Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	king_n	say_a	sovereign_a	23,708	5	10.0425	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87183	The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.	N. H.	1684 (1684)	Wing H97; ESTC R42683	85,604	194

with the general Government of the City by a Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council who are selected out of these several Companies so excellent a harmony there is in this Government These Corporations or Bodies-Politick have all their stately spacious Halls as was said with Clerks and other Ministerial Officers to attend them when they meet to consult about the Regulation of their respective Societies and for promoting publick Good and advancement of Trade and Wealth as also when they meet at their sumptuous and splendid Feasts And in this London surpasseth all other Cities CHAP. VIII The Oath of a Freeman of London YE shall Swear That ye shall be good and true to our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second and to the Heirs of our said Sovereign Lord the King Obeysant and Obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of this City the Franchises and Customs thereof ye shall maintain and this City keep harmless in that which in you is Ye shall be contributary to all manner of Charges within this City as Summons Watches Contributions Taxes Tallages Lot and Scot and to all Charges bearing your part as a Freeman ought to do Ye shall colour no Foreigners Goods under or in your Name whereby the King or this City might or may lose their Customs or Advantages Ye shall know no Foreigner to buy or sell any Merchandize with any Foreigner within this City or Franchise thereof but ye shall warn the Chamberlain thereof or some Minister of the Chamber Ye shall implead or sue no Freeman out of this City whilst ye may have Right and Law within the same City Ye shall take none Apprentice but if he be Free-born that is to say no Bondmans Son nor the Son of any Alien and for no less term than for seven years without fraud or deceit and within the first Year ye shall cause him to be Inrolled or else pay such Fine as shall be reasonably imposed upon you for omitting the same and after his terms end within convenient time being required ye shall make him Free of this City if he have well and truly served you Ye shall also keep the Kings Peace in your own Person Ye shall know no Gatherings Conventicles or Conspiracies made against the Kings Peace but ye shall warn the the Mayor thereof or lett it to your Power All these Points and Articles ye shall well and truly keep according to the Laws and Customs of this City to your power So God you help c. CHAP. IX The Particular Advantages of London with Respect to Trade SOme of the Advantages of this great City is by the goodly River of Thames which opening Eastward towards Germany and France is much more advantageous for Traffick than any other River in England and it may be said without vanity that no River in the World can shew a braver sight of Ships than are commonly to be seen like a floating Forrest from Black-Wall to London-Bridge which in continual Voyages import all sorts of Goods either for need or ornament and Export our Superfluities to the extraordinary Advantage of all sorts of People high or low Another Advantage that London hath is its being situate so far within the Land that i● is plentifully supplied with all necessary provision from the Country at easie and indifferent Rates and the Manufactures of the respective Counties which the City disperses to Markets beyond Seas in recompence the Country is supplied by the City with all sorts of necessary Merchandizes wanting there c. Insomuch that London is a large Magazine of Men Money Ships Horses Ammunition of all sorts of Commodities necessary or expedient for the use or pleasure of Mankind It is the mighty Rendezvouz of Nobility Gentry Courtiers Divines Lawyers Physitians Merchants Seamen and all kind of excellent Artificers of the most refined Wits and most excellent Beauties For it is observed that in most Families of England if there be any Son or Daughter that excels the rest in Beauty or Wit or perhaps Courage or Industry or any other rare Quality London is their Pole-Star and they are never at rest till they point directly thither which vast confluence besides being the Kings Chief and Imperial Seat where Parliaments and the Principal Courts of Justice are held where the in as or Colleges of the Municipal Laws are Stated w●th the great Houses of the Nobility and Ministers of State must needs bring a vast Advantage and Increase to Trade besides the most Exquisite Ornament and Gallantry that any place in the World can shew CHAP. X. Of the Foreign Trade of London AS to the Trade of London into Foreign Parts we have almost prevented our self by what is delivered before we shall therefore only add that England abounding with many rich and useful Native Commodities as Woolen-Cloths of all sorts Broad and Narrow called by several Names in several Shires also Perpetuanoes Bays Says Serges Cottons Kersies Buffins Mocadoes Grograms Sattins Tabbies Callimancaes Camlets Velvets Piushes Worsteds Fustians Durances Tukes Crapes Flannels and infinite others Furs and Skins as Conney-skins Squirrel-skins Fitches Calve-skins Hides c. Mines as Tin Lead Allom Copper Iron of all sorts Sea-Cole Salt c. All manner of Grain as Oats Pease Barley Rye and Wheat in great plenty c. Also Linnen-Cloth Flax Hemp c. All Iron Wares Tallow Leather Glasse● of all sorts and Glass Venice-Gold and Silver Train-Oyl Salmons Pilchards Herrings Hake Conger Haberdine Cod Ling Hops Wood Butter Cheese Beer Syder Saltpetre Gun-powder Honey Wax Alabaster and other Stones Wools Woolfels Yarn Fullers-Earth Saffron Liquoras c. And many other good and rich Commodities too tedious to be enumerated The Merchants of London do yearly Export great quantities of such of these Goods as are not prohibited to Foreign Markets and make good Returns and bring to supply the Kingdom a great deal of Treasure and rich Commodities from all parts of the World to the enriching of themselves unspeakable benefit of the Nation and Credit of the English in genetal who are generally as fair Dealers as any in the World and of as active and undertaking Souls and the principal Seat or Emporium of this great Trade is the great and famous City of London CHAP. XI Of the Trade of London into the Countrey OF this we need say but little it being so universally known to the whole Land the Londoners using to supply all the Trading places of the Kingdom especially on great Fairs to which they resort in great numbers and afford their Goods at the best hand to their own and their Countreys great benefit and in requital the adjacent Counties supply the City with all manner of Necessaries for Food Hay Fuel c. insomuch that Strangers have admired at the prodigious plenty of all sorts that are to be seen in the great and well-furnished Markets of Leaden-Hall Stocks Milk-street New-Gate Clare South-Hampton St. Albans Westminster Hungerford and Brooks with several others so that here