Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	house_n	john_n	sir_n	15,272	5	5.9960	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31197	The case of Thomas Sherley Esq. one of His Majesties physitians in ordinary, Plaintiff, against Sir John Fagg, Baronet, defendant	Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678, plaintiff.	1678 (1678)	Wing C1190; ESTC R3489	1,575	2

Sir Thomas Sherley of Wiston in the County of Sussex was great Grandfather to the Plaintiff He had issue Three Sons Second Sir Anthony Sherley the Plantiffs great Uncle He dyed without issue First Sir Thomas Sherley his eldest Son the Plantiffs Grandfather He had issue Two Sons First Henry Sherley the Plantiffs Uncle he dyed without issue in the life of his Father Second Thomas Sherley afterwards Sir Thomas Sherley the Plantiffs Father He had issue Thmas Sherley who is the Plantiff Third Sir Robert Sherley the Plantiffs great Uncle He dyed without issue The Case of Thomas Sherley Esq one of his Majesties Physitians in Ordinary SIR Thomas Sherley the Elder the Plantiffs great Grandfather was seized in Fee of the Mannor of Wiston and divers other Mannors and Lands in the County of Sussex to the yearly value of more then three thousand pounds The said Sir Thomas Sherly half a year before his Death did by Indenture bearing date the 29 Novemberis nono Iacobi Settle the said Mannors upon himself and Dame Anne his Wife during their lives and after their Decease to Sir Thomas Sherley his Eldest Son the Plantiffs Grandfather for Life and after his Decease to Henry Sherley the Plantiffs Uncle for Life and after his Decease to the Sons of the said Henry successively in Tayl male And for default of such issue to Thomas Sherley afterwards Sir Thomas Sherley the Plantiffs Father and Brother to the said Henry for Life and after his Decease to the first second third and fourth sons c. of the said Thomas in Tayl male And the Plantiff as only son of the said Thomas by vertue of the said Settlement is alone entitled to the said Estate But divers Persons having got into Possession of the said Mannors are combined together to defraud the Plantiff and especially one Sir Iohn Fagg who is got into possession of the chief Mannor and a house that cost three and thirty thousand Pound building as the Plantiff is informed and several Lands and Tenements to the value of Eight hundred Pound per annum As the Plantiff verily believes And also for ten pounds in Money and a Horse or Mare worth six Hath gotten into his Custody by the delivery of one Francis Whatker the said Deed of Settlement without which the Plaintiff cannot recover his Estate from the said Sir Iohn Fagg nor other Lands contained in the said Settlement The Plaintiff hath sued Sir Iohn Fagg by English Bill in the High Court of Chancery for discovery of the said Deed to which he put in a Plea to the said Bill before the then Lord Chancellor the Substance whereof is only that he is a purchaser of the said House and Lands for the Consideration of Six thousand Eight hundred pounds which he calls a valuable Consideration though in truth he derives no Title from any of the Plaintiff's Ancestors nor denyes notice of the Plantiff's Title And yet the said Plea being argued the Court allowed of the same and dismissed the Plantiff's Bill out of Chancery which dismission is signed and Inrolled whereby the Plantiff is Ruined and left without remedy either at Law or Equity to recover his estate of three thousand pound Per Annum gotten from him as a foresaid without any manner of Consideration either to him or any of his Ancestors under whom the Plantiff claims And for want of the said Deed the Plantiff hath no way to obtain relief or compel the said Sir Iohn Fagg to produce the said Settlement without his Address to the Right Honourable the house of Lords the supream Court of Equity Now the said Decree of Dismission of the Plantiffs Bill out of Chancery being very Erroneous and the matter of Fact being mistated and there being many Errours in Fact in the said proceedings for which the said Decree and Order of Dismission ought to be reversed and as the Case stands the Plantiff cannot maintain or assign any Bill of Reveiw for the same in the Court of Chancery according to the strict Rules of that Court the Plantiff hath therefore by Petition Appealed from the said Decree and Order of dismission to the Right Honourable the House of Lords where he hopeth the same will be examined and Revers'd The substance of the Plantiffs desires are that their Lordships would be pleased to cause the said Deed of settlement to be produced before them and restored to the Plantiff and to do him what further Justice their Lordships in their great Wisdom shall think fit to which the Plantiff submits both himself and cause Thomas Sherley