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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28585	The continuation of An historicall discourse of the government of England, untill the end of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth with a preface, being a vindication of the ancient way of parliaments in England / by Nath. Bacon of Grais-Inne, Esquire.	Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660.; Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660. Historicall and political discourse of the laws & government of England.	1651 (1651)	Wing B348; ESTC R10585	244,447	342

disabled to understand as in Case of Infancy there the Royall Assent can bear litle weight with it but most of all in the Kings absence where either the Assent is put thereto by Commissioners that know not the Kings particular minde or the Act is done onely by the Houses in nature of Ordinances and yet these of force to binde all Parties but the King But nothing more debased the Royall Assent in these times then a trick that Edward the Third plaid in the middest of the fullest strength of his Government It was in time of War which never is time of good Husbandry and laying up nor of sober advise in laying out nor of equity in levying and collecting money for the nerves of War This forward Warrier in the heat of his Atchievements findes his strength benummed for want of money he leaves off comes home rages against his A. Bishop to whom he had committed the care of Provision for his War and the A. Bishop as hotly falls upon some of the Treasury in the Army on the one side and upon others in the Countrey whose oppressions saith he in stead of bringing in money made the people to give a stop thereto A contest hereupon thus had it was concluded by the Power of the Parliament that such men should be questioned and that the Parliament from time to time should call all Officers of State to account and thereupon ensues a calme After the Parliament ended the King repeats the matter it makes his heart sick he disgorgeth himself by a Proclamation made by advise of Nobles and Wise men as he saith and tells all the World he dissembled with his Parliament and what he did was done by duress of minde to please for the time and to gain his ends which being now had he by his Proclamation revokes what he had done in Parliament or indeavoured it And thus is England put to school to learn to dissolve three hard knots First Whether a King can dissemble with his Parliament Secondly Whether Edward 3. his dissembling assent makes a Law Lastly Whether by a Proclamation by advise of Nobles and Wise men he can Declare that he dissembled with his Parliament and therein not dissemble the Royall Assent so as to bring all the Lawes made in any Kings time into question at least during his life However the result may be its evident the Royall Assent gets no honor hereby and the Statute as little that hath suffered this Proclamation all this time to passe among the number of the Statutes in Print as a Law when as many Statutes that are Lawes of note are left out as uselesse Although in the generall the two Houses joyned in every Act Ad extra yet Ad intra and in relation one to another they had their severall operations the House of Commons intermedled more in the matter of fact the House of Lords in matter of right although in either of these there is a mutuall aspect from both In matters of judicature much rested with the Lords and therefore it is ordained that The House of Lords shall remedy all offences contrary to the Law of Magna Charta And in cases where no remedy is left nor judgment by the Law the matter shall be determined in Parliament and the King shall command execution to be done according to the judgment of the Peeres Which Lawes seeme to bee but declarative of the former Lawe and in the nature of reviving that power into Act which was formerly layd asleep and doth strongly implye that the ultimate act in judicature rested with the Lords in relation not onely to the House of Commons but also in relation to the King whose work in such cases is not to judge above or with the Peers but to execute their sentence and that carries with it a list whereby the power of a King may appeare not to be so supreame in making of the Law as some would have it for if his Judgement and Conscience be bound by the Votes of the Peers in giving a Law in Case of a particuler person where the Law was not formerly known Let others judge of the value of this Negative Vote in giving Law to the whole Kingdome It s true that this Parliament was quarrelled by the King and he kept it at a bay by a Proclamation that pretended Revocation as far as a Proclamation could revoke an Act of Parliament but it effected nothing nor did the contest last long Now though this Jurisdiction thus rested in the House of Lords in such Cases as well as in others yet is it not so Originally in them as to be wholly theirs and onely as they shall order it for the Commons of England have a right in the course and order of Jurisdiction which as the known Law is part of their liberty and in the speedy execution of Justice as well as they have right to have Justice done and therefore whereas in Cases of Error and delayes the Appeale was from the inferiour Court to the Parliament which immediately determined the matter and now the trouble grew too great by the increase of Pleas For remedy hereof a kind of Committee is made of 1 Bishop 2 Earls 2 Barrons who by the advice of the Chancellor Treasurer and the Judges shall make good judgement in all Cases of Complaint of delay in Judgement which Committee is not made by Order of the Lords alone which they might have done in case Jurisdiction had bin wholly and onely shut up in their custody but by Act of Parliament and joynt concurrence of the Commons with the Lords For as the Commons challenge speedy Execution of Justice as one of their liberties So also to be under the jurisdiction of such Judges and Courts as the Lawes in the making whereof themselves challenge a Vote do establish appoint I will conclude this Chapter with the Constitution of the Parliament in these times For the difficulties that befell between the Kings and their people or Houses of Parliament wrought two sad effects Viz. A propensity to decline calling of Parliaments so often as was used and exspected and when it assembled as great a propensity in the Members to decline their attendance by means whereof as the Historians tell us the Parliament was somtimes inforced to adjourn it self for want of number sufficient the first of these arose from want of good will in the Kings the other from want of courage and zeale in the people The first of these was fatall and destructive to good Government for though in distempered Parliaments its good to withdraw yet in distempered times its necessary to meete and gain a right understanding of all parties and therefore these times were so happy as to binde themselves by publique Acts of State to recontinue the Assembling of Parliaments For the face of the Times represented unto all that Agitations were like to be quick violent and to continue for some succession of Time It s