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The antiquity and power of parliaments in England written by Mr. Justice Doddridge and several other learned antiquaries.
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Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628.
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1679
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Nobility should come unto this Assembly but such as it should please the King to call by his Writ and the rest to be chosen by voice of the Burgesses and Freeholders of the Shire where they did dwell as Mr. Camden Clarencieulx in his Britannia hath very well remembred It is recorded amongst the Summons of Parliament 35 E. 3. that there is no Writ de admittendo fide dignos ad Colloquium and amongst the Earls and Barons there is returned Mary Countesse de Norff. Alienor Countesse de Ormond Phillippa Countesse de March Agnes Countesse de Pembrook and Katherine Countesse of Athel Upon the Parliament-Roll Anno 14. or 15. E. 3. there are divers Writs directed to sundry Earls and Barons de veniendo ad Regem whereof the first is directed to William Earl of Southamton to attend the King with 120 men at armes William de Clinton Earle of Huntington with 60 men at armes Lawrence de Hastinges Earle of Pembrook with 50 men at armes and so likewise there were divers directed to others and these several kinds of Summons because I find them recorded amongst the Parliament-Rolls I thought good to remember them to you I will conclude upon the Etymologie of the word which is Parliament which is to speak and deliver a mans mind freely in that Assembly whereof the boldest speech that ever I did read of to be spoken in the Kings presence was spoken by Roger Bigod Earle Marshal of England unto King Edward the first in the Parliament-house at Salisbury where the King would have had him to go into Gascoyne for him with an Army but when the Earle excused himself saying He would be be ready to go if the King went himself the King then in a chafe said By God Sr. Earle thou shalt either go or hang and I said the Earle swear the same Oath that I will neither go not hang and so departed from the King without taking leave JOSEPH HOLLAND The Antiqutty of Parliament The two Synewes of the Common-wealth are Punishment and Reward AS touching the nature of the high Court of Parliament it is nothing else but the Kings great Counsel which he doth Assemble together upon occasion of interpretings or abrogating old Laws and making of new as ill manners shall deserve or for the punishment of evil doers or the reward of the vertuous wherein these four things are to be considered 1. VVhereof this Court is composed 2. VVhat matters are proper for it 3. To what end it is ordained 1. As for the thing it self it is composed of an Head and a Body The Head is the King the Body are the Members of the Parliament This Body again is subdivided into two parts the upper house is divided partly of the Nobility Temporal who are hereditary Councellors to the high Court of Parliament by the honour of their Creation and Lands and partly of the Bishops spiritual men who are likewise by vertue of their dignity ad vitam of this Court. The other house is composed of Knights of the Shire and Burgesses for the Towns but because the number would be infinite for all Knights Gentlemen and Burgesses to be present at every Parliament therefore a certain number is selected out of that great Body serving for that great Parliament where their persons are the representations of that Body 2. For the matters they ought to treat of they ought therefore to be general and rather of such matters as cannot well be performed without the Assembly of that general Body and no more of the generals neither then necessity shall require for as in Corruptissima Republica plurimae sunt leges so doth the life and strength of the Law consist not in heaping of infinite and confused numbers of Laws but in the right interpretation and due execution of good and wholesome Laws 3. The end for which the Parliament is ordained being onely for the advancement of Gods glory and establishment of the VVeale of the King and his people it is no place for particular men to utter their private conceits for satisfaction of their curiosities or to make shew of their Eloquence by spending the time with long studied and Eloquent Orations for the reverence of God their King and their Country being well setled in their hearts will make them ashamed of such toyes and remember that they are there as sworn Counsellors to their King to give their best advice for the furtherance of his service and flourishing Weale of this Sate 4. And lastly to consider the means how to bring all your labours to a good end you must remember that you are Assembled by your lawful King to give him your best advice in matters proposed by him unto you being of so high a nature as beforesaid wherein you are gravely to deliberate and upon your consciences plainly to determine how far those things propounded do agree with the Weale both of your King and the Country whose VVeals cannot be separated FINIS There is lately come forth an exact Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second unto King Richard the Third of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign and the several Acts in every Parliament Together with the names titles of all the Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Barons summoned to every of the said Parliaments Collected by Sr. Robert Cotton Knight and Baronet And are to be sold by William Leake at the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple-Gates Books printed or sold by William Leak at the signe of the Crown in Fleet-street between the two Temple-Gates YOrks Heraldry fol. A Bible of a very fair large Roman Letter 4. Orlando Furioso fol. Perkins on the Laws of England 8. Wilkinsons Office of Sheriffs 8. Persons Law 8. Mirrour of Justice 8. Topicks in the Laws of England 8. Delamains use of the Horizontal Quadrant Wilby's second set of Musique three four five and six parts 4. Malthus Artificial Fire-works Corderias in english 8. Dr. Fulks Meteors with Observations 8. Nyes Gunnery and Fire-works Cato Major with Annotations Mel. Heliconium by Alexander Rosse 8. Nosce teipsum by Sir John Davis 8. Animadversions on Lillies Grammar 8. The History of Vienna and Paris 4. The posing of the Accidence The History of Lazarillo de Tormes the witty Spaniard Hero and Leander by George Chapman and Christopher Marlow Guillims Heraldry fol. Herberts Travels fol. Man become guilty by John Francis Senault and englished by Henry Earle of Monmouth Aula Lucis or the house of Light Christs Passion a Tragedy by the most learned Hugo Grotius Mathematical Recreations with the Horizontal dyal by William Oughtred 8. The Garden of Eden or an accurate description of Flowers and Fruits by Sir Hugh Plat. 8. Solitary Divotions with man in Glory by the Archbishop of Canterbury 12. The Idiot in four Books The Life and Reign of Henry the eighth by the Lord Herbert fol. Sken de Significatione verborum 4. The Fort Royal of holy Scriptures by J. H. the third Edition 8. Callis learned readings on the Stat. 21. of Henry 8. chap. 5. of Sewers France painted to the life in four Books the second Edition Willet on Genesis and Exodus Adams on Peter fol. Book of Martyrs fol. The Rights of the people concerning Impositions stated in a learned Argument by a late eminent Judge of this Nation Plaies Maids Tragedy Phylaster King and no King Othello the Moor of Venice The grateful Servant The Weding The Hollander The Merchant of Venice The Strange discovery