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A56989 The supremacy debated, or, The authority of Parliaments, formerly owned by Romish clergy to be the supreamest power W. R., Gent. 1689 (1689) Wing R100; ESTC R18239 3,879 2

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and the Laws broken by him assembled and rose up in Arms against him and deposed him who after died in a Wood where he fled being slain by his Swine Herd So Kenwolfe was made King in his stead Anno 756. Ofred King of Northumberland for his evil Government was expelled by his Subjects and deprived of all Kingly Authority in the Year 789. So Ethelred the Son of Molo his next Successor being revoked from Exile and restored to the Crown of which he was formerly deprived thereupon murthering divers of his Nobles and Subjects to secure his Crown did so offend his Subjects thereby that in the Year 794. they rose up in Arms against him and slew him at Cobre Ceolwolfe King of Merica Anno 820. after one Year's Reign was for his Mis-Government expulsed by his People abandoning his Crown and Country for the safety of his Life The Crown of England hath oftentimes been setled upon those who were not next Heirs to it Witness the Electing and Crowning of Edward who was illegitimate and putting by Ethelred the right Heir after Edgar's Decease Anno 975. The Electing and Crowning of Canutus a meer Foreigner in opposition to Edward the right Heir to King Ethelred Anno 1016. Also the Electing of Harold and Hardiknute both elected and crowned Kings successively without Title Edmond and Alfred the right Heirs being dispossessed the latter imprisoned and tormented to death An. 1036. 1040. yet after Hardiknute's Decease Edward surnamed the Confessor was chosen King by Consent of Parliament and the English Nobility upon the Death of King Harold enacted that none of the Danish Blood should any more reign over them After this King's Death Edgar Etheling who had the best Title was rejected and Harold elected and crowned King. So Kings after the Conquest not successively succeeding after William the Conqueror's Decease Anno 1087. Robert the elder Brother was put aside and William Rufus elected and crowned After whose Death Henry I. his younger Brother though not next Heir was elected King by the Clergy Nobles and Commons who refused to admit of any King but with Capitulations and Caveats to their own liking upon fair Promises for reforming bad and rigorous Laws Remission of Taxes exacted on the Subjects and Punishments of the chief Causers of them and a solemn Oath to frame good Laws and ratifie St. Edward's Laws All which he really performed So after the Death of Richard I. John Earl of Morton was elected and crowned King his Nephew Arthur the right Heir dis-inherited He dying his Son Henry III. was elected and crowned and Lewis made King in his Father's Life by the Barons removed Edward II. King Edw. II. deposed their natural King of England was deposed by Bishops Peers and Commons in Parliament Anno 1327. King Richard II. King Rich. II. deposed for sundry Misdemeanours objected against him in Parliament and for the Breach of his Coronation-Oath was deposed by Parliament and Henry IV. placed in his stead Anno 1392. Henry VI. King Queen and Prince of Wales put aside by Parliament Queen Margaret and Prince Edward their Son were by a Parliament put by and Edward IV. made King After which King Henry was by another Parliament re-crowned and re-established in his Kingdom and Edward IV. declared a Traitor But Edward not long after taking King Henry Prisoner caused him to be murthered in the Tower. Another Parliament Anno 1472. abrogated King Henry's Laws and re-established King Edward All which have Parliaments before the Reformation in this Kingdom done none daring to question their Authority but complying with them By W. R. Gent. With Allowance LONDON Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acron in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1689. Where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with most sorts of Acts of Parliament and other State-Matters As also Books of Divinity Church-Government and Sermons on most Occasions c.