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... doth not ; for , observ- ing the great gift you gave the session before last , he was unwilling to take any more from you , and laid out all his estate upon the enter- prize , and will do so again as soon as he shall be enabled ...
... doth not ; for , observ- ing the great gift you gave the session before last , he was unwilling to take any more from you , and laid out all his estate upon the enter- prize , and will do so again as soon as he shall be enabled ...
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... doth forbid him to prolong the sitting of this if we consider aright , and think of that incom- parliament : And therefore his maj . resolving parable distance between the supreme height to confine this meeting to a short time , hath ...
... doth forbid him to prolong the sitting of this if we consider aright , and think of that incom- parliament : And therefore his maj . resolving parable distance between the supreme height to confine this meeting to a short time , hath ...
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... doth better know than any man living the sin- cerity of the duke's proceedings ; with what cautions of weight and discretion he hath been guided in his public employments from his maj . and his blessed father ; what enemies he hath ...
... doth better know than any man living the sin- cerity of the duke's proceedings ; with what cautions of weight and discretion he hath been guided in his public employments from his maj . and his blessed father ; what enemies he hath ...
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... doth observe , that , in two days only of twelve , this business was thought of ; and not begun , till his maj . by a message , put you in mind of it : whilst your inquisition , against his maj.'s direction , proceeded day by day ...
... doth observe , that , in two days only of twelve , this business was thought of ; and not begun , till his maj . by a message , put you in mind of it : whilst your inquisition , against his maj.'s direction , proceeded day by day ...
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... doth , as he conceives , to his own infinite prejudice , knowing how grievous it is to be transmitted as a grievance by the voice of this house ; but he doth profess he will rather hazard the safety of his fortune , reputa- tion and ...
... doth , as he conceives , to his own infinite prejudice , knowing how grievous it is to be transmitted as a grievance by the voice of this house ; but he doth profess he will rather hazard the safety of his fortune , reputa- tion and ...
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Page 451 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Page 363 - Law of the Land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by Authority of Parliament, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, should be put out of his Land or Tenements, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to Death, without being brought to answer by due Process of Law : V.
Page 363 - And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and customs of this realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the people.
Page 363 - Yet nevertheless, of late divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners in several counties with instructions have issued, by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled, and required to lend certain sums of money unto your majesty, and many of them upon their refusal...
Page 363 - ... before your Privy Council and in other places; and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted, and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several counties by...
Page 803 - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Page 363 - ... and condemnation of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the law martial.
Page 363 - ... or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 363 - ... your majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your privy council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the law : VI.
Page 743 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.