Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	money_n	say_a	treasurer_n	985	5	12.2377	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83279	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the speedy raising of monies, for compleating and maintaining the army under the immediate command of Robert Earl of Essex, Lord Generall of the forces raised by the Parliament. Assessed in such manner as is within expressed. Ordered by the Commons of Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing E2057; Thomason E39_19; ESTC R21570	8,013	17

in the said places and likewise shall and may there agree to divide and sever themselves for the better execution of this Ordinance into such Wards Hundreds places and divisions within their respective Cities Countie and places as to them shall seeme expedient And to take to their assistance for the more speedy execution of the said service in their severall divisions such able and sufficient persons as they shall think fit and to assemble and meet as often as to them shall seem good and forthwith the said Committees or any two or more of them respectively are hereby authorized and required to direct their Warrants to such number of persons as they shall thinke fit within their severall and respective divisions to be Assessours of the said Rates which said persons are hereby authorized and required to assesse all and every person and persons having any reall or personall estate within the limits circuits and bounds of their respective divisions according to the Rate and proportion in this Ordinance mentioned And be it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that the severall summes of Money before mentioned and all other summes which shall be hereafter assessed or taken upon the severall Cities County and Places aforesaid shall be assessed and taken both for Lands and goods upon such persons and estates and in such manner and forme as is directed for the weekly Assessement in an Ordinance of Parliament of the fourth day of May last past intituled An Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for the speedy raysing and Leavying of money for the Maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament and other great affaires of the Common-wealth by a weekly Assessment And to the end the said rates by equally and indifferently Assessed and the monies duly collected and true Accompt thereof made The said Assessors are hereby required within six dayes after such Assessement made to deliver two Coppies of their respective Assessements fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said respective Committees or to any of them whereof one to remaine with the said Committee and the other to be delivered to the Collectors with Warrants to Levie the said monies And the said severall Committees or any two of them are hereby respectively Authorised from time to time to nominate one or more sufficient and honest persons in every division or Alotment to be Collectors of the said monies so Assessed and rated which said Collectors are hereby authorized and required to Collect the said monies so Assessed and the said Committee or any six of them are hereby Authorised to allow and pay unto the said respective Collectors two pence in the pound for their paines in Collecting the said monies and one penny in the Pound to their Clerkes for their paines in faire writing the said Assessement And if any person shall refuse or neglect to pay any summe of money whereat hee shall be rated or Assessed that then it shall or may be lawfull to and for the said Collectors or any of them to Leavie the summe so Assessed by distresse and sale of the goods of such persons so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the summe Assessed and the reasonable charges of distrayning and restore the over-plus to the Owner thereof And to breake open any House Chest Trunke Box or other thing wherein any such Goods are and to call to their Assistance any of the Trained Bands or any other Forces within the Cities Countie and Places where any resistance shall be made or any other person or persons whatsoever which said Forces and Persons are hereby required to be ayding and assisting in the Premisses as they shall answer the contrary at their perills And if any question or difference happen upon the taking such distresse betweene the Parties distrained and distraining the same shall be ended and determined by the said Committees or any two of them and the said severall Committees or any two or more of them are hereby Authorized and required to use such other wayes or meanes for the speedy Leavying of the said Assessments as to them shall be thought fit And if any person or persons shall purposely convey his or their goods or other personall Estate whereby the summe of Money so Assessed cannot be Leavied according to this Ordinance then the said respective Committees or any two of them are hereby Authorized by themselves or such other persons as they shall appoint to Imprison the persons and to Sequester the Estate of every such person for the Advancement of the said service and the Tennants of all houses and lands which shall be rated by vertue of this Ordinance are hereby required and Authorised to pay such summes of money as shall be rated upon every such house and Lands and to deduct out of their rents so much of the said rates as in respect of the Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlords should or ought to pay or beare and the Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interest are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the Receipt of the Residue of their Rents and to give Acquittances for the whole Rents as if no deductions had beene made And if any Landlord shall refuse to make such Allowance or deduction or to give such acquittances then the respective Committees for the Sequestrations in the Cities County and places aforesaid upon proofe thereof made before them are hereby Authorized for every time they shall so refuse to seize and sequester for the service aforesaid one full halfe yeares Rent payable to such persons so refusing allowing out of the same the summe of money so paid by the Tenant as aforesaid And if any difference shall arise betweene Landlord and Tenant or any other concerning the said Rates the said severall Committees or any two of them in their severall Divisions have hereby power to settle the same as they shall thinke fit And the said Collectours and every of them are hereby required from time to time to pay such summe and summes of money as shall be by them Collected by vertue of this Ordinance to the said Sir Gilbert Gerard Treasurer at Warres And be it further Ordained that the severall and respective Committees in the severall Cities County and places aforesaid shall and are hereby required to cause one Moneths Assessement according to this Ordinance to be assessed leavied collected and paid unto the said Sir Gilbert Gerard at or before the seventeenth day of Aprill 1644. which said Moneths Assessement shall be reckoned as the first Moneths pay for the said Army due out of the said Cities County and places aforesaid by vertue of this Ordinance And the said severall Committees are hereby required to take speciall care that the said monethly Assessements be constantly leavied collected and paid to the said Sir Gilbert Gerard Treasurer at warres once in every Moneth after the said seventeenth day of April during the continuance of the terme mentioned in this