Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	duke_n	earl_n	11,070	5	7.3316	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48310	Memoranda : touching the oath ex officio, pretended self-accusation, and canonical purgation together with some notes about the making of some new, and alteration and explanation of some old laws, all most humbly submitted to the consideration of this Parliament / by Edw. Lake ...	Lake, Edward, Sir, 1596 or 7-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing L188; ESTC R14261	107,287	162

also the just privileges of Parliament explicitely have been made known that the Subject might not then have sworn or promised or protested to have maintained and observed them and yet could not possibly know what they were That due care should have been taken that they might have been observed and kept inviolable on all sides neither diminished nor scrued too high and both the Members of the Houses and the People to have had their just rights entire and for this purpose that that Protestation then put in by the The Bishops Protestation Lords Spiritual the Bishops with their Petition to have the force removed that kept them from the Lords House should have been well consider'd on and the right of Protestation in Parliament declared and maintained being a great privilege And whether after a just Protestation unjustly rejected and the Members kept out of the House by force that so protested and petitioned whether the other Members could then have proceeded further in the House In the late Kings time in the beginning of his Reign when the Earl of Arundel was imprisoned in the Tower about his sons marriage of the Duke of Lenox's daughter being of the Bloud Royal without the Kings consent the Lords would do nothing in their House till he was restored in regard he was committed onely for a misdemeanour and neither for Treason Felony nor breach of peace in which cases they then confessed a Member of Parliament in Parliament time might be kept prisoner The King none of the three Estates And the Lords Spiritual being one of the three Estates as 1 Eliz. 3. and elsewhere and the King being none of the three Estates the contrary whereof hath been falsly held but the Head and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons being but Members and further the Lords Spiritual being one of the greatest Estates of the Realm as 8 Eliz. 1. Some doubted whether one of the Estates can destroy another and whether that come not near the contradicting that Axiom that the Parliament cannot be Felo de se whether that concerns not the Lords Temporal and Commons as well as the Lords Spiritual As for His late Majesties assent 't is known how far the prevalent power in both Houses then carried that and other things too to the misery of the Kingdom Who knows not in what condition the King then was forced to flye by reason of the tumults from Westminster to remoter places And as touching that Act of Parliament for their expulsion out of the Lords House it is not to be forgotten that when it was first brought into the Lords House it was rejected and ought not to have been brought in again that Session yet afterwards it was contrary to the order and course of Parliament brought in again when a great part of the Lords were absent if not upon just fears frighted out of the House and it being scarce safe for the King to deny them any thing in that dangerous condition he was then in As also that such Concessions or Acts as then contrary to the Kings free will were wrested from the King were not to be accounted legal or good or valid whereof several instances may be given heretofore of such and amongst the rest one 15 E. 3. the King then yielded to and granted certain Articles pretended at least to have the form of an Act or Statute of Parliament expresly contrary to the Laws of the Realm and his own Prerogative to which he had assented to eschew the dangers which by denying the same were like to follow in the same Parliament it was repealed in these very words following It seemed good to the said Earls Barons and other wise men that since the Statute did not proceed of our good will the same be void and ought not to have the name or strength of a Statute and therefore by their counsel and assent we have decreed the said Statute to be void c. And perhaps it deserves to be thought of how far in this case that Act of 42 E. 3. c. 1. reaches where it is set down that the great Charter should be kept in all points and if any Statute be made to the contrary it shall be holden for none And one especial Law in that Charter is for the preservation of the rights and liberties of the Church whereof this of the Lords Spiritual their liberty of sitting and voting in the Lords House is a known special liberty and privilege and most ancient Proceedings of the House of Commons If we look back to the Long Parliament was it not fit that that House of Commons should have been justly regulated to act no further or otherwise then according to their just power and the Commission and Summons by which they were called which Commission or Writ of Summons is the foundation of all power in Parliaments as it is well expressed by the Lords and Commons assembled at Oxford Declaration of the Treaty p. 15. What fearful exorbitances have been that way the more sad it is to remember the more care ought to be taken to prevent it for the future The House of Commons in former times being desired by the Lords Honse to consult with them de arduis regni negotiis to which the Lords are called and the House of Commons remembring their call and commission ad consentiendū hiis quae tunc ibidem c. as in their Writ of Summons humbly referred it back to the Lords as matters too high for them And it may seem against the honour and gravity of Parliaments or either House as also to the grievance of the Subject for both or either House or the Committees of either of them as in the Long Parliament to trouble themselves with matters of very small or inferiour nature much below them and in cases where the Law hath sufficiently provided remedy and is still in force to be executed by the proper Judges Were it in making new Laws thereabouts that ought to be so but I mean in making orders about the execution of such Laws which properly belong to the ordinary Judges thereof and are usnally executed by them especially touching inferiour matters it look'd then in that Long Parliament as though they would have swallowed up all other courts and made a kind of Justitium in them during the time of their Session such as medling with the appointing of Churchwardens and such like petty matters The late Long Parliament deviated much especially the pretended House of Commons then to omit as being too notoriously deplorable the Iliads of miseries this poor Nation hath thereby undergone besides that horrid one of the murther of our late King of ever blessed memory King Charles the first acted by a pretended House of Commons Was not that then too frequently practised worthy then of reformation that is the judiciary power being in the Lords House and the Commons House having power onely over their own Members in some cases and not having power so