An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ...

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An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ...
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England and Wales. Parliament.
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London :: Printed for William Leake ...,
1657.
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Tower of London (London, England)
Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- Sources.
Archives -- Great Britain.
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"An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34712.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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Petitions of the Clergy with their Answers.

[unspec 57] The print called the Statute of the Clergy, containing in the whole nine Chapters, agrees with the Record.

[unspec 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69.] Among other things the Clergy in the 60 tit. and under the fourth Chapter in print make complaint, for that one Haukenstine Henby a Knight, being a Clerk, had Judgment given against him at Lincoln to be hanged, drawn and quartered, for that he had taken and kept in prison one of the Kings Subjects untill he had made fine of 0 l.

For a Judgment given against a Priest at Nottingham, for killing of his Master Sir Thomas of Cibethorp, a Clerk of the Chancery, a Justice of the King; And further for hanging certain Monks at Combe.

[unspec 62] The Statute called Circumspecte agatis be kept in all points.

The Ordinance shall be seen, and in what points the same is not kept, reason shall be shewd.

[unspec 63] That the Ordinary may well refuse to admit the Kings presentment upon any Judgment for the King wher he hath before an inhibition from the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, until the same be undone by a dismission.

In such cases a Writ in the nature of a Dismission shall be sent out of the Chancery to the Archbishop.

[unspec 65] That remedy may be pursued against Purveyors taking up fees of the Church in Court Christian.

The King hath granted, that who will sue therefore may have a Writ in the Chancery.

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