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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	lord_n	spirit_n	3,992	5	4.8318	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14575	The order and vsage of the keeping of a parlement in England, and The description of tholde and ancient cittie of Fxcester [sic]. Collected by Iohn Vovvel alias Hooker gentleman; Order and usage of keeping of the parlements in England	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601. Discription of the cittie of Excester. aut	1575 (1575)	STC 24887; ESTC S119300	57,649	106

as for the time and matter sufficient The imperfections if any be I wil heer after as occasion shall serue supply and amend in the meane time hauing ioyned the same vnto this and thinking it moste meet to be offred vnto you I doo moste humbly pray you accept the same in good parte The Lord God from whome commeth what so euer is good and who directeth the councels of the Iust and prospereth the diuices of the godly send his holy spirit vpon you that you liuing in the feare of him may hate iniquitie abhorre couetousnes and without affection giue iust Iudgements and in all trueth equitie and iustice gouerne rule and direct the people ouer whome he hath made you the gouerners and Rulers whereby his name may be glorified the common welth prospered and you at length sitting with the xxiiij Elders may be crowned with them and inioy that peace and blessing whiche is prepared for such as execute iustice and giue true Iudgements Post mortem Vita The olde and auncient order of keeping of the Parlement in England vsed in the time of King Edward the confessor FIrst the monicion or summons of the Parlement ought to be made or doon forty dayes before the beginning of the Parlement The Summons of the Spiritualtie ALl Bishops Abbots Priors and all other great Clarks that holde by countie or barony by reason of their holding ought to be monished and also to come to the Parlement and none other inferiours of the Clergie vnlesse their presence were profitable and necessary for the Parlement And to those the King is bound to giue their costꝭ comming abiding at the Parlemēt and such inferiour Clarks not to be monished to come to the Parlement But the king was accustomed to send his writs vnto such discrete men desiring them to come and be at the Parlement Also the King was accustomed to send his monicions or summons to the Archbishops Bishops and other exempt persons that is to say Abbots Priors Deanes and other ecclesiastical persons that haue iurisdiction by such exemption and distinct priuiledges that they for euery Deanry and Archdeconry through England should elect and choose or cause to be elected chosen two discrete and wise proctors of their owne Archdeconry whiche should come and be at the parlement there to sustain and alow and to doo that thing that euery man of their Deanry or Archdeaconry might doo if they weer there in proper persons those Proctors so sent for the Clergie should bring with them their double proxies sealed with double seales of their superiours The one of the proxies to remain with the Clarks of the Parlement and thother to remain with the said proctors and vnder this maner the Clergie ought to be called to the Parlement The summons of the Temporaltie ALso all and euery Earle Baron and their péeres that is to say that haue lands and rents to the value of an Earldome or of a whole Barony that is to say xx knights fées euery fée contayning .xx. pound land which amounteth to iiij hundred pound in the whole or to the value of an whole Barony that is to say xiij fées and the third parte of a knights fée euery fée accounted at xx pound which amounteth in the whole to iiij hundred Marks And no inferior persons of the Temporaltie shall come to the Parlement by reason of his holde vnlesse his presence be necessary and profitable and they to be ordred for their charges at the kings costs as is spoken of before of the inferior Clerks The summons of the Barons of the fiue Portes ALso the King ought to send his writs to the warden of the fiue portes that he should cause to be elected or chosen for euery of the said portes two discrete wise Barons that should come and be present at the Parlement there to answere sustain aledge and doo all things concerning the said parlement aswel as if all and euery of the Barons were there personally And these Barons so elect and chosen shall bring with them their double proxies double sealed with the common seal of the port The one therof to be deliuered to the Clarkes of the Parlement and the other to remain with the said Barons so chosen and elected And when it shall chaunce the said Barons licence obteyned to departe they were accustomed to haue a writ sealed with the great seal to the warden of the fiue portes for their resonable expences doon from the first of their comming to the Parlement vntil the time of their departing and comming home to be leuied of the comminaltie of euery party hauing expresse mention made in the writ from the said first day of their comming vntil the time of their licence obteyned and it was accustomed that mention should be made in the said writ what euery Baron should take of the cōmons for a day that is to say some more some lesse a consideration and respect had to the honestest for their tarying labours expences and it was not accustomed that any certain sum was limitted by the said Court. Of the knights of the Parlement ALso the king was accustomed to send his writꝭ to all the Shirifs within the Realme that they should cause to be chosen two honest wise and discrete knights for euery Shéere to come to the Parlement with such proxies as is before spoken of the Barons of the fiue portes But for the expences of the said two knights for euery shéere was not accustomed to be graunted abooue .xiij. shillings .iiij. pence for a day Of the Citizens of the Parlement IN the like the Maior of London and the Shiriffes The Maior and Baliffes or the Maior and Citizens of York and all other Cittyes were wunt to be warned that they for the comminaltie of their cittyes should elect choose two discrete honest wise Citizens to come and be at the Parlement vnder the fourme as is spoken of before of the Barons and of the knights of the shéere And the said Citizens were accustomed to be like and equall in their expences for comming abiding and returning to and from the Parlement as are the knights Of the Burgesses of the Parlement IN like manner the Bayliffes and wise men of the Boroughes were accustomed and ought to be warned that they should choose two discrete honest and wise Burgesses of them selues and by thē to come and be at the Parlement in like maner as is spoken of the Citizens But it was not accustomed that twoo Burgesses should haue for their charges abooue x. shillings sometime not abooue vj. shillings .viij. pence and that should be taxed by the Court after the habilitie of the borough and the honestie of the Burgesses Of the two principall Clarkes of the Parlement ALso two principall Clarkes of the Parlement shall sit in the midst of the Iustices which shall inrolle all plaintes and matters of the Parlement And it is to be knowen that these twoo Clarkes be not subiect to