English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, the Habeas Corpus Act ... II. The proceedings in appeals of murther, the work and power of Parliament, the qualifications necessary for such ... III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others ..., and an abstract of all the laws against papists.

Title

English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, the Habeas Corpus Act ... II. The proceedings in appeals of murther, the work and power of Parliament, the qualifications necessary for such ... III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others ..., and an abstract of all the laws against papists.

Author

Care, Henry, 1646-1688.

Publication

London :: Printed by G. Larkin for Benjamin Harris,

[1680?]

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Subject terms

Magna Carta.

Great Britain -- Constitutional law.

Great Britain -- Politics and government.

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"English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, the Habeas Corpus Act ... II. The proceedings in appeals of murther, the work and power of Parliament, the qualifications necessary for such ... III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others ..., and an abstract of all the laws against papists." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33823.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• A TABLE OF Some of the most Material Contents.
• THE PROEM.
• document
  • MAGNA CHARTA, or the Great Charter made in the ninth Year of King Henry the Third, and confirmed by King Edward the First, in the eight and twentieth Year of his Reign.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIV.
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
    • CHAP. XVII.
    • CHAP. XVIII.
    • CHAP. XIX.
    • CHAP. XX.
    • CHAP. XXI.
    • CHAP. XXII.
    • CHAP. XXIII.
    • CHAP. XXIV.
    • CHAP. XXV.
    • CHAP. XXVI.
    • CHAP. XXVII.
    • CHAP. XXVIII.
    • CHAP. XXIX.
    • CHAP. XXX.
    • CHAP. XXXI.
    • CHAP. XXXII.
    • CHAP. XXXIII.
    • CHAP. XXXIV.
    • CHAP. XXXV.
    • CHAP. XXXVI.
    • CHAP. XXXVII.
  • Notes on Magna Charta.
• A Confirmation of the Charters of the Liberties of England, and of the Forrest, made in the 35th Year of Edw. the First.
• Sententia lata super Chartas.
• document
  • NOTES.
  • The Sentence or Curse given by the Bi∣shops against the Breakers of the Great Charter.
  • afterword on document
• document
  • A Statute made Anno 34 Edw. 1. com∣monly called de Tallageo non Conce∣dendo.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
  • The Comment.
• document
  • Anno 25 Edw. 3.
    • CAP. II.
  • The Comment.
• document
  • Anno Regni Car. 2. Regis, decimo tertio.
    • CAP. I.
  • Notes
• document
  • Another Statute of King Edward the third. Anno 2. Edw. 3. cap. 2.
  • The Comment.
• A brief digression concerning the Nature of APPEALS.
  • The form of an Appeal of Murder.
• Two other Statutes of King Edw. 3.
  • text of document
    • Anno 4. Edw. 3. cap. 14.
    • Anno 36. Edw. 3. cap. 10.
  • The Comment.
• A DIGRESSION touching the Antiquity, Ʋse, and Power of PARLIAMENTS, and the Qualification of such Gentlemen as are fit to be chosen the Peoples Representatives.
  • Of the Names and Antiquity of Parliaments.
  • Of the Three Estates in Parliament.
  • Touching the Power of the Parliament
  • The particular Business of Parliaments.
  • Some Directions concerning the Choice of Members to serve in Parliament, and the Qualifications that render a Gentleman fit or unfit, worthy or undeserving of your Voices for so great a Trust.
  • The Statute Anno 8. Hen. 6. Cap. 7. What sort of men shall be Chusers, and who shall be Chosen Knights of the Parlia∣ment.
    • Note
• Anno Regni Caroli Regis Tertio. The PETITION exhibited to His Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, concerning di∣verse Rights and Liberties of the Subjects.
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  • Anno Tricesimo primo Caroli Secundi Regis.
    • CHAP. II. An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subjest, and for prevention of Imprisonments be∣yond Seas. Comonly called the Habeas Corpus Act.
  • The Comment.
• An Act for Regulating of the Privy Council, and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber.
  • text of document
  • The Comment.
• document
  • Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethae, Ca. 23.
  • The Comment, With a Discourse of the Nature of Excommunication, and how to prevent or take off the VVrit De Excommunicato Capiendo.
• Anno 17. Caroli Secundi, Ca. 2. An Act for Restraining Nonconformists from Inhabiting in Corporations.
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  • Anno Vicessimo Secundo Caroli Secundi Regis,
    • Cap. 1. An Act to prevent and suppress Seditions Conventicles.
  • Notes upon the foregoing Act.
• abstract of laws
  • text of abstract
  • addendum
    • SECT. I.
    • SECT. II.
    • SECT. III.
    • SECT. IV.
    • SECT. V.