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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83373	The petition of right: exhibited to His Maiestie, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning divers rights, and the liberties of the subject; : with His Majesties severall answers to them. : Also His Majesties declaration upon the same. : Likewise, His Majesties Commission of Aray for Leicester Shire, / written by the King in Latine, and translated for the knowledge of the common-wealth. ; With the votes of both houses of Parliament concerning the same. ; John Browne cler. Parliamentorum. ; Together how Sir Henry Hastings and others had repulse, and were arested by a sergeant at armes in the execution of the said commission.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Browne, John, ca. 1608-1691.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing E2169A; ESTC R34431	7,929	8

THE PETITION OF RIGHT Exhibited to his MAIESTIE By the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament concerning divers Rights and the Liberties of the Subject With his Majesties severall Answers to them Also his Majesties Declaration upon the same Likewise His Majesties Commission of Aray for Leicester Shire written by the King in Latine and translated for the knowledge of the Common-wealth With the Votes of both Houses of Parliament concerning the same Iohn Browne Cler. Parliamentrrum Together how Sir Henry Hastings and others had repulse and were arested by a Sergeant at Armes in the execution of the said Commission Printed at London for George Lindesay and are to bee sold by Iohn Gyles at his Shop in Holborne neere Davids Inne 1642. Iune 28. The Petition of Rights Exhibited to his Majestie by the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in Parliament assembled c. To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie HVmbly shew unto Our Soveraigne Lord the KING the Lords Spirituall and Temporall Commons in Parliament assembled That where as it is declared and enacted by a Satute made in the time of the Reigne of King Edward the first commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo That no Tallage or Ayde shall be laid or levyed by the King or his Heires in this Realme without the good will and assent of the Archbishops Bishops Earles Barons Knights Burgesses and other the Freemen of the Commonalty of this Realme And by Authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the third it is declared and enacted That from hence forth no person should bee compelled to make any Loanes to the King against his will because such Loanes were against reason and the Franchise of the Land And by other Lawes of this Realme it is provided that none should be charged by any charge or Imposition called a Benevolence nor by such like charge by which the Statutes before mentioned and other the good Lawes and Statutes of this Realme your Subjects have inherited this Freedome That they should not be compelled ●o contribute to any Taxe Tallage Ayde or other like Charge not set by common consent in Parliament Yet neverthelesse of late divers Commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in severall Counties with instructions have issued by meanes whereof your people have been in divers places assembled and required to lend certaine summes of mony unto your Majesty and of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Lawes or Statutes of this Realme and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and give attendance before your Privie Councell and in other places and others of them have been therefore Imprisoned confined and sundery other waies mo●ested and disquieted And divers other charges have been levyed upon your people in severall Counties by Lord Lieutenants Deputie-Lieutenants Commissioners for Musters ●ustices of Peace and others by Command of or Direction from your Majestie or your Privie Councell against the Lawes and free Customes of the Realme And where also by the Statute called The great Charter of the Liberties of England It is declared and enacted That no Freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Free-hold or Liberties or his free Customes or be outlawed or exiled or in any manner de●troyed but by the lawfull Judgement of his Peeres or by the law of the Land And in the eight and twentieth yeare of the reigne of King Edward the third it was decla●ed and enacted by authority of Parliament that no man of what estate and condition that ●e be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disherited ●or put to death without being brought to answer by due Processe of Law Neverthelesse against the tenure of the said Statutes and other the good Lawes and Statutes of your Realme to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before you Justices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas Corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court should order and their keepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties speciall command signified by the Lords of your Privie Councell and yet were returned back to severall prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to Law And whereas of late great Companies of Souldiers and Marriners have beene dispersed into divers Counties of the Realme and the inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their houses and there to suffer them to so journe against the Laws and Customes of this Realme and to the great grievance and vexation of the people And whereas also by authority of Parliament in the five and twentieth yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the third it is declared and enacted that no man should before judged of life or limbe against the forme of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land And by the sayd Great Charter and other the Lawes and Statutes of this your Realme no man ought to bee adjudged to death but by the Lawes established in this your Realme either by the Customes of the same Realme or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no offender of what kind soever is excepted from the proceedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realme Neverthelesse of late time divers Commissions under your Majesties great Seale have issued forth by which certaine persons have beene assigned and appointed Commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the Land according to the Justice of Martial law against such souldiers or Marriners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any muther robbery felony mutiny or other outrage or misdimeanour whatsoever and by such summary course and order as is agreeable to Martiall Law and as is used in Armies in time of Warre to proceed to the tryall and condemnation of such offenders and them to cause to be executed and be put to death according to the Law Martiall By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have beene by some of the said Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Lawes and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Lawes and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to have beene judged and executed And also sundry grievous offenders by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realme by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Justice have unjustly refused or forborne to proceed against such offenders according to the same Lawes and Statutes upon pretence that the said offenders were punishable onely by Martiall Law and by authority of such Commissioners as aforesaid Which