Petitions or otherwise, and ordering, that no
Petitions or Addresses shal be tendred unto them
from any County, City, Corporation, or
Fraternity upon any occasion by above 12. grave
selected persons at most, under pain of being que∣stioned
and proceeded against as tumultuous.
4ly. By declaring and enacting all Persons what∣soever
to be actual Traytors, and Enemies to the
Nation, (as they are by4 E. 3. rot. Parl. n. 1. 21R. 2. c. 12. 31H. 6. c. 1. 3 ac. c. 1, 2. Exact Collection, p. 200. &c. A Collection, P. 201, 202.Law) and to be effectual∣ly
proceeded against as such; who shall offer
any force, violence, assault to the Parliament,
or any Member or Members thereof during their
attending therein, or in going to or returning
from the same, or violently interrupt their pro∣ceeding.
And that all who shall hereafter be
peccant in this kind, &21 R. 2. c. .their heirs males shall be
for ever hereafter disabled to sit in Parliament, or
bear any Office whatsoever, Civil or military,
or to purchase or re-ceive any Lands, Cha∣ttels,
Gift, Legacy or bequest whatsoever, or
to enjoy the privileges of an English Freeman.My chief design in this & other late publica∣tions,
hath been to inform the English Nation
of the true Original constitution, uses, ends,
Rights, Privileges, Judicarure, and Proceedings
of the Great Councils and Parliaments held
within our Island, from its original plantation
by the Britons, till the Normans ruling in it, which
I have already published in a BriefIn my Sum∣mary Col∣lections, &c. and Breviate,Chrnological
manner, and from thence to the end of King Ed∣ward
the 4th his reign, which I have likewie in
a good measure accomplished in my late inlar∣ged
Plea for the Lords and House of Peers; where∣in
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