Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	london_n	right_n	15,695	5	6.6784	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87651	The keepers of the liberties of England by authority of Parliament, to all parsons, ministers, lecturers, viccars, and curates as also to all justices of the peace, mayors, burgers, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, overseers of the poor, and headboroughs. And to all other officers, ministers, and people whatsoever, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting.	Dawe, fl. 1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing K129; Thomason 669.f.17[50]; ESTC R211694	2,298	1

The Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament To all Parsons Ministers Lecturers Viccars and Curates As also to all Justices of the Peace Mayors Burgers Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables Overseers of the Poor and Headboroughs And to all other Officers Ministers and People whatsoever as well within Liberties as without to whom these Presents shall come Greeting WHEREAS at the Gaol-Delivery for the City of London held in the Old-Baily on Wednesday the nineteenth day of February in the yeer of our Lord One thousand six hundred and fifty before the Right Honourable Thomas Andrews Lord Mayor of the said City of London and the rest of the Bench then and there sitting It appeared unto the said Court by a Certificate from the Deputy Common-Councel men Church-Wardens and divers others Inhabitants of the Parish of Sepulchres without Newgate London well known and worthy of good credit That on Munday the two and twentieth day of July in the said yeer of our Lord One thousand six hundred and fifty about seven of the Clocke in the Evening of that day there happened a most fierce and lamentable Fire near Holborne-Conduit in the Parish aforesaid which within foure houres consumed and burnt downe to the ground five and twenty dwelling Houses The Losse whereof amounts to the Summe of Two Thousand and five Hundred pounds as appeared upon a full and particular view and examination of many able and experienced Workmen By the meanes of which sad Accident Threescore Families are utterly impoverished and most of them in extream Necessity and Misery and like to perish for want unlesse God in mercy move the hearts of well-disposed people in compassion towards them Besides divers other Houses there adjacent which were partly burnt and spoyled to a very great dammage and losse and which are not herein valued in regard the Owners thereof are able to beare the same And the same things were likewise at the said Court testified by divers other persons of good worth and quality then and there present For the furtherance of which pious and charitable Worke The Parliament having been acquainted with the particulars of the said sad and lamentable Accident did thereupon the Fifteenth day of August last Order That the said distressed Inhabitants shall be Authorised by Letters Pattents under the Great Seale of England to make a general Collection with the Cities and Counties hereafter mentioned Know ye therefore That Wee being willing that such reliefe might be afforded to them herein as to others in like cases hath been heretofore granted and not doubting but that all good Christians within the said places having a fellow feeling of their miseries will bee ready to extend their liberall Contributions towards the Reliefe Helpe and Comfort of their distressed Brethren in this their great Necessity Have Given and Granted And by these Letters Pattents doe Give and Grant unto the said distressed Inhabitants and to their Deputy and Deputies the Bearer and Bearers hereof full Power Licence and Authority to ask gather receive and take the Alms and charitable Benevolence of all good and wel-disposed people Inhabiting within the Cities of London and Westminster with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof And in the Counties of Middlex Surrey and Kent the Burrough of Southwark the City of Canterbury and County of the same City the City of Rochester with the Cinque-Ports and all other the Cities Towns Corporate Priviledged places Parishes Villages and all other places whatsoever within the said Cities and Counties and not elsewhere towards the recovery of their said losses And for the Reliefe Support and Maintenance of the said distressed Families Wherefore We Will and Command you and every of you That at such time and times as the said Inhabitants or their said Deputy or Deputies the Bearer or Bearers hereof shall come and repaire to any of your Churches Chappels or any other places to ask and receive the gratuities and charitable Benevolence of good and well-disposed people quietly to permit and suffer them so to doe without any manner your Lets or Contradictions And you the said Parsons Ministers Lecturers Vicars and Curats for the better stirring up of charitable Devotions deliberately to publish and declare the Tenor of these Letters Pattents or the Copy or Briefe hereof unto the people upon some Sabbath day after the same shall bee tendred or delivered unto you exhorting and perswading them to extend their liberal Contributions in so good and charitable a deed And you the Overseers of the poore of every Parish where such Collection is to be made as aforesaid to collect and gather the Almes and charitable Benevolence as well of strangers as Fellow-Parishoners And what shall be by you so gathered to be by the Ministers and your selves endorsed on the backside of these Letters Pattents or the Copy or brief hereof in words at length and not in figures And the Summe and Summes of Money so gathered and endorsed to deliver to the Bearer or Bearers of these Letters Pattents and to no other person or persons whensoever you shall be by them thereunto required And in case it so fall out that any Parish being destitute of a Minister shall be without publicke Assemblies Then the Overseers of the poor of the said Parish are hereby required to go from house to house to gather and receive the charity of the Inhabitants And lastly Our Will and Pleasure is for the more assurance of faithfull and equall dealing in the Receit Account and Distribution of the Moneys hereby to be collected by vertue of these Presents That no man shall receive any of the Moneys so collected but such as shall be appointed thereunto by Deputation under the hands and seales of Humphrey Primate Thomas Poultney Josias Ward and Thomas Bradbury Citizens or any two of them and that the moneys collected and raised by vertue thereof shal be distributed amongst such only of those damnified by the said Fire as are in this case fit to be relieved by publick charity And by such proportions to each of them as shall be thought fit and set down in writing under the hands of the said persons last above named or any two of them as aforesaid at such times and places as shall be by them or any two of them from time to time appointed for that purpose Any Statute Law Ordinance or Provision heretofore made to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding In witnesse whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Pattents for the space of Six Months next after the date hereof to endure and no longer Witnesse Our Selves at Westminster the Seventh day of September In the Yeer of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and three DAWE