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A14575	The order and vsage of the keeping of a parlement in England, and The description of tholde and ancient cittie of Fxcester [sic]. Collected by Iohn Vovvel alias Hooker gentleman; Order and usage of keeping of the parlements in England	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601. Discription of the cittie of Excester. aut	1575 (1575)	STC 24887; ESTC S119300	57,649	106

the Parlement door should not be shut but he kept by the Porter or Sergeaunt at Armes Of the help for the King. THe King was not accustomed to demaūd help of his Realme but onely for war that was instant or for the creation of his Sonnes to bée made knights or his Daughters to be maryed and these helps ought to be demaunded in the ful Parlement and in writing to be deliuered vnto euery degrée and they in writing to make answere And if this help ought to be graunted then euery degrée of the Parlemēt should cōcent therto And it is to be knowen that two Knights or two Citizens or two Eurgesses whiche come to the Parlement in graunting or denying any thing demaunded in the Parlement haue more aucthoritie then the greatest Earle in England And in like cace two proctors for the Clergie in one diocesse haue more aucthoritie then their Bishops in things to be graunted or denyed in Parlement and the reason is this The King may holde his parlemēt for the communaltie of his Realme without Bishops Earles or Barons so that they haue lawful sūmons and come not for some time there was no Bishop Earle nor Baron and yet the King hid kéep his Parlemēt but of the contrary if the communaltie of the Clergie and of the Temporaltie be monished to the parlement as they ought to be by the Law and for certain causes they doo not or wilnot come as if they pretend that the King hath not ruled or gouerned them accordingly and doo therin expresse wherin he hath not ruled them accordingly in this cace the Parlement whiche the King holdeth with the Bishops Earles and Barons is of no effect and therfore in all things that are to be graunted ordayned established or broken by parlement the communaltie of the parlement of necessitie must concent therunto For in the cōmunaltie are conteyned iiij degrées of Parlement that is to say proctors of the Clergie Knights of Shéers Citizens of Cittyes and Burgesses of Townes these persons doo represent the whole cōmunaltie of England wher as th' other estates doo represent but their owne persons For billes and peticions of the Parlement THe Parlement ought not to bée ended whiles any peticion dependeth vndiscussed or at least to whome a determinate aunswere is not made and if the King permit the contrary hée is periured also no Péere of the Parlement shall departe from the same without licence obtayned of the King and of his péeres which licence is to be obteyned in open parlement and to be recorded in rolle of Parlement And if it happen any of the Péeres to be sick during the Parlement so that he cannot come to it then for thrée dayes he shall send his excuse to the Parlement but if after thrée dayes passed he come not then two of his péeres shal be sent to him to sée his person and therof to aduertise the Parlement and if any suspicion be had these two Péeres shal be sworne to testifie the very trueth and if it appéer he haue fained him self sick he then to be amerced as a fault for his not appéeraunce at the beginning of the Perlement and if he be sick then before then he shall make a sufficient to appéer in Parlement for him No person of the Parlement can be excused hauing his helth and memory The ending of the Parlement THe finishing of the Parlement must be assigned appointed and openly proclamed bothe in the Parlement and within the palace of the Parlement And if there be any wil say that he hath no answere of his bil deliuered into the Parlement then the Parlement to continue but if no man so say it is to be supposed that euery man hath remedye or assigned how to haue remedy by the Lawes and at the proclamation made if there be no Billes to be laid in the King may licence his Parlement Of the Coppyes of the Records of the Parlement THe Clark of the Parlement shall deny to no man the coppy of his processe but shall deliuer vnto euery man that demaundeth it taking for euery ten lines a peny And if the party be poore and therupon maketh his othe to haue nothing the rolle of the Parlement shal be tenne inches brode The Parlement shal be kept whersoeuer it shall please the King. THese orders in processe of time did successe and were out of all vse few or no Parlements béeing kept from the time of William the Conqueror vntil the reign of King Edward the first who by th' aduise of his wise learned counsailers prescribed a forme order how the Parlements within this Realme should be obserued and kept which orders also in the course of certain yéeres grew out of vse in many points and the order héer ensuing is that which is in our dayes receiued and vsed THE ORDER AND Vsage how to keep a Parlement in England in these dayes colected by Iohn Vowel alias Hooker gentleman one of the Citizens for the Cittie of Exeter at the Parlement holden at VVestminster Anno domine Elizabethae Reginae decimo Tertio 1571. By whome and for what cause a Parlement ought to be summoned and called THe King who is Gods anoynted béeing the hed and chéef of the whole Realme and vpon whome the gouernment and estates therof doo wholy and onely depend hath the power and authoritie to call and assemble his Parlement and therin to séek aske the aduise councel and assistāce of his whole Realme and without this his authoritie no parlement can properly be summoned or assembled And the King hauing this authoritie ought not to summō his Parlement but for weightie great causes and in which he of necessitie ought to haue the aduise and counsel of all the estates of his Realme whiche be these and suche like as foloweth First for Religion for for asmuche as by the Lawes of God and this Realme the King next and immediatly vnder God is his deputye and Vicar in Earth and the chéefest ruler within his Realmes and dominons his office function and duty is abooue all things to séek and sée that God be honored in true Religion and Vertue and that he and his people doo bothe in profession and life liue according to the same Also that all Idolatries false Religions heresies scismes errors supersticions and what so euer is contrary to true Religion all disorders and abuses either among the Clergie or the Laietie be reformed ordred and redressed Also the assuraunce of the King and Quéens persons and of their Children their aduancement preferment in mariages the establishing of succession the suppression of Traitors the aduoyding or eschewing of warres the attempting or mooving of warres the subduing of Rebelles and pacifying of ciuil warres and commotions the leuying or hauing any aide or Subsidye for the preseruation of the King and publique estate Also the making and establishing of good and wholsome Lawes or the repealing and debarring of former Lawes as whose execution may be