Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	justice_n	writ_n	1,630	5	9.1550	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56227	A seasonable, historical, legal vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ...; Seasonable, legal, historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4122; ESTC R13248	47,108	63

upon all or any of the Freemen of England by reason of any pretended or reall Danger Necessity or other pretext by the Kings of England or any other Powers but onely with and by their common consent and Grant in a free and lawfull Parliament duly summoned and elected Except onely such ancient legall Ayds as they are specially obliged to render by their Tenures Charters Contracts and the Common Law of England 2. That no Freeman of England ought to be arrested confined imprisoned in any private Castles or remote unusuall Prisons under Souldiers or other Guardians but onely in usuall or Common Gaols under sworn responsible Gaolers in the County where he lives or is apprehended and where his Friends may freely visit and relieve him with necessaries And that onely for some just and legall cause expressed in the Writ Warrant or Processe by which he is arre●●ed or imprisoned which ought to be legally executed by known legal responsible sworn Officers of Justice not unknown military Officers Troopers or other illegall Catchpols That no such Freeman ought to be denied bail Mainprise or the benefit of an Habeas Corpus or any other Legal Writ for his enlargement when bailable or incumpernable by Law nor to be detained prisoner for any reall or pretended Crime not bailable by Law then untill the next Generall or Speciall Gaol-delivery held in the County where he is imprisoned where he ought to be legally tried and proceeded against or else enlarged by the Justices without deniall or delay of Right and Justice And that no such Freeman may or ought to be outlawed exiled condemned to any kind of corporall punishment losse of Life or Member or otherwise destroyed or passed upon but onely by due and lawfull Processe Indictment and the lawfull Triall Verdict and Judgment of his Peers according to the good old Law of the land in some usuall Court of Publick Justice not by and in a new illegall Military or other Arbitrary Judicatories Committees or Courts of High Justice unknown to our Ancestors 3. That no Freeman of England unlesse it be by Speciall Grant and Act of Parliament may or ought to be compelled enforced pressed or arrayed to go forth of his own Countrey much lesse out of the Realm into forreign parts against his will in times of Warre or Peace or except he be specially obliged thereto by ancient Tenures and Charters save onely upon the sudden coming of strang enemies into the Realm and then he is to array himself onely in such sort as he is bound to do by the ancient Laws and Customs of the Kingdome still in force 4. That no Freeman of England may or ought to be disinherited disseised dispossed or deprived of any inheritance Freehold liberty Custome Franchise Chattle Goods whatsoeuer without his own Gift Grant or free Consent unlesse it be by lawfull Processe Triall and Judgment of his Peers or speciall Grant by act of Parliament 5. That the old received Government Laws Statutes Customes Priviledges Courts of Justice legall Processe of the Kingdome and Crown ought not to be altered repealed suppressed nor any new from of Government Law Statute Ordinance Court of Judicature Writs or legall Proceedings instituted or imposed on all or any of the Free men of England by any Person or Persons but onely in and by the Kingdomes free and full Consent in a lawfull Parliament wherein the Legislative Power solely resides 6. That Parliaments ought to be duly summoned and held for the good and safety of the Kingdome every year or every three years at least or so often as there is just occasion That the Election of all Knights Citizens and Burgesses to sit and serve in Parliament and so of all other Elective Officers ought to be free That all Members of Parliament hereditary or Elective ought to be present and there freely to speak and vote according to their judgements and Consciences without any over-awing Guards to terrifie them and none to be forced or secluded thence And that all Parliaments not thus duly summoned elected whilst held but unduly packed and all Acts of Parliament fraudulently and forcibly procured by indirect means ought to be nulled repealed as void and of dangerous president 7. That neither the Kings nor any Subjects of the Kingdome of England may or ought to be summoned before any Forreign Powers or Jurisdictions whatsoever out of the Realm or within the same for any manner of Right Inheritance Thing belonging to them or Offence done by them within the Realm 8. That all Subjects of the Realm are obliged by Allegiance and duty to defend their Lawfull Kings Persons Crowns the Laws Rights and Priviledges of the Realm and of Parliament against all Usurpers Traytors violence and Conspiracies And that no Subject of this Realm who according to his duty and Allegiance shall serve his King in his Warres for the just defence of him and the Land against Forreign enemies or Rebels shall lose or forfeit any thing for doing his true duty service and Allegiance to him therein but utterly discharged of all vexation trouble or losse 9. That no publick Warre by Land or Sea ought to be made or levied with or against any Forreign Nation or Publick Truce or League entred into with Forreign Realms or States to bind the Nation without their Common advice and consent in Parliament 10. That the ancient Honours Manors Lands Rents Revenues Inheritances Right and perquisites of the Crown of England originally settled thereon for the Ease Exemption of the people from all kind of Tax●s payments whatsoever unlesse in cases of extraordinary necessity and for defraying all the consant ordinary expences of the Kingdome as the expences of the Kings houshold Court Officers Judges Embassadors Garisons Navy and the like ought not to be sold alienated given away or granted from it to the prejudice of the Crown and burdening of the people And that all Sales Alie nations Gifts or Grants thereof to the empairing of the publick Revenue or prejudice of the Crown and people are void in Law and ought to be resumed and repealed by our Parliaments and Kings as they have frequently been in all former ages For the Readers fuller satisfaction in each of these propositions some of which I must shew here but briefly touch for brevity sake having elsewhere fully debated them in print I shall specially recommend unto him the perusall of such Tracates and Arguments formerly published wherein each of them hath been fully discussed which he may peruse at his best leasure The first of these Fundamentalls which I intend principally to insist on is fully asserted debated confirmed by 13. H. 4. f. 14. By Fortes●ue Lord Chief Justice and Chancellour of England de laudibus Legum Angliae dedicated by him to King Henry the 6 f. 25. c. 36. f. 8● By a learned and necessary Argument against impositions in Parliament of 7. Jacobi by a late Reverend Judge printed at London 1641. By Mr. William Hakewell in his