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... writ of habeas corpus - Privilege not asserted on committal for contempt of Court - But still subsists- ( 3 ) Right of Commons to determine contested elections - Early abuses in Parliamentary elections - Regulated by Statutes- Commons ...
... writ of habeas corpus - Privilege not asserted on committal for contempt of Court - But still subsists- ( 3 ) Right of Commons to determine contested elections - Early abuses in Parliamentary elections - Regulated by Statutes- Commons ...
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... writ of Ship - money , 1634 -Second writ , 1635 - Resistance to the collection - Third writ , 1636- Hampden's refusal to pay - Extra - judicial opinions of the Judges - Argu- ments on the case - Judgment for the Crown - Clarendon's ...
... writ of Ship - money , 1634 -Second writ , 1635 - Resistance to the collection - Third writ , 1636- Hampden's refusal to pay - Extra - judicial opinions of the Judges - Argu- ments on the case - Judgment for the Crown - Clarendon's ...
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... writ , which answers to that given to the sheriff in ordinary writs , it may be inferred that he was a royal officer who stood to the merchants of the city in the relation in which the bishop stood to the clergy ; and if he were also ...
... writ , which answers to that given to the sheriff in ordinary writs , it may be inferred that he was a royal officer who stood to the merchants of the city in the relation in which the bishop stood to the clergy ; and if he were also ...
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... writ to set , for why , it to me unknown was what of them would like those that after us were . But that which I met , either in Ine's days my kinsman , or in Offa's the king of the Mercians , or in Æthelberht's that erst of English kin ...
... writ to set , for why , it to me unknown was what of them would like those that after us were . But that which I met , either in Ine's days my kinsman , or in Offa's the king of the Mercians , or in Æthelberht's that erst of English kin ...
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... writ , by the chief clergy of the church , assembled in the King's bishoprics chapel , with the assent of the King , and with the advice of such bene- and abbacies . ficed clergymen as the King might summon for the purpose . Before ...
... writ , by the chief clergy of the church , assembled in the King's bishoprics chapel , with the assent of the King , and with the advice of such bene- and abbacies . ficed clergymen as the King might summon for the purpose . Before ...
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Page 547 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 545 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 587 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Page 545 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Page 368 - Highness' dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm, and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the...
Page 309 - First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
Page 548 - Crown, sitting in his or her throne in the House of Peers, in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled, or at his or her coronation, before such person or persons who shall administer the coronation oath to him or her, at the time of his or her taking the said oath (which shall first happen...
Page 358 - ... be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England...
Page 452 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 551 - Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be excluded and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess or enjoy the crown and government of this realm and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same...