Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome.

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Basiliká the works of King Charles the martyr : with a collection of declarations, treaties, and other papers concerning the differences betwixt His said Majesty and his two houses of Parliament : with the history of his life : as also of his tryal and martyrdome.
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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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London :: Printed for Ric. Chiswell ...,
1687.
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Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649.
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
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Jovis, 6. Julii, 1643.
Some general Rules for the Assembly, directed by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.

1. THat two Assessors be joyned to the Prolocutor, to supply his place in case of Ab∣sence or Infirmity.

2. Two Scribes to be appointed to set down all Proceedings, and these to be Di∣vines,

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who are not Members of the Assembly, viz. Mr. Henry Robrough, and Mr. Ado∣niram Bifield.

3. Every Member at his first entrance into the Assembly shall make a serious and solemn Protestation, not to maintain any thing but what he believes to be Truth, and to embrace Truth in sincerity when discovered to him.

4. No Resolution to be given upon any Question on the same day wherein it is first Propounded.

5. What any Man undertakes to prove as necessary, he shall make good out of the Scriptures.

6. No Man to proceed in any dispute after the Prolocutor hath enjoyned him silence, unless the Assembly desire he may go on.

7. No Man to be denied to enter his Dissent from the Assembly, and his Reasons for it, in any point, after it hath first been debated in the Assembly; and thence (if the dis∣senting Party desire it) to be sent to the Houses of Parliament by the Assembly, (not by any particular Man or Men in a private way) when either House shall require it.

8. All things agreed on and prepared for the Parliament to be openly read and allowed in the Assembly, and then offered as the Judgement of the Assembly, if the major part assent: Provided that the Opinion of any Persons dissenting and the Reasons urged for it be annexed thereunto (if the Dissenters require it) together with the Solution (if any were) given in the Assembly to those Reasons.

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