Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	quarter_n	session_n	5,031	5	10.5854	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41753	The Grand concern of England explained in several proposals offered to the consideration of the Parliament, (1) for payment of publick debts, (2) for advancement and encouragement of trade, (3) for raising the rents of lands ... / by a lover of his countrey, and well-wisher to the prosperity both of the King and kingdoms.	Lover of his countrey and well-wisher to the prosperity both of the king and kingdoms.	1673 (1673)	Wing G1491; ESTC R23421	54,704	66

be continued up for they travel not such long journeys go not out so early in the morning neither come they in so late at night but stay by the way travel easily without jolting mens bodies or hurrying them along as the running Coaches do 5ly Neither are these running Coaches useful to any for those that are fit to ride or ought to be suffered to ride in them are such that if they have business requiring a Coach may either keep one themselves or hire one 6ly But though these Coaches are neither absolutely necessary to some nor useful to others yet they are imposed upon many for since they set up in such multitudes especially about London men careless of keeping horses knowing the certainty of passage in them have sold them and must therefore when they travel either ride in these Coaches or not at all there being few or no Horses kept now to let out to hire If by what hath been said upon this point it happen Gentlemen may travel on horseback more to the advantage and benefit of Trade and so to the publick good with more advantage to their healths and business and less expence of money and time than they can in Stage-Coaches If these Stage-Coaches be not absolutely necessary to some useful to what other Coaches may be made to others and yet this imposed upon many what reason can be given why they should not all or most of them be supprest If they were not destructive to Trade why should Petitions from almost all sorts of Tradesmen come up from most Cities and Towns in England against them as there hath been lately presented to His Majesty and the Council Why should the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter Sessions certifie to His Majestie and his honorable Privy Council under their hands as they have done that the great Mischiefs aforementioned under which the Kingdom now suffers have been greatly occasioned by these Coaches and that many thousands of Families are ruined by them as from London Westminster Salisbury Middlesex and divers other Cities Counties and Towns Certificates have come Why should the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at their Court at Guildhal upon serious consideration and debate of the Petition of the several Companies of London against the said Coaches wherein most of these grievances are mentioned allow of the same and give leave that it should be presented if they were not convinced that they are destructive to Trade For surely they understand Trade and were not so weak as to be cheated into their consent and approbation neither have they any time since repented of or disowned the same as the Stage-Coachmen in false and scandalous Pamphlets have presumed to print notwithstanding which they are ready to own the said Petition and make good the Contents thereof And the Drapers Haberdashers and Milliners who they pretend would be prejudiced by their being superseded are ready with the other Tradesmen mentioned in that Pamphlet to evince to the World they are injured by their being kept up so that the very Coach and Harness-Makers themselves petition against them as being mischievous to their Trades in regard they prevent the making of great Numbers of Coaches every year which must have been made if Gentlemen had travelled in their own Coaches and thereby they hinder the Consumption of great quantities of Leather If all these things be true what can be said against their being supprest It is Objected The Owners of these Coaches set them up for the conveniency of the Subjects have betaken themselves to this painful way of living and laid out their whole Stocks meerly to accommodate Gentlemen and have now no other way to live what shall become of them if they be put down Ans It is the case but of very few that the suppressing of them would hurt for if all Stage-Coaches were to be supprest I dare say five for one of those that keep them would receive advantage thereby as clearly will be evinced if it be considered that when this business was before His Majestie in Council where it depends undetermined none of the Stagers opposed the being put down except Exeter Salisbury Dorchester Bristol Southampton Dover Norwich Lincoln York Westchester Worcester and Shrewsbury who call themselves Stage-Coachmen upon the grand Roads of England and there is not one Owner of any of these Coaches but hath otherways to live if he were prohibited driving them for they are all of them either Innholders or Coach or Harness-makers following those Trades or Carriers or licensed Coachmen in London and may live as well as the Hackney Coachmen in London The other Stage-Coaches are all or most of them kept either by Innholders first who one in a Town did set up a Coach and so carried all the Guests to his own house Then a second sets up another and so a third and fourth in a Town Which done they run one against another purposely to get the Guests from each other houses whereby they not only destroy multitudes of horses but are great losers themselves so that themselves would be thankful to have them put down and yet are forced to keep them up until there shall be a general suppression because otherwise they shall lose their whole Trades Or else the said Stage-Coaches are kept by such as before the late Act for reducing the number of Hackney Coaches in London to 400 were Owners of Coaches and drove Hackney there But when the number of 400 was full and they not licensed then to avoid the penalties of the Act they removed out of the City dispersing themselves into every little Town within twenty miles of London where they set up for Stagers and Drive every Day to London and in the night time they drive about the City pay no 5 l. per annum yet take away both the Town and Country work from those that do pay it and break and annoy the streets in the Cities and Suburbs thereof hinder the 400 from the Jobs and small Journeys they depended upon when they agreed to pay 5 l. a peice per annum for their Licences whereby they are many of them ruined But take it for granted it were so that these Stage-Coachmen had laid out all their Stocks for the use aforesaid and must be undone if put down and there were at least 2000 of them what is that of two evils the lesser is to be chosen Have they not already destroyed very many Thousands of Families will not the continuing of them in very short time be the undoing of many Thousands more is the interest of these snrley rude debauch'd Coachmen to be put into the Ballance with the many Thousands of Curriers Shoemakers Sadlers Girdlers Spurriers Cutlers Lorainers Cloathiers Cloath-workers Cloath-drawers Drapers Taylors and an hundred Trades more to which men were bound seven years Apprentiship to learn their Trades and are of great advantage to the publick Surely they ought to be encouraged being the Manufacturers of the Staple-Commodities