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... never to be restored so as we are first acquainted therewith , or our justiciary , if we should not be in England . 49. We will immediately give up all hostages and writings delivered unto us by our English subjects , as securities for ...
... never to be restored so as we are first acquainted therewith , or our justiciary , if we should not be in England . 49. We will immediately give up all hostages and writings delivered unto us by our English subjects , as securities for ...
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... never shall hinder any person from taking the same oath . 62. As for all those of our subjects who will not , of their own accord , swear to join the five - and - twenty barons in distraining and distressing us , we will issue orders to ...
... never shall hinder any person from taking the same oath . 62. As for all those of our subjects who will not , of their own accord , swear to join the five - and - twenty barons in distraining and distressing us , we will issue orders to ...
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... never attempting , in early times , to dispense with the existence of a Royal chief . Even when the oppressiveness and proved perfidy of individual monarchs induced the nation to take away practical power from them , and to choose an ...
... never attempting , in early times , to dispense with the existence of a Royal chief . Even when the oppressiveness and proved perfidy of individual monarchs induced the nation to take away practical power from them , and to choose an ...
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... never can be thought immaterial even by those who have the power of enforcing sullen obedience . The Anglo - Saxon polity was swept away by the conquering Normans ; but the recollec- tion of this virtual though indirect system of ...
... never can be thought immaterial even by those who have the power of enforcing sullen obedience . The Anglo - Saxon polity was swept away by the conquering Normans ; but the recollec- tion of this virtual though indirect system of ...
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... never have occurred , for the simple and obvious reason , that there were no wealthy capitalists to come forward and buy the whole lands of a mighty but impoverished baron at a single bargain . As therefore the estates of the great ...
... never have occurred , for the simple and obvious reason , that there were no wealthy capitalists to come forward and buy the whole lands of a mighty but impoverished baron at a single bargain . As therefore the estates of the great ...
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Page 44 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 25 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 44 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 44 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 38 - ... certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that 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 45 - ... to be to the heirs of the body of the said Princess ; and for default of such issue, to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body ; and for default of such issue, to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 44 - Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance so far advanced by him, and will still preserve them from the violation of their rights, which they have here asserted, and from all other attempts upon their religion, rights, a.nd liberties: II.
Page 8 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Page 11 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 46 - Crown, and for preserving a certainty in the succession thereof, in and upon which the unity, peace, tranquillity, and safety of this nation doth, under God, wholly consist and depend, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted, established, and declared, that the Crown and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions, with all and singular the premises...