Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	3,111	5	10.0848	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

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

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 Non nulli taedio investigandae veritatis cullibet opini●● potius igna●i succambunt quàm explorandâ veritati pertinaci diligentiâ perseverare volunt Min. Foelix Inter ●ericula veritatis libertatis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for F. Smith T. Bassett J. Wright R. Chiswell and S. Heyrick 1680. To the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of ESSEX Viscount MALDON Baron Capell of HADHAM Lord Lieutenant of the County of HERTFORD one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and First Lord Commissioner of his Majesties Treasury MY LORD THere have been Authors of modern times who have in their Writings concerning the Government of this Kingdom published to the World That the Commons of England as now phrased were no part of the antient Commune Concilium or Parliament of this Nation before the forty ninth Year of H. 3. and then introduced by Rebellion A Position when seriously weighed equally wounds the Peerage of England since the same Authors say that there is no formal Summons of the Lords to Parliament found upon Record before that time After I had often considered so great a point and having often read of the freedom of this Nation that no Englishman could lose his right or property but by Law the Life and Soul of this so famous and so excellently constituted Government the best polity upon Earth which when united in all its parts by prudent Councils made always the people happy at home in Peace and the Crown ever Victorious abroad in War I did resolve to take pains to search if matters thus represented to the highest disadvantage and prejudice of the people of England were true or false which I have industriously and impartially endeavoured and hope with that clearness that will evidence to all unbiassed judgments the unsoundness of those Opinions When I had so done being unwilling my labour should be to my self alone and not to those who search after knowledge in these matters to disabuse and prevent others from building upon such mistaken and dangerous Foundations I thought it not unseasonable to publish this Discourse wherein there is no Record cited but in my opinion equally asserts the right of the Peers of this Kingdom as well as of the Commons and therefore have taken the boldness to send it into the World under your Lordships Protection whom I know to be a great Lover of Truth To which all mankind ought to pay Allegiance I should have had great satisfaction if before it had been put to the Press it might have received your Lordships judicious corrections and approbation whose knowledge and industry in venerable Antiquity and all other useful Learning is well known unto the World But this happiness I could not reasonably expect your Lordships time being so much taken up in the service of the Crown whereof your Lordship is so eminent and so great a Pillar as your Honourable Imployments both at home and abroad do sufficiently demonstrate I most humbly beg your Lordships Pardon for my presumption in this Dedication which fault I hope may be extenuated by the relation I have to your Lordship in my Profession and being deprived of other means publickly to shew my humble gratitude for the many favours your Lordship has been pleased to confer upon My Lord Your Lordships most humble most faithful and most obedient Servant W. Petyt THE PREFACE MY principal design in this following Discourse is impartially to vindicate the just honour of our English Parliament from the calumnies and reproches of some late Authors who have asserted 1. That an essential part of that Great Council viz. the Commons of England represented by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament were introduced and began An. 49 H. 3. by Rebellion 2. That before that time the Commons were never admitted to have any Votes or share in the making of Laws for the Government of the Kingdom nor to any Communication in affairs of State To discover and refute the unsoundness of the second Position and that the contrary may appear to be true I shall before I come to answer the first consider the second and endeavour to prove that during the Brittish Saxon and Norman Governments the Freemen or Commons of England as now called and distinguished from the great Lords were pars essentialis constituens an essential and constituent part of the Wittena Gemot Commune Concilium Baronagium Angliae or Parliament in those Ages 1. Under the Brittish Government THE Brittons called their Commune Concilium or Parliament Kyfr-ythen then because their Laws were therein ordained and upon K. Lucius his Letter to Pope Elutherius to send him the Roman Laws the Pope who could not be ignorant of the constitution and frame of the Brittish Polity writes back to him Habetis penes vos in Regno utramque paginam ex illis Dei gratia per Concilium Regni vestri sume legem per illam Dei potentia vestrum rege Britanniae Regnum But what their Laws and particular Government were is very uncertain by reason that Scripta Patriae as Gildas sayes Scriptorumve Monumenta si quae fuerint aut ignibus hostium exusta aut Civium exulum classe longius deportata non comparent The Histories of our Country if there were any are not to be found being either burnt by the Enemy or carried beyond the Seas by the banished Brittons Yet this is certain and not to be denied that 〈◊〉 their elder time the People or Freemen had a great share in their publick Council and Government For Dion Cassius or Xipniline out of him in the Life of Severus assures us Apud hos i. e. Britannos populus magna ex parte principatum tenet 2. Under the Saxon Government IT cannot be doubted but that the Saxons who made themselves Masters of the Brittish Nation brought with them their Country Laws and Government and that the Commons were an essential and constituent part of their Commune Concilium Tacitus tells us De minoribus rebus Principes consultant de majoribus omnes ita tamen ut ea quoque quorum penes plebem arbitrium est apud Principes praetractentur After the Saxon Government became united and fixed under a sole Christian Monarch they still continued and kept their antient Wittena Gemots or Parliaments as now phrased wherein they made Laws and managed the great affairs of the King and Kingdom according to the Plat-form of their Ancestors Many Authorities might be given to evidence this I will instance in three or four 1. then We have that famous Parliament summoned by King Ethelbert An. 605. which my Author calls Commune Concilium tam Cleri quam populi 2. About the Year 712. King Ina assembled a great Council or Parliament wherein he

adjornatur ulterius usque quindenam Sanctae Trinitatis eo statu c. ad quem diem ven̄ datus est ei dies ulterius usque octabas Sancti Michaelis anno viz. decimo nono Regis hujus ea FINIS Spelm. Concil Tom. 1. p. 34. Erac Beltaunia viginti octo Civitatibus quondam nobili●●imis insignita praeter Casteila innumera quae 〈◊〉 ipsa muris turribus portis ac seris eraut instructa ●●rm●●simis 〈◊〉 Er●l H●●t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 C●● 〈◊〉 Xiphilin è Dione Cassio p. 601. impress Basiliae Sp●●m Con 〈…〉 To●● 1. p. 126. Idem Tom. 1. pag. 219. ●ed Eccles. Histor. lib. 1. Antiquit. Britanniae p. 75. Parliamentum Synodus magna nuncupatur Somn●●i 〈◊〉 Malme●b lib. 3 p. 56. l. 24. 〈…〉 m. Gloss. 〈◊〉 Gemotum ●ol 261. Camd. Britan. in 8 o. impress 1586. fol. 63. Lambard de priseis Anglor Legibus Cap. 8. sol 139. Bracton 〈◊〉 134. Coke 12. Rep. sol 65. Plouden Commen sol 236 237. 〈◊〉 Con●ilia pag. 39. 397. Chron. ●o●annis Br 〈…〉 pton Col. 841. I 〈…〉 er Commu 〈…〉 de Term. S 〈…〉 ae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7 〈◊〉 2. p 〈…〉 R 〈…〉 Domini Thesaur in S●●●ca●io rema 〈…〉 Cha●●a Regis 〈◊〉 will Malm●b de Gestis Reg. Anglor l. 2. pag. 4● b. 〈◊〉 16. ●g 42. l. 21. Lib. 1. Mat. 〈◊〉 pag. 〈◊〉 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 Lamberdum S 〈…〉 Review of his History of Tythes Sir ●oh● Da 〈…〉 Reports in his C 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4● Camd. Britan. Spelmans Glossary verbo Drenches pag. 184. Sha●d in Ca● in ●tin Temp. E. 3. fol. 143. b. Johannes Shardelowe unus Justi● de Banco Rot. Pat. 16 E. 3. Par● 1. m. 2. In ore gladii saith he Regnum adeptus sum Anglorum devicto Haraldo Rege cum suis complicibus qui mihi regnum cum providentia Dei destinatum beneficio concessionis Domini cognati mei gloriosi Regis Edwardi concesa●● conati sunt a●s●rre c. Chart. 〈◊〉 in inspex Part. 7. 1● E. 4. membr 26 MS. penes meipsum 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 Main●●●sh de Gest. Pontif. pag. 154. b. 〈◊〉 Concil Tom. 2. pag. 3●1 342. 〈◊〉 Pi 〈…〉 is 〈◊〉 saith Pag. ●●8 nulli Gallo datum quod Anglo cuiquam injustè sterit ablatum S●ldeni ad Eadm●rum Spiceleg pag. 190. Net 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conquest 〈◊〉 pag. ●●5 257. 〈…〉 S●●●●ns Titles of Honor pag. 580. ●em pag 523. Mat. 〈◊〉 in ●●ta Sanct● 〈◊〉 Abbat 〈…〉 pag. 48. Mat. Pare in vita 〈◊〉 Abbat 〈…〉 〈◊〉 l. 3● Hoviden pars prior pag. 260. Mat. Paris in ●●●a S. A●bani Abbatum pag. 48. * Naturalium Mirror of justices Chap. 1. pag. 9. De Eventibus Anglia Lib. 5. sol 2681. Col. 1 2. ●e●●a● Dorob Act. Pont. Cantuar p. 1653. 〈◊〉 5. Relat. 〈◊〉 primi ad 〈◊〉 tractat de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 194. 〈◊〉 Ti● of Honor pag. 58● Ex Car●●lario Coenobii 〈◊〉 in Bibliotheca C●tton sub E●●igie 〈◊〉 A. 3. Provincia 〈◊〉 Co 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Ti● of Honor pag. 2●● 〈◊〉 Glo●● Ti● Provincia pag. 4●● Parlia●●ntum Synodus 〈◊〉 ●gn● 〈◊〉 S 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. fol. 60. Eadm●● 〈◊〉 vita 〈◊〉 2. sol 13. l. 5. An. Dom. 1187. 〈…〉 Hoveden pars prior pag. 264. Lin. 40. b. * 〈…〉 ruined 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Rot. Parl. 1 〈◊〉 4. Art 1● Pultons Stat. 20 E. 3. sol 137. King James's first Speech to his first Parlialiament in England Pulton Stat. 1 Jacobi cap. 2. sol 1157. King Charies the First 's Declaration to all his loving Subjects published with the advice of his Privy Council Exact Collectious of Declara●ons pag. 28 29. Mat. Par. A. D. 11●0 pag. 55. l. 20. In 〈…〉 itio ne qui Magnates viz. Comes Baro Miles seu aliqua al● notabi●●s persona transeat ad partes transmarinas Ro● C●aus 3 E. 2. m. 1● dor●o Sie igitur ist● modo Willi●●●o ●ortuo 〈…〉 rtas frater 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 contra inimicos fibi infestos in guerra sua occupatus est in codem tempore i●te Ro 〈…〉 s semper contrarius adeo innaturalis extiterat Baroni bus Reg●● Arglie quod plenario consensu consilio totius Communi 〈…〉 s R●g●● imposuerunt ei illegitimitatem quod non fuerat procreatus de legitimo Th●r● willielmi Conquestoris unde unanimi assensu suo ipsum recutarunt pro Rege omnino recusaverunt H●nricum fratren in Regem 〈◊〉 Henr. de Knighton Coll. 2374. Cap. 8. l. 14. LL. Guli●●●ni primi Lamb. sol 175 176. Hac etiam Carta habeatur apud Mat. Pa●is An. Dom. 1118 and 1213. Carta modera●ioni ●●odi magni si●●lli Anno 〈◊〉 ●ahannis Ex vete●● Registro in Archivis Cantuar. Archiepiscopi Rot. Pat. 〈◊〉 H. 3. m. 12. Cake 2. Instir. sol 79. Rastals Stat. 1 E. 3. LL. G 〈…〉 ni primi L●●● sol 175 176. Camd. Britanin 8. De ordin Angli e sol 61. W●●● Malmesb. Histor. Novel lib. 1. pag. 101. l. 15. b. Hoveden pars posterior pag. 282. l. 13. MS. vita Tho●e Archiepiscopi Cant. in Bibl. Cotton S●l●e●s Titles of Honor fol. 585. Carta moderationis seodi magni sigilli Mat. West●● pag. 397. l. 57. Rot. Pat. 50 H. 3. m. 3. dorso Rastalls Stat. pag. 12. Mat. W●●●m sol 393. l. 1. D● H●ylins stumbling Block pag. 189. Rot Parl. 40 E. 3. n. 78. Mat. 〈◊〉 An. 1245. p. 191 197. Malmisb lib. 〈◊〉 pag. 56. Oratio Regis Henrici ad Anglos Mat. Paris in vita H. 1. pag. 62 63. Inhibitio nèqui Magnates viz. Comes Baro Miles seualiqua alia Notabilis persona transeat ad partes transmarinas Rot. Claus. 3 E. 2. m. 16. dorso Rot. Parl. 8 E. 2. n. 233. Pro Burgenses de San●●o A 〈…〉 Who sent Burgesles to Parliament 28 E. 1. 35 E. 1. 1 〈◊〉 2. 2 E. 2. 5 E. 2. P 〈…〉 's 4. part of Parliamentary Wri●s pag. 〈◊〉 Those Rolls lost or destoyed The Statute of Articuli Cleri made the next year after this Record cells us that there were divirsa Parliamenta temporibus Progenitorum suor●● Regum Ang●●● Coke 2. Instit. 〈◊〉 618. Respons est per Concilium Nota Rolls of Summons to Parliament were extant this very Parliament Rot. Claus. 8 E. 2. m. 25. Selden's Titles of Honor fol. 604 605. It appears by the Patent Roll of 26 E. 3. that there were Parliamenta and Summons to Parliament temporibus Progenitorum ante annum 49 H. 3. Rot. Pat. 26 E. 3. Pars 1. m. 23. Rot. Pat. 15 Joh. Pars 2. m. 2. In the antient Subsidy Rolls we often meet with the Tenants in antient Demesne in Parliament and giving Subsidies and it is the opinion of my Lord Hobart sol 48. that by continuance of time they were discontinued and it may be one reason thereof was that it was an ease granted them by the King in favour of their labour of the Earth Vide Rot. de 20. 15 Ed. 2. apud Northampton An. Regni sui primo à Laicis concessis Rot. de 15. Burgorum Regi