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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87520	The vvorks of that grave and learned lavvyer Iudge Ienkins, prisoner in Newgate. Upon divers statutes, concerning the liberty, and freedome of the subject. With a perfect table thereto annexed.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1648 (1648)	Wing J574; Thomason E1154_2; ESTC R20801	80,714	206

the Parliament time by all the Members of the House of Commons and is required by the Law to be taken in all Parliaments otherwise they have no power nor colour to meddle with the publick Affaires This Oath being taken in Parliament that the King is the only and Supream Governour in al causes then it followes in Parliament causes over all persons then over the two Houses Let them keep this Oath and we shall bee sure of Peace in the Land and good Lawyers ought to desire peace both for the publicke good and their private and not dishonour that Noble profession as many doe in this miserable time The Gent. sayes Wee do not swear that the King is above all Law nor above the safety of his people neither do we so swear but his Majesty and we will sweare to the contrary and have sworne and have made good and will by Gods grace make good our Oath to the world that the KING is not above the Lawe nor above the safety of his people the Law and the safety of his people are his safety his Honour and his Strength AD 8. The Gent. concludes That Acts of Parliament are not formaly binding nor compleat without the Kings assent yet the Houses have a virtual power with out the Kings particular assent to doe things in order to publique justice and Safety viz. In setting up the Excise in raising and maintaining of Armes in Taxing the people at pleasure with Fifth and Twentieth part Fifty Subsidies Sequestrations Loans Compositions imprisoning the King abolishing the Common prayer Book felling the Churchs Lands c. all these are in order to the publick Justice and Safety Mr. H. P. you are of my profession I beseech you for the good of your Country for the Honour of our Science perswade your selfe and others as much as in you lies to beleeve and follow the monition and councell of that memorable reverend and profoundly Learned in the Lawes and Customes of the Land the Lord COOKI 3 par Inst pag 36. who writes as becomes a great and a learned Iudge of the Law a person much magnified by the two Houses in these words Peruse over all Books Records and Histories and you shall finde a Principle in Law a Rule in Reason and a Triall in Experience that Treason doth ever produce farall and finall destruction to the offender and never attains to the desired end two incidents inseparably thereun●o therefore let al men abandon it as the poysonou● bait of the divil follow the Precept in Holy Scripture SERVE GOD HONOUR THE KING AND HAVE NO COMPANY WITH THE SEDITIOVS Conclusion I say againe that without an Act of Oblivion a gratious Generall pardon from his Majesty the arrears of the Souldiers paid a favourable regard had to tender Consciences the●e will he neither Truth nor Peace in this Land nor any mans●cure of any thing he hath By me David Jenkins Prisoner in the Tower A DISCOURSE TOVCHING The Inconveniencies of a Long-continued PARLIAMENT A Perpetuall Parliament is repugnant to the Act made this Parliament for a Triennial Parliament for how can every three yeares a Parliament beginne if this bee perpetuall which may bee so if the two Houses please 2. An adjournment of the Parli●ment makes no Session 4 pars institut fol. 27. Howbeit before the adjournment the KING gives His Royall assent to some Bills Cookeibid 3. There is no Session till a Prorogation or dissolution of the Parliament 4. This Parliament as appe●res by the Act for not dissolving thereof set downe in the printed Statutes of this Parliament Plowd com 33.8 Bro. relation 35. Bro Parl. 86. D●● 1. Mariae 8 fol. 138. cannot be prorog●ed or dissolved but by Act of par liamènt There hath been as yet no Act of Parliament in that behalfe And therefore all the Acts of this Parliament are Acts of one Session 5. All Acts of one Session relate to the first day of the Parliament and all the Acts of such a Parliament are acts of one day so the Act for the Trienniall and the Act for this Perpetuall are two Acts of one day by the Law 6. 4 Ed. 3. cap. 36. Ed. 3. cap. 10. A Parliament is to be hol●en once every yeare and more often if need shall bee those Acts are confirmed by the Act for the Trienniall Parliament How doth a perpetuall Parliament agree with a Parliament once every yeare or with the intention of those Lawes How doth a Parliament every three-years agree with a Parliament for ever which may be if the two Houses please 7. The result is this at●ent day in Law this Parliament two acts have passed for howbeit the one was in 16 Carol. and the other in 17 Carol. yet both in Law are Acts of one day the one saith there shall be a Trienniall Parliament after the end of the sitting of this Parliament The other this Parliament shall sit for ever if they please The one will have a Parliament with an end the other a Parliament without an end When an Act of Parliament is against common Right or Reason 1 Pars. Doct. Bon. hams case ●o 11 8. 8. E. 3 3.30.33 E. cassa●it 32. 27. H. G. Anuity 41. 1. Eliz. D●er 113. or repugnant or impossible to be performed the Common Law shall controle it and adjudg this Act to be void they are the words of the Law An Act of Parliament that a Man shall be judg in his own Cause is a void Act. Hobbart Fol. 120. Begin with Common Right It is against Common Right that indebted men should not pay their debts That if any Member of the House of Commons doe any Subject wrong by disseising him of his land or dispossessing him of his goods or blasting of his fame or doing violence to his person that such persons during their lives should not be questioned by a Priviledg of Parliament and that extended also to many other beside themselves common right doth abhor these Enormities which a perpetuall Parliament doth beget besides the utter destruction of al mens actions real personall or mixt 21. Iac c. 16. who have to doe with Parliament-men by the statute of Limitation which confines Suites to certaine yeares For Common Reason Parliaments were ordained for remedies to redresse publique greivances it is against reason they should make publique and insufferable Grievances The Law of the Land allowes no protection for any men imployed in the service of the Kingdome but for a yeare to be free from Suites and in many Suites none at all howbeit he be in such service 39. H. 6.39 but a Parliament perpetuall may prove a protection not for a yeare but for ever which is against all manner of reason For impossibility The death of his Majesty whose life God prolong dissolves 〈◊〉 necessarily for the Writ of Summons i● Carolus Rex in hoc individuo and Carolus Rex is in this particular habiturus colloquium tractatum cum prelat is