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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	let_v	see_v	12,443	5	3.3866	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26164	Additions answering the omissions of our reverend author	Atwood, William, d. 1705?	1681 (1681)	Wing A4166; ESTC R9859	18,503	48

the Staple made the 21 of E. 3. to which the answer is very obvious that they made only Ordinances not Laws and that these were Magna Consilia taken in a sense totally different from the Generalia Concilia or Parliaments and all this appears above the power and subtilty of our learned Doctors Evasions in that the Record cited by himself in the 26 E. 3. calls the Assembly they are Summon'd to Concilium only and an Act of Parliament in the twenty eight of that King calls what was done in the twenty seven Ordinances and that meeting a Great Council Magnum Concilium but such a Council it was and its Resolutions such meer Ordinances the distinction of which from Acts is well known that that very next Parliament finds it needful to confirm and give them the force of a Law Agreeably to this the Earl Marshal in that grand Case in the 3 H. 6. pleads that though a determination hadde be made against the said Earl Marshall in great Council though he hadde be of full age that might not disherit him without Authority of Parliament these are uncontrollable evidences and proofs against him let him to save the great Credit of his Learning answer them if he can But who is the new Government-Maker and new Parliament-Maker perhaps one might know from himself when he has considered a little better and then he may think the Government as 't is now establisht nighly concern'd in his Errors Perhaps 't will be said I injure this good man in imputing to him a design in relation to the present Government Since he owns that the most excellent great Council and goes to prove it evidently from Records received its perfection from the Kings Authority and time But 't is obvious that its Perfection must be meant of such its Perfection as his Book allows and he would make evident but what is that That Lords should to the time of his excellent discoveries be Summon'd to Parliament or past by at the Kings pleasure and that if the King pleas'd he might Summon one Knight for a County one Citizen for a City one Burgess for a Burgh and those nam'd to the Sheriff And this design will be very evident if we observe his aery ambuscade to return his own phrase and meer juggle in joyning the Kings Authority and time together we think we have something but by an Hocus Pocus Trick 't is gone for admit that its Perfection were such as we say it has at this day viz. for Lords to come of Right in their own Persons and that the Commons should send Representatives of their free Choice Yet let us see what setlement he gives this Great Council for which purpose we must divide the two Authorities which sometimes may differ And 1. Suppose that though time would preserve that power which the Great Council exercises a King would hereafter take it all to himself and make Laws by a Council of his own chusing or without any If the Doctor allows this power doubtless the next Parliament will thank him 2. Suppose that without or against the Kings Authority time only would establish this Great Council can this be done He that affirms it surely will be no great friend to Prerogative nor understands he that Maxim Nullum tempus occurrit Regi And one of these must be clos'd with 'T will be objected that I am as injurious to Prerogative in arguing that some Lords may have a Right of Prescription to come to the Upper-House But I think no sober man will deny that there is a right either from Writs alone or from Writs as prescribed to and 't is strange that it should not be against Prerogative to urge a right from one Royal Concession and yet it should be to urge it from many but farther if they who had no right to come in Person or be Represented in Parliament should by colour of Prescription put themselves upon the King for Counsellors this were derogatory to the Prerogative But if there be a natural right for Proprietors of Land with whom some say is the ballance of power within this Nation to be interested in the Legislature which I 〈◊〉 not affirm Or if there be such a positive right not only from the Laws for frequent Parliaments which suppose such to be Members as had been but more particularly from the Law received in the 4th of William the First and by positive Law or Custom the King us'd to send special Writs for some general for others the Prescribing to special Writs which is not of Substance as to the Legislative Interest is no diminution of Prerogative because no more in effect is out of the King than was before which is that this man should one way or other have a share in the Legislature If this Solution of mine will not pass I cannot help it I am sure the Law for a right grounded upon one or more Special Writs of Summons stands fast though the reason of it should be above my reach Having run through a Book so ill-natur'd to the Government and so impotent in its setled anger as that which some may think to have no other design than that of exposing Mr. Petyt and me the one for Artifice unhandsom dealing with and false application of Records c. the other amongst other things for Ignorance Confidence and Cheating his Readers I may hope notwithstanding the disparity of years and the dignity of his place to be very excusable in using our Answerer with no more respect When a man renders himself cheap by his folly and yet meets with many so weak that they are discipled by him to notions of dangerous and pernicious consequence to the State Ridentem dicere verum Quis vetat In summing up the Product of his many years labours which my Preface charges him with perhaps it may be thought that I omitted one considerable Head however I leave to others if they think fit to add for a seventh That both Lords and Commons may be depriv'd of all Shares or Votes in making of Laws for the Government of the Kingdom when ever any future King shall please to resume the Regality Some perhaps may add an eighth That the Parliaments are nothing but Magna Concilia such as are called only to Advise upon what shall be given in direction but no consent of theirs required to make the Kings determination a binding Law And Vice Versa every Great Council such as that call'd to York is a Parliament FINIS Against Jani c. p. 1. Ib. p. 113. and 114. Jani c. p. 26. Quid a new Paragraph He adds such to Cases to render it obscure Jani c. p. 26. Na. So if a sum in gross were laid upon them Viz. To such payment as Tallage Against Jani c. p. 113. Indeed he would take in more places Na. the King did perhaps require a certain sum after a general Ordinance made by