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A45213	An argument upon a generall demurrer joyned and entred in an action of false imprisonment in the Kings Bench Court termino Trinitatis 1631. rot. 1483. parte tertia, betweene George Huntley ... and William Kingsley ... and published by the said George Huntley ...	Huntley, George.; Kingsley, William, 1583 or 4-1648.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1642 (1642)	Wing H3779; ESTC R5170	112,279	128

twenty nine chapter of Magna Charta most fully and strongly confirmed 3. Caroli by the Kings Majesty in his answer to the Commons Petition of right in these wordes let right be done as is desired according to that twenty nine chapter of Magna Charta Now what saith that twenty nine Chapter of Magna Charta No freeman saith that chapter shal be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties or free customes or be outlawed or exiled or any otherwise destroyed neither will we passe upon him nor condemne him saith the King but by the lawfull iudgement of his Peeres or by the law of the land That is under your Lordships the Courts correction whose office it is to interpret statutes unlesse that party be first convicted found culpable of the breach of some law of this land by a legall proceeding either at the common law or else in some other court and whosoever shall either condemne or punish any freeborne subject of this kingdome either for his obedience to the lawes of this land or for that which is no breach of any law of this land he doth violate that twenty nine chapter of Magna Charta and for that he stands excommunicate by a double excommunication the one deliver'd publikely here in Westminster Hall (f) Tempore Bonifacii Archie● regnante tunc in Anglia H. 3. videlicet anno Dom. 1253. Id ibus Maii. inaula Westmon 15. Epis leguntur sententiam de qua hic sit mentio fulminasse Lyndew Prov. lib. 5. tit de sententia excom cap. cum malum Parag. Item excom verbis ab omnibus Daniell in the life of H. 3. 37. Henry 3. by Bonifacius then Archbishop of Cant. assisted with 14. other Bishops all in their pontificalls and tapers in their hands which after the excommunication denounced they threw upon the ground and as they lay there smoaking they cried so let all them that incurre this sentence be extinct and stincke in hell and all this was done in the presence of the Commons Nobles yea and of the King himselfe who at the same time with a loud voyce said as God me helpe I will as I am a man a Christian a Knight a King crowned and anointed inviolably observe all these things and the excommunication it selfe is set downe at the end of the statutes made 52. H. 3. in the booke of statutes at large put out by judge Rastall the other is extant in the same booke at the end of the statutes made 25. Edward 1. and uttered by Robert Winchelsee Arch-bishop of Canterbury in his time both against the violaters of this renowned law of Magna Charta often confirmed not onely by the following Kings the successours of Henry the third and Edward the first but also by the Pope him selfe as appeares out of the fift booke of Lyndewodes provinciall titulo de sententia excommunicationis cap. Cum Malum parag Item excommunicatj And besides the former confirmations and excommunications the authority of Magna Charta was made sacred and inviolable as it were 25. Edward 1. first by decreeing that that charter under the Kings seale should be sent unto all the Cathedrall Churches throughout the Realme there to remaine and to bee read before the people twice a yeare And secondly by enacting that that Charter should ever after be propugnated and vindicated by the sentence of excommunication to be denounced twice a yeare by all Archbishops and Bishops in their Cathedralls against all those that by word deede or counsell did doe contrary to the foresaid charter or that in any point did breake or undoe it and if the same Bishops or any of them should be remisse in the denuntiation of the said sentence that then the Archbishops of Cant. and Yorke for the time being should compell and distraine them to the execution of their duties in forme aforesaid as appeares by the 3. and 4. chap. 25. Ed. 1. And surely my Lord those two former solemne excommunications were those other continuall semiannuall excommunications might have beene hitherto and may hereafter bee rightly and justly denounced against the violaters of this 29. chap. of Magna Charta for this 29. chapter that no free man is to be punished but for the breach of some law is good Divinity accords excellently with the word of God The Apostle Rom. 4.15 telles us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the law causeth wrath that is punishment and how doth the Law cause wrath or punishment not simply singly of it selfe not observ'd but transgrest and therefore in the next words the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where there is no Law there is no transgression And as where there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no law there there cannot bee any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any transgression of Law so where there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no transgression of law there there cannot be any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any fault or offence and where there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no fault or offence there there ought not to be any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any wrath or punishment Nay my Lord though there be a law yet if that law be not transgrest there cannot justly be any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any wrath or punishment At most though there may bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proposita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denuntiata wrath proposed or denounced in the Law to terrifie all persons from sinne which is nothing but the binding power of the Law yet justly there cannot be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imposita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inflicta wrath imposed or inflicted by the Judge upon any person to punish him for sinne untill the Law be transgrest and sinne committed by that person And this the Apostle Rom. 5.12 doth most acutely divinely shew by imputing the punishment partly to the Law and partly to the transgression of the law to the Law as to a just rule inflicting punishment upon the transgression to the transgression as to a meritorious cause deserving that punishment according to the just rule of the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By sin which is the transgression of the law Death the wrath punishment of the law entred into the world So then my Lord this is most certainely and most undoubtedly true wheresoever there is any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any wrath or punishment any fining or imprisonment any deprivation degradation excommunication or any other censure sentence mulct or punishment whatsoever rightly and justly inflicted There there must of necessity of necessity my Lord there there must be some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some fault or offence Wheresoever there is any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any fault or offence there there must of necessity of necessity my Lord there there must be some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some transgression of Law Wheresoever there is any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any transgression of Law there there must of