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... Parliament 16. The King's Writ summoning the Great Council 64 66 PART II . FROM THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR . ch 17. The Root and Branch Petition . 18. The Triennial Act 19. The Protestation · 20. Act ...
... Parliament 16. The King's Writ summoning the Great Council 64 66 PART II . FROM THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR . ch 17. The Root and Branch Petition . 18. The Triennial Act 19. The Protestation · 20. Act ...
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Great Britain. Parliament Samuel Rawson Gardiner. PAGE 60. Suggested answer ... Act appointing a Council of State • 291 77. Engagement taken by the members ... Act repealing several clauses in Statutes imposing penalties for X Contents .
Great Britain. Parliament Samuel Rawson Gardiner. PAGE 60. Suggested answer ... Act appointing a Council of State • 291 77. Engagement taken by the members ... Act repealing several clauses in Statutes imposing penalties for X Contents .
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... legislation of the first months of the Long Parliament , espe- cially in the Triennial Act , the Tonnage and Poundage Act , and the Acts for the abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commission . Then , just as in the French ...
... legislation of the first months of the Long Parliament , espe- cially in the Triennial Act , the Tonnage and Poundage Act , and the Acts for the abolition of the Star Chamber and the High Commission . Then , just as in the French ...
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... act in accordance with its wishes by delaying or refusing a grant of subsidies . If however the King could substitute a certain revenue from Impositions levied by prerogative for an uncertain revenue from subsidies granted by Parliament ...
... act in accordance with its wishes by delaying or refusing a grant of subsidies . If however the King could substitute a certain revenue from Impositions levied by prerogative for an uncertain revenue from subsidies granted by Parliament ...
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... law . Only an Act of Parliament could do that , and in those days an Act of Parliament was not to be had without the real assent of King , Lords , and Commons . In this case , however , the assent of King and Lords was not to be had ...
... law . Only an Act of Parliament could do that , and in those days an Act of Parliament was not to be had without the real assent of King , Lords , and Commons . In this case , however , the assent of King and Lords was not to be had ...
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Page 188 - GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of GOD, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Page 350 - Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging : to our trusty and beloved son, Lord Richard Cromwell, greeting.
Page 96 - ... our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same.
Page 2 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided...
Page 40 - Barons which so agreed being, that when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Page 3 - ... they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law.
Page 2 - ... your subjects have inherited this freedom, that they should not be compelled to contribute to any tax, tallage, aid or other like charge not set by common consent in parliament.
Page 3 - And whereas also by authority of parliament, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward III, it is declared and enacted, that no man shall be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter and the law of the land...
Page 3 - That no man should be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the great charter and the law of the land; and by the said great 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 2 - ... law of the land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward III, it was declared and enacted by authority of parliament, that no man, of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his land or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law.