item: #1 of 12
          id: A07619
      author: Monipennie, John.
       title: The abridgement or summarie of the Scots chronicles with a short description of their originall, from the comming of Gathelus their first progenitor out of Græcia into Egypt. And their comming into Portingall and Spaine, and of their kings and gouernours in Spaine, Ireland and Albion, now called Scotland, (howbeit the whole number are not extant) with a true chronologie of all their kings. Their reignes, deaths and burials, from Fergusius the first king of Scotland, vntill his Royall Maiestie, now happily raigning ouer all Great Brittaine and Ireland, and all the isles to them appertaining. With a true description and diuision of the whole realme of Scotland, and of the principall cities, townes, abbies, fortes, castles, towers and riuers, and of the commodities in euery part thereof, and of the isles in generall, with a memoriall of the most rare and wonderfull things in Scotland. By Iohn Monipennie.
        date: 1612.0
       words: 41630
      flesch: 67
     summary: To the most High and Mightie Monarch , IAMES by the grace of God , King of Great Britane , France , and Ireland , defender of the faith , &c. GATHELVS son of CECROPS , King of ATHENS , by his insolence made many inuasions , in Macedonia , and Achaia , in Graecia .
    keywords: abbey; armie; battell; beginning; betwixt; britaines; brother; builded; castle; christ; comming; countrey; crowne; cruell; daughter; death; earle; east; england; father; fishes; foure; good; great; haue; hee; high; icolmkill; iland; iohn; ireland; iustice; king; king edward; lands; length; lies; little; loch; lord; lyes; men; miles; nobles; north; peace; people; pictes; prince; raigne; realme; residence; rest; riuer; robert; romanes; scotland; scots; sea; sonne; south; speciall; stone; sundry; thereof; time; towers; towne; valiant; vnder; vnto; vpon; water; west; world; yeare
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: A08063
      author: Jones, William, Sir, 1566-1640.
       title: A discourse whether a noble man by birth or a gentleman by desert is greater in nobilitie
        date: 1600.0
       words: 60924
      flesch: 54
     summary: And albeit that they seeme cleane contrarie , the one to the other , by that which Possidonio , and Fabricio related ( vvho were rather carried vvith affection then reason , which is not to bee wondered at , seeing that they beeing guided vvith passion of minde , each of them did seeke the defence of his ovvne matter and not anie other mans : ) notvvithstanding I doe not iudge them cleane contrarie : for if they vvere , one of them shoulde bee nobilitie , and the other shoulde not , vvhich I vvoulde not for anie thing affirme , it beeing a matter resolued , that a great part of men ( vvhereof I haue reckoned vppe a good portion ) doe iudge , repute , and holde him to be noble , who is ingendred of noble blood , and I likewise ( for manie reasons before alleadged ) doe take parte vvith them , although that thou vventest about yesterdaie Fabricio verie subtillie to prooue that such a one was not noble : And that thou on the other side Possidonio , vvert verie earnest to maintaine for certaine , that vertue did not make a man excellent , and noble , and that learning was but vaine in matter of nobilitie , wherein thou wert farre deceiued : proouing moreouer that riches was the soueraigne good of man ; and Fabricio that they were occasion of all euill . For it should be against reason , whereas infamy and dishonour shoulde by reason rather bee extinguished , that they should haue a larger scope to extende themselues in mans posteritie then renowme and glorie of man.
    keywords: anie; base; bee; bloud; cause; children; day; discourse; doe; doth; end; euen; fabricio; farre; father; gentlemen; giue; good; great; hath; haue; hauing; hee; himselfe; iudge; lesse; let; life; man; maner; matter; men; minde; nature; nennio; nobilitie; nobility; noble; opinion; people; place; possidonio; reason; riches; selfe; set; sort; thee; themselues; thing; thou; thy; time; true; vertue; vnto; vnto man; vpon; vvhich; wee; world
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: A26656
      author: Alexander, William, fl. 1685-1704.
       title: Medulla historiæ Scoticæ being a comprehensive history of the lives and reigns of the kings of Scotland, from Fergus the First, to Our Gracious Sovereign Charles the Second : containing the most remarkable transactions, and observable passages, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, with other observations proper for a chronicle, faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern : to which is added, a brief account of the present state of Scotland, the names of the nobility, and principal ministers of church and state, the laws criminal : a description of that engine with which malefactors are tortured, called the boot.
        date: 1685.0
       words: 48136
      flesch: 62
     summary: before Christ 4. after the Reign 326. A King universally beloved , because that in his time there was universal Peace abroad , and Tranquility at Home ; but yet he could not reduce his Nobles from the Riotous habit , that they acquired in his Predecessors time , he dyed Peaceably the thirty ninth year of his Reign . 18. To him succeeded , Garratacus his Sisters Son , A. M. 4005. The King of Spain also pleads it , as his Right ; being the most Catholick King , and King of manyest Kingdoms .
    keywords: alexander; army; battel; brother; castle; coming; containeth; country; court; crown; daughter; day; days; death; donald; douglass; duke; earl; edenburgh; england; english; finding; france; government; governour; great; home; john; king; king edward; king henry; king james; kingdom; lord; majesty; man; means; nobility; nobles; parliament; peace; people; picts; prince; queen; reign; robert; scotland; scots; second; set; shire; sir; son; state; time; year
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: A36790
      author: Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.
       title: The antient usage in bearing of such ensigns of honour as are commonly call'd arms with a catalogue of the present nobility of England / by William Dugdale ... ; to which is added, a catalogue of the present nobility of Scotland and Ireland, &c.
        date: 1682.0
       words: 37870
      flesch: 71
     summary: 1592 ( 34 Eliz : ) and intituled The true use of Armes , but written by Sampson Erdswike then of Sandon , in that county Esq ( whose deserved fame for his great knowledg in these commendable Studies is still fresh and flourishing in all those parts . ) * Next proceeding with what I have observed from an excellent but short discourse in elegant Latin De Origine et Antiquitate Armorum , written likewise in the same Q. Eliz. time ( but never printed ) by Robert Glover Esq then Somerset-Herauld , whose great abilities in this kind of learning I cannot sufficiently extoll ; his most elaborate and judicious work , intituled The Catalogue of Honour , published after his death by Mr. Thomas Mills his Executor in an . 1610 and the voluminous Collections from our publick Records , and sundry choice old Manuscripts , as also from original Charters and Evidences of note ( which I my self have seen , but which are now disperst into sundry hands ) sufficiently setting forth his great abilities therein . From which discourse ; viz. 4 George Shirley of Staunton Esq ( English Baron viz.
    keywords: 2 bur; age; alias; anno; apr; arch; arms; aug; baron; bearing; bishop; brother; bur; burg; car; castle; castle esq; catalogue; charles; church; citizens; city; com; cornwall burg; cum; dec; differences; dom; duke; earl; earl viz; edward; england; english; english earl; esq; esq berks; esq buck; esq cestr; esq derb; esq devon; esq ebor; esq essex; esq glouc; esq hartf; esq kent; esq leic; esq linc; esq midd; esq norff; esq northamp; esq oxon; esq salop; esq somers; esq son; esq suff; esq surr; esq suss; extinct; family; febr; francis; george; great; hall esq; hath; heir; henry; high; honour; house; hugh; ireland; issue; james; jan; john earl; john lord; julij; king; knight; l. b.; london; london esq; lord; maij; majesties; male; man; marks; martij; men; new; nobility; notis; nov; oct; order; p. m.; present; regis; richard; robert; scotland; second; sept; shire burg; sir; sir edward; sir george; sir henry; sir john; sir richard; sir robert; sir thomas; sir william; son; thomas; time; title; use; viscount; viz; w. bur; william
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: A43536
      author: Peter Heylyn, 1600-1662.
       title: Erōologia Anglorum. Or, An help to English history Containing a succession of all the kings of England, and the English-Saxons, the kings and princes of Wales, the kings and lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the arch-bishops, bishops, dukes, marquesses, and earles, within the said dominions. In three tables. By Robert Hall, Gent.
        date: 1641.0
       words: 58433
      flesch: 78
     summary: It takes name from the Town of Lancas●e● , or more truly L●ncaster , seated upon the banks of the river L●nc , whence it had the name ; the Saxons adding Ceaster ( as in other places ) for the ●ermination . Thus did King Iames of blessed memory conferre upon the Earle of N●●tingham , ( on his surrendry of the place and Office of Lord Admirall ) the seniority and precedencie of the Mowbraies , ( out of which house he was extracted ) during the life of the said Earle .
    keywords: 1641; anno; arch; bishoprick; bishops; castle; chan; chiefe; church; churches; city; countrey; county; diocese; dukes; earle; east; edm; edw; edward; england; english; faire; fitz; great; gul; hath; henry; high; honour; hugh; iohn; john; king; king henry; kingdome; l. chan; l. tr; lincoln; london; lord; man; new; north; oxford; parishes; parts; people; place; princes; rich; richard; river; robert; saint; saxons; shire; son; sonne; south; tho; thomas; time; title; town; treas; visc; wales; west; whereof; wil; william; yorke; ● ●; ✚ ✚
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: A45195
      author: Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.
       title: The honours of the Lords spiritual asserted, and their priviledges to vote in capital cases in Parliament maintained by reason and precedents collected out of the records of the Tower, and the journals of the House of Lords.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 21118
      flesch: 60
     summary: Now these Imployments were conferred upon those Father 's not as Bishops but as Subjects more Eminently qualified than others , both by their Prudence , Experience , and Integrity , as well as Humane Learning . Secondly , their Folk Gemotts a kind of Annual Parliament commonly held in the beginning of May , in which the Princes of the Kingdom , Bishops , and Magistrates , and the Laity took the Oath of Allegiance , and confirmed their mutual Union before the Bishops .
    keywords: ann; arch; bishops; causes; chancellour; church; clergy; counsel; dom; earl; edw; england; god; good; hath; hen; honours; john; king; kingdom; law; laws; lord; matters; parliament; persons; present; priviledges; privy; reason; thing; thomas; time; treasurer; william; world; years
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: A52399
      author: Norfolk, Henry Howard, Duke of, 1655-1701.
       title: The Duke of Norfolk's order about the habit the ladies are to be in that attend the Queen at her Coronation
        date: 1685.0
       words: 1547
      flesch: 66
     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). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 50037)
    keywords: edg'd; ermin; tcp; text
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: A54698
      author: H. P. (Henry Philipps)
       title: The grandeur of the law, or, An exact collection of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom whose honors and estates have by some of their ancestors been acquired or considerably augmented by the practice of the law or offices and dignities relating thereunto the name of such ancestor, together with the time in which he flourished, the society in which he was a member, and to what degree in the law he arrived being perticularly [sic] expressed / by H.P.
        date: 1684.0
       words: 37585
      flesch: 64
     summary: Sir Robert Cary of Clovel in the County of Devon , Knight , is also a younger Branch , descended from John Cary of Hollway aforesaid Esq ; , Serjeant at Law , and one of the Barons of the Exchequer in the Reign of King Richard the Second , which John was of the Ancient Family of Cary , of Cary in the said County , and indeed the prime Branch thereof . Richard Harpur of Little-Over in the County of Derby , Esq ; , is descended from Sir Richard Harpur of Swarkeston in the said County , and of the Inner-Temple , Knight , Serjeant at Law , and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth .
    keywords: baronet; bench; charles; common; county; county esq; court; eighth; elizabeth; esq; exchequer; family; heir; inn esq; inn knight; justices; king edward; king henry; king james; king richard; kings; knight; late; law; lawyer; lincolns; lord; lord chief; middle; person; pleas; queen; readers; reign; serjeant; sir; sir edward; sir henry; sir john; sir richard; sir robert; sir thomas; sir william; society; son; temple esq; temple knight
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: A59090
      author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
       title: The priviledges of the baronage of England, when they sit in Parliament collected (and of late revised) by John Selden of the Inner Temple Esquire, out of Parliament rolles ... & and other good authorities ... : the recitalls of the French records in the 4th. chap., also newly translated into English ...
        date: 1642.0
       words: 35457
      flesch: 61
     summary: Cooper of Leiwstoft and two others that affirmed they had payed to the said William Ellis by the said Marchan● of Scotland , the said 3● l. for full Inform●tio● of the matter aforesaid , which John and William Cooper being thereof examined in Pa●liament acknowledged that t●ey were obliged to our Lord the King and to the said William Ellis by their obligations or letters obligatory in the said 33 pounds together with the said Scot , which was their hoast , and payed at a certaine day for the said Subsidy of 6 d. the pound due of all the marchandizes in the said ship and the truth was that the said Scot discharged nothing of all the matters aforesaid , at the day of payment , but that they payed to the said William Ellis the 33 l. and therupon the said Commons prayed Iudgment upon the same said William Ellis who said , that although that he had received the said 33 pounds of John Botild , and of the other aforesaid be received it not but as supposing the same a gift , and that without c●ndition , and that as often as concerning the ●ame hee should have a Writ or other Commandement of our Lord the King he would make deliverance thereof , which otherwise he would not do voluntarily . Nisi eorum Sacramentum adeo sit necessarium quod sine illis veritas inquiri non possit , and thence was it that some Barons under Edward the first of the Marches of Wales refused to swear● before the Iustices of Oyer and Terminer upon an Enquiry to be made by them , and others of certaine outrages committed by Cilbert of Clare , Earle of Gloucester , against Humphrey of Bohun Earle of Hereford and Sussex ; those Barons were Jo●n de Hastings , John Fitz Raynold , Roger de Mortimer , Theobald of Weldon , John Troger , and ●efferey of Camvill , to whom dictum est ( as the Ro● saith ) ex parte Regis quod pro statu & ●ure Regis , & pro conservatione dignitatis Coron● & pacis sua apponit manum ad librum , ad faciendum id quod eis ex parte injungetur qui omnes unanimiter responderent , quod ipsi vel eorum antecessores hactenus in hujusmodi casu , ad praestandum Sacramentum aliquid coacti fuerunt .
    keywords: aforesaid; alice; answer; barons; bee; bill; bishop; case; castle; chancellor; chap; commons; councell; court; day; divers; earle; england; hath; hee; house; iohn; item; iudgement; john; king; king edward; lands; late; latimer; law; lord; manner; master; nicholas; non; oath; parliament; peeres; person; praedict; present; profit; quod; realme; richard; saith; shall; spirituall; temporall; thomas; time; william; words; ● ●
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: A67873
      author: Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.
       title: Honor rediviuus [sic] or An analysis of honor and armory. by Matt: Carter Esq.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 51611
      flesch: 72
     summary: The whole Company are subordinate unto the High Constable or Earl Marshall of England , and by him every of them is at his first entry commended to the King , by a Bill signed with his hand . Which done , the King signes the same , and so it passes the Privy Seal and broad Seal ; and , that once obtained , they are to be 〈◊〉 and created by the King himself , or the Earl Martiall , in 〈◊〉 following A King of Arms is brought into the King 〈◊〉 Lord Marshall , led between a King and a Herald , or two Heralds , in their Coats ; the other Heralds 〈◊〉 Pursevants going before in their Coats carrying the severall necessary instruments to 〈◊〉 used : on 〈◊〉 the Coat of Arms wherewith 〈◊〉 new King is to be invested , another 〈◊〉 Crown ; another the Patent ; another he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; another the Book and Sword : another the Book where his Oath is received ; all making severall 〈◊〉 , and then he kneels down with those two that led him ; one of which holds the Book and 〈◊〉 whereon he swears , the other speaks his Oath ; then his Patent is read ; and at the word Creamus , and Investimus , his Coat is put on ; and at non violante nomine , &c. the the water is poured on his head , and then he is perfect . Some he 〈◊〉 created to honor , and some to dishonor ; 〈◊〉 a difference and variety in all things , that by a rule of contraries they might the better display themselves .
    keywords: arg; argent; armor; arms; azure; barons; bend; blood; chancery; cheveron; chief; church; coat; court; creation; crosse; crown; dignity; duke; earl; edward; england; example; favin; fern; fesse; field; fifth; fol; fourth; france; gentleman; gold; great; gules; hath; henry; honor; house; inne; john; king; knights; law; laws; lord; manner; nobility; noble; office; order; parliament; place; prince; proper; right; sables; saith; second; segar; sir; son; state; things; time; title; william; word; year
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: A83922
      author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.
       title: Die Mercurii 9. Maii, 1660. Upon report this day made to the House from the Committee of Priviledges, it is ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that according to the ancient and undoubted rights of peeridge, no Lord of Parliament, or peer of this realm be or shall be charged, or set at any arms whatsoever, ...
        date: 1660.0
       words: 741
      flesch: 77
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83922 of text R211895 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.25[17]). Title from caption and opening lines of text.
    keywords: house; parliament; text
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: A88627
      author: Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron, ca. 1633-1678.
       title: The loyal addresse of the gentry of Gloucestershire. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 1005
      flesch: 72
     summary: Edward Stephens Henry Capel Esq ; Thomas Overbury Esq ; Henry Hall Esq ; Richard Stephens Esq ; Thomas Estcourt Esq ; John Hall Esq ; Thomas Shyne Esq ; William Oldsworth Esq ; David Williams Esq ; Richard Sackvile Esq ; Richard Dowdswell Esq ; Thomas Veale senior , Esq ; Nicholas Veale Esq ; Thomas Veale junior , Esq ; John Stephens Esq ; Thomas Roberts Esq ; Philip Langley Esq ; John Freeman Esq ; William Stratford Esq ; John Fettiplace Esq ; John How Esq ; John Grubbam How Esq ; Gabriel Lowe Esq ; Thomas Masters Esq ; John Chamberlain Esq ; Thomas Chamberlain Esq ; Thomas Slaughter Esq ; Thomas Hodges Esq ; Robert Fielding Esq ; Edward Chamberlain Esq ; John Wintour Esq ; John Cuddrington Esq ; Nicholas Cuddrington Esq ; Edward Cook Esq ; Robert Oldsworth Esq ; Richard Cook Esq ; Richard Wakeman Esq ; Richard Cockes Esq ; Edward Smith Esq ; Edward Bathurst Esq ; Robert Baleson Esq ; Giles Baleson Esq ; Edward Rich Esq ; Andrew Baker Esq ; William Bourchier Esq ; Walter Rawleigh Esq ; Thomas James Esq ; Thomas Brown Esq ; Edward Stephens Esq ; Samuel Codrington Esq ; John Rich Esq ; Henry Pool Esq ; Robert Oldsworth Esq ; John Newton Esq ; Anthony Sambach Esq ; Edward Fust Esq ; William Cook Esq ; Miles Cook Esq ; William Roper Esq ; Daniel Colchester Esq ; Thomas Howe Esq ; Lawrence Bathurst Esq ; Thomas Seymour Esq ; Henry Browne Esq ; William Cope Esq ; Michael Rutter Esq ; Thomas Chester Esq ; Henry Guise Esq ; Henry Spiller Esq ; John Powel Esq ; Thomas Chamborlain Esq ; William Battison Esq ; This Address was presented to his Majesty the 19th . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88627 of text R212454 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.25[48]).
    keywords: esq; john; sir; text; thomas; william
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