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A56204 The second part of a brief register and survey of the several kinds and forms of parliamentary writs comprising the several varieties and forms of writs for electing knights, citizens and burgesses for Parliaments and Great Council ... : wherein the original of the commons house, and elections of knights, citizens, burgesses and barons of ports to sit in Parliament, is infallibly evidenced to be no entienter than 40 H. 3. the presidents and objections to the contrarie answered ... / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing P4071; ESTC R1409 118,009 213

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noster terreri seu dicta negotia nostra retardari valeant quovis modo Teste Rege apud Eborum 5 die Marcii Eodem modo mandatum est singulis Vic. per Angliam From which Writ I shall observe 1. That the Writs of Summons to Parliaments may be altered and enlarged with necessary Prologues and clauses according to the times and emergent occasions by the King and his Counsel without consent or Act of Parliament 2ly That the absence of some Prelates Lords and Great men from the Parliament is a just cause to adjourn or dissolve it 3ly That no weighty affairs ought to be concluded but in a full Parliament when all the Lords and Members are present and not in an empty House when any considerable number of Lords and other Members are absent or secluded 4ly That no Lords nor other persons whatsoever though summoned as Members ought to come to Parliaments with a tumultuous multitude of people followers and armed men it being inconsistent with the freedom and privileges of Parliaments a grand disturbance to their proceedings touching the weighty affairs of the King and Kingdom therein propounded and a great terror and oppression to the people in those places where the Parliaments are held Much less then ought Petitioners or those who are no Members to draw up whole Troops Regiments of armed Souldiers to terrifie force seclude secure dissolve the very Lords Members Houses and Parliaments themselves 5ly That the King and his Counsil alone may by publick Writs and Proclamations lawfully prohibit the resort of any persons of what condition soever to Parliaments with any tumultuous multitude or armed men under the pain of forseiting all they have and that by the antient Common-law of England as well as by the Statute of 7 E. 1. Rastal Armer 1. it being a chief branch of the Kings antient royal Prerogative and Office as the Act declares 6ly That they may insert this Prohibition and Proclamation into the very Writs of Summons themselves when there is just occasion as there was never so much cause as now to do it after so many unparallel'd eumults and violences offered to Members and raised against Parliaments themselves by tumultuous wultitudes of rude people and whole Troops Regiments Armies of Sword-men raised for their defence to the total if not final subversion of the antient Rights Liberties and constitution of our English Parliaments In the Parliaments of 5 E. 2. some Noblemen and Earls by reason of dissentions between them and other fears and jealousies intended to resort to those Parliaments with a great number of armed men of their friends and retainers which the King being informed of thereupon issued these memorable writs unto them expressing the manifold mischiefs and inconveniences thence ensuing and prohibiting them to come to these Parliaments with any arms horses of warr or multitudes of people or to disturb the peace affright the people of the Realm or hinder the publike affairs of Parliament in any kinde under pain of forfeiting all their lands tenements and whatever else they might forfeit to him worthy the consideration and imitation of present and future ages upon the like occasions Clause 5 E. 2. dors 31. Rex dilecto et fideli sno Nicho de Segrave falutem Datum est nobis intelligi quod vos occasione quarundam dissensionum inter vos et dilectum fidelem nostrum Willielmum Mareschal nuper subortarum ad arma vos paratis amicos confederatos vesttos se parare similiter procuratis quodque ad Parliamentum nostrum quod apud London die Dominica proxima post festum Sti. Laurentii proximo futur fecimus summoneri accedere intenditis cum multitudine armatorum unde in immensum non immerito commovemur Et quia accessus bujusmodi si fieret in nostri contemptum et expeditionis negotiorum nostrorum impedimentum ac terrorem populi regni nostri et lesionem pacis nostrae cederet manifestè Uobis mandamus in fide et bomagio quibus Nobis tenemini sub forisfactura terrarum ac tenementorum ac omnium aliorum quae Nobis forisfacere poteritis districtè inhibentes ne ad dictum Parliamentum cum armis seu alio modo quam tempore clarae memoriae Domini E. quondam Regis Angl. patris nostri consuevit accedere aut aliqua alia per quae expeditio negotiorum nostrorum in dicto Parliamento retardari aut pax nostra turbari seu populus dicti regni nostri quovis modo terreri valeat facere praesumatis Consimilia mandata et Inhibitionem fecimus praefato Willielmo super negotio antedicto Teste Rege apud Berwic super Twed. 20 die Julii Eodem modo mandatum est praefato Willielmo de Mareschal T. ut supra Cl. 5 E. 2. dors 22. Rex dilecto et fideli suo Gilberto de Clare Comiti Glouc. Hereford salutem Intelleximus quod ad praesens Parliamentum nostrum apud Westm. continuatum estis cum equis et armis more non debito venientes unde admiramur non immerito et turbamur praesertim cum per hujusmodi accessum vestrum ibidem expeditio negotiorum Nos et statum regni nostri tangentium in dicto Parliamento nostro tractandorum impediri et populus partirum illarum ac alibl in regno nostro terreri posset non modicum et pax nostra turbari Vobis igitur mandamus in fide et homagio quibus Nobis tenemini firmiter injungedtes quod ad dictum Parliamentum nostrum ad tractandum Nobiscum et cum Praelatis ac Magnatibus de regno nostro super dictis negotiis veniatis prout tempore clarae memoriae Domini E. quondam Regis Angl. patris nostri fieri consuevit equis pro armis vobiscum ibidem nullatenus adducentes nec aliquid aliud attemptantes per quod pax nostra turbari aut populus noster terreri valeat quovis modo T. apud Westm. 28 die Novemb Per ipsum Regem Eodem modo mandatum subscriptis viz. Thomae Comiti Lancastr Humfr. de Bohun Comiti Heref. Essex Adamaro de Ualenc Com Pembroke Guidoni de Bello-Campo Com Warr. Edmundo Com. Arundell It seems notwithstanding those Writs there were some forces raised by these Earls and Nobles principally against Peter Gaveston which produced these ill effects 1. It terrified most of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and caused them to depart home and desert the Parliament so as the King was enforced to issue out new Writs to resummon them and to command the Sheriff to elect others in their places in case they would not or could not come as is evident by the Writs in dorse 26 of Cl. 5. E. 2. forecited p. 73. 2ly It frighted away most of the Kings Justices and Counsil from the Parliament so that he was constrained to resummon and command them not to depart from the Parliament during its continuance without his special license as appears by this ensuing memorable Writ Cl. 5 E. 2.
praedictorum Militum Civium Burgensium hoc breve Teste ut supra Eodem modo praeceptum est singulis Vic. per Angliam The like in all respects except in the recitals being alwayes the same with those to the Spiritual and Temporal Lords relating in special or general the causes of summoning each Parliament and in the times and places of the Parliament and dates of the Writs issued to the Sheriffs and are entred in the same order as those preceding in Cl. 5 E. 3. d. 25. Claus. 6 E. 3. d. 9. 19. 36. Claus. 7 E. 3. part 1. d. 3. Claus. 8 E. 3. dors 18. Claus. 9 E. 3. d. 2. 18. Claus. 10 E. 3. d. 1. 5. Cl. 11 E. 3. pars 2. d. 11. 40. Cl. 12 E. 3. pars 2. d. 32. Cl. 13 E. 3. pars 2. d. 28. where you may peruse them But in Cl. 10 E. 3. dors 1. there is this Writ of Prorogation and Resummons entred Rex Vic. Ebor. salutem Cum nuper Parliamentum nostrum quod apud Ebor. in diem lunae in festo sancti Hillarii prox futur tenere ordinavimus usque ad Octabas Purificationis beatae Mariae Virginis prox futur prorogavimus apud eundem locum tunc tenend Et tibi preceperimus quod de Com tuo Milites duos c. venire faceres ad faciend et consentiend biis quae tunc de communi Consilio ordinari contigerit super quibusdam Negotiis Nos et Statum Regni nostri tangentibus Ac propter diversa nova Nobis et dicto regno nostro permolesta quae in partibus transmarinis jam noviter emerserunt c. as in the Writ to the Archbishop idem Parliamentum usque diem Lunae prox post festum Sancti Matthaei Apostoli prox futur apud Westm. tunc tenend duximus prorogand Tibi praecipimus quod praemuni●…i fac Milites Cives Burgenses praedictos quod ad Octabas praedictas ad dictum locum Ebor. ex causa Parliamenti non veniant ista vice Praecipimus insuper tibi firmiter injungentes quod eosdem Milites Gives et Burgenses sic electos vel alios eligend si electi non fucrunt in forma praedicta eligi et eos ad dictum locum Westm. ad praedictum diem Lunae venire facias Ita quod Milites plenam et sufficientem potestatem pro se Communitate Com. praedicti habeant c. ut supra usque hoc breve Teste ut supra Eodem modo mandatum est singulis Vic. per Angl. In Claus. 13 E. 3. pars 2. dors 1. the form of the Writ for elections to the Sheriffs is thus notably varied Rex Vic. Eborum salutem Cum quaedam ardua urgentia negotia Nos et honorem nostrum Statumque Regni nostri contingentia in Parliamento nostro apud Westm in Quindena sancti Michaelis prox praeterito summonito Praelatis Proceribus ct Communitati dicti regni ibidem existentibus exposita extitissent super quibus eadem Communitas tempus ad deliberand petiit supplicans quoddam aliud Parliamentum statim infra breve ut tunc deliberatione hujusmodi valeret expofitis maturius responderi per quod de avisamento Praelatorum et Procerum praedictorum necnon ad dictae Communitatis hujusmodi supplicationem ordinavimus quod super hiis et aliis urgentissimis negotiis tam Nos et expeditionem guerrae nostrae ac jura nostra et Coronae nostrae in partibus transmarinis quam defensionem dicti regni ceterarumque terrarum nostrarum contingentibus Parliamentum nostrum apud Westm. in Octabis Sancti Hillarii prox futur teneatur Nos advertentes quod negotia nostra in Parliamento nostro hactenus agitata saepius impedita fuerunt et etiam retardata Ita quod electiones de Militibus Civibus et Burgensibus pro Communi●…tibus Com Civitatum et Burgorum ad Parliamenta illa venientibus minus factae provide exiterunt Tibi praecipimus districtius injungentes quod de dicto Comitatu tuo duos Milites gladiis cinctos et de qualibet Civitate Com. illius Duos Cives et de quolibet Burgo Duos Burgenses de discr●…tioribus et probioribus Militibus Cidibus et Burgensibus Com. Civitatum et Burgorum et eosd●…m ad laborand potentioribus eligi et eos ad dictos diem et locum venire facias Ita quod iidem Milites plenam et sufficientem potestatem pro se et Communitate Com. praedicti dicti Cives ac Burgenses pro se et Communitatibus Civitatum et Burgorum divisim ab ipsis habeant ad faciend et consentiend hiis quae tunc de Communi Consilio nostro favente Domino ordinari contigerit super negotiis antedictis Ita quod pro defectu potestatis hujusmodi seu Propter improvidam electionem Militum Civium aut Burgensium praedictorum quam tibi si aliter quam praedictum est facta fuerit imputabimus dicta negotia infecta non remaneant quovis modo habeas ibi nomina praedictorum Militum Civium et Burgensium et hoc breve Teste ut supra Per ipsum Regem et dictum Custodem Consilium Eodem modo mandatum est singulis Vicecomitibus per Angliam From wheuce it is observable 1. That the Commons in Parliament ought not rashly to determine or give answer to any business of great moment propounded to them without due time and consideration and that they may justly desire convenient time to deliberate upon it till another Parliament shall be summoned for that purpose as they did here which the King upon their Petition and the advice of the Prelates and Great men assented to by his Cussos Regni 2. That the indiscreet and Improvident Elections of unfitting undiscreet dishonest insufficient Knights Citizens and Burgesses is a frequent occasion of hindering and retarding the great and weighty affair●… of the King and kingdom in Parliament and cause of their miscarriage without good effect 3. That the blame of such improvident elections is much to be imputed to the Sheriffs as well as Electors 4. That the Clause of gladiis cinctos was first added to duos Milites by this writ not being in any former writs that so none but actual Knights by Order as well as tenure might be elected and returned 5. That the word Probioribus is superadded to Discretioribus et ad laborandum Potentiaribus Militibus Civibus et Burgensibus c. extant in none of the precedent Writs since 49 H. 3. and Legalioribus omitted 6. That there was no Alteration at all now made in the Writs to the Warden of the Cinque-ports continuing as before but only in those to Sheriffs for electing Knights Citizens and Burgesses The next succeeding writ in Claus. 14 E. 3. pars 1. dors 33. runs in the usual form yet with duos Milites gladiis cinctos c. de discretioribus et probioribus Militibus Civibus et Burgensibus Com. Civitatum et Burgorum eorundem
the last precedent Parliament to be returned and summoned to the Parliament next succeeding if in life and able to travell and to elect new only in the places of such of them who were dead sickly or infirm Other times summoning only the moiety of them to perfect what they all had agreed and been mistaken in And also ordering new elections in the places of those who would not or could not attend or who were unduly elected or chosen for 2. Counties at once as in case of the Lord Cameyes and Berners Sometimes prescribing 2. sometimes 4. Citizens to be elected for London sometimes 4. other times 2. Barons for every of the Ports and now and then but 2. Barons for them all and sometimes 2. other times but one Citizen and Burgesse for each City and Borough the number of which they increased or diminish'd as they saw just cause omitting now and then some Cities Boroughs out of their writs of summons formerly sending Citizens and Burgesses to Parliaments and Great Councils and creating by their Patents Writs or both new Cities and Boroughs with power to send Citizens and Burgesses to Parliaments and Great Councils who never sent any before and creating other Boroughs Cities Counties within themselves and then issuing Writs to their Sheriffs Mayors and immediate Officers to make their elections and returns which formerly were issued only to and made by the Sheriffs of the Counties wherein they were situated as the precedent Writs and returns with the two next Sections will fully evidence And that without the precedent Votes or subsequent consents of the Commons House who from 49 H. 3. till 23 E. 4. and many years after were never the immediate sole or proper Judges Desciders either of the undue elections returns numbers or qualifications of their own Members or Speakers but our Kings alone or their Counsil and House of Lords as the premises irrefragably evidence and the Presidents I have clted in my Plea for the Lords p. 371. to 419. To which I shall refer the Reader 8. I shall for a close of my Observations give you this brief Catalogue of the several Cities and Boroughs in each County of England which sent Citizens and Burgesses to Parliament mentioned in the returns of the Bundles of Writs yet extant in the Tower of London An. 26 28 E. 1. 42 E. 3. and in the Clause Rolls of 45 E. 3 m. 21. dors omitting those in 2 10 11 13 16 R. 2. 1 3 8 9 H. 5. 1 2 3 6 11 13 20 H. 6. 7 12 E 4. by w●… you may clearly discern which are antient Cities Boroughs in the reigns of Ed. 1. 3. which new and when each of them began to send Citizens Burgesses to our Parliaments which God willing I shall further clear hereafter in a Distinct Section of the Several forms and numbers of Writs for levying the expences of Knights Citizens and Burgesses of Parliament wherein I shall present you if it be deemed worthy my pains and beneficial to posterity with an Exact Kalendar of the names of all the several Knights of Counties Citizens of Cities Burgesses of Boroughs and Barons of the Ports formerly elected and returned to our Parliaments and receiving wages extant in the Clause Rolls and returns of the Writs for their Elections and Expences in the Tower not hitherto undertaken or collected by any man to my knowledge The first Figures signifie the years of each King mentioned in the Table Bedford Borough returned two Burgesses to Parliament Anno 26 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Reding 2. Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Walingford 2. Burgesses 42 E 3. Amersham 2. Burgesses 28 E. 1. Wendover 2. Burgesses 28 E. 1. Wycombe 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Cambridge Borough 2. Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 45 E. 3. None in Ed. 1. or Ed. 3. Bodmin Borough 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Dunbeued alias Lanceston 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Helston 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 42 E 45 E. 3. Lyscard 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Lostwithiel 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Trurou 26 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Carelisle City two Citizens 42 45 E. 3. Derby Borough 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 E. 3. Exeter City 2 Citizens 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Ashperton Borough 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. Bardnestaple 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Chessing-colleton 2 Burgesses 42 E. 3. Dartmouth 42 45 E. 3. Honeton 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. Lydeford 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. O●…mpton 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. Plimpton 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Sutton 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. Thavestoke 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Totnes 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Brideport 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Dorcester 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Lyme 2 Burgesses 45 E. 3. Melcombe 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Poole 2 Burgesses 42 E. 3 Shaftesbury 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 45 E. 3. Warham 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Waymouth 2 Burgesses 42 E. 3. Colecester 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Maldon 2 Burgesses 42 45 E. 3. Bristoll 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. After made a Countie of it self Gloucester 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Hereford City 2 Citizens 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Bewley 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. Leominster 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. We●… 2. Burgesses 28 E. 1. St. Allans Borough 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. Hertford 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. Huntingdon Borough 2. Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 45 E. 3 Canterbury City 2 Citizens 26 28 E. 1. 42 E. 3. Rochester City 2 Citizens 26 28 E. 1. 42 E. 3. Lancaster 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. Preston in Alderness 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. Leicester Borough 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42. 45 E. 3. Lincolne City 2 Citizens 49 H. 3. 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Grymesby 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Stamford 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. London 26 E. 1. 2 Citizens 42 E. 3. 4. Citizens 45 E. 3. Northampton 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Norwich City 2 citizens 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Jernemuth 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Lenne 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 45 E. 3. Newcastle upon Tyne 2 Burgesses 26 E. 1. 45 E. 3. Nottingham Borough 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 42 E. 3. Oxford Borough 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 44 45 E. 3. Bruges or Bridgenorth Borough 2 Burgesses 28 E. 1. 45 E. 3. Salop 2 Burgesses 26 28 E. 1. 45 E. 3.