The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1628-1660 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
| 1 | |
| 5 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | |
| 11 | |
| 16 | |
| 17 | |
| 31 | |
| 181 | |
| 187 | |
| 193 | |
| 204 | |
| 223 | |
| 226 | |
| 227 | |
| 232 | |
| 35 | |
| 37 | |
| 40 | |
| 41 | |
| 46 | |
| 54 | |
| 60 | |
| 64 | |
| 66 | |
| 67 | |
| 74 | |
| 84 | |
| 85 | |
| 87 | |
| 88 | |
| 91 | |
| 94 | |
| 106 | |
| 112 | |
| 115 | |
| 117 | |
| 121 | |
| 124 | |
| 126 | |
| 127 | |
| 154 | |
| 155 | |
| 158 | |
| 159 | |
| 163 | |
| 169 | |
| 175 | |
| 241 | |
| 243 | |
| 248 | |
| 259 | |
| 264 | |
| 265 | |
| 267 | |
| 268 | |
| 270 | |
| 282 | |
| 284 | |
| 287 | |
| 290 | |
| 291 | |
| 293 | |
| 294 | |
| 296 | |
| 297 | |
| 298 | |
| 300 | |
| 303 | |
| 308 | |
| 313 | |
| 314 | |
| 325 | |
| 329 | |
| 332 | |
| 334 | |
| 345 | |
| 350 | |
| 351 | |
| 353 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according Act of Parliament advice aforesaid agreed appointed arms army assembled assisted authority Bill Bishops Boroughs called cause charge Charles Church City command commission Commissioners Commons Commonwealth concerning consent continue contrary Council counsels counties Court danger desire dominions duty Earl effect election enacted endeavour England estates execution exercise expressed faith forces further give given granted hath hereafter hereby Highness honour House of Commons Houses of Parliament intents Ireland issue John Judges justice King King's kingdom land late liberties likewise Lord Lords and Commons Majesty Majesty's manner matters means meeting ment ministers offence officers party passed peace persons Petition present proceedings Propositions Protector Protestant raised realm reason receive religion respectively royal Scotland Seal sitting statute subjects summons taken therein thereof things third town true unto warrant whatsoever whereas writs
Popular passages
Page 97 - ... our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same.
Page 3 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided...
Page 86 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...
Page 41 - When the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Page 4 - ... 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 3 - ... 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 5 - 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 4 - 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 4 - 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 3 - ... 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1628-1660 |
| Editor | Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 5 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 376 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |