The constitution of parliaments in England deduced from the time of King Edward the Second, illustrated by King Charles the Second in his Parliament summon'd the 18 of February 1660/1, and dissolved the 24 of January 1678/9 : with an appendix of its sessions / observed by Sr. John Pettus ... Knight.

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The constitution of parliaments in England deduced from the time of King Edward the Second, illustrated by King Charles the Second in his Parliament summon'd the 18 of February 1660/1, and dissolved the 24 of January 1678/9 : with an appendix of its sessions / observed by Sr. John Pettus ... Knight.
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Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.
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London :: Printed for the author and are to be sold by Tho. Basset ...,
1680.
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England and Wales. -- Parliament -- History.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
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"The constitution of parliaments in England deduced from the time of King Edward the Second, illustrated by King Charles the Second in his Parliament summon'd the 18 of February 1660/1, and dissolved the 24 of January 1678/9 : with an appendix of its sessions / observed by Sr. John Pettus ... Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54595.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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SECT. II. Observations.

IN An. 12. Hen. 8. the words fidei De∣fensor, were then added before Salutem, instead of Super diversis causis. The latter Writs are Quia de advisamento & assensu concilii nostri pro quibusdam causis, yet I find the word Quia us'd in the great Councils or Parliament Writs, before Edw. 2ds. time, and probably the words assensu Concilii nostri is added to shew the di∣stinction of his Privy-Council and his Publick Council or Parliament.

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2. Instead of Specialiter tangentibus, the latter Writs are concernentibus quoddam.

3. Instead of habere proponimus, the latter Writ is teneri ordinavimus, and habere is put in between Colloquium and Tractatum.

4. Ligeantia is put in the latter Writs in∣stead of Dilectione, this word Dilectione being for many Ages particularly apply'd to the Episcopal Writs.

5. The latter Writs do contain all that are in the more Ancient, (except the Inserti∣ons of some Causes of Summons, and some inlargements added upon Emergent occasions) viz. quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate & periculis imminenti∣bus cessante Excusatione quacunque.

6. And also those words are added near the end of the latter Writ, viz. Sicut nos & ho∣norem nostrum ac Salvationem & Defensionem Regni & Ecclesiae predicte expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis, which additi∣ons are only more full Expressions to oblige the Attendances of the Grandees.

Thus having shewn the Exemplar Writs to the Bloud Royal, Ancient and Modern, I shall set down such Earls, Dukes, or Princes of the Bloud Royal to whom this Exemplar Writ was directed, even to this time, according as they are either in the Clause Rolls in the Tower, or in the Pawns in the Pettibag-Office, which I shall recite

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in English, though the Writs are in La∣tin.

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