Jus Anglorum ab antiquo, or, A confutation of an impotent libel against the government by king, lords, and commons under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt, and the author of Jani Anglorum facies nova : with a speech, according to the answerer's principles, made for the Parliament at Oxford.
- Title
- Jus Anglorum ab antiquo, or, A confutation of an impotent libel against the government by king, lords, and commons under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt, and the author of Jani Anglorum facies nova : with a speech, according to the answerer's principles, made for the Parliament at Oxford.
- Author
- Atwood, William, d. 1705?
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Edward Berry ...,
- 1681.
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- Subject terms
- England and Wales. -- Parliament -- History.
- Feudalism -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1066-1485.
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"Jus Anglorum ab antiquo, or, A confutation of an impotent libel against the government by king, lords, and commons under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt, and the author of Jani Anglorum facies nova : with a speech, according to the answerer's principles, made for the Parliament at Oxford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26173.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- THE PREFACE.
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A
CONFUTATION
OF AN
IMPOTENT LIBEL
Against the Government, By
King, Lords, and Commons;
Under Pretence of Answering Mr. Pe∣tyt,
and the Author of Jani Anglorum
facies nova.
- The INTRODVCTION.
- CHAP. I.
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CHAP. II. Of the Reputed Conquest.
- SECT. 1.
- SECT. 2. That he is so far proving the Title of William the first, by Conquest, that he makes him an Usurper all along, proved by the History of the Conquest, compa∣red with what he says about the Titles of William 2. and Hen. 1.
- SECT. 3. That he makes a Title to the French King, from the Acquisition of his Feudal Te∣nant, the Norman Duke, upon his Noti∣on of the Feudal Law.
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SECT. 4. The Notion of the Feudal Right consider∣ed,
and the Right of Tenants in free
and common Socage, to come in the
own Persons, to the great Councils, shewn from thence. - SECT. 5. An Improvement of the Notion of Jus Feo∣dale.
- CHAP. III. That Domesday-Book, to which he appeals, manifestly destroyes the Foundation of his Pernicious Principles.
- CHAP. III. A Property prov'd by Record, to have con∣tinued from within the Reign of the Confessor, to the 26. H. 3. Besides Pi∣ctaviensis and Knyghton on our side.
- CHAP. V. The Socmen enjoyed Estates of Titles prior to the suppos'd Conquest.
- CHAP. VI. Proved from the Beginnings of Charters and Writs, that the English were not disseized of all, by William the First.
- CHAP. VII. The Charters of William the First, and King John, considered: with a Confir∣mation of the Notion of the ordinary Curia, distinct from the great or gene∣ral Councils.
- CHAP. VIII.That ordinary Free-holders were nobles be∣fore the 49. of Hen. 3. and came to the Great Councils as such, in their own Persons.
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- THE SPEECH.
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- ADDITIONS Answering the OMISSIONS, &c.
- ERRATA.