Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	george_n	knight_n	sir_n	23,752	5	6.7817	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51665	My lord, we the commons of London, in Common-Hall assembled, being deeply sensible that many of the mischiefs and grievances that we at present groan under are occasioned by the misbehaviour and irregular carriages of some of the principle officers of this city, particularly of Sir George Jefferies, Knight, our present record ...		1680 (1680)	Wing M3171; ESTC R33605	866	1

Petition of y e City of London to y e L d Mayor ag t y e psent record S r George Jefferyes My Lord WE the Commons of London in Common-Hall Assembled being deeply sensible that many of the Mischiefs and Grievances that we at present groan under are occasioned by the Misbehaviour and irregular Carriages of some of the principal Officers of this City particularly of Sir George Jefferies Knight our present Recorder who by very confident but false Affirmations hath endeavoured to mislead the Common-Council in Matters of highest Moment And also contrary to the Duty of his Place and the greatest Trust reposed in him hath as we have just reason to believe frequently made other false Suggestions and Misrepresentations to his Majesty of our most Loyal and Dutiful Actions and Demeanours And finding that he hath maliciously contrived to subvert one of the great Foundations of our English Liberties by menacing and threatning Juries thereby to make them bring in Verdicts not according to their Conscience but his own Will and Pleasure and discharging others contrary to Law before they had compleated all the Business for which they were sworn as doth notoriously appear by his late and terrible Usage of the Grand-Inquest of this City at the Sessions of Peace holden in Guild-Hall And lastly That he doth frequently affront and most scurrilously intreat Witnesses appearing to give their Testimonies in the several Judicatures whereby they many times become affrighted and confounded Tending to the great Oppression of his Majesty's Subjects to the Scandal and Dishonour of the City and to the disquieting of the Peace and Unity thereof to the perversion of Justice and dangerous Prejudice of the Publick-Weal of this Kingdom By which ill Carriages and most insolent Behaviours he hath rendred himself most obnoxious and insupportably burdensom in that Office We do therefore most humbly pray your Lordship to consider with your Worshipful Brethren the Aldermen of the most speedy and effectual Way that can be taken for the immediate removing of the said Sir Geo. Jefferies from the Place of Recorder of this City as a Person dangerous and destructive to the Publick Peace Vnity and Prosperity thereof To the end that some other more fit and honest Person learned in the Laws of known Loyalty Modesty Integrity and undoubted Zeal for the true Protestant Religion may be Elected into the same Which We humbly conceive may be the best and most expedient Means conducing to the Remedy of these Mischiefs and Preservation of the good Government of this renowned City 12. Octb. 1680