The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1628-1660Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
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... Sheriff of London to examine him in a cause whereof they had no jurisdiction ; their true and ancient jurisdiction extending only to their own members , and to the conservation of their privileges , and not to the censure of foreign ...
... Sheriff of London to examine him in a cause whereof they had no jurisdiction ; their true and ancient jurisdiction extending only to their own members , and to the conservation of their privileges , and not to the censure of foreign ...
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... sheriffs of the same city , and good men in the said city and in the liberties , and members of the same , greeting : Because we are given to understand that certain thieves , pirates , and robbers of the sea , as well Turks , enemies ...
... sheriffs of the same city , and good men in the said city and in the liberties , and members of the same , greeting : Because we are given to understand that certain thieves , pirates , and robbers of the sea , as well Turks , enemies ...
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... sheriffs of the said city , and the good men in the same city and in the liberties , and members of the same , in the faith and allegiance wherein you are bound unto us , and as you do love us and our honour , and under the forfeiture ...
... sheriffs of the said city , and the good men in the same city and in the liberties , and members of the same , in the faith and allegiance wherein you are bound unto us , and as you do love us and our honour , and under the forfeiture ...
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... Sheriffs of the city aforesaid , to levy the portions so as aforesaid assessed upon the aforesaid men and landholders , and every of them in the aforesaid city , with the liberties and members of the same , by distress and other due ...
... Sheriffs of the city aforesaid , to levy the portions so as aforesaid assessed upon the aforesaid men and landholders , and every of them in the aforesaid city , with the liberties and members of the same , by distress and other due ...
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... Majesty is the only judge ) , then the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the realm in general . This I hold agreeably both to law and reason . ' actual war . The sheriff of each county , who Speech of Oliver St. John . 41.
... Majesty is the only judge ) , then the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the realm in general . This I hold agreeably both to law and reason . ' actual war . The sheriff of each county , who Speech of Oliver St. John . 41.
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according Act of Parliament appointed Archbishop army assent authority aforesaid Bill Bishop Boroughs burgesses cause charge Charles Church City command commission Commissioners Commonwealth Commonwealth of England concerning consent contrary Council counties Court declared defence divers dominions Earl ecclesiastical election endeavour Engl estates execution forces granted hath heirs or successors hereafter hereby Hist honour House of Commons Houses of Parliament Ireland Judges justice King King's kingdom of Scotland kingdoms of England land levied liament liberties likewise Lord Protector Lords and Commons Majesty Majesty's manner ment ministers nation oath offence officers Ordinance Papists Parishes therein Parl Parlia Parliament of England peace person or persons Petition Popish present Parliament proceedings Propositions realm religion respectively royal Rushworth Seal of England Sheriffs sitting statute subjects summons thereof thereunto things think fit Tonnage and Poundage trained bands unto warrant Westminster whatsoever writs writs of summons
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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.