The Privy Council of England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1603-1784, Volume 1

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1927 - 464 pages
 

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Page 176 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided...
Page 230 - That the people are, under God, the original of all just power; that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation...
Page 233 - Gentlemen, if you are met here as private persons, you shall not be disturbed ; but, if as a council of state, this is no place for you. And since you cannot but know what was done at the house this morning, so take notice, that the parliament is dissolved.
Page 196 - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...
Page 290 - That the sitting of this Parliament any longer, as now constituted, will not be for the good of the Commonwealth ; and that therefore it is requisite to deliver up unto the Lord General Cromwell the Powers which we received from him!
Page 347 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as the same is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Page 353 - Parliament, composed of both houses, was assembled, which welcomed a messenger from the king and solemnly resolved that, "according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by king, lords, and commons.
Page 194 - Justice. And by whose power is it done in Parliament but by the King's absolute power ? Mistake it not, my Lord, the Three Estates do but advise, as the Privy Council doth, which advice if the King embrace, it becomes the King's own act in the one and the King's law in the other; for without the King's acceptation both the public and private advices be but as empty egg-shells.
Page 187 - ... any disrespect to any acts of state or to the persons of statesmen was in no time more penal, and the foundations of right never more in danger to be destroyed.
Page 199 - ... may be esteemed of any validity, as proceeding from the royal authority, unless it be done by the advice and consent of the major part of the council, attested under their hands...

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