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A54636	Miscellanea parliamentaria containing presidents 1. of freedom from arrests, 2. of censures : 1. upon such as have wrote books to the dishonour of the Lords or Commons, or to alter the constitution of the government, 2. upon members for misdemeanours, 3. upon persons not members, for contempts and misdemeanours, 4. for misdemeanours in elections ... : with an appendix containing several instances wherein the kings of England have consulted and advised with their parliaments 1. in marriages, 2. peace and war, 3. leagues ... / by William Petyt of the Inner-Temple, Esq.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1948; ESTC R15174	115,975	326

Highness's most Faithful and Obedient Subjects the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Considering and certainly perceiving by divers means the earnest Good-will and Purpose that our said Sovereign Lord hath to preserve maintain and continue Us his Natural Subjects in this most Fortunate Peace whereunto after many Storms and Tempests of the Wars His Majesty hath by the Goodness of God restored Us Do also notwithstanding his Majesties great Care and politick Means used for the recovery thereof easily perceive how hard it shall be for His Highness to continue and kéep us therein during the time of this troublesom state of Christendom being as it were lamentably cut and torn in pieces and Factions of War except his Highness be restored to a further Estate and Furniture of Treasure meet for the Defence of these His Realms Dominions And Subjects and like to other Princes having such large Realms Dominions and People the lack and want whereof as we know shall chiefly redound to all our Losses and Detriments which must be defended and preserved by the Puissant Power and Might of our Sovereign Lord and Head not by the multitude of our private Riches and Strength at Home So also have We séen of late years plainly before Our Eyes and felt in a great part of Our sorrowful hearts the very Principal Chief and first Causes of this lack during the time of the woful mis-governance of this Noble Realm and other the King's Dominions by the late Protector Duke of Somerset to whom Almighty God grant his Mercy who first of his insatiate ambition contrary to the advices of all Wise and Good Councellors having gotten into his hands the sole Governance of the most Sacred Person of our Sovereign Lord and consequently the Protectorship of all his Highness's Realms and Dominious immediately to lay a fit Foundation for his unhappy and unskilful Government brought the King's Majesty whom he took by pretence to Govern being left by His Highness's Father of most Famous Memory in tender Years but yet in Peace suddenly into open Hostility and Wars against two puissant Realms at once considering neither the Ability to begin nor means to continue them wherein following always his own singularity by stirring and increasing of new Quarrels and Causes of War by unadvised Invasions by desperate Enterprises and Uoyages by sumptuous endless vain Fortifications both in Foreign Realms and in the Seas by bringing into the Realm of costly and great numbers of Strangers Men of War and such other innumerable vain Devices he did not only Exhaust and utterly Waste the King's Majestie 's Treasures and Revenues of His Crown and of Us His Highness's Subjects but also endangered His Majestie 's Credit beyond the Seas with divers strange Merchants by taking up and borrowing great Sums of Money growing from time to time more and more indurable which Gate of Misery being so wide open We all know and the best part of Us felt what a heap of Calamities fell upon all the Realm immediately Yea and to this day what Prests and Memory thereof remaineth not wholly yet filled up First the King's Majesties Treasure of all sorts wasted the great substance of the Moneys melted and altered in base Coyn for the serving of the Charge of these Wars the Laws and ancient Policies of this noble Realm dissolved and unjoyned and by Examples thereof the whole state of Ireland endangered with Factions and Rebellions wherein no small Sums of Treasure were also wasted in Armies and Fortifications part whereof remains unto this day of necessity In the midst of all these miseries by the suffering of the said late Protector rose up a monstrous and dangerous Rebellion of the lewd numbers and baser multitudes against their Heads the withstanding and happy stay whereof although it came through the mercifulness of God by the labour and fortitude of others worthy eternal Praise subduing the headless raging people in sundry parts of the Realm delivering Us the King's Majesties Natural Subjects out of our unnatural Subjection to him that ruled Us with disorder And finally restoring the Royal Person of the King's Highness to the Fréedom of His Princely Estate and consequently to an Honourable Peace with his Enemies Yet could not hitherto the great Breach and Ruine of the King's Majestie 's Estate touching his Treasure be repaired or re-enforced which consequently followed upon the first Foundations broken although in other points of the decay thanked be God the King's Majesties own marvellous Intelligence with the Industry of good Conncellors hath notably supplied and amended the defaults And as these former Errors brought His Majesty into utter wasts of His own Treasure and Riches into the Expences of Our Subsidies granted for the same Wars though nothing answerable to the Expence of the same Finally into notable and immeasurable Charges beyond the Seas Provisions of Money taken up in time of Wars so yet to the increase of this former sore We remember and perceive also that there were very great Charges left by the late King of famous Memory by reason of his Wars to be discharged as well beyond Sea towards strangers as on this side towards his own Subjects which of their nature beyond the Seas for lack of payment did grow excessively besides the late evident great Charge and Loss sustained by the Kings Majesty for the only Profit of His publick Weal in the reducing of part of His Coyn from a notable baseness unto a fine Standard by the which His Majesty lacketh a great private Gain in his Mints being now worth no Revenue at all but rather chargable and the rest of which Coyn we trust He will shortly reduce to like fineness All which things We His Majesties Faithful and natural Loving Subjects weighing with Our selves and considering divers great weighty matters hereupon depending for the preservation of this Ancient Noble and Imperial Crown Albeit We see manifestly before Our Eyes Our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty disposed of His good Nature rather daily to diminish the Revenue of His Crown lately angmented by His Father of most famous Memory towards the unburthening of His great intollerable Weights and Charges lying and growing in strangers hands beyond the Seas then to call upon us His natural Subjects and People like as we daily hear and know that all other most Christian Princes do in Causes of less Importance and like His Majesties noble Progenitors have always done in such Cases heretofore Yet for the preservation of Our selves and Our Posterity in this Peace and Wealth whereunto We have by the great Charges of Our Sovereign Lord been blessed brought for the maintenance and upholding of the Crown and Dignity Imperial of this Noble Realm in Honour and Might against all Attempts of Foreign and Ancient Enemies for the Restauration of this decayed House of the Commonwealth having suffer'd violation and ruine by exile of Justice in the former time of the aforesaid evil Governance For the comforting and encouraging of

Commonwealth 9. And lastly ever to be held an Infamous person III. And in the Parliament 19 Jacobi Sir John Bennet Knight one of the Members of the House having been accused for Corruption in receiving divers Bribes in the execution of his judicial place of Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury All which was proved to the full satisfaction of the House Ordered by the Commons House of Parliament 1. That a Warrant should issue under Mr. Speakers hand directed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the safe keeping of the said Sir John Bennet until they shall receive other directions from the Lords to whom the Commons had resolved to prefer an Impeachment against him 2. That he be put out and no longer to continue a Member thereof 3. That a Warrant be made for a Writ for a new choice for the Vniversity of Oxford IV. In the same Parliament the Commons House of Parliament for that Sir Robert Floyd had been a projector of a Patent for a Monopoly being a general grievance both in the original creation and in the execution Resolved una voce That the said Sir Robert Floyd was a person unworthy to continue a Member of this House and adjudged him presently to be put out V. Anno 3 Car. 1. Mr. John Barbour a Lawyer and Recorder of the City of Wells for subscribing a Warrant for the quartering of Souldiers though he pleaded fear yet because he would rather not lose his Place than do Justice he was thought unfit to make Laws that violates the Laws his fault being aggravated by his profession he had done well to have remembred 11 R. 2. when Belknap amongst other Judges gave his Opinion for fear unwilling to lose his Cushion when he came home he could not sleep but said I deserve three H. H. H. a Hurdle a Halter and a Hangman 1 H. 4. a Law was made that fear much less Ambition or Avarice should be no good Plea there being no hope of a Coward This may serve as an Almanack for the Meridian of England This Example will prove more and try more than 20 points of Doctrine it will strike fear circumspecta agatis Mr. Barbour was called in to answer for himself and after withdrew and Ordered 1. That Mr. Barbour be suspended the House and sequestred till the pleasure of the House be known 2. That a Committee examine the Cause and that no motion be made till that be done 3. And the Order was signified to Mr. Barbour by the Serjeant §3 Some Presidents for punishing persons that were no Members of the House for contempts ànd misdemeanors I. ANno 4 E. 6. Criketost for confederating in the escape of one Floud was committed to the Tower and afterwards discharged paying his Fees II. Complaint was made by Sir Herbert Croft of Bryan Tash a Yeoman of his Majesties Guard for keeping out of the doors of the Vpper House and Sir Herbert himself and some others of the Commons offering to come in he repulsed them and shut the door upon them with these uncivil and contemptible terms Goodman Burgess you come not here The Question moved in this was that for so great contempt whether the House of it self should proceed to punish or Address themselves to the proper Officcr the Lord Chamberlain Captain of the Guard c. And so was left for this day A President of the like contempt by a Gentleman-Usher remembred to have been questioned in this House in a Parliament in her Majesties time This day the contempt of the Yeoman of the Guard was again remembred and propounded as meet to be left to the examination and report of the Committee for Returns and Priviledges But herein an Honourable person and a special Member of the House interposed his advice that there might be some moderate course taken with respect to his Majesties Service and to the eminent and honourable Officers whom it might concern which induced the House thus far to be pleased that the Offender the next day should appear and answer his contempt at the Bar with caution and on purpose which the House did then utter that if he seemed to understand his own offence and be sorry for it and would submit himself to the pleasure and mercy of the House praying pardon and favour they would remit and discharge him and the Serjeant was commanded to attend the said Order for his appearance Bryan Tash a Yeoman of the Guard for his contempt to the House being in the custody of the Serjeant and brought to the Bar upon his submission and confession of his fault Mr. Speaker pronounced his pardon and dismission paying the ordinary Fees to the Clerk and Serjeant and in the name of the House gave him advice and warning for his better care and carriage hereafter upon any the like occasions in the course of his Service and Attendance III. Anno 18 Jac. The Commons House of Parliament adjudged Sir Francis Mitchell a Lawyer to be prisoner in the Tower for his many misdemeanors in and about the procuring of a Patent concerning the Forfeitures of Recognizances and of Alehouse-keepers and further ordered that a Serjeant at Arms should forthwith take him into his custody and that at two of the clock that Afternoon should carry him on foot through London-streets unto the Tower there to be delivered to the Lieutenant After which the Commons impeached him before the Lords who having examined his arbitrary acts great crimes and intollerable villanies by Imprisonments and the ruine of many Families all proved as may be seen in the Lords Journal The Lords agreed of the Sentence of Sir Francis Mitchell sent a Message unto the House of Commons that the Lords have proceeded against Sir Francis Mitchell upon the complaint of the Commons and they have found him guilty of many exerbitant offences and are ready to give Judgment against him if they with their Speaker will come to demand it Answered They will come accordingly with all convenient speed In the mean time the Lords put on their Robes The Commons being come and the Speaker at the Bar after low obeysance he said There was heretofore related unto your Lordships by the House of Commons a complaint of many griivances against Sir Giles Mompesson and Sir Francis Mitchell for many offences committed by them committed against the King and the Commonwealth your Lordships have proceeded with Mompesson and given Judgment also against him understanding you are ready to pronounce Judgment also against the said Sir Francis Mitchell I the Speaker in the name of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament do demand and pray that Judgment be given against him the said Sir Francis Mitchell according to his demerits The Lord Chief Justice pronounced the Judgment in haec verba Mr. Speaker the Lords Spiritual and Temporal have taken into due consideration the great care and

necessary but he commanded to ask bare Questions and nothing else ergo no Instructions That this is done against the Canons of the Church and that there is no obedience without knowledge the outward man is not conformed unless the inward man be reformed and cited the Canons Quicunque contrist averit Doctorem veritatis peccat in Christum and the Canon 1 Jac. c. 45. for Command of Preaching For the 2d touching the setting up of Images it was said to be against Acts of Parliament against the Canons of the Convocation the Book allowed in the King's time of 28 H. 8. c. 30. against Images Pilgrimages will follow against 3 E 6. and the Homilies approved Anno 1 Eliz. forbidding of Images in Churches The 3d. for Prayer to the East which Gratianus affirms came by Tradition part 1. Decret 11. and that it is Superstitious Lingwood in his Gloss. Lib. 2. Title de Feriis non refert si versus orientem c. That the Lord Bishop Excommunicated many and enjoyned Penance to divers for not Praying to the East and some did their Penance with a whith Rod in their hand for proof whereof it is under the Bishops hand The fourth one Peck a Minister Catechized his Family and song Psalms and his Neighbours came in on the Sundays after Evening Prayer and the Lord Bishop enjoyned them to do Penance for this their resorting to Catechisme and singing of Psalms and to say I confess my Error which Acknowledgment is under the Bishops hand they which refused were Excommunicated and paid 7 l. charges 5. Touching Extortions was shewn That in the Table of Fees is set down from Institutions 24 s. 8 d. whereof to the Bishop 10 s. That this Lord Bishop is Register also and now his Lordship taketh for Institutions 3 l. 5 s. and for united Churches double viz. 6 l. 10 s. and that Communibus Annis there are 100 Iustitutions For admission into sacred Orders nothing should be taken if any it is Symony yet the Lord Bishop hath now taken 30 s. or 28 s. the Bishop and Register being all one To serve Cure 5 s. is due his Lordship taketh 6 s. 8 d. To teach School 3 s. 4 d. his Lordship taketh 6 s. 8 d. and if of ability 10 s. For every Consignation of a Decree 4 d. which cometh to 3 l. per annum for which there should be nothing paid no Consignation being in the Table but with another Hand set down in Archbishop Whitguift's Hand Sixthly That the Institutions to Benefices are not registred which overthroweth Patronages if it be returned Scrutatis Archivis non invenitur when the Right comes in question yet the Fees are greater than before The Commons concluded with these two Remembrances The first That they received this Complaint before Easter last yet they proceeded not in the Examination thereof till they received a Certificate of the Mayor of Norwich The second is That there is a Law that none shall be punished for complaining in Parliament This Report ended the Lord Bishop of Norwich stood up in his place and answered the same to this effect viz. The Answer of the Lord Bishop of Norwich to the Complaint of the Commons First his Lordship confessed the Charges in the said Complaint to be so great and so grievous that were he guilty thereof he would desire himself to be punished Which whether he be guilty or not he will leave to their Lordships most exact and severe Examinations wherein he desired them not to spare him and he would ever acknowledge and commend their Justice and Honour His Lordship protested he was not way guilty of the first part of his Accusation If he were then he was unworthy to bear the name of a Clergy-man and shewed the unworthiness of such as should dishearten Preachers from Preaching the Word of God His Lordship shewed also desired first that he might not be taxed with Ostentation his own Practice in Preaching while he was Vicar and Parson That he Preached every Sabbath in the Morning and Catechized in the Afternoon and that he continued the like in Chichester when he was Bishop there That in Norwich he never missed the publick Place and ever Preached there against Popery though he had been an unprofitable yet he had not been an idle Servant which was now his only comfort As touching Preaching and non Residents he hath been reckoned more than half a Puritan His Lordship remembred his manner of leaving his Service with the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that he might go to his Cure His Lordship wondred why he should be thought a Papist he thought it might be long of his Disputation and his Sermon at Paul's Cross of Predestination negative unadvisedly preached by him for which he was checked by the Lord Archbishop Whitguift and commanded to preach no more of it and he never did though Dr. Abbot Bishop of Sarum hath since declared in Print that which he then preached to be no Popery That Popery is a fire that will never be quiet He hath preached 100 Sermons since and nothing of Popery can be imputed unto him out of any of them That there be divers Obstacles to keep his Lordship from Popery 1. The Vsurpation of the Pope of Rome His Lordship affirmed That no Power on Earth can touch a Prince and that therefore he abhorred the Usurpation of the Pope over Princes 2. Their Religion is dyed with Bloud The practick course of their Religion is all by Jugling and feigned Miracles of which his Lordship had written a Book against them which was never yet answered 3. That he never spake with Priest or Jesuit nor ever invited a known Recusant to his Table for they never say Amen to our Prayers 4. That their Equivocation is the last worse than which nothing can be his Lordship held it much better to talk with the Devil than with such Then his Lordship profest himself to be a true Member of this Church and acknowledged the Church of England to come nearest to the Primitive Church that we fetch not our Reformation from Wickliff Hus and Luther of later Times but from the first 400 years next after Christ. 1. As touching the first part of the Accusation His Lordship confessed That 6 or 7 of the abler sort of Ministers in Norwich used to expound in their own Churches before the Sermon begun in the Cathedral Churches and many resorted from other Places to those Expositions for all the Churches have not Preachers and in the Afternoon to their Sermons The Preachers themselves found fault with this being willing to be rid of the pains as his Lordship thought for they were to preach in the Afternoon and in the Week-days and shewed him many Disorders therein which they pretended as the cutting off part of the Prayers or their beginning so early that many could not come to the Common Prayers and the like and they besought his Lordship to remedy

it for that they being but stipendary men were loth to do it for fear belike to lose their Stipends Whereupon his Lordship sent for them by an Officer and willed them to omit those Expositions in the Forenoon and yet his Lordship hath since taken order for the erecting of three Sermons in the most remote Places of the City from the Cathedral Church and his Lordship hath erected many Lectures in several Places in the Countrey 2. As touching the Images in the Church what was done is done without his knowledge It is meant by St. Peter's Church that his Lordship never saw that Church till one Evening as he came by and being often before informed of much Cost done upon that Church he went in and kneeled down to his Prayers as his use is and when he rose up perceiving that they had bestowed very great Cost and not seeing or knowing at all of any Image set up there he said God's Blessing on their hearts that had bestowed so much Cost on God's House 3. As touching Prayer to the East he never enjoyned it nor heard of it till now 4. For the 4th part of his Complaint he perceiveth That he hath been sifted for the whole course of his Life That this Peck was sent to his Lordship by the Justices of the Peace for an Assembly late at night in his House his Catechizing being but a colour to draw them thither That this Peck had infected the Parish with strange Opinions as not to kneel when they came to Church that the Name of Jesus is no more than a common Name and that it is Superstition to bow down at the Name of Jesus His Lordship further affirmed That this Peck had been formerly convicted for non-Conformity Annis 1615 1617. and for Symony and Conventicles in his Neighbour's house as appears by the Acts of the Register Fatetur And that Anno 1622. he was taken in his House with 22 of his Neighbours at a Conventicle That he was now bound over by a Justice and so brought to his Lordship and his Sentence against Peck was only That he should confess his Fault The others mentioned in this part of the Charge were punished for their Opinions also making no difference between an Ale-house and the Church till the Preacher be in the Pulpit His Lordship said He much confessed his fault that in the Penance he enjoyned them he caused them to confess their Errors omitting their resort to Conventicles which he did at their own earnest suit 5. His Lordship absolutely denied That he improved any Fees and affirmed he hath not any of those Fees that are complained of only the Fee for Institution which he took as his Predecessors did if therein he hath committed any Error Erravimus cum Patribus and denied that he ever had seen that Table of Fees which is spoken of by the Commons 6. His Lordship affirmed That he had registred all the Institutions This was the Effect of the Lord Bishop's Answer which being ended The Prince his Highness told his Lordship That he had not answered touching the Paraphrase of the Catechism taken away by him Whereupon his Lordship replied That the Preachers used to choose a Text of the Creed c. and to ask the Child some one Question and then to debate very long upon it and never descend to the capacity of the Child That his Lordship did not forbid the Explanation but willed that it might be Catechistically Thus ended the Lord Bishop of Norwich his Answer to the said Complaint It is this day Ordered that in respect of the Streightness of time that the Complaint of the Commons against the Lord Bishop of Norwich shall be referred unto the High Commission to be Exammined by them and they to make Report thereof to the House And then the House will judge thereof XIII Timothy Pinckney who had Petitioned the Lords 21 Jac. to be relieved for a Debt owing to him and others from Sir John Kineday and that Barne Elmes should be Sold for that purpose which the Lords then ordered And appointed a Commission to Issue out of Chancery directed to certain Judges to examine the pretences of the Creditors and see them satisfied he Complains now of the Bishop of Lincoln late Lord Keeper for refusing to grant out such a Commission and slighting the Order The Committee had taken the Depositions of three Persons who had been first Sworn in the House The Lords took into consideration this contempt of their Order heard the Depositions read and appointed Sir Charles Caesar and Sir Robert Rich to go and Examine one Kelwood who was also present when the said Lord Keeper refused to obey the said Order and Minister an Oath unto him to tell what he knows of any notice given to the Lord Keeper of the said Order and who was present March the Second Upon Sir Charles Caesar and Sir Robert Rich their Report of their Examination of George Kellwood touching the Bishop of Lincoln not obeying the Order in the business of Pinckney the Lords Order that the Deposition after they had heard it read and the Depositions of the other three Persons formerly taken to be sent to the Bishop of Lincoln who was to return an Answer under his hand that day following March the 16 th The Bishop of Lincoln sent his Answer to Pinckney's Complaint according to the order of March the 2 d. in Writing to this essect First in general denyed he should have Spoken any thing in contempt of their Lord ships Order in Parliament 21 Jac. having always in his heart born such a reverence to them for non Arbitramur quenquam dicere quod non sentiat and for the particulars as he remembers it being two years since that there had been a mistake in the Clerks entering it according to the sence of the House and Pinckney had then concealed from their Lord-ships a former Refference by the Parliament and the King himself to the Lord Keeper the Master of the Rolls and some Judges who had made a Decree in it And admit all were true that is complained yet he had ommitted the time of the Complaint of a verbal contempt near two years being past and two sittings of Parliament wherein he had been silent Verbal Injuries according to the Civil Law must be complained of within the year aliter remissae censentur Contempts must be pressed the next Term or sitting of the Court against which they are committed Scandalous words against the King must be Complained of within three Months Words of High Treason are by the Laws confined to be Complained of within 6 Months All Informations against any Penal Law made or to be made must come within the compass of one year unless it be Ex parte Regis who hath a year longer And it is impossible for any Man to give an Account of every phrase he shall use Twenty Months after the words

Majesties Command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entered among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber And according to the said agréement of the said Justices and Barons Judgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said Sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Process depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of Charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs All which Writs and Proceedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Charge imposed upon the Subjects for the providing of Ships commonly called Ship-meony and the said extrajudicial Opinion of the said Justices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said Agreement or Opinion of the greater part of the said Justices and Barons and the said Judgement given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of Propeety the Liberty of the Subjects former Resolutions in Parliamrnt and the Petition of Right made in the the third year of the Reign of His Majesty that now is And it is further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in Execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed And that all and every the Records and Remembrances of all and every the Judgments Inrollments Entry and Proceedings as aforesaid and and every the Proceedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be deemed and adjudged to all Intents Constructions and Purposes to be utterly void and disanulled and that all and every the said Judgment Inrollments Entries Proceedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such Manner and Form as Records use to be that are vacated FINIS By reason of the hast and throng of the Press the Reader is desired to correct those Errata in the Book pa. 85. ommons r. Commons pa 119 in Mar. for Witnesses r. Members pa. 137. for § 4 r. § 5 p. 185. in Mar. for Sir Cooke r. Sir Edward Cooke Errata in the Appendix pa. 3. l. 19. proditoriae r. proditorie n. 29. in Mar. H 5 r. H. 6. n. 35. the next p. l. 15. Archeipis r. Archiepo l. 19. Universitatis r. Vniversitas p. 29. l. 4. for sive r. sine l. 13. praedica vistis r. praedicavistis p. 30. l. 15. tacites r. tacite The Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted or a Discourse proving by Records and the best Historians that the Commons of England were ever an Essential Part of Parliament By William Petyt of the Inner-Temple Esq JANI ANGLORUM Facies Nova Or several Monuments of Antiquity touching the Great Councils of the Kingdom and the Court of Kings immediate Tenants and Officers from the first of William the first to the forty ninth of Henry the Third Reviv'd and Clear'd Wherein The sense of the Common-Council of the Kingdom mentioned in King John's Charter and of the Laws Ecclesiastical or Civil concerning Clergy-men's Voting in Capital Cases is submitted to the Judgment of the Learned Apud Foxum vol. 2. col 3. 4 The Bishop of Winchester's Letter to the Duke of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Plutatchus lib. cum Principibus Philosophos debere disputare Qui semper corrumpunt principes Reges ac Tyrannos nempe Delatores Criminatores Adulatores ab omnibus exiguntur puniunturque ut qui non in unum Calicem lethale venenum mittant sed in fontem publicitus scatentem quo vident omnes uti Quemadmodum non uno supplicio dignus est qui fontem publicum unde bibant omnes veneno infecit ita nocentissimus est qui principis animum pravis infecerit opinionibus quae mox in tot hominum permiciem redundent Nam si capite plectitur qui principis monetam vitiarit quanto dignior est eo supplicio qui principis ingenium corruperit Osorius lib. 5. de Regis institutione Occurrit alia adulatorum turba prudentiae nomine commendata qui utse in gratiam Regum iusinuent illis persuadent eos esse supra leges post aliqua Nunquam in Regnis Civitatibus homines scelerati defuerunt nec hodie desunt qui principes erroribus turbulentis iuficiant quibus illi quidem annumerandi sunt qui cum se jure consultos existimari velint Regibus persuadent illos omnino solutos esse legibus Observ. 1. Cardan lib. de utilitate ex adversis capiend● cap. de Principis Incommodis p. 288. Observ. 2. Rot. Parl. 32. H 8. Act 60. The Attainder of the L. Cromwel A dangerous Boast of any one Minister Actus Parl. An 3 and 4. E. 6. no. 31. An Act touching the Fine and Ransome of the Duke of Somerset A remarkable Instance how Dangerous it is for one single Minister to have a Monopoly of the King Observ. 3. Apud Foxum vol. 2 d. Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester his Letter to the D. of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Coke 4. Inst so 89. Ld. Herbert Hist. of H. 8. fo Rast. Stat. 31. H. 8. cap. 8. Observ. 4. Rastal's 3 and 4. E. 6. cap 5 Coke 3. Inst. fo 12. Rastals Stat. 7. Ed. 6. cap. 12. Out of a Paper in the hands of my good Friend Mr. John Rawley a Worthy Citizen of London Nephew and Executor to Dr. Rawley first and last Chaplain to the L. Bacon My Lord Bacons Memento Ex Journali Domus Procerum Annis 21 and 22. Jacobi Regis 14 Maii 16 24 This Bill after pass'd unto a Law Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts p. 7 8 9 10 11. 34 H. 8. An. Dom. 1542. Breach of Priviledge Ferrers arrested going to the Parl. house The Serjeant of the Parliament sent to the Compter for him And demands the Prisoner But the Officers deny him And assault the Serjeant Breaks the Crown of the Mace strikes down his Man Complains of it to the Sheriffs and demands the Prisoner Who contemptuously reject the same The Serjeant returns and acquaints the House Who highly resent it It was ordinary for either House upon emergent occasions to give an account to each other as in the time of R. 2. H. 6. H. 8. E. 6. Queen Mary the great Officers of State as the Chancellor Treasurer c. went down to the House of Commons to give them particular accounts The Ld. Chancellor in