Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54692	The reforming registry, or, A representation of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will unavoidably happen by the needless, chargeable, and destructive way of registries proposed to be erected in every county of England and Wales, for the recording of all deeds, evidences, bonds, bills, and other incumbrances : written in the year 1656 when Oliver and the Levelling-party made it their design to ruine monarchy ... / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2014; ESTC R14829	37,868	105

and all kinde of Commodities or that it will be any more then to kill and destroy the Heart the principal part and seat of li●e and to hope notwithstanding that the Liver Veins and Arteries and all that conveyed Blood Spirits and nutriment to it and received life in exchange from it or the Feet and Hands Stomach and Belly that used to supply and be subservient to it or the Head and Eyes that used to govern or guide the Body which belonged to it can be in any good condition and enjoy a health or welbeing when that so eminent so vital and principal a part of the Body shall be cast into a Consumption languish or be extinguished And yet when all is done and the sad effects and consequences of it suffered the design or pretence of these Registries of securing all Purchasers of Lands and Lenders of Money or to make Mens Estates to be so visible and transparent as no man in selling or borrowing shall be able to cozen or deceive or not satisfie one another will be no otherwise possible then to break in pieces and disturb a whole Nation and put them to a great and unnecessary expence to do that over again which is already done and better then they can do it and leave them open notwithstanding to as many hazards and contingencies as they were before CHAP. VII That it is impossible to provide against all which may happen to be Incumbrances FOr Confiscations and Forfeitures of Lands for Treason Murders Felonies and Premunires may be grand Incumbrances to Purchasors or the Creditors of those that commit them Misdemeanors Fines Forfeitures of Offices or Places Mortgages Statutes Recognisances Bonds and Penal Bills breach of Penal Laws Covenants Trusts and Conditions which arising out of the Wills or Pravity of Men or the necessities or carelesness of themselves or oppression of others from Causes either in themselves or others 〈◊〉 from Actions past or to come may be a loss or lessening of mens debts or great obstructions in the recovery of them Dowers Intails powers of Revocation not to mention or insist upon the various or manifold Incumbrances which may arise or come by Copihold Estates which being not chargeable with Debts or Extents are in themselves Incumbrances and were not long ago little less then a sixt or seventh part of the Lands of England with their Admissions Surrenders in or out of Court absolute or conditional and their many several sorts of Forfeitures Lands of Gavelkind or Burgage Tenure Ioyntures made after marriage and refused Elopements and unlawful Marriages Tenancy by Curtesie and trusts with other Mens Money and Estates Moneys insured by Policy of Exchange Bills of Exchange accepted Errors in Matter of Substance in some of the Creditors Judgments which may be a cause of Reversing them Disherison of Sons and Heirs Apparent concealed Illegitimacies Intrusions and wrongful Entries Actions of Battery and Scandal and all manner of Actions or Suits in Law or Equity which may lessen or prejudice any Mans Estate Assumpsits Promises and Ingagements by word of mouth which may make as many Obligations Troubles and Ties upon Mens Estates as Bonds or Bills can do or did before such kinde of Writings or Instruments were invented Imbargoes high flying gaming or gading Wives which the Roman Censors would have reckoned amongst Incumbrances prodigal Children losses by Fire Sea or Land Wars Factors or bad Servants Suretiship or too much trusting death of those for whose lives they held Land or Estates or had any dependancy upon sickness decay of trade deceits or wrongs done by others vain and unnecessary expences many of our Actions past or to come in facto or fieri esse or posse And all manner of casualties accidents or contingencies which are not visible before-hand or appearing or possibly to be found in any Registry may prove to be no small Incumbrances to Money Lenders upon Bonds or Bills Iudgments Statutes or Recognisances especially if the Debtors have no Estates in Lands or shall be liable to Statutes of Bankrupt which all the Lillies or those which pretend to be in Commons or greatest familiarity with the Stars or the greatest wits or endeavors of men can neither perceive before they happen or tell any one how to escape but must be constrained to reckon it amongst the number of the Grand Impossibles to be done by the sons of men and confess it to be a work onely sit for Omniscience and Preseience of which there will be a Non Datur to these new kinde of Registers as well as other men And would in the attempt of it busie and employ all the Clerks and Writers of the Nation though to no-other purpose then to make the people travel up and down vex themselves with fears and jealousies and spend more then Twenty times as much again as they do now in their Writings Assurances or Contracts whereas all the charge of the Inrollment Office in Chancery wherein three parts in four of the Inrolled Deeds of the Nation are inrolled did never as yet cost or put them to the charge of above One thousand pound per annum The Accompt and Ballance of which vast Registry and the calculation of the Riches Poverty or Estates of Men Lands bought or sold transferred or settled to Uses and passed after or involved in two or three other Mens Estates And what is become of the Money with the Payments Satisfactions Profits Incomes Losses Rises or Falls in expences in House-keeping Apparel or Recreations Releases Acquittances and Discharges of Lands Statutes Judgments Recognisances Bonds or Bills Promises Covenants or Contracts with those many numberless Intricacies and Impossibilities which will attend such a work will not onely confound the Auditor or a whole Colledge of Astrologers if they should undertake it but give them or any who shall come to be satisfied or secured by them to understand that it will be as vain in the product or expectation of it as the design of Uttamacomock the Virginian proved to be who being taken at home for a grand piece of Policy was sent hither in King Iames his time and directed by Powhatan his King or Emperor to take the number of the people of England and learn their Estate and Condition did when he came to Plimouth stand at his Lodging door and upon a long stick cut a notch for every one that came or passed by But at last finding his notches like to wear out his stick and not being able to know or distinguish those that passed by or returned or for which he had made notches before had the wit to give over and conclude the people to be very numerous and the work impossible CHAP. VIII That if it could be possible the people will not willingly be at the trouble or charges in all their Contracts to search in so many County Registries to discover Incumbrances OR if this Impossible could as it never will be made Possible and that all or any