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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	peace_n	province_n	unite_a	1,120	5	10.2827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38011	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the speedy setting forth of certaine ships, in all points furnished for war, to prevent the bringing over of souldiers, money, ordnance, and other ammunition from beyond the sea to assist the King against the Parliament in England.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2063; ESTC R16647	2,696	7

AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament For the speedy setting forth of certaine Ships in all points furnished for War to prevent the bringing over of Souldiers Money Ordnance and other Ammunition from beyond the Sea to assist the KING against the Parliament in England Die Sabbathi 10. Decemb. 1642. ORdered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this Ordinance shall be forthwith printed and published J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright in the Old-Bayly Decemb. 12. 1642. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament WHereas the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament doe find by continuall experience That very great quantities of Ordnance Armes and other warlike Ammunition And many Commanders and Souldiers have beene brought into Newcastle and other parts of this Kingdom from forraigne parts and especially from the Low-Countries notwithstanding the prohibition given by the States of the united Provinces to that effect to be imployed against the Parliament and their adherents the wel-affected persons of this Realm And whereas divers of His Majesties well affected Subjects out of their loyall respect to His Majesty their pious disposition to the peace and happinesse of this Kingdom and as much as in them lieth to prevent and hinder all such supplies as shall be sent from any forraigne parts to the prejudice of this Nation Have lately made known to the said Lords and Commons their voluntary disposition and readinesse to set forth some Ships and Pinaces warlikely appointed equipped manned and victualled at their own proper costs and charges So that in recompence of their charge and adventure therein they may have and enjoy to their own uses all such Ships Munition Goods Moneys and Merchandizes which they shall take and surprize by Sea or by Land intended or designed against the Parliament and their adherents the well affected persons of this Kingdome as aforesaid or that have carried or they shall take carrying any the said supplies to the intents aforesaid Which being well approved by the Lords and Commons in Parliament as a good and acceptable service they doe commend the same for a pious and laudable undertaking and are wil1ing to give it all the encouragement and advancement that may be to bring it to a good and successefull issue as tending very much to the honour of the King the welfare of this Nation And therefore for the better enabling the performance of this so free and commendable undertaking and enterprize It is ordered established and ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in this present Parliament and by the authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful1 for any of his Majesties good and loyall Subjects of this Kingdome of England to be approved and thereto appointed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty established by the Parliament in warlike manner to equippe and furnish for the said intended imployment such and so many Ships and other Vessels as they shal thinke fitting and to place in them competent numbers of Souldiers Marriners and Gunners with necessary Armes and Provisions for that service and to appoint over them such Commanders Captaines and Officers as they shall thinke fit and the same Ships and Vessels so manned equipped Arm'd and provided to set forth to the Sea and with the same to seize surprize and take all and all manner of Ships and Vessels with the Ordnance Ammunition Goods Commanders and Souldiers therein that they shall finde or understand are sent or are come to any parts of this Kingdome to the prejudice thereof as aforesaid and further to surprize and take all and all manner of Pirates and Sea-Rovers of what Nation soever and their Ships and goods whatsoever And for the better incouragement of all such Adventurers in the said interprize It is by the Lords and Commons likewise Ordered and ordained That the said Adventurers shall have and injoy as their proper goods all Ships Goods Monies Plate Armes Ammunition Victualls Pillage and Spoyle which shall be seized or taken by any persons by them to be imployed by force and vertue of this Ordinance which by definitive sentence to be given in His Majesties high Court of his Admiralty shall be pronounced at the time of the taking or seizing thereof to have beene sent designed or intended to come into this Kingdome against the Parliament and all well affected persons their adherents in this Nation or to have belonged to any Pirates or Sea-Rovers what soever and the same to have and injoy to their owne use without any accompt whatsoever thereof to be made Onely reserving the tenths accustomed in such cases to be paid to the Admirall And it is further Ordered and Ordained That there shall be true and faithfull inventories taken of the Ships Ammunition Monies Goods Plate Pillage and spoyle which shall be taken by vertue and authority of this present Ordinance and a true appraisement made of the same and the same together with all papers and writeings found in any Ship or other Vessell by them to be taken shall be carefully preserved and two or three of the Officers of every Ship or other Vessell so taken shall be examined before the chiefe Officer of the next safe port of England and the said examinations with the said papers inventories and appraisments shall be sent into the Registry of the high Court of Admiralty aforesaid to the end that the taking of the said Ships may thereby be justified or restitution by the said Adventurers if there shall be just cause there made And more particularly it is hereby ordered and ordained by the Lords and Commons aforesaid and they doe by vertue of this ordinance give unto the persons to be set forth to the Seas as aforesaid and to every of them power authority and warrant That if they shall happen upon the Seas or in any port harbour or creeke to meete with any Ship or Ships that shall not willingly yeild themselves to be visited and proved by Law and Justice but will defend themselves by force and violence then they shall by all meanes possible and with all force compell them to yeild and submit themselves to reason and Justice although it doe fall out that by fighting with them one or more of them be maimed hurt or slaine in the resistance And it is further ordered and ordained That the Owners Captaine Master and two or three other of the principall Officers of every of the Ships and Pinaces so to be set forth upon the said interprize shall before their going to Sea enter into a Bond in the high Court of the Admiralty in the summe of two thousand pounds to the use of the Kings Majesty that the said ships or Pinaces respectively nor their Captaines Masters nor any of their Company under colour or pretence of this Ordinance shall rob spoyle or in dammage any of the Kings Subjects Friends or Allies other then such particular persons of His Majesties Subjects Friends or Allies as shall be found to have carried or shall be found carrying Ordnance Armes Ammunition c. To the prejudice of the Parliament c. As aforesaid or shall have committed Piracy And that true inventories and appraisements shall be taken of the Ships and Goods before the same shall be vended or disposed and the same together with the papers found aboard any such Ship and the examinations of the chiefe Officers of the same Ships as is before declared returned into the Registry of the high Court of the Admiralty aforesaid And lastly it is hereby further ordered and ordained That this Ordinance nor any benefit thereby shall extend to the setters forth of any Ship or other Vessell upon the interprize aforesaid where bonds shall not be given as is before expressed and a certificate under the Admiralty seale obtained of the putting in of such Caution FINIS