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... parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet ...
... parliament ? Do they not plainly labour to exempt churchmen from the magistrate ? Yea , so presumptuously as to question and menace officers that represent the king's person , for using their authority against drunken priests ? " Yet ...
Page 15
... parliament , for a cer- tain time only ; and consisting of forty persons , for the most part members of parliament , any one of whom may be president if the rest vote him into the chair . And there is nothing more common than for our ...
... parliament , for a cer- tain time only ; and consisting of forty persons , for the most part members of parliament , any one of whom may be president if the rest vote him into the chair . And there is nothing more common than for our ...
Page 143
... parliament - house ? Do you therefore call the right of the parliament , to whom it properly and originally belongs to take care of the liberty of the people both in peace and war , a military power ? But it is no wonder that those ...
... parliament - house ? Do you therefore call the right of the parliament , to whom it properly and originally belongs to take care of the liberty of the people both in peace and war , a military power ? But it is no wonder that those ...
Page 165
... parliament , since the king " summons them ? " I will tell you why ; because the consuls used to indict a meeting of the senate , yet were they not lords over that council . When the king therefore summons or calls to- gether a parliament ...
... parliament , since the king " summons them ? " I will tell you why ; because the consuls used to indict a meeting of the senate , yet were they not lords over that council . When the king therefore summons or calls to- gether a parliament ...
Page 166
... parliament . " You would not trifie thus , if you had any guts in your brains . You are mistaken again ( but there is no end to your mistakes ) in not distinguishing the king's counsellors from the states of the realm : for neither ...
... parliament . " You would not trifie thus , if you had any guts in your brains . You are mistaken again ( but there is no end to your mistakes ) in not distinguishing the king's counsellors from the states of the realm : for neither ...
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