A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 11Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... intention in my delivery ; but if I do , they sit here by me , and I shall not take it ill if they right me . Therefore I must tell you , there hath been many points learnedly argued at the bar , which we shall not touch , or give our ...
... intention in my delivery ; but if I do , they sit here by me , and I shall not take it ill if they right me . Therefore I must tell you , there hath been many points learnedly argued at the bar , which we shall not touch , or give our ...
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... intention : and therefore hath com- manded me to let your know , That he holdeth the Statute of Magna Charta , and the other six Statutes insisted upon for the Subject's Liberty , to be all in force , and assures you , that he will ...
... intention : and therefore hath com- manded me to let your know , That he holdeth the Statute of Magna Charta , and the other six Statutes insisted upon for the Subject's Liberty , to be all in force , and assures you , that he will ...
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... intention is to have another session of parliament at Michaelmas next , for the perfecting of such things as cannot now be done . " This Message was debated the next day , be- ing Saturday , May 3 , whereupon lawful ; ' let us touch ...
... intention is to have another session of parliament at Michaelmas next , for the perfecting of such things as cannot now be done . " This Message was debated the next day , be- ing Saturday , May 3 , whereupon lawful ; ' let us touch ...
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... intention ' thereof . This we have thought fit to signify unto you , the rather to shorten any long Debate upon this ... intentions , this we publish , That it is not in our heart , nor will we ever extend our royal power , lent unto us ...
... intention ' thereof . This we have thought fit to signify unto you , the rather to shorten any long Debate upon this ... intentions , this we publish , That it is not in our heart , nor will we ever extend our royal power , lent unto us ...
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... intention of both houses , to maintain the Just Liberty of the Subject , and not to diminish the just power of the king : and therefore the expression of that intention in this Petition , cannot prejudice us . To which I answer , First ...
... intention of both houses , to maintain the Just Liberty of the Subject , and not to diminish the just power of the king : and therefore the expression of that intention in this Petition , cannot prejudice us . To which I answer , First ...
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act of parliament affirmed aforesaid alledged anent anno answer appears apud Attorney bailed bishop Book cause charge church command committed contempt council counsel court crime David Ramsay declared Defendant delivered depones deposition desire detained Dittay divers domini regis doth duplyed earl earl of Rothes Eliz England expressed felony give Habeas Corpus Haig hath honour house of commons imprisonment indictment infamous libel intention jesty John Strangways Judges judgment justice Keeper king king's king's counsel King's-Bench kingdom libel liberty Lord Advocat lord Balmerino lord Rea lordships Magna Charta majesty majesty's mandatum marquis matter ment oath offence opinion pannel parlia party person Petition of Right precedents prerogative prison proceedings Prynn punishment quod Rea's realm reason rege remittitur reply saith scandalous sedition sent sheriff shewed sir John sovereign power speak speeches statute subjects supplication taken thereof thereupon thing tion treason unto warrant wherein whilk words writ
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Page 221 - England," it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 221 - Yet, nevertheless of late, divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners, in several counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an oath administered unto them not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm...
Page 223 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament ; and that none be called to make answer, or...
Page 223 - Seal have issued forth, by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law...
Page 223 - 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 223 - ... divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed ; and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order...
Page 221 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other, the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause...
Page 749 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 223 - Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of parliament...
Page 833 - ... he could not give a clearer testimony, that his knowledge in the law was greater than all other men's, than by making that law which all other men believed not to be so.