The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1628-1660Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
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... Royal prerogative from which they expected protection , and declared them- selves in its favour even in such purely constitutional questions as those relating to arbitrary taxation , whilst the Calvinistic clergy and laity , feeling ...
... Royal prerogative from which they expected protection , and declared them- selves in its favour even in such purely constitutional questions as those relating to arbitrary taxation , whilst the Calvinistic clergy and laity , feeling ...
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... Royal Army at Newburn , and occupied Northumberland and Durham . Charles had neither an army nor a people behind his back , and he was forced to treat with the invaders . The feelings of the English nation were expressed in the Petition ...
... Royal Army at Newburn , and occupied Northumberland and Durham . Charles had neither an army nor a people behind his back , and he was forced to treat with the invaders . The feelings of the English nation were expressed in the Petition ...
Page xxxvii
... Royal authority ; and that an end must be put to the alterations in the con- duct of worship , which in Laud's eyes were but the restora- tion of legal order , whilst in the eyes of others they were unauthorised innovations . Further ...
... Royal authority ; and that an end must be put to the alterations in the con- duct of worship , which in Laud's eyes were but the restora- tion of legal order , whilst in the eyes of others they were unauthorised innovations . Further ...
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... Royal assent , and for some months the Houses had claimed the right of acting on such Ordinances as if they had the force of law . For the next few months a long and wordy controversy on the legality of this step arose , of which the ...
... Royal assent , and for some months the Houses had claimed the right of acting on such Ordinances as if they had the force of law . For the next few months a long and wordy controversy on the legality of this step arose , of which the ...
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... Royal authority in some shape or another , and had been content to look for security to Acts of Parliament , because , though every Act was capable of being repealed , it could not be repealed without the consent both of the King and ...
... Royal authority in some shape or another , and had been content to look for security to Acts of Parliament , because , though every Act was capable of being repealed , it could not be repealed without the consent both of the King and ...
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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.