The excellency of monarchical government, especially of the English monarchy wherein is largely treated of the several benefits of kingly government, and the inconvenience of commonwealths : also of the several badges of sovereignty in general, and particularly according to the constitutions of our laws : likewise of the duty of subjects, and mischiefs of faction, sedition and rebellion : in all which the principles and practices of our late commonwealths-men are considered / by Nathaniel Johnston ...

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The excellency of monarchical government, especially of the English monarchy wherein is largely treated of the several benefits of kingly government, and the inconvenience of commonwealths : also of the several badges of sovereignty in general, and particularly according to the constitutions of our laws : likewise of the duty of subjects, and mischiefs of faction, sedition and rebellion : in all which the principles and practices of our late commonwealths-men are considered / by Nathaniel Johnston ...
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Johnston, Nathaniel, 1627-1705.
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London :: Printed by T.B. for Robert Clavel ...,
1686.
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Monarchy -- Great Britain.
Sovereignty.
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"The excellency of monarchical government, especially of the English monarchy wherein is largely treated of the several benefits of kingly government, and the inconvenience of commonwealths : also of the several badges of sovereignty in general, and particularly according to the constitutions of our laws : likewise of the duty of subjects, and mischiefs of faction, sedition and rebellion : in all which the principles and practices of our late commonwealths-men are considered / by Nathaniel Johnston ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46988.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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Vicecomiti Salutem, &c.

Quia de advisa∣mento, & assensu Concilii no∣stri, pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus negotiis, nos, statum & defensionem Regni nostri An∣gliae, & Ecclesiae Anglicanae, con∣cernentibus; quoddam Parlia∣mentum nostrum apud, &c. die, &c. proxime futuro, teneri ordi∣navimus; & ibidem cum Prae∣latis, Magnatibus & Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium ha∣bere & tractatum. Tibi prae∣cipimus, firmiter injungentes, quod facta Proclamatione in proximo Comitatu tuo post re∣ceptionem hujus Brevis nostri, tenendo die & loco praedicto, du∣os Milites gladiis cinctos, ma∣gis idoneos, & discretos Comi∣tatus praedicti, & de qualibet Civitate Comitatus illius, duos Cives, & de quolibet Burgo duos Burgenses, de discretioribus & magis sufficientibus, libere & indifferenter per illos qui Pro∣clamationi hujusmodi interfue∣rint, juxta formam Statutorum inde editorum & provisorum eligi, & nomina eorundem Mi∣litum, Civium, & Burgensium,

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sic electorum, in quibusdam In∣denturis inter te & illos qui hujusmodi Electioni interfuerint, inde conficiendis, sive hujusmodi electi praesentes fuerint, vel ab∣sentes, inseri; eosque ad dictum diem & locum venire facias; ita quod iidem Milites, plenam & sufficientem potestatem pro se, & Communitate Comitatus praedicti; Cives & Burgenses pro se, & Communitate Civitatum & Burgorum praedictorum, di∣visim ab ipsis habeant, ad faci∣endum & consentiendum his quae tunc ibidem de communi Conci∣lio dicti Regni nostri (favente Deo) contigerint ordinari, su∣per negotiis ante dictis: Ita quod pro defectu potestatis hu∣jusmodi, seu propter improvi∣dam Electionem Militum, Civium aut Burgensium praedictorum, dicta negotia infecta non rema∣neant quovis modo. Nolumus autem quod tu nec aliquis alius Vicecomes dicti Regni nostri ali∣qualiter sit electus. Et Electio∣nem illam in pleno Comitatu factam distincte & aperte sub Sigillo tuo & Sigillis eorum qui Electioni illae interfuerint, nobis in Cancellariam nostram ad dictum dem & locum certifices, indilate remittens nobis alte∣ram partem Indenturarum prae∣dictarum praesentibus consutam una cum hoc Brevi. Teste meipso apud Westmonast—

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