item: #1 of 19 id: A38666 author: Eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. title: Essex's excellency, or, The gallantry of the freeholders of that country being a short account of the brave British behaviour of those worthy freeholders, in the choice of their knights to serve in the next Parliament : together with the truly noble Lord Gray his speech at the close of their choice / published by an eye-witness of their most noble courage for the example of their neighbouring counties. date: 1679 words: 5911 flesch: 31 summary: Book wherein their names were entered , can testifie there were as many Gentlemen of Estates , and men of quality appeared for the Collonel , as they had , and rather more , except Clergy , my Lord Howard , my Lord Gray , with Sir Eliab Harvey himself , and divers other Lords and Gentlemen , making up the numbers of Freeholders on the Collonel's side . A Mildmay and Honeywood ; which being done , my Lord Gray and the Sheriff dined at the Collonel's Chamber , with some other of his friends , and the People attended on Horse-back to wait on my Lord Gray and the Collonel , and Mr. Honeywood out of Town , which was done about five of the clock , with near five hundred Horse ; But I must not forget to relate one Passage which was committed by a person that was against the Collonel , and one that call'd himself a Gentleman , ) that while my Lord Gray and the rest were at Dinner , a little before they were taking Horse to go out of Town , a poor Country-man going along the Streets , by the Door where the Opposites lodged , and crying out , A Mildmay and Honeywood , he seeing the Country-man's Zeal , knock'd him down , and broke the Country-man's Legg , and afterwards fled to the Inn for shelter ; but the Country-man's friends acquainted the Lord Gray and the Collonel with the action , they immediately ordered the person that did the fact to be seized , which was done , and he committed to Goal , and ordered the poor man to be carefully lookt after ; which ill Action ought not to be laid to the charge of any but malicious persons ; and indeed so much of malice did appear by the words and actions of those that Polled against the Collonel , that a sober man would blush to hear ; and among the rest was given out , That no Gentleman , or like a Gentleman , would appear on the Collonel's side , which was so notoriously false , that by the very . keywords: books; charges; choice; clock; collonel; counties; country; courage; court; day; duke; eebo; election; eliab; english; freeholders; gentlemen; good; gray; great; harvey; honeywood; horse; interest; joyn; knights; like; long; lord; man; men; middleton; mildmay; noble; parliament; people; person; poll; sheriff; short; sir; sir eliab; tcp; text; thomas; times; town; worthy cache: A38666.xml plain text: A38666.txt item: #2 of 19 id: A39902 author: Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678. title: The speech of Sr. Richard Ford, Knight, and alderman of London made at Guild-hall to the liveries of the several companies of that city, on Michaelmass day, 1670, upon their election of him to be lord mayor of the same city for the year ensuing / taken in short-hand writing by a person then present. date: 1670 words: 1546 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). 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A39902) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 105351) keywords: alderman; books; characters; city; companies; day; early; eebo; english; ford; god; great; knight; liveries; london; online; person; richard; self; tcp; tei; text cache: A39902.xml plain text: A39902.txt item: #3 of 19 id: A43755 author: Higginson, John, 1616-1708. title: The cause of God and His people in New-England as it was stated and discussed in a sermon preached before the honourable General Court of the Massachusets Colony, on the 27 day of May, 1663, being the day of election at Boston / by John Higginson ... date: 1663 words: 12519 flesch: 64 summary: I confess I should be utterly inexcusable in adventuring to shew my weakness in such a place at such a time as this , were I not able to call the Most H●●h to Witness that nothing but Conscience of my duty put me and kept me upon this Subject : when I received the Summons of the Honourabl● G●● to preach it this time , it was desired that some suitable word might be spoken : now whether the stating of the cause of God and his People amongst u● be not seasonable , I leave to the consideration of ●his ●wful and 〈◊〉 A●s●h . It is the doctrine and worship of the Reformed Churches comming out of Popery which are said to be as a Sea of glass man led with 〈◊〉 , R●● 15.2 . keywords: apostle; assembly; blessed; blessing; books; cause; christ; churches; commandements; covenant; day; divine; doctrine; doth; duty; earth; eebo; end; england; english; faithfull; farr; fathers; general; glory; god; godly; gods; good; government; great; hand; hast; hath; hearts; heaven; help; himselfe; honour; israel; jesus; john; king; law; liberty; lord; love; maintaining; man; matter; men; need; new; onely; order; peaceable; people; people israel; place; power; prayer; presence; present; psal; reason; reformation; religion; rest; right; saviour; separation; servants; set; solomon; spirit; tcp; text; things; thou; times; toleration; true; truth; verse; walk; way; wayes; wilderness; word; work; worship; ● ● cache: A43755.xml plain text: A43755.txt item: #4 of 19 id: A44836 author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695. title: Some cautions offered to the consideration of those who are to chuse members to serve in the ensuing Parliament date: 1695 words: 10064 flesch: 64 summary: A House of Commons composed of such Men , would be more properly so many Merchants incorporated in a Regular Company , to make their particular Adventures , than Men sent from the People to serve and represent them . Where Men are immoral , and scandalous in their Lives , and dispense familiarly with the Rules by which the World is Govern'd , for the better preserving the bonds of human Society ; it must be a confidence very ill placed , to conclude it impossible for such Men to yield to a Temptation well offer'd and pursu'd ; when , the truth is , the habit of such Bons vivants , which is the fashionable word , maketh a suspicion so likely , that it is very hard not to believe it to be true . keywords: age; apt; argument; best; better; bill; body; books; business; care; case; cautions; characters; chuse; commons; consideration; countrey; county; credit; degree; doth; doubt; early; eebo; english; estate; evidence; fit; general; gentlemen; good; great; greater; habit; hath; head; house; ill; interest; kind; laws; letters; liberty; little; long; man; members; men; money; nation; nature; necessary; new; objections; opinion; parliament; party; people; possible; power; private; publick; question; reason; reasonable; respect; right; rule; self; small; sure; suspicion; tcp; tei; text; thing; thought; time; true; trust; truth; understanding; want; way; wit; world; young cache: A44836.xml plain text: A44836.txt item: #5 of 19 id: A46579 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) title: By the King a proclamation for the speedy calling of a Parliament. date: 1688 words: 1349 flesch: 63 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46579) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32244) keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; elections; english; general; image; james; king; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; phase; proclamation; subjects; tcp; tei; text; works; xml cache: A46579.xml plain text: A46579.txt item: #6 of 19 id: A46580 author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) title: A proclamation for the speedy calling of a Parliament James R. date: 1688 words: 1296 flesch: 62 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46580) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 63342) keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; elections; encoding; english; image; james; king; online; oxford; parliament; partnership; phase; proclamation; tcp; tei; text; works; xml cache: A46580.xml plain text: A46580.txt item: #7 of 19 id: A70049 author: Fleetwood, James, 1603-1683. title: The Bishop of Worcester's letter to his reverend clergy within the county and diocess of Worcester with some short and genuine animadversions upon it. date: 1681 words: 3046 flesch: 47 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: animadversions; bishop; books; characters; choice; church; clergy; county; diocess; early; eebo; england; english; good; knights; letter; like; man; online; oxford; parliament; particular; partnership; party; person; phase; qualified; reverend; selves; short; tcp; tei; text; worcester; work cache: A70049.xml plain text: A70049.txt item: #8 of 19 id: A70490 author: Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676. title: Londons liberties, or, A learned argument of law and reason, before the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Council, at Guild-Hall between Mr. Maynard, now the Kings eldest serjeant at law, Mr. Hales, late Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, and Mr. Wilde, lately one of the justices of the same court, of council for the Livery-men of London, and Major John Wildman, and Mr. John Price, of council for the Freemen of London : wherein the freedom of the citizens of London in their elections of their mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, and common-council-men, is fully debated, their most ancient charters examined, and on both hands agreed to be but a confirmation of their former rights : with their opinions concerning the forfeiture of Londons charter. date: 1682 words: 21685 flesch: 61 summary: , it is said men of every Ward did Choose : whence I Collect that by the expression of the Commonalty summoned hereto , is understood the Twelve Men from the Wards ; so that it appeareth clearly in my humble Opinion , That it was the Practice of the City for near two hundred Years , to Choose by their Representatives , before it came to be the Usage of the City , to Choose by the Livery-men of the Companies . A●d indeed it is well that you are both Judges and Parties ; they said , and doubtless they are ingenious , that they desire you to proceed according as you should be satisfied in conscience , the which for my part I doubt not but that you will ; there was much said how much it did behove you in point of danger ; but what that danger is I understand not ; but he tels you he urged it out of zeal ; also he tels you much of some secret Absolom ; but for my part I understand not what , nor who he means hereby ; I will take no advantage of any mans affection nor inclinations at all ; but the man which that Gentlemen spake to the business in hand , was that he cited many precedents and records for the practice of what he now desireth my be effected ; But truly I do extreamly much misunderstand those presidents and Records that he produceth , If that they are not as full against them , as any thing can be said . keywords: act; aldermen; ancient; answer; argument; assent; business; case; charter; chief; choice; chosen; chuse; citizens; city; common; common council; commonalty; companies; consequence; council; counsel; court; custom; deputies; desire; discreet; doth; edward; electing; election; england; free; freemen; general; gentlemen; good; government; grant; great; hales; hall; hath; honourable; iohn; judges; king; law; lawful; leave; liberties; liveries; livery; london; long; lord; lord mayor; man; matter; maynard; mayor; men; mention; number; officers; opinion; parliament; people; persons; petition; pleased; power; practice; presidents; price; question; read; reason; record; representatives; right; said; saith; second; sheriffs; tcp; text; thing; time; unalterable; usage; ward; way; wildman; words; years cache: A70490.xml plain text: A70490.txt item: #9 of 19 id: A94557 author: City of London (England). Court of Aldermen. title: To the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London. date: 1682 words: 1351 flesch: 57 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94557) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151802) To the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London. 1682 Approx. keywords: aldermen; books; characters; city; county; court; early; eebo; english; london; lordship; mayor; middlesex; online; partnership; phase; sheriffs; tcp; tei; text; works cache: A94557.xml plain text: A94557.txt item: #10 of 19 id: B01891 author: Portman, William, Sir. title: The case of Sir William Portman, and John Sandford, Esq; burgesses for the burrough of Taunton. date: 1689 words: 1418 flesch: 61 summary: The case of Sir William Portman, and John Sandford, Esq; burgesses for the burrough of Taunton. 1689 Approx. The case of Sir William Portman, and John Sandford, Esq; burgesses for the burrough of Taunton. keywords: books; burrough; characters; disturbances; early; eebo; english; john; online; phase; poll; portman; sandford; sir; taunton; tcp; tei; text; trenchard; william; works cache: B01891.xml plain text: B01891.txt item: #11 of 19 id: B01906 author: Macclesfield, Fitton Gerard, Earl of, 1664 or 5-1702. title: The case of the honourable Fytton Gerard Esq; returned to serve in Parliament for the borough of Clitheroe, against John Weddall Esq; appointed to be heard on the 15th day of this instant January. date: 1694 words: 2290 flesch: 57 summary: The case of the honourable Fytton Gerard Esq; returned to serve in Parliament for the borough of Clitheroe, against John Weddall Esq; appointed to be heard on the 15th day of this instant January. 1694 Approx. The case of the honourable Fytton Gerard Esq; returned to serve in Parliament for the borough of Clitheroe, against John Weddall Esq; appointed to be heard on the 15th day of this instant January. Macclesfield, Fitton Gerard, Earl of, 1664 or 5-1702. keywords: bayliffs; books; borough; burgesses; clitheroe; court; day; early; eebo; election; english; esq; freemen; gerard; january; jury; lister; mainwaring; parliament; precept; right; tcp; text; town; weddall; wilkinson; works cache: B01906.xml plain text: B01906.txt item: #12 of 19 id: B01921 author: Speke, John. title: The case of the petitioners, William Strode and John Speke, Esquires date: 1689 words: 1227 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01921) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175533) keywords: books; characters; early; eebo; english; house; john; keepers; online; petitioners; phase; poll; speke; strode; tcp; tei; text; william; works cache: B01921.xml plain text: B01921.txt item: #13 of 19 id: B01927 author: Guybon, Francis, 1673-1751. title: The case of the right honourable William Harbourd, Esq; and Sir Francis Guybon, knight, chosen members for thr burrough of Thetford, to serve in this present Parliament. date: 1690 words: 1488 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01927) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175539) keywords: books; burgesses; burrough; characters; early; eebo; english; esq; francis; guybon; harbourd; mayor; mendham; parliament; sir; tcp; tei; text; thetford; time; william; works cache: B01927.xml plain text: B01927.txt item: #14 of 19 id: B01932 author: Christy, Thomas. title: The case of Thomas Christy of Bedford, esquire date: 1690 words: 2305 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: bayliff; bedford; books; christie; christy; day; early; eebo; eldest; election; english; esquire; francklyn; hillersdon; mayor; persons; polls; sir; tcp; text; thomas; time; town; voices; william; works cache: B01932.xml plain text: B01932.txt item: #15 of 19 id: B01933 author: Coryton, William, Esq. title: The case of William Coryton, Esq; for the burrough of Michell in the county of Cornwall. To be heard on Monday the 25th of November, 1689. date: 1689 words: 1177 flesch: 63 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01933) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175544) keywords: books; burrough; characters; cornwall; coryton; county; early; eebo; english; esq; online; partnership; phase; said; tcp; tei; text; william; works cache: B01933.xml plain text: B01933.txt item: #16 of 19 id: B02602 author: Hutchinson, Richard, Esq. title: The case of Richard Hutchinson, Esq; against Sir Eliab Harvey, return'd to serve as burgess for Malden, in the county of Essex, in the place of Sir Thomas Darcy, deceased. Appointed to be heard on the 10th day of January. date: 1694 words: 1232 flesch: 64 summary: The case of Richard Hutchinson, Esq; against Sir Eliab Harvey, return'd to serve as burgess for Malden, in the county of Essex, in the place of Sir Thomas Darcy, deceased. The case of Richard Hutchinson, Esq; against Sir Eliab Harvey, return'd to serve as burgess for Malden, in the county of Essex, in the place of Sir Thomas Darcy, deceased. keywords: books; characters; darcy; early; eebo; eliab; english; esq; essex; harvey; hutchinson; january; online; richard; sir; tcp; tei; text; thomas; works cache: B02602.xml plain text: B02602.txt item: #17 of 19 id: B02603 author: Balch, Robert. title: The case of Robert Balch of Bridgwater gent., sitting member of Parliament for the borough of Bridgwater, in the county of Sommerset, petitioned against by John Gardner of London merchant. date: 1692 words: 1434 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: balch; books; borough; bridgwater; characters; early; eebo; election; english; gardner; london; parliament; poll; robert; said; sir; tcp; tei; text; time; works cache: B02603.xml plain text: B02603.txt item: #18 of 19 id: B03781 author: Hamilton, Basil, Lord. title: Information for Lord Basil Hamilton concerning the election of a commissioner for the barons of the shire of Wigton. date: 1700 words: 6308 flesch: 46 summary: Information for Lord Basil Hamilton concerning the election of a commissioner for the barons of the shire of Wigton. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2771:15) Information for Lord Basil Hamilton concerning the election of a commissioner for the barons of the shire of Wigton. keywords: alexander; answer; barons; basil; castle; clerk; commissioner; crawfurdstoun; depones; eebo; election; english; evident; hamilton; hands; house; illegal; instrument; interrogatory; lord; lord basil; making; master; meeting; objections; phisgall; praeses; pretended; right; rolls; sheriff; stairs; stewart; tcp; text; tho; witnesses; young cache: B03781.xml plain text: B03781.txt item: #19 of 19 id: B03783 author: Hall, John, Sir, fl. 1692. title: Information, for Sir John, Hall Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Robert Chiesly and James Bowdoun baillies, Sir Archibald Muir, Patrick Halyburtoun, William Meinzies, William Hutcheson, and George Stirling. Against James McLurg, George Clerk, Robert Blackwood, William Paton and others. date: 1692 words: 6760 flesch: 26 summary: Information, for Sir John, Hall Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Robert Chiesly and James Bowdoun baillies, Sir Archibald Muir, Patrick Halyburtoun, William Meinzies, William Hutcheson, and George Stirling. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03783) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175704) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2747:5) Information, for Sir John, Hall Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Robert Chiesly and James Bowdoun baillies, Sir Archibald Muir, Patrick Halyburtoun, William Meinzies, William Hutcheson, and George Stirling. keywords: absent; answers; baillie; books; chappel; combination; complainers; council; counsellor; deacon; dean; defenders; depone; eebo; election; english; george; hall; james; john; jure; leeting; lordships; magistrats; man; men; merchant; office; old; page; paper; persons; present; process; proprio; provost; proxies; right; robert; set; sir; stirling; tcp; text; trades; vertue; viz; vote; william; witnesses; works; year cache: B03783.xml plain text: B03783.txt