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	walter_n	12,940	5	11.4258	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81750	Droytwich case		1689 (1689)	Wing D2187A; ESTC R220001	904	1

Droytwich CASE KING John Granted to the Burgesses of Droytwich and their Heirs the Salt Springs there rendring the yearly Fee Farm Rent of 100 l. Sterling and the Salt Water hath ever since been divided into Four Hundred and Four Shares called Bulleries The Grantees of King John and their Heirs have aliened and sold their whole inheritance in the Salt Springs to several persons who at this day stand seized in Fee of the same and pay the Fee Farm Rent according to their respective Shares and from the time of King John's Grant to the Reign of Queen Mary the Inheritors of the Salt Springs govern'd the same and were deemed Burgesses of Droytwich and whoever sold his Inheritance ceased to be a Burgess Queen Mary Incorporated the Burrough of Droytwich by the Name of Bailiffs and Burgesses but takes no notice of the Salt Works nor is there any Order or Direction given by King John's Grant or any subsequent Charter for the Governing or Managing thereof There are but Nine Persons who inhabit within the Burrough of Droytwich who with the Assistance of thirteen others they have admitted into the Corporation pretend to the Power of Governing Managing and taxing the Inheritance in the Salt Springs at pleasure excluding the real Owners thereof from Voting or Acting therein And altho the Proprietors of the Salt Springs are undoubtedly Burgesses of Droytwich and consequently Members of the Corporation yet by this Bill they do not seek any relief therein but only that they may have a Vote in the Managing and Taxing of their own Estates It is alledged the present Members of the Corporation of Drotwich have 150 Shares in the Salt Springs Note The Persons following are Members of the Corporation and have a Hundred and Twenty of the Hundred and Fifty and are for passing the Bill Earl of Shrewsbury Lord Coventry Sir John Pakington Sir Walter Blount Sir Thomas Cookes Sir John Talbot Sir Harry Conningsby Edmund Wyld Esq John Winford Esq Robert Steynor Esq John Newport Esq Thomas Lench Esq Mr. Thomas Rastel Mr. Jos Butler The Persons who Oppose passing the Bill are Twenty two of which number Twelve have only the bare Qualification of a Pepper-corn and the other Ten have 22 Shares and a half in the Salt Springs and no more The Remainder of the 404 Shares are given to Charitable Uses or vested in Widows and Infants or persons who live far remote   Shares The Persons above Named have 120 The Persons who are excluded from Ordering and Managing their own Estates have 174 The Persons for the Bill have 294 The Persons who oppose the Bill 22 and a half