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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	keep_v	let_v	silence_n	1,652	5	9.6134	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32252	The reading of that famous and learned genrleman, Robert Callis ... upon the statute of 23 H.8, Cap. 5, of Sewers, as it was delivered by him at Grays-Inn in August, 1622.	Callis, Robert, fl. 1634.	1647 (1647)	Wing C304; ESTC R23882	167,039	246

Gen. cap. 1. of all other creatures being finished the Heavens adorned and the Earth replenished God said Let us make man in our own Image after our likeness and let him have Dominion over the fish of the Sea and over all the Earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth So God Created man in his own Image in the Image of God Created he him Male and Female Created he them and said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have Dominion over the fish of the Sea and over the foul of Heaven and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth This was the first Commission that ever was granted and it passed under the Divine immediate Seal of the Almighty extended over the whole world and by the vertue of the word Dominamini in the Plural number God coupled the woman in Commission with the man But in the 18 Chapter of Exodus Verse 21. Jethro adviseth and counselleth Exodus 18. Moses his Son in law to provide out of all the people men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them to be Rulers of Thousands Rulers of Hundreds and over Fifties Tens where by the word Men twice repeated by Jethro and this place of Scripture seemed to exclude wholly from Government and the former Commission extended over Fishes Birds and Beasts and neither over men nor women And in the first of the Corinthians Chapter 14. it is said by Saint Paul Let the women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted to them 1 Cor. 14. to speak And in Grendons Case in the Comment fol. 497. Dyer saith That women could not administer the Sacraments nor were they permitted to say Divine Service And in the second Chapter of Timothy Verse 12. he saith We suffer not the woman 2 Tim. to rule over the man but this last of Timothy may be most aptly applyed to husband and wife I remember out of the Abbey Book of Evesham this Note worthy of observation Quod Alicia Peeres Regis miniona supra modum mulierum nimis supergressa sui etiam sexus fragilitatis feminiae Immemor nunc Justiciarios Regis nunc in foro ecclesiastico juxta doctores sedendo pro defensione causarum suadere etiam contra jus postulare minime verebatur unde propter scandalum petierunt à rege in Parliament ' tent ' An. 50. Ed. 3. penitùs amoveri but hereby I collect that she was not in Commission with the Judges Temporal or Spiritual but was a favorite of the Kings and took upon her to intermeddle in businesses nothing concerning her But whether the Text meant it for a woman to sit Judge in a Court of Justice was contra modum mulierum or because she sate there to wrest righteous Judgement I refer to the readers of that History For Debora was Judge of Israel and Judged the people as the fourth of Judges hath it Dyer indeed saith in Grendons Case That divers Churches were appropriated to Prioresses and Nanneries whereof women were the Governesses whereby and by the said Chapter of the Corinthians it appears that women might be admitted to have Rule and Government over the possessions and persons Temporal and Ecclesiastical but were not admitted to have curam animarum nor to meddle with the administration of the Service or Sacraments And for Temporal Governments I have observed women to have from time to time been admitted to the highest places For in ancient Roman Histories I finde Endochia and Theodora admitted at several times into the sole Government of the Empire and here in England our late famous Queen Elizabeth whose Government was most renowned And Semiramis governed Syria and the Queen of the South which came to visit Solomon for any thing that appears to the contrary was a sole Queen And to fall a degree lower we have presidents that King Richard the first and King Henry the fifth appointed and deputed by Commissions their Mothers to be Regents of this Realm in their absence in France And the wise and renowned Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond was put in Commission and Humfrey de Bohune Earl of Hereford was by Tenure Constable of England which is a Judge in Martial affairs and he died without issue Male by reason whereof the Office amongst other things descended to his two Daughters and Co-heirs And in the 12 of Elizabeth in Dier it is holden for Law That although this was an Office of Justice yet they might execute the same by deputy for in truth women were unfit Martialists to judge of matters of that nature and yet it is clear a deputy doth nothing in his own name but in the name of his Master or Mistriss therefore the Martial Court was to be kept in their names But yet I will descend a step lower doth not our Law Temporal and Spiritual admit of women to be Executrixes and Administratrixes and hereby they have the rule or ordering of great Estates and many times they are Gardianesses in Chivalry and have thereby also the government of many great Heirs in the Kingdom and of their Estates And in 10 H. 7. a man devised his Lands to be sold by a 10 H. 7 woman and died and she sold the same to her husband So by these Cases it appeareth that the Common Law of this Kingdom submitted and committed many things to their government yet the Statute of Justices of the Peace is like to Jethroes counsel to Moses for there they speak of men to be Justices and seemeth thereby to exclude women But our Statute of Sewers is Commission of Sewers shall be granted by the King to such person and persons as the said Lords should appoint So the words persons stands indifferently for either Sex And therefore although by the weakness of their Sex they are unfit to travel and they be for the most part uncapable of learning to direct in matters of Judicature for which causes they have been discreetly spared yet I am of opinion for the authorities reasons and causes aforesaid that this honorable Countess being put into Commission of the Sewers the same is warrantable by the Law and the Ordinances and Decrees of Sewers made by her and the other Commissioners of Sewers are not to be impeached for that cause of her Sex And I conclude here that although in discretion women have been secluded as unfit yet they are not in Law to be excluded as uncapable If an Infant above the age of Fourteen and under the age of One and twenty be made a Commissioner his infancy shall be no cause to disable the Laws made by him yong Daniel was Judge over both the Elders And in Little Brook fol. The case is a Parson or Prebend being within age made a Lease for years of his benefice and would but could not after avoid it for his Nonage for seeing the Church had made him of full age to discharge the spiritual