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A91297 The third part of a seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws, government of all English freemen; with a chronological collection of their strenuous defenses, by wars, and otherwise: of all great Parliamentary Councills, synods, and chief laws, charters, proceedings in them; of the publike revolutions of state, with the sins and vices occasioning them; and the exemplary judgements of God upon tyrants, oppressors, perjured perfidious traitors, rebels, regicides, usurpers, during the reigns o [sic] four Saxon and Danish Kings, from the year of our Lord 600. till the coronation of William the Norman, anno 1066. Collected out of our antientest, and best historians, with brief usefull observations on and from them. / By William Prynne esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 3 Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1657 (1657) Wing P4102; Thomason E905_1; ESTC R207432 279,958 400

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modis_fw-la omnibus_fw-la sarculetur_fw-la &_o a_o modo_fw-la omnis_fw-la homo_fw-la dignus_fw-la publica_fw-la rectitudine_fw-la reputetur_fw-la pauper_fw-la &_o dive_v quicunque_fw-la sit_fw-la &_o eye_v justa_fw-la judicia_fw-la judicentur_fw-la i_o shall_v transcribe_v only_o some_o few_o of_o his_o law_n pertinent_a to_o my_o theme_n lex_fw-la 25._o prohibemus_fw-la ne_fw-la christianus_n aliquis_fw-la penitus_fw-la pro_fw-la parva_fw-la re_fw-la saltem_fw-la ad_fw-la mortem_fw-la deducatur_fw-la sed_fw-la justitia_fw-la pacificans_fw-la pro_fw-la necessitate_v populi_fw-la exquiratur_fw-la ne_fw-la pro_fw-la levi_fw-la re_fw-la opus_fw-la manuum_fw-la dei_fw-la &_o svi_fw-la ipsius_fw-la pretium_fw-la quod_fw-la profundè_fw-la redemit_fw-la desperet_fw-la lex_fw-la 26._o praecipimus_fw-la nè_fw-la christiani_n passim_fw-la in_o exilio_fw-la vendantur_fw-la vel_fw-la in_o gentilitatem_fw-la nè_fw-la forte_fw-fr pereant_fw-la animae_fw-la quas_fw-la propria_fw-la vita_fw-la 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sit_fw-la erga_fw-la regem_fw-la cxx_o s._n reus_fw-la in_o anglorum_fw-la laga_fw-la nisi_fw-la cum_fw-la juramento_fw-la audeat_fw-la inveritare_fw-la quod_fw-la rectius_fw-la nescivit_fw-la judicare_fw-la &_o dignitatem_fw-la suae_fw-la legalitatis_fw-la semper_fw-la amittat_fw-la si_fw-la non_fw-la eam_fw-la redimat_fw-la erga_fw-la regem_fw-la sicut_fw-la ei_fw-la permittetur_fw-la in_o denelaga_n lathslithes_n reus_fw-la sit_fw-la si_fw-la non_fw-la juret_fw-la quod_fw-la
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in_o their_o extremity_n move_v by_o the_o example_n of_o the_o rest_n of_o their_o countryman_n submit_v themselves_o likewise_o to_o king_n swain_n send_v hostage_n to_o and_o make_v their_o peace_n with_o he_o the_o rather_o for_o that_o they_o fear_v swain_n fury_n be_v so_o much_o incense_v against_o they_o for_o his_o former_a shameful_a repulse_n by_o they_o that_o if_o they_o submit_v not_o to_o he_o of_o their_o own_o accord_n he_o will_v not_o only_o spoil_v they_o of_o all_o their_o good_n but_o likewise_o command_v either_o all_o their_o eye_n to_o be_v pull_v out_o or_o their_o hand_n and_o foot_n to_o be_v cut_v off_o if_o he_o subdue_v they_o by_o force_n 379._o john_n speed_z against_o the_o current_n of_o other_o historian_n inform_v we_o that_o swain_n after_o his_o repulse_n from_o london_n have_v receive_v a_o certain_a sum_n of_o money_n go_v back_o into_o denmark_n for_o want_v of_o victual_n and_o to_o recruit_v his_o shatter_a army_n whence_o return_v soon_o 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kingdom_n and_o crown_n and_o you_o i_o be_o sure_a hold_v it_o a_o worthy_a death_n that_o be_v purchase_v for_o the_o liberty_n of_o yourselves_o and_o kindred_n and_o therein_o i_o pray_v you_o let_v we_o all_o die_v for_o i_o see_v both_o god_n and_o destiny_n against_o we_o and_o the_o name_n of_o the_o english_a nation_n bring_v almost_o to_o the_o last_o period_n for_o we_o be_v overcome_v not_o by_o weapon_n and_o hostile_a war_n but_o by_o treason_n and_o domestic_a falsehood_n our_o navy_n betray_v into_o the_o dane_n hand_n our_o battle_n weaken_v by_o the_o revolt_n of_o our_o captain_n our_o design_n betray_v to_o they_o by_o our_o own_o counsellor_n and_o they_o also_o enforce_a composition_n of_o dishonourable_a peace_n i_o myself_o disesteem_v and_o in_o scorn_n term_v ethelred_n the_o unready_a your_o valour_n and_o loyalty_n betray_v by_o your_o own_o leader_n and_o all_o our_o poverty_n yearly_o augment_v by_o the_o payment_n of_o their_o danegelt_n which_o how_o 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