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... lordships very hearty thanks for their zeal therein , to his ho- nour and the safeguard of the realm ; and de- sired them to proceed in it with all speed and alacrity . " The same day a report was made from this " That the master of the ...
... lordships very hearty thanks for their zeal therein , to his ho- nour and the safeguard of the realm ; and de- sired them to proceed in it with all speed and alacrity . " The same day a report was made from this " That the master of the ...
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... lordships would have cleared me ) I was so unhappy as their lordships never met more about that business . - But now your proposition is , Whether I will now chuse to sit still without being further questioned for errors passed ...
... lordships would have cleared me ) I was so unhappy as their lordships never met more about that business . - But now your proposition is , Whether I will now chuse to sit still without being further questioned for errors passed ...
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... lordships wise considerations , as too high earl of Hertford reported , " That it was a point for him , how far this may trench upon necessary for their lordships humbly to be the liberty and safety of the peers , and the seech his maj ...
... lordships wise considerations , as too high earl of Hertford reported , " That it was a point for him , how far this may trench upon necessary for their lordships humbly to be the liberty and safety of the peers , and the seech his maj ...
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... lordships BRISTOL , " Conway , by whose warrant I was only re- strained in the late king's time , of famous me- mory , may produce any one word , that may have such as any colourable pretence of debar- ing my coming up to London . I ...
... lordships BRISTOL , " Conway , by whose warrant I was only re- strained in the late king's time , of famous me- mory , may produce any one word , that may have such as any colourable pretence of debar- ing my coming up to London . I ...
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... lordships to distinguish of this . And al- lordships to present unto his maj . on my be- though I have been too tedious already , to suffer half ; and withal , what a disservice it will be me to proceed and present my case unto to his ...
... lordships to distinguish of this . And al- lordships to present unto his maj . on my be- though I have been too tedious already , to suffer half ; and withal , what a disservice it will be me to proceed and present my case unto to his ...
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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.