace or the Recorder or Two Iustices of the Peace of any other County or Place who shall carefully Examine whether the Person so to be bound have any Parents or Masters And if he be not Free they are not to take such Indenture unless the Parents or Masters give their Consents and some Person that knows the said Servant to be of the Name and Addition mentioned in the Indenture is to Attest his said knowledge upon the said Indenture V. If the Person be under the Age of Fourteen years unless his Parents shall be present and Consent he is not to be carried on Shipboard till a Fortnight at least after he becomes bound to the intent that if there be any Abuse it may be discovered before he be Transported And where his Parents do not appear before the Magistrate Notice is to be sent to them or where they cannot be found to the Church-Wardens or Overseers of the Parish where he was last Settled in such manner as the said Magistrates shall think fit and Direct And because Clerks of the Peace may conceive this not to be any part of the Duty of their Office and may therefore exact unreasonable Rewards for their trouble and pains therein His Majesty doth Declare That if any Merchants or other Persons shall be aggrieved thereby and upon Complaint to the Iustices cannot obtain Relief His Majesty will take such further care for their ease herein as in His Royal Wisdom He shall think méet And His Majesties further Pleasure is That this Order be Printed and Published to the end all Persons whom it may concern may take Notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly W. BRIDGEMAN LONDON Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1686.