Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	edward_n	sir_n	thomas_n	53,717	5	8.7999	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03233	Londini status pacatus: or, Londons peaceable estate Exprest in sundry triumphs, pageants, and shewes, at the innitiation of the right Honourable Henry Garvvay, into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence, of the laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertakings of the Right Worshipfull Society of Drapers. Written by Thomas Heyvvood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 13350; ESTC S104064	10,272	24

Londini Status Pacatus OR LONDONS Peaceable Estate Exprest in sundry Triumphs Pageants and Shewes at the Innitiation of the right Honourabe HENRY GARVVAY into the Majoralty of the Famous and farre Renowned City LONDON All the Charge and Expence of the laborious Projects both by Water and Land being the sole undertakings of the Right Worshipfull Society of Drapers Written by THOMAS HEYVVOOD Redeunt Spectacula Printed at London by Iohn Okes. 1639. To the Right Honorable Henry Garway Lord Maior of this Famous Metropolis London Right Honourable TO whom for your long Travell variety of Language and knowne Wisedome I cannot but give a precedence due to your Person as a priority belonging to your place since laboured lines onely comply with judicious eares I must ingeniously confesse your worth so farre to transcend my weakenesse that I am almost silent in the Proem ere I enter on the Epitasis yet presuming on your generous disposition which ever waiteth on sollid Judgement I thus proceede Your breeding Right Honourable next to a Scholler hath beene chiefly in Mercature and of your sufficiency therein you have not onely given to this City ample satisfaction but to the severall parts of this Christian World your personall Travell in your youth acquainting you with the passages and proceedings in other forraigne regions have bettered your conceptions now growing towards Age in the management of State Magistracy in your native Realme of which since the time that you were first chosen Alderman you have given rare President none having decided more differences ended more doubtfull Causes or beene a greater Peace-maker than your honoured selfe And for the multiplicity of your Commerce it is most manifest that you have long Traded to begin with the nearest first in the Low Countries France Spaine Italy Venice East India and moreover in Greene-land Muscovy and Turkey of which three noble societies last named you are at this present Governour History tells us that divers Praetors and Tribunes during the time of their Authority have bin so indulgent over the people committed to their charge that they have not onely ratified the good Edicts of others but devised wholsome Ordinances of themselves when Solon swayed the Senate no Creditor had power over the Debters bodies but their goods onely In Platoes Common-weale all excesse was prohibited which amongst the Romans was cald Lex sumptuaria Acilius glabrio made an Edict De pecuniis repitundis Commanding all mony taken by bribery extortion or other indirect meanes to bee restored cald Lex Acilia Another compelled the Plebe to a liberall contribution towards all publicke Showes and Triumphs which was Titled Lex fannia But not to indanger the just reproofe of a presumptions arrogance in prompting your Lordships in the studied Duties of your succeeding charge I conclude with that Spanish Refran Embia al sabio a la embaxada Y no le degat nada still remembring that of Cato Imperium gero non miht sed Civitatiet socus Your Honours most obsequious Tho. Heywood Londini Status Pacatus or Londons Peaceable Estate NOt to insist upon the Antiquity Nobility nor the first foundation and scituation of this glorious City comparing it with others of old rarely remarkable now demolisht and ruin'd neither with those contemporary or at this present in greatest prosperity either for Magnificent structure or Grave and godly Government because it hath bin the Annuall argument suiting with the occasion now in agitation let them therefore passe as conclusions granted principles against which there is no disputation to be held since for beautifull Architectures Pallaces Rialtoes Guilds Arcenalls Temples Cathedralls Aquaeducts c. and further for cōmerce in al Countries Christian or Heathen discoveries plantations as in Ireland Virginia Bromoothos or Summers Islands St Christophers New England Harbergrace in new-found Land c. In which the most famous Cities of the World Athens Thebes Lacedemon nor Rome it selfe the Metropolis of the Roman Empire could in her most flourishing estate and Potency though she Tyranniz'd over the whole World in the least compare with London And in the way of Competitor-ship the Spartan Ephori the Athenian Areopagitae with Romes purple Optimates may subscribe to her scarlet Senate no Pretor in any City whatsoever being graced with the like Sollemne and sumptuous Inauguration But from the City I come now to the particular Company of the Drapers one of the prime members thereof which may claime one speciall priority above the rest in regard that Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin was of that Fraternity and the first Lord Major who might bee rather cald a perpetuall Dictator than an one yeares Praetor continuing his Majoralty from foure and twenty yeares and upwards together not Anno comple to but vita durante from his Initiation to his Expiration which hath not hapned in any other of the eleven Worshipfull Societies After him within a little space Sir William Powltney foure yeares together Lord Major Iohn Hind Sir Iohn New-man Sir Richard Hardell before whom the Sword was borne for the space of sixe severall yeares without intermission Simon Eyre who built Leaden Hall or Sir Richard Pipe George Monox Sir Iohn Milborne Sir Richard Campion Sir Thomas Hayes Sir Iohn Iolls Sir Edward Barkham Sir Martin Lumley Sir Allen Cotten Sir Cutbert Hacket and Sir Maurice Abbot whom the Right Honourable Henry Garway now succeedeth the right Worshipfull Mr. Thomas Adam being this yeare Sheriffe and of the Drapers Society And although before the last Lord Major preceeding this there hath not bin any for the space of ten yeares of that Worshipfull fraternity yet in the Annuall vicessitude of twelue yeares before sixe of those before named were elected into the Praetorian dignity and all or most of these from the first being builders of Churches and Chappels Founders of Schooles Almes-houses and Hospitalls repayrers of decayed Temples and Oratories Benefactors to Halls and liberall contributors to the maintaining of Arts and all Pious and Charitable acts whatsoever Besides your Coate of Armes Nobilitated by ancient Heraldry being three imperiall Crownes supported by two golden pelletted Lions your Crest Aries the first of the twelue Zodiack signes your inscript To God alone be all honour and glory your Patronesse the blessed Virgin all these approve your antiquity and dignity I have nominated these amongst many c. but I come now to the first shew by water The first Shew by water IS a person representing the ancient River Nilus mounted in a Sea-Chariot and seated upon a silver Scallop the plat-forme decored with Marine Nimphs and Goddesses his habit suiting with the nature of the river in his right hand a seven-forked Scepter alluding to the seven heads or as many Channells through which he runnes and therefore by Ovid cald Septem-fluus he is drawne by two Crocadiles which may be reckoned amongst the Amphibiae as living in and pertaking of the two Elements Earth and Water the river it selfe by sundry Inundations watereth the whole Land of Aegypt leaving behind it