The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

OF THE UNION OF LAWS. 165
tence of excommunication, bull, instrument, or Where a man being a popish recusant, and not
other thing which touches the king in his regality, having lands to the value of twenty marks per
or his realm in prejudice, it is case of proemunire. annum, nor goods to the value of 401., shall not
Where a man doth affirm or maintain any repair to his dwelling or place where he was born,
foreign autholity of jurisdiction spiritual, or doth and there confine himself within the compass of
put in use or execute any thing for the advance- five miles, he shall abjure the realm; and if he
ment or setting forth thereof; such offence, the return, he shall be in the degree of a felon.
second time committed, is case of proamunire. Where a man kills the king's deer in chases or
tWhere a man refuseth to take the oath of forests, and can find no sureties after a year's imsupreinacy, being tendered by the bishop of the prisonment, he shall abjure the realm.
diocese, if he be an ecclesiastical person; or by Where a man is a trespasser in parks, or in
commission out of the chancery, if he be a ternm- ponds of fish, and after three years' imprisonment
poral person, it is case of pro munire. cannot find sureties, he shall abjure the realm.
Xaihere the dean and chapter of any church, Where a man is a ravisher of any child within
upon the'" Cong6 d'elire" of an archbishop, or age, whose marriage belongs to any person, and
bishop, doth refuse to elect any such archbishop marrieth the said child after years of consent, and
or bishop as is nominated unto them in the king's is not able to satisfy for the marriage, he shall
letter missive, it is case of prnemunire, abjure the realm.
Where a man doth contribute or give relief unto
any Jesuit or seminary priest, or to any college OFFENCE OF HERESY.
of Jesuits or seminary priests, or to any person Cases of heresy, and the trial andproceedings
brought up therein, and called home, and not therin.
returning, it is case of prnemunire.
Where a man is broker of a usurious contract declaration of heresy, and likewise the
above ten in the hundred, it is case of priomunire. proceeding and judgment upon heretics, is by the
common laws of this realm referred to the jurisThe punishment, trial, and proceedings in cases of diction ecclesiastical, and the secular arm is
prezmnzenore. reached unto them by the common laws, and rnot
by any statute for the execution of them by the
The punishment is by imprisonment during king's writ "de haeretico cornburendo."
life, forfeiture of goods, forfeiture of lands in fee
simple, and forfeiture of the profits of lands CASES OF THJE iING9S PREROGATIVE.
entailed, or for life.
r lT/e kling-'s prerogative in parliamentL
The trial and proceeding is as in cases of mis-e ins prerogatie i li
prision of treason; and the trial is by peers, where 1. The king hath an absolute negative voice to
a peer of the realm is the offender. all bills that pass the parliament, so as without
his royal assent they have a mere nullity, and not
OFFENCES OF ABJURATION AND EXILE. so much as " authoritas prvescripta," as "' senatus
Cases of abjuration and exile, and the proceedings consulta" had, notwithstanding the intercession
therein. of tribunes.
Where a man committeth any felony, for the. he Iingmaysummonparliaments, dissolve
them, adjourn and prorogue them at his pleasure.
which at this day he may have privilege of sanctuary, and taketh sanctuary, and confesseth the 3. The king may add voices in parliament at
felony before the coroner, he shall abjure the his pleasure, for he may give privileges to berough towns, and call and create barons at his
liberty of the realm, and choose his sanctuary; and call and create barons at is
and if lihe commit any new offence, or leave his pleasure.
sanctuary, hlie shall lose the privilege thereof, and 4. No man can sit inparliamentunless he tace
sanctarthle oath of allegiance.
suffer as if he had not taken sanctuary.
Where a man not coming to the church, and,
being a popish recusant, doth persuade any of the The kicg's preronative in war and peaCE.
king's subjects to impugn his majesty's authority 1. The king hath power to declare and proclaim
in causes ecclesiastical, or shall persuade any war, and make and conclude peace.
subject from coming to church, or receiving the 2. The king hath power to make leagues arnd
communion, or persuade any subject to come to confederacies with foreign estates, more or less
any unlawful conventicles, or shall be present at strait, and to revoke and disannul them at his
any such unlawful conventicles, and shall not pleasure.
after conform himself within a time, and make his 3. The king hath power to command the bodies
submission, he shall abjure the realm, and forfeit of his subjects for service of his wars, and to
nis goods and lands during life; and if he depart muster, train, and levy men, and to transport thenm
not within the time prefixed, or return, he shall be by sea or land, at his pleasure.
in the degree of a felon. 4. The king hath power in time of war to eye