The free-holders grand inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament to which are added observations upon forms of government : together with directions for obedience to governours in dangerous and doubtful times / by the learned Sir Robert Filmer, Knight.
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The free-holders grand inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament to which are added observations upon forms of government : together with directions for obedience to governours in dangerous and doubtful times / by the learned Sir Robert Filmer, Knight.
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Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
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London :: [s.n.].
MDCLXXIX [1679]
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Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Witchcraft.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.
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"The free-holders grand inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament to which are added observations upon forms of government : together with directions for obedience to governours in dangerous and doubtful times / by the learned Sir Robert Filmer, Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41303.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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The Argument.
A Presentment of divers Statutes, Records, and other Precedents, explaining the Writs of Sum∣mons to Parliament: shewing,
I. That the Commons by their Writ are onely to Perform and Consent to the Ordinances of Parliament.
II. That the Lords or Common Councel by their Writ are only to Treat, and give Counsel in Parlia∣ment.
III. That the King Himself only Ordains and makes Laws, and is Supreme Iudge in Parliament.
With the Suffrages of
Hen. de Bracton.
Jo. Britton.
Tho. Egerton.
Edw. Coke.
Walter Raleigh
Rob. Cotton.
Hen. Spelman.
Jo. Glanvil.
Will. Lambard.
Rich. Crompton
Will. Cambden, and
Jo. Selden.
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