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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26173	Jus Anglorum ab antiquo, or, A confutation of an impotent libel against the government by king, lords, and commons under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt, and the author of Jani Anglorum facies nova : with a speech, according to the answerer's principles, made for the Parliament at Oxford.	Atwood, William, d. 1705?; Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700. Full and clear answer to a book.; Petyt, William, 1636-1707. Antient right of the Commons of England asserted.; Atwood, William, d. 1705? Jani Anglorum facies nova.	1681 (1681)	Wing A4175; ESTC R9859	138,988	352

at the Community was the Body of Montfort ' s Army Against Jan. c. p. 26. and the Citizens and others of the Faction Against Mr. Petyt p. 125. yet here at this very time and place the Community of the Kingdom of England must needs be the Community of the Barons and Great men Tenants in Capite by Military Service and no other Not onely because here was the Body of the Army and Citizens and others of the Faction but because as is clear from an impregnable instance viz. of the same kind of Council which sent the Letter to the Pope in the Case of Adomar or Aymar de Valentia besides the Earls p. 126. 127. Noblemen or Barons Great men there were the Tenants by Military Service that held of and attended the Barons and Great men and when the King said that though He and the Great men should be willing that Adomar who withdrew himself out of the Kingdom should return tamen Communitas ipsius which is the Community not his would not suffer his coming into England the Great men were the Kings Friends p. 121. the Community his Enemies So that here are two Armies the Great men the King's Friends on one side and the Community his Enemies on the other which is just such another Council as that in the 48th yet without doubt none of the King's Party or Friends were there Rot. Parl. 42 H. 3. m. 3. n. 9. Though in the Articuli Cleri 9 Ed. 2. about fifty years after we find Petitions presented by the Clergy temporibus progenitorum nostrorum qu●ndam Regum Angliae in diversis Against Mr. Petyt p. 121. Parliamentis Which includes the time of H. 3. Grandfather to Edw. 2. At least this was meant of several Armies and so was the Parliamentum Oxon. Against Mr. Petyt p. 192. but six years before the Military Parliament of the 48th an Army being a Parliament in the sense and general use of the word at that time ib. p. 183. that is a great Assembly Convention or Meeting of the Faction and their Army And thus in the 30th of this King the Parliament is call'd the Vniversity of the Militia that is of them Qui militare servitium debebant the Milites Fideles It seems in many of these Parliaments or Armies chuse you whether the Clergy in their Canonical Habits address'd themselves to the Military men upon which sort of Parliaments they could not fail of prevailing with their brutum fulmen of Excommunication and Ecclesiastical Scare-crows What Against Mr. Petyt p. 135. is Petyt so ridiculous to have the Commons an essential part of the Parliament from Eternity 'T is plain that the Commons began by Rebellion Nota. To lessen their own power because their Constitution was not forc'd by the Barons with their Swords in their hands or promis'd to them then Ib. p. 226. but began from the King's pleasure when the Rebellion was over and the King was restored to his Regality Post magnas perturbationes enormes vexationes inter ipsum Regem Simonem de Monteforti alios Barones motas sopitas And none but Tenants in Capite were Barons before Ad summum honorem pervenit ex quo c. because then and not before the word Baro became a word of greater Honour Against Mr. Petyt p. 226. that is appropriated to Tenants in Capite or their Peers So that before 't was so appropriated more were Barons What though in the Letter to the Pope Jani c. p. 244. the Nobiles portuum maris habitatores necnon Clerus Populus Universus Against Mr. Petyt p. 157. are named yet these troup of words were only to make an Impression upon the Pope who good man knew nothing of the English Constitution or what was done here but would think all they were assembled in such a Great Council as other Parts of Christendom then had I shall not scruple to discover some mysteries to you The Liberi Homines were Tenants in Capite or at least their Retinue and Tenants in Military Service Glos. p. 26. which were with them at Runnemede These liberi homines or Free-men were the onely men of Honour Faith Trust and Reputation in the Kingdom These were the Free-men which made such a cry for their Liberties ib. p. 27. as appears by Magna Charta most of which is onely an abatement of the Rigour and a Relaxation of the feudal Tenures Nay Against Mr. Petyt p. 39. 't is to them these Free-men onely that the Grants were made They that are there mention'd holding of the King in Fee Farm Vide King John ' s Charter petit Serjeanty free or common Socage and Burgage held not so Jan. p. 181. But they all held by Knights Service and so were the King's Barons Of these Barons some might be Villains for that a Tenement or Possession neither added to Glos. p. 10. or detracted from the Person of any man if free or bond according to his Blood or Extraction ib. p. 30. Nay the Freemen or Tayns Theyns were anciently no part of the Kingdom for that was all divided into Frank-pledges of which there was to be a general view in the Sheriff's Tourn but these Frank-pledges were all pitiful Fellows bound with Sureties to their good behaviours ib. p. 31. which the Theyns were not .. Which answer his quotation out of Briton Glos. p. 31. In after times some might have had particular Charters of Exemption or else generally such of them as grew to be Great men were excused Whereas Mr. Petyt contends Against Mr. Petyt p. 177. that the liberè tenentes de Regno came to the Great Councils 't is a giddy Notion Whoever heard of Tenure of the Kingdom Though indeed we find in Domesday Book that such an one holds de Comitatu But more directly to the point Herefordshire Castellum de Cliford Such a Castle est de Regno Angliae non subjacet alicui Hundredo neque est in consue●●dine ulla And I 'll warrant it he with his designing Interpretations Against Mr. Petyt p. 1. will render it That this held not of the Kingdom but that it was of it or in it and so were the Free Tenants But to load this Opinion according to the literal meaning of the words Omnes de Regno p. 187. which sometimes occur all Copy-bolders all Tradesmen all Bondmen and Villains and all Servants were Members of Parliament Yet there having been no Representatives before 49 H. 3. all the Inhabitants of Cities Burroughs holding in Capite or Chief and several Towns Corporate not holding in Chief came to the great Councils in their own Persons which some will say made a greater Body than the Inferiour Proprietors and the Representatives of these Places and were Persons of as mean condition For the Lords themselves they have no better Against Mr.