BENCHER.
I must tell you, there are those that affirm the Laws for Annual Parliaments to be Musty obsolete Statutes whose
A second pacquet of advices and animadversions sent to the men of Shaftsbury, occasioned by several seditious pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former pacquet.
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- A second pacquet of advices and animadversions sent to the men of Shaftsbury, occasioned by several seditious pamphlets spread abroad to pervert the people since the publication of the former pacquet.
- Author
- Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.
- Publication
- London :: Printed and are to be sold by Jonathan Edwin,
- 1677.
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- Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Pamphlets.
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strength and life are devoured by Time. But it is enough to stop their mouthes, that they have been Declared by two Parliaments, within forty yeers last past, to be the Laws of our Realm.
ANIMADVERSION.
Who are they that are so weak-headed as to say they are Musty and Obsolete? Neither his Majestie nor his Par∣liament will give 'em thanks for saying so: nor doth the Prorogation need such an Allegation to maintain it good. I have sufficiently shewn, that the sence of the two Sta∣tutes, if entirely taken, makes fully for the Right of the King to judge whether Parliaments Annually be needful or not: and that within Forty yeers time two Parlia∣ments have confirm'd their Frequencie, and so frequent as every yeer, or oftner, if his Majestie see Occasion shall re∣quire their Assembling so often. Therefore he hath much more reason to defend them, than the Faction hath to make such ado about them, unless they could get more Credit to their own Cause by a Rational Construction of them.