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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	esq_n	sir_n	viscount_n	13,326	5	12.4547	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80231	Severall grounds, reasons, arguments, and propositions, offered to the Kings most excellent Majesty, for the improvement of his revenue in the first-fruits, and tenths annexed to the petition of James, Earl of North-hampton, Leicester, viscount Hereford, Sir William Farmer, Baronet, George Carew, Esq; and the rest of the petitioners for a patent of the first-fruits and tenths, for the term of one and thirty years, at the yearly rent of threescore thousand pounds.	Carew, George, Esq.	1660 (1660)	Wing C552; ESTC R230934	5,352	1

SEVERALL GROUNDS REASONS ARGUMENTS AND PROPOSITIONS Offered to the Kings Most Excellent MAJESTY For the Improvement of His Revenue in the First-Fruits and Tenths Annexed to the Petition of James Earl of North-hampton Leicester Viscount Hereford Sir William Farmer Baronet George Carew Esq and the rest of the Petitioners for a Patent of the First-Fruits and Tenths for the Term of one and thirty Years at the yearly Rent of Threescore Thousand Pounds THAT Whereas in the 26th Year of King Henry the Eight The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament with His Royal Assent did Ordain and Enact That the King's Highness His Heirs and Successours Kings of this Realm should have and enjoy for ever the first-Fruits and Profits for one year of every Person and Persons which should be Nominated Elected Presented or by any other Ways or Means appointed to have any Arch-Bishoprick Bishoprick Deanry Prebendary Parsonage Vicarage or other Dignity or Spiritual Promotion whatsoever within this Realm of what Name Nature or Quality soever they be or to whose Patronages or Gifts soever they belong the first-Fruits Revenues or Profits for one year of every such Dignity Benefice or Spiritual Promotion whereunto any such Person or Persons shall be Nominated Presented Elected or Appointed And that every such Person or Persons before any Actual and Real Possession or medling with the Profits of any such DIgnity Benefice Office or Promotion Spiritual should satisfie content and pay or agree to pay to the Kings Vse at reasonable Daies and Times upon good Sureties the first Fruits and Profits for one whole year to the Kings Treasury ☞ And it was Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Lord Chancellour of England and Master of the Rolls for the Time being and from time to time at their Will and Pleasure should name and depute by Commission or Commissions under the great Seal fit Persons to examine and search for the just and true Values of the first Fruits and Profits by all ways and means that they can and to compound and agree for the Rate of the said first Fruits and Profits and to limit days of Payment upon good Security which should be in the Nature of a Statute Staple AND Whereas it was Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successours Kings of this Realm shall yearly have take enjoy and receive united and knit to the Imperial Crown for ever one yearly Rent or Pension amounting to the Tenth Part of all the Revenues Rents Farmes Tythes Offerings Emoluments and of all other Profits as well called Spiritual as Temporal now appertaining or belonging or hereafter that shall belong to any Arch-Bishop or Bishop Dean Prebend Parson Vicar or other Benefice Spiritual Dignity or Promotion whatsoever within any Diocess of England or Wales and that the said yearly Pension Tenth or Annual Rent shall be yearly paid to the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successours Kings of this Realm for ever which was confirmed by several Acts of Parliament in 32 Hen. 8. and 34 H. 8. and 37 H. 8. and 2 Edw. 6. and 7 Edw. 6. and the 1 Eliz. ☞ And it was also further Enacted and Ordained by the said Authorities That the said yearly Rent Pension or Tenth Part shall be Taxed Rated Levied Received and Paid to the Kings Vse in Manner and Form following that is to say The Lord Chancellour of England for the time being shall have Power and Authority to direct into every Diocess in England and Wales several Commissions in the Kings Name under His Great Seal to such Person or Persons as the Kings Highness shall name and appoint Commanding or Authorising the Commissioners or Three of them at least to Examine Search and Enquire by all the Ways and Means that they can by their Discretions of and for the true just and whole intire yearly Values of all the Mannours Lands Tenements Rents Tythes Offerings Emoluments and Hereditaments and all other Profits whatsoever as well Spiritual as Temporal appertaining to any such Dignity or Spiritual Promotions as aforesaid ordinary Deductions to be defalked out of the same And that the several Bishops should be charged with the Collection of the said first-Fruits and Tenths in their several and respective Diocesses And that upon the Bishops Certificate any Incumbent refusing to pay his Tenths shall be discharged of his Living BY the Grave Advice and Consultations of all Estates in so many Parliaments the first Fruits and Tenths were granted and confirmed to the Crown of England for the better Maintenance and Support of the Royal Estate And if the People are since multiplied whereby there is a further encrease of Rents and Tythes and a greater Value upon all Commodities the Crown Revenue should be Improved towards the King's innumerable Charges for the Government and well-being of those People and holding a Correspondence with all Forreign Princes for their Trade and commerce As lately the Spanish Trade was restored at the King's Charge KIngs and Queens of England gave most of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments belonging to these Ecclestastical Dignities and Promotions and have also Erected divers Foundations Colledges and Houses of Learning and given Large Inheritances and Endowments thereunto whereby most of the Clergy have their Educations and are made fit for these Dignities and other Ministerial Offices in the Church without any great Charge to their Families or Relations therefore good Reason the first-Fruits and Tenths of all their Dignities and Benefices should be paid to the King whom they hold of as Patron Paramount and as Supream Head of the Church and Defender of the Faith of England THe Statutes and established Laws of the Land are made for the full Payment and whole intire first-Fruits and Tenths wherein the Clergy themselves had their Votes in Parliaments And it it is as great Injustice for the Clergie to withold any part of the Kings Dues as others to deny them any Part of their Predial Personal or Mixt Tythes the Subject in general suffers wherein the Kings Revenue is abated which of Right belongs to the Crown Every private person may as often as he pleases improve his own Revenue when occasion serves THe Meanest Subject is allowed the Benefit of the Law and the King does him Iustice and Maintains his Property according to the Common and positive Laws of the Land The King may expect the same Benefit of the Laws and require His own Rights and Revenues by those Rules of Iustice which all men are bound to observe and obey Three Objections raised against Payment of first-Fruits and Tenths Answered by the Petitioners THat the first-Fruits and Tenths is an Innovation obtruded upon the Clergy of late Times To this they answer That the first-Fruits and Tenths were paid in the Saxons Time as appears by Bedes Ecclesiastical History and have so contiued ever since in England to this very day and that those Payments or Tributes Bede calls Vectigal