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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54633	The antient right of the Commons of England asserted, or, A discourse proving by records and the best historians that the Commons of England were ever an essential part of Parliament by William Petyt of the Inner-Temple, Esq.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1945; ESTC R422	80,113	272

nuper defuncti ut animos omnium in sui promotionem accenderet amorem ut illum in Regem susciperent patronum to which it was generally answered That if he with a willing mind would grant and by his Charter confirm to them illas libertates consuetudines antiquas which their Ancestors enjoyed in the time of Edward the Confessor in ipsum consentirent in Regem unanimiter consecrarent Henry willingly granted this and taking an Oath that he would perform it consecratus est in Regem at Westm. upon Lady day favente Clero populo and so forthwith he was Crowned by Maurice Bishop of London and Thomas Archbishop of York After such his Coronation he granted and confirmed to the Nation for the advancement of Holy Church and preservation of the peace of his people a Charter of their antient Liberties The Charter the Reader may find in that industrious Revivor and Restorer of decayed and forgotten Antiquities Mr. Lambard as also in Matth. Paris Where it appears that the Archbishops Bishops Barons Earls Vicounts or Sheriffs Optimates totius Regni Angliae were Witnesses to the Charter And that at the Coronation of the King those Laws were made de Communi Consilio assensu Baronum Regni Angliae by the common advice and assent of the Barons of England It being usual in succeeding ages at the Coronations of our English Kings to confirm make and ordain Laws De assensu Baronum Regni per Commune Concilium Regni or Parliament I shall from hence observe two things 1. That these Laws were granted and confirmed assensu Baronum Regni or Baronagii Angliae there being a clear difference between Barones Regis and Barones Regni as appears in the very bowels of those Laws and elsewhere for the K. Saith Si quis Baronum nostrorum c. but who were comprehended under those first phrases Mr. Camden will tell us Nomine Baronagii Angliae omnes quodammodo Regni ordines continentur and so the Commons as we now call them were there and assented to those Laws 2. Clero Populo universo Angliae congregatis We read King Stephen assensu Cleri Populi in Regem Angliae electus per Dominum Papam confirmatus 10 H. 2. Congregato Clero Populo Regni or as Fitz-Stephens Generali Concilio the King made the Assise or Statute of Clarendon which Council the learned Selden calls a full Parliament King John was Crowned mediante tam Cleri quam Populi unanimi consensu favore Anno 50 H. 3. Per providentiam Cardinalis meaning the Popes Legate apud Kenilworth Clerus Populus convocantur which the Patent Roll of that year thus confirms The King a le request de honourable pier Sire Ottobon Legat d'Engleterre son Parlement eust sommons à Kenilworth where the Statute or Dictum de Kenilworth was made between the King and his Communante or Parlement Rex primo postmodum Clerus Populus juraverunt quod Dictum inviolabiliter observarent Thus have I at length I hope fully ascertained and explained the Historians phrase Clerus Populus and proved it to be a Parliament from the Pat. Roll of H. 3. Yet I do not think that the Lords Temporal only were the Populus nor the Lords Spiritual the Clerus for I agree with Dr. Heylyn that there is no Record either of History or Law which I have observed in which the word Clerus serves to signifie the Archbishops and Bishops exclusive of the other Clergy or any writing whatsoever wherein it doth not either signifie the whole Clergy generally or the inferior Clergy only exclusive of the Archbishops Bishops and other Prelates and 't is my opinion as far as I can find that the word Populus following Clerus was Thema universale in significando and comprehended as well the Commons as the Lords and indeed the subject matter of the Historians speaks it William the Second Henry the First King Stephen and King John were to be elected and created Kings of England having no hereditary right 't was but reasonable then and according to the Laws and precedents of other Countries in like Cases Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet and so was the solemn Resolution of both Lords and Commons in the Parliament 40 E. 3. That neither King John nor any other could put the Realm or people of England into subjection sanz assent de eux without their assent or as the Parliament 29 H. 3. declared sine assensu Regni or as Malmesbury says in vita Willielmi primi absque generali Senatus Populi conventu Edicto But now to close the Reign of Henry the first I will out of that excellent Historian Matthew Paris transcribe the Oration or Speech of that King to the Common Council or Parliament in the seventh year of his Reign his elder Brother Robert Duke of Normandy then claiming the Crown of England and ready to invade this Nation with a great Force the Speech of the King the learned Monk thus delivers to us MAgnatibus igitur Regni ob hoc Londoniam Edicto Regio convocatis Rex talibus alloquiis mel favum oleumque mellitis mollitis blandiens dixit Amici fideles mei indigenae ac naturales nostis veraci sama referente qualiter frater meus Robertus electus per Deum vocatus ad regnum Hierosolymitanum foeliciter gubernandum quam frontosè illud infoeliciter refutaverit merito propterea à Deo reprobandus Nostis etiam in multis aliis superbiam ferocitatem illius quia vir bellicosus pacis impatiens est vosque scienter quasi contemptibiles quos desides vocat glutones conculcare desiderat Ego vero Rex humilis pacificus vos in pace in antiquis vestris libertatibus prout crebrius jurejur ando promisi gestio confovere vestris inclinando consiliis consultius ac mitius more mansueti principis sapienter gubernare super his si provideritis scripta subarata roborate iteratis juramentis praedicta certissime confirmare omnia videlicer quae sanctus Rex Edwardus Deo inspirante providè sancivit inviolabiliter jubeo observari ut mecum fideliter stantes fratris mei immò mei totius Regni Angliae hostis cruentissimi injurias potenter animose ac voluntarie propulsetis Si enim fortitudine Anglorum roborer inanes Normannorum minas nequaquam censeo formidandas Talibus igitur promissis quae tamen in fine impudenter violavit omnium corda sibi inclinavit ut pro ipso contra quemlibet usque ad capitis expositionem dimicarent This Speech to me is another strong Confirmation and Argument against the Norman Conquest for 't is luce clarius 1. That King Henry the First did not pretend to hold the Crown Jure Victoris 2. That the English were not totally subdued and destroyed by his