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
B02947	Anno regni Caroli regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November, Anno Dom. 1640. In the 16 yeer of the reign of our most gracious soveraign Lord, Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1641 (1641)	Wing E1099A; ESTC R175034	4,172	13

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ANNO REGNI CAROLI REGIS ANGLIAE SCOTIAE FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE DECIMO SEPTIMO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November Anno Dom. 1640. In the 16. yeer of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. LONDON Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1641. Cum Privilegio C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT ANNO XVII Caroli Regis ¶ An Act for the better Raising and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary defence of the Realm and other His Majesties Dominions WHereas there was an Act this present Parliament intituled An Act for the better raising and levying of Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary defence of the Realm which Act is now expired And whereas also a Fleet is now in preparing to be set forth with all expedition for the guarding of the narrow Seas and necessary defence of this Realm and other His Majesties Dominions in this time of imminent danger which cannot accordingly be performed unlesse the same be furnished with fit and sufficient men for that Service Be it therefore enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That the Lord Admirall that now is shall and may at any time or times between the tenth day of December 1641. and the first of November next coming by himself his Vice-Admirall Commissioner or Commissioners or other Officer or Officers or any of them together with one or more Iustices of the peace next the place where any Presse shall be made shall Raise Levie and Impresse such and so many Mariners Sailers Watermen Chirurgions Gunners and Ship-Carpenters as shall be requisite and necessary for this present Expedition or for any such further defence of the Realm or any other of His Majesties Dominious Which said Mariners Sailers other such persons so to be Levied and Impressed as aforesaid and every of them shall have paid and delivered unto him upon such his Impressing by the person that shal so Impresse him for Conduct money for every mile from the place where he shal be so Impressed to the Ship or place to which he shall be appointed to make his repair the sum of one peny and the like sum of one peny for every mile from the place of his discharge unto the place of his abode and shall be allowed for his Service the best Wages and entertainment which have or hath been allowed by His Majestie to any such person or persons respectively at any time within three yeers last past And if any Mariner Sailer Waterman Chirurgeon Gunner or Ship-Carpenter shall wilfully refuse to be Impressed in or for the said Service or shall voluntarily hide and absent himself at the time of such Presse to avoid the said Service That then every such person so offending shall suffer Imprisonment by the space of three moneths without bail or mainprise Provided alwayes that this Act shall not extend to the Pressing of any Master or Masters-mate Gunner Carpenter or Boatswain of any Ship or Vessell that is or shall be in imployment or of above one of ten Mariners of any Ships that shall be inward or outward bound nor to any person that shall be under the age of eighteen or above the age of fifty nor to any person that was rated in the last Subsidies or shall be rated in any Subsidies hereafter to be granted before the time of his being Impressed Provided alwayes and be it enacted That no Money or other reward shall be taken or any corrupt practise used by any the persons authorized by this Act in or for the Pressing Changing Sparing or Discharging of any person or persons to be Impressed by force of this Act under pain of forfeiture of twenty pounds by the person so offending for every such offence the one half to His Majestie His Heirs and Successours the other half to him that will sue for the same to be recovered by Action of debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record or before the Iustices of Assise Oyer and Terminer Goal-Delivery or the Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town-Corporate where such offence shall be committed at their generall quarter Sessions wherein no Wager of Law Essoign Protection or Injunction shall be admitted or allowed ❧ ANNO XVII Caroli Regis ❧ An Act for the Relief of the Captives taken by Turkish Moorish and other Pirates and to prevent the taking of others in time to come WHereas many thousands of your Majesties good and loving Subjects with their Ships and goods have of late time been surprised and taken at Sea as they were in their lawfull trading by Turkish Moorish and other Pirats And some of them to free themselves of the cruell and barbarous usage of those Pirats have renounced the Christian Religion and turned Turks And others yet kept in bondage are used with so extream cruelty as they are in great danger thereby to lose their lives unlesse they shall also forsake the Christian Religion And divers of those Your Subjects kept in bondage being expert and skilfull Mariners are usually imployed at Sea against others Your good Subjects and prove very prejudiciall to them and hurtfull to the Trade and Merchandise of Your Majesties Dominions And whereas aswell Your Majesties Subjects as strangers Exporting or Importing their Goods and Merchandize into this Kingdom have ever sithence Your Majesties accesse unto this Crown been charged with the payment of great sums of Money under the name of Custom and that without consent of Parliament which had they been legally taken ought to have been chiefly imployed to the safeguard of the Seas and preservation of Your good Subjects in their Trade of Merchandize from the spoil of Pirats and other Sea robbers but have been exhausted by evil Ministers and not applied to their proper uses so that Your Highnesse good Subjects have been exposed to the mercilesse cruelty of those Pirats and barbarous Infidels And the Commons taking into further consideration Your Majesties pressing wants and great occasions of Moneys in these times of distemper as well in the Kingdom of Ireland as other Kingdoms of Forraign Princes so that there will be required some further aid to inable Your Highnesse to effect so great a Work besides the present Tunnage and Poundage now granted to Your Majestie Have therefore for this present pressing occasion and for a time hereafter limited taken into their Resolutions a further way of raising a Supply of Moneys for the providing and setting forth to the Seas a Navie as well for the enlargement and deliverance of those poore Captives in Argier and other places if Almightie God shall so please to give that