The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure parts· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...

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The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure parts· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...

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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

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Printed at London :: for Michael Sparke, Senior,

1643.

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England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800.

Representative government and representation -- England -- Early works to 1800.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Right Honourable Lords & Commons, Assembled in, and continuing Constantly with this present PARLIAMENT, both in Person and Affection.
• title page
• To the Reader.
• The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Sove∣raignes, both in Doctrine and Practise.
• Errata and Omissions in some Copies.
• title page
• To The Reader.
• THE SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES.
  • The Parliaments Right to Elect Privie Counsellours, Great Officers, and Iudges.
  • That the King hath no absolute Negative voyce in the passing of Bills of Common Right and Iustice, for the publike good.
• title page
• TO HIS EVER-HONOVRED, NOBLE, KINDE FRIENDS, THE Right Honourable Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, the Right Worshipfull, Sir William Waller, and Sir William Bruerton, Knights, Commanders in Chiefe, of the Parliaments Forces, in severall Counties.
• To the Reader.
• PROVING 1st.
• THE LAWFVLNES OF THE PARLIAMENTS present Defensive Warre in Point of Divinity and Conscience.
• Errata in some Copies.
• title page
• To the READER.
• The Parliaments Interest in the Militia, Forts, Navy, & Officers of the Kingdom.
• The Parliaments Right and Iurisdiction to impose Taxes and Contributions on the Subjects for the necessary defence of the Realm, Laws, Liberties without the King, in case of the Kings wilfull absence from, and taking up Arms against the Parliament and Kingdom, briefly vindicated from the calumnies against it.
• AN APPENDIX: Manifesting by sundry Histories and Authors, that in the ancient Roman Kingdome and Empire; in the Greek and German Empires, derived out of it; in the old Graecian, Indian, Aegytian Realmes; in the King∣domes of France, Spaine, Italy, Hungary, Bohemia, Denmarke, Poland, Sweden, Scotland, yea, of Iudah, Israel, and others mentioned in the Scripture; the Supreame Sove∣raignty and Power, resided not in the Emperours and Kings themselves, but in their Kingdomes, Senates, Parliaements, People, who had not ony a power to restrain, but censure and remove their Emperours. and Princes for their Tyranny and misgovernmen.
  • Hungary.
  • Bohemia.
  • Polan.
  • Denmarke.
  • Swethland.
  • Assyria, Cyprus, Lombardy, Naples, Venice.
  • Scotland.
  • The Kings of the Gentiles, Israel, and Iudah.
• The sentence of Degradation and Deprivation of the Empe∣rour Wenceslaus King of Romans, pronounced by the Electors of the Empire in the yeare of our Lord. 1400.
• This Oath should have come in the Appendix, page 73. line. 17.
• Errata, and Omissions in some Copies.