E. 1. 2. and 3. Philip de Columbariis to 44. under E. 2.
and 3. Sir William Herne to 8. under E. 3. R. 2. and
H. 4. as likewise Walter de Manny, Iohn de la Mare, Ni∣cholas
de Meyvill, Thomas de Musgrave, Iohn Somery, Hen∣ry
de Teyez, Thomas Vhtred, and some others, summon∣ed
by general Writs, to sundry Parliaments and Coun∣cils,
by one or more of our Kings; yet they and their
Posterities of the same name, were afterwards totally
omitted out of the Writs, and lists of Summons, and
never summoned again in succeeding times.
4. That Gilbert and William de Acton, Richard
and William de Aldeburge, Gilbert and William de Aton,
(perchance the same with Acton) Robert and Willi∣am
de Felton, John, Richard, and Matthew Fitz Iohn,
Ralph and Robert de Grendon, Robert and Alexander
de Hilton, Adam and Thomas de Novo Mercato, Hugh and
Hugh de Sancto Phileberto, Giles and Richard de Playez,
Miles and Nicholas de Stapleton, William and Theobald
Trussell, William and John Tuchet, to omit others, were
successively summoned to one, two, or three Parliaments,
Great Councils, not immediately succeeding each o∣ther,
but some good distance of years and time after
the other, (during which, many Parliaments and
Councils intervened, to which none of them were
called by Writ) and then totally omitted▪ none of
their name or posteritie (for ought appeares) being
ever summoned again, as the last Table visibly demon∣strates.
From which 4. particulars, I conceive it experi∣mentally
evident beyond dispute, That as the Kings
Writs to his Counsell, Justices, and other Assistants
(mentioned in the next Section) did neither constitute
them nor their issues, Peers or Barons of the Realm,
nor Assistants for life, though they sat, advised with the
King & Lords upon all weighty occasions in the Lords
House:) and as the elections, retornes of Knights, Ci∣tizens,
Burgesses, Barons of Ports, by the Kings Writs of
summons to Parliaments, and their sitting, voting in the