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	sir_n	smith_n	10,388	5	12.3073	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71342	The Parliamentary intelligencer [no.34 (13 Aug-20 Aug 1660)] comprising the sum of forraign intelligence with the affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland : for information of the people.	Muddiman, Henry, 1628 or 1629-1692, editor.; Dury, Giles, editor.; Macock, John, publisher.; Newcomb, Thomas, d. 1681 or 2, publisher.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E186_29; ESTC P1015	9,700	16

Numb. 34. THE Parliamentary Intelligencer COMPRISING The Sum of Forraign Intelligence with the Affairs now in Agitation in England Scotland and Ireland For Information of the People Published by Order From Monday August 18. to Monday August 20. 1660. Amsterdam August 8. THe States of Zealand have so far declared themselves that they are willing to own the Prince of Orenge as their Admiral General when he shall be Eighteen years of Age and for that purpose they promise to communicate their intention with the other States and endeavor to bring them to one consent with them some of which shew themselves not very unwilling to this Proposition they intend the Prince a yearly maintenance of 100000 ●●ders The Navigation in the Baltick Sea begin● now to florish again and the people are generally well satisfied with the peace in the North and the happy effects thereof Elsenore July 21. The Swedish forces are transported from this place almost day and night and it is hoped that before this night they will be all gone It is advertised from Breslaw in Silesia that some Officers were there arrived out of Transylvania having been but three days upon their journey who relate that all Transylvania except two places had put themselves under the protection of the Great Turk to injoy their free exercise of religion under him but the young Prince Rag●tzi hath submitted himself to the Emperors protection Whitehall On Monday August 13. several Proclamations were given by his Majesty Against fighting of Duels For calling in and suppressing Books of John Milton and John Goodwin and for publishing a former Proclamation of the 30th of May entituled A Proclamation against Vicious Debauch'd and Profane persons In the Proclamation against Fighting Duels His Majesty doth now having formerly in a Declaration published at Brussels Novemb. 24. 1658. manifested his dislike of impious and unlawful Duels strictly command all his subjects whatever that they do not by themselves or any others either by Message Word Writing or other ways or means challenge or cause to be challenged any person or persons to fight in Duel nor to carry accept or conceal any challenge nor actually to fight or to be a second to any therein His Majesty doth thereby further declare That every person that shall offend against the said Command shall not only incur his Majesties highest displeasure but shall be incapable of holding any Office in his Majesties service and never after be permitted to come to the Court or preferred besides the suffering of such punishments as the Law shall inflict on such offenders All persons likewise that accept or know of such challenges and do not reveal the same to one of his Majesties Privy Councel or the next Justice of the peace shall be liable to the same penalties and to be pleaded against according to Law In the conclusion of the said Proclamation His Majesty doth forbid any intercession to be made for such offenders declaring that his Pardon shall not extend to them On Tuesday August 14. His Majesty set forth a Proclamation strictly charging and commanding all persons who either have or know in whose custody there are any of the Plate Jewels Housholdstuff Cabinets Statues Inscriptions Pictures Drawings Sculptures Rings Stones ancient Coyns Medals Books Manuscripts pieces of Art or any other Goods and Chattels which did belong to his Majesties late Father his Majesties mother the Queen or Himself which have been purloyned and imbezilled or upon pretences seised disposed into several hands and are yet detained and concealed to deliver them or make discovery thereof to the right Honorable Edward Earl of Sandwich Master of his Majesties Great Wardrobe in or before the 29 of September next under the penalty of his Majesties high displeasure and as they will answer the contrary at their peril And in case of refusal and non-performance his Majesty doth declare That he will not only look upon the disobedience of such persons but take a speedy course against them according to Law His Majesty doth further declare That those which shall discover any of those Goods wilfully concealed shall receive a reasonable re●●●d In the other Proclamation all persons are commanded to deliver up these Books within ten days after the publication hereof viz. Two books written by John Milton the one Entituled Johannis Miltoni Angli pro Aopulo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmas●i Defensionem Regiam And the other in answer to a Book Entituled The Pourtr●icture of his Sacred Majesty in his solitude and sufferings As also a third Book Entituled The Obstructors of Justice written by John Goodwin containing wicked and Traiterous principles The Authors being fled or obscuring themselves from legal Tryal If any person in whose hands the said Books are or shall be do live in any City Burrough or Town incorporate he is commanded upon pain of his Majesties high displeasure and the consequences thereof to deliver them to the Mayor Bail●ffs or chief Magistrate there if living out of a City then to the next Justice of the Peace The Lord Francis Hawley who ever since the Isle of Ree hath had command in the Armies of his Majesty and his glorious Father having now that Regiment which was Col. Hackers hath been in Cheshire and Lancashire to order and settle his Regiment which he hath performed with such noble discretion by purging out the unsound and fixing honester men in their places besides those encouragements given to all such as he found well disposed that we may clearly say there is not a Regiment in the Kings Dominions more absolutely devoted to his Majesties service The like care is taken for ordering other Regiments as the Earl of Northampton's Lord Ossory's Lord Herbert's Col. Norton's and Col. Fairfax's for all which Commissions are issued forth under the Great Seal for administring the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance to all Officers and Soldiers in the respective Regiments which they are ready to receive since if there were need those Noble persons who now command them would quickly convince them of the Benefit as well as the Security of those Legal Obligations More particularly the most Noble and Valiant Earl of Northampton whose Lieut. col is Sir Tho. Sands and his Major Richard Barker The Noble Lord Ossory to whom Col. Thomas Sheffield is Lieut. colonel and Sir James Smith Major The Lord Herberts Lieut. col is Tho. Pury and Tho. French Major Col. Charls Fairfax whose Lieut. col is Charls Roge●● and Baily Major Col. Norton who hath obtained for his Lieut. col that approved good Commander Col. Robert Legg and his Major is Richard Fincher whom the Rumpers committed prisoner to the Tower Where fairly we may observe how forward great Officers are to serve his Majesty when some who heretofore were Major-generals condescend to be Majors and Lieutenant-colonels to become private Lieutenants as in the Regiment of that Noble Lord Ossory Sir James Smith and Lieut. col Weeks verifie that assertion The