The sovereigns prerogative and the subjects priviledge discussed betwixt courtiers and patriots in Parliament, the third and fourth yeares of the reign of King Charles : together with the grand mysteries of state then in agitation.
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The sovereigns prerogative and the subjects priviledge discussed betwixt courtiers and patriots in Parliament, the third and fourth yeares of the reign of King Charles : together with the grand mysteries of state then in agitation.
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England and Wales. Parliament.
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London :: Printed for Martha Harrison ...,
1657.
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Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
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"The sovereigns prerogative and the subjects priviledge discussed betwixt courtiers and patriots in Parliament, the third and fourth yeares of the reign of King Charles : together with the grand mysteries of state then in agitation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40689.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Then the 5. Propositions were read by the Lord BISHOP of NORVVHICH.
The 5. Propositions, 25. April 1628.
1. THat his Majesty would be pleased gratiously to declare, that the good old Law, called Magna Charta, and the 6. Statutes conceived to be Declarations, or Explanations of that Law, do stand still in Force to all intents and purposes.
2. That his Majesty would be pleased gratiously to declare, that according to Magna Charta and the Statutes aforesaid, as also accord∣ing
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to the most ancient Customes and Laws of this Land, every free Subject of this Realm hath a fundamental propriety in his goods, and a fundamental Liberty of his Person.
3. That his Majesty would be pleased gratiously to declare, that it is his Royal pleasure to ratifie and confirm unto all, and every his faithfull and Loyal Subjects all their antient, several, just Liberties, Priviledges and Rights, in as ample and beneficial manner to all in∣tents and purposes, as their Ancestors did enjoy the same, under the Government of the best of his most Noble Progenitors.
4. That his Majesty would be pleased gratiously to declare, for the good contentment of his Loyal Subjects, and for the secureing them from future fears, that in all causes within the Cognizance of the Common-Law, and concerning the Liberty of his Subjects, his Majesty would proceed according to the Laws established in the King∣dom, and in no other manner or wise.
5. And as touching his Majesties Royal Prerogative intrincical to his Soveraignty, and intrusted him from God ad communem totius populi salutem & non ad destructionem, his Majesty would resolve not to use or divert the same to the prejudice of any his loyal People in the propriety of their goods and liberty of their Persons. And in case for the security of his Majesties Royal Person, the Common safety of his People, or the peaceable Government of his Kingdom, his Maje∣sty shall finde just cause of State to imprison, or restrain any mans Per∣son: his Majesty would gratiously declare, that within a convenient time he shall and will express the cause of his commitment, or re∣straint, either general, or special, and upon a cause so expressed, will leave him immediatly to be tried according to the Common Justice of the Kingdom.
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