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... assent of King , Lords , and Commons . In this case , however , the assent of King and Lords was not to be had . When the national will is strongly asserted , some way is certain to be found , in spite of all constitutional difficulties ...
... assent of King , Lords , and Commons . In this case , however , the assent of King and Lords was not to be had . When the national will is strongly asserted , some way is certain to be found , in spite of all constitutional difficulties ...
Page xxxii
... assent to Bills of which he disapproved , and the series of Constitutional Acts passed during the first ten months of the existence of the Long Parliament ( Nov. 1640 - August 1641 ) , bear witness to the direction taken by it in ...
... assent to Bills of which he disapproved , and the series of Constitutional Acts passed during the first ten months of the existence of the Long Parliament ( Nov. 1640 - August 1641 ) , bear witness to the direction taken by it in ...
Page xxxiv
... assent , given under stress of mob violence , to the Act for Strafford's attainder ( No. 20 , p . 85 ) . On the day on which the King's assent to Strafford's death was given , he also consented to an Act against the dissolution of the ...
... assent , given under stress of mob violence , to the Act for Strafford's attainder ( No. 20 , p . 85 ) . On the day on which the King's assent to Strafford's death was given , he also consented to an Act against the dissolution of the ...
Page xxxvi
... assent to the Bills prepared for cutting off the powers acquired by the Tudors , and on July 5 he gave his consent to the Act for the Abolition of the Star Chamber ( No. 25 , p . 106 ) and to the Act for the Abolition of the High ...
... assent to the Bills prepared for cutting off the powers acquired by the Tudors , and on July 5 he gave his consent to the Act for the Abolition of the Star Chamber ( No. 25 , p . 106 ) and to the Act for the Abolition of the High ...
Page xxxix
... assent to just as much as he pleased . If only an appeal to force would be averted , the majority of the Commons had the game in their own hands . They had but to refuse to continue the grant of Tonnage and Poundage to reduce Charles to ...
... assent to just as much as he pleased . If only an appeal to force would be averted , the majority of the Commons had the game in their own hands . They had but to refuse to continue the grant of Tonnage and Poundage to reduce Charles to ...
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according Act of Parliament appointed Archbishop army assent authority aforesaid Bill Bishops Boroughs cause Chancellor charge Charles Church command Commissioners commissions Commonwealth of England consent contrary Council counties Court declared defence divers dominions Earl ecclesiastical election enacted endeavour Engl estates execution forces granted hath heirs or successors hereafter hereby Highness honour House of Commons Houses of Parliament intervals 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 Parlia Parliament of England peace person or persons place of meeting Popish present Parliament Privy proceedings Propositions realm religion respectively royal Rushworth Seal of England Sheriffs sitting statutes 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 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 85 - 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 40 - 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 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.