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The Answer is,
THe King is well pleased, that if any man find himself gricved, he come and make his complaint, and right shall be done unto him.
37 E. 3. chap. 18. agreeth in substance, when it saith, Though, that it be contained in the Great Charter, that no man be taken nor imprisoned, nor put out of his Freehold, without Process of the Law; Ne∣vertheless divers people make false suggestions to the King himself, as well for malice as otherwise, where∣of the King is often grieved, and divers of the Realm put in damage, against the form of the same Charter, wherefore it is ordained, That all they that make sug∣gestion, shall be sent with the same suggestion before th•• Chancellor, Treasurer, and his Grand Council: And that they there find Sureties to pursue their sug∣gestions, and incur the same pain that the other should have had, in case that the suggestion be found evil; and that then Process of the Law be made against them without being taken and imprisoned against the form of the said Charter, and other Statutes. Here the Law of the Land in the Grand Charter, is ex∣plained to be without Process of the Law.
42 E. 3. cap. 3. at the Request of the Commons by their Petition, put forth in this Parliament di∣vers of the Commons, by false Accusers, which oftentimes have made their Accusations more for revenge and singular profit, than for the profit of the King, or of his people; which accused per∣sons some have been taken, and caused to come before the King's Council, by Writ and other∣wise, upon grievous pains against the Law. It is assented to, and accorded for the good Government of the Commons, that no man be put to answer with∣out Presentment before Justices, or matter of Record, or by due Process or Writ Original, according to the old Law of the Land. And if any thing from hence∣forth be done to the contrary, it shall be void in the Law, and holden for Error.
But this is better in the Parliament Roll, where the Petition and Answer, which make the Act, are set down at large. 42 E. 3. Rotl' Parl' no. 12.