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A56211 The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure partsĀ· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1643 (1643) Wing P4087A; ESTC R203193 824,021 610

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2._o 1_o 2_o 3._o jer._n 29_o 7_o psal._n 122._o 6._o 7_o 8._o isa._n 29._o 8._o &_o 9_o 6._o 6._o livy_n rom._n hist._n l._n 7_o dec._n 40_o p._n 285._o arist._n polit._n l._n p._n 5._o marianade_n rege_fw-la l._n c._n c._n 5._o 5._o arist._n polit_n l_o 3._o &_o 5_o buchan_n de_fw-fr jure_fw-la regni_fw-la apud_fw-la scotos_fw-gr scotos_fw-gr gratian._n causa_fw-la 23._o qu._n 1_o 2_o 3._o jacob_n spie●egius_n lexicon_fw-la juris_fw-la do_fw-mi bellum_fw-la f._n de_fw-fr justitia_fw-la et_fw-la jure_fw-la non_fw-la sine_fw-la joannis_n calvini_n lexicon_fw-la juris_fw-la tit._n bellum_fw-la co_fw-la 244._o 245._o summa_fw-la angelica_n et_fw-fr rosella_n a●e●sis_n sum._n part._n 3._o qu._n 36._o man_n 3._o &_o quaest_n 47._o num_fw-la 3._o martin_n laud._n de_fw-la bello_fw-la surius_n council_n tom._n 3._o p._n 520._o 520._o calv._n lexicon_n jurid_a ih._n ex_fw-la hotomano_n and_o other_o forcit_v forcit_v see_v principal_o 48._o h._n 3._o rot._n pat_o man_n 7._o &_o mem._n 11_o 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677._o halis_n chron._n f._n 123._o 16._o h._n 8_o 8_o general_n history_n of_o france_n p._n 227._o 228._o fabian_n chron_n part_n 7._o in_o his_o life_n with_o other_o other_o sene●a_fw-la de●●ra_fw-la de●●ra_fw-la eadmerus_n malmes_n hunt_n hoveden_n mat._n west_n mat._n par_fw-fr polychonicon_n ●ab_n caxton_n holinsh._n graf_n speed_z daniel_n and_o other_o in_o the_o life_n of_o wil._n rufus_n rufus_n see_v stamford_n bracton_n fitz-herbert_a brook_n cromp._n tit._n treason_n &_o corone_n corone_n mat._n par._n an._n 1266._o p._n 967._o speed_v p._n 640._o dan._n p._n 180._o 181._o holinsh_fw-mi graft_n stow_z and_o other_o other_o in_o praefenti_fw-la ●ello_fw-la dominus_fw-la rex_fw-la extitit_fw-la vulneatus_fw-la &_o morti_fw-la paene_fw-la vicinus_fw-la jaculo_fw-la in_o eum_fw-la ex_fw-la