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CHAP. XXVIII.
The fourth Objection, that the Prerogative is bound or taken away by divers Acts of Par∣liament.
FOurthly, It is objected,* 1.1 That though it were granted and admitted, that the King de jure communi, hath a rightful Prerogative to lay Impositions upon Merchandizes, yet that power say they, is restrained and taken away by sundry Acts of Parliament.
First, the Statute of Magna Charta, cap. 30. doth give safe conduct and free pas∣sage to all Merchants to buy and sell, abs∣que aliquibus malis tolnetis per antiquas & rectas consuctudines. Secondly, by the Act or Charrer of confirmation in 25 Edw. 3. The King doth release a Mayltolt of fourty shillings upon a Sack of Wooll, and doth grant for him and His Heirs, unto the Commons, that he shall not take such things without the Com∣mons consent or good will; and in the same Act or Charter reciting, that wheras divers people of the Realm were in fear, that the Aids and Taxes which they had 〈1 page duplicate〉〈1 page duplicate〉