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A35634	Arcana Parliamentaria, or, Precedents concerning elections, proceedings, privileges, and punishments in Parliament faithfully collected out of the common and statute-law of this realm, with particular quotations of the authors in each case, by R.C. of the Middle Temple ... ; to which is added The authority, form, and manner of holding Parliaments, by the learned Sir Tho. Smith ...	R. C., of the Middle Temple, Esq.; Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1513-1577.	1685 (1685)	Wing C97; ESTC R36268	44,399	122

be avoided by Attaint or by Error as it hath been used by the Laws in the time of the Kings Progenitors 4 H. 4. c. 23. The Parliament may take Recognizances whilst it is sitting viz. the Upper House 1 H. 7.20 and so it seems may the Lower House Recogn Br. 8. Parl. Br. 92. Note That it hath been often sound that Wales and the Counties Palatines that did not come to Parliament should not be bound by the Parliament of England for Ancient Demesn is a good Plea in an Action of Waste given by the Statute and yet Ancient Demesn is not excepted and it is enacted 2 E. 6. c. 28. that Fines with Proclamations shall be in Chester for the former Statutes do not extend to it and it is enacted that Fines with Proclamation shall be likewise in Lancaster 37 H. 8. c. 19. and Proclamation upon an Exigent is given by Statute in Chester and in Wales 1 E. 6. c. 10. and such another Act of Lancaster 5 6 E. 6. c. 26. And the Statute of Justices of Peace shall not extend to Wales nor to a County Palatine and therefore an Act is made for Chester and Wales 27 H. 8. c. 5. But see Tit. County Palatine 17. 20. that any Act shall extend to a County Palatine 8 H. 6. c. 34. See above the Act for Knights and Burgesses of the said County Palatine to come to Parliament c. 34 H. 8. c. 13. The Wife of a Duke Earl Baron and such as being married or Widows in Case of Felony and Treason shall be tried by their Peers as her Husband shall be tried per 20 H. 6. c. 11. Stamf. 153. But if her Husband cannot have such Tryal the Wife shall not and if after the death of the Husband she marries an Esquire or Knight she loses her Dignity in Law Dyer 79. An Attachment is not grantable by the Common Law Statute Law Custom or Precedent against a Lord of Parliament and the Lord Cromwel by order in the Parliament Chamber was discharg'd of such Process Dyer 316. See Debt for 100 l. brought by R. Buckley Knight against Richard Thomas of Lanuaire upon the Statute of 23 H. 6. for that he was chosen Knight for the County of Anglesey in Wales which said R. T. being Sheriff of that County did not return him accordingly where it was argu'd that the Statute did not extend to Wales as to give the forfeiture aforesaid to the Knight chosen and not returned And yet it was adjudged that the Plaintiff should recover because the Statute 27 H. 6. enacts that the Country and Dominion of Wales shall be stand and continue for ever incorporated united and annexed to and with the Realm of England and that every Person born or after to be born in the said Country or Dominion of Wales shall have enjoy and inherit all and every Liberties Franchises Rights Privileges and Laws within this Realm and other Dominions of the King as other Kings Subjects naturally born within the same have had and have enjoyed Com. 120. If a man speaks slanderous words of the Queen and is not punished within the time given by the Statute of 23 Eliz. c. 2. he shall be punished by the Statute of Westm. 1. viz. shall be imprisoned untill he find the Person that spake c. according to the Statute W. 1. cap. 33. and not according to the advice of the Council for that is when the slander touches the Nobles and great Officers expressed in the Statutes made 2 R. 2. c. 5. 12. R. 2. c. 11. and not the King for he is a Person exempted and not implyed in those words of great Men and Nobles Dyer 155. In a Praemunire against a Lord of Parliament he ought to appear in his proper Person and not by Atturney unless he has a special Writ of Chancery 14 H. 4.14 9 E. 4.2 Note that in January 38 H. 8. Henry Howard Earl of Surrey Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Duke of Norfolk was attainted of high Treason for joyning the Arms of England before the Conquest and other Arms after to his own Arms and other pretences against the Prince and he was tried by Knights and Gentlemen and not by Lords nor by Peers of the Kingdom for that he was not an Earl by Creation but by Birth as Heir Apparent of a Duke who was invested with the dignity in Law for if it had been a Dignity by Creation and a Lord of Parliament he should have been tried by his Peers 38 H. 8. Treason Br. 2. A Statute in the Affirmative doth not alter the Common Law Dier 50. Every Session is as a Parliament Dyer Fol. 203. Note An attaint by Parliament shall have Relation to the first day of Parliament as to the forfeiture of the Lands of the Offender unless it be specified in the Act that the forfeiture shall relate to the day when the Treason was committed Relation 43.35 H. 8. Note That in every Case of Treason or Felony newly made by Statute the Lords of Parliament shall have their Tryal by their Peers notwithstanding that the Statute does not provide for it by express Words so that the Proviso inserted for their Tryals in such Cases in the Statute is an abundance per Stamford 153. And Tryal per pares is given by Magna Charta cap. 9. Stamford 152. Note That in Cases of misprision of Treason or Felony Lords of Parliament shall be tried by their Peers Note That a Statute was made Anno Domini 1296. by the King and his Barons Clero excluso and this was at a Parliament holden at St. Edmundsbury in the Reign of Ed. 1. as Jewel Bishop of Sarum against Harding fol. 620 reporteth And in a Province at Merton in the time of H. 3. 1273 where the matter was moved touching Basterdy for the Legitimation of those that were born before Marriage and it is said that the Statute passed intirely with the Lords Temporal without the Clergy but it seems that it is no Statute but an affirmance of the Common Law which the Lords said that they would not alter see 11 R. 2. cap. 9. A man attainted of Felony or Treason shall not be restored in Blood without Parliament Restitution Br. p. 37. 3 E. 6. In a Homine Replegiando the Sheriff returnes that the Defendant had eloigned the Body so that he could not make deliverance c. then the Plaintiff shall have a Capias in Withernam to take the Body of the Defendant and detain him c. untill c. be he either a Peer of the Realm or other Common Person and if the Sheriff return Non est inventus upon this Capias in Withernam of the Body then the Plaintiff shall have a Withernam of the Goods of the Defendant F. Nat. Brevium 68. 11 H. 4.15 R. E. brought a Writ of Chancery and of the Privy-Seal to be discharged of serving in Juries and Assizes for that he was a Baron and therefore ought not to be

A Catalogue of the AUTHORS and BOOKS made use of in the following Collection LIttleton Plowden Dyer Stamford Fitz-Herbert Bracton Fortescue Brook Liber Assis. Book of Entries The Year-Books Coke Lambert Yelverton Thorpe Mountague Wray L. Ch. J. Hollinshed Sir Tho. Smith Arcana Parliamentaria OR PRECEDENTS CONCERNING Elections Proceedings Privileges and Punishments in PARLIAMENT Faithfully collected out of the Common and Statute-Law of this Realm With particular Quotations of the Authors in each Case By R.C. of the Middle Temple Esq To which is added The Authority Form and Manner of Holding Parliaments By the Learned Sir Tho. Smith Doctor of Laws London Printed for M. Gilliflower at the Spread Eagle and Crown in Westminster-Hall 1685. The Authority Form and Manner of holding Parliaments THE most high and absolute Power of the Realm of England consisteth in the Parliament For as in War where the King himself in Person the Nobility the rest of the Gentility and the Yeomanry are is the Force and Power of England So in Peace and Consultation where the Prince is to give Life and the last and highest Commandment the Barony or Nobility for the higher the Knights Esquires Gentlemen and Commons for the lower part of the Common-wealth the Bishops for the Clergy be present to advertise consult and shew what is good and necessary for the Common-wealth and to consult together and upon mature deliberation every Bill or Law being thrice read and disputed upon in either House the other two Parts first each apart and after the Prince himself in presence of both the Parties doth consent unto and alloweth That is the Princes and whole Realms Deed whereupon justly no man can complain but must accommodate himself to find it good and obey it That which is done by this Consent is called firm stable and sanctum and is taken for Law The Parliament abrogateth old Laws maketh new giveth order for things past and for things hereafter to be followed changeth Right and Possessions of private men legitimateth Bastards establisheth Forms of Religion altereth Weights and Measures defineth of doubtful Rights whereof is no Law already made do appoint Subsidies Talies Taxes and Impositions giveth most free Pardons and Absolutions restoreth in Blood and Name as the highest Court condemneth or absolveth them whom the Prince will put to Tryal And to be short all that ever the People of Rome might do either Centuriatis Comitiis or Tributis the same may be done by the Parliament of England which representeth and hath the Power of the whole Realm both the Head and Body For every English-man is intended to be there present either in Person or by Procuration and Atturney of what Preheminence State Dignity or Quality soever he be from the Prince be it King or Queen to the lowest Person of England And the Consent of the Parliament is taken to be every man's Consent The Judges in Parliament are the the King or Queen's Majesty the Lords Temporal and Spiritual the Commons represented by the Knights and Burgesses of every Shire and Burrough Town These all or the greater part of them and that with the consent of the Prince for the time being must agree to the making of Laws The Officers in Parliament are the Speakers two Clerks the one for the Higher House the other for the Lower and Committees The Speaker is he that doth commend and prefer the Bills exhibited into the Parliament and is the Mouth of the Parliament He is commonly appointed by the King or Queen though accepted by the Assent of the House The Clerks are the Keepers of the Parliament-Rolls and Records and of the Statutes made and have the custody of the private Statutes not printed The Committees are such as either the Lords in the higher House or Burgesses in the lower House do choose to frame the Laws upon such Bills as are agreed upon and afterward to be ratified by the same Houses The Form of holding the Parliament THE Prince sendeth forth his Writs to every Duke Marquess Baron and every other Lord Temporal or Spiritual who hath Voice in the Parliament to be at his great Counsel of Parliament such a day the space from the date of the Writ is commonly at the least forty days He sendeth also Writs to the Sheriffs of every Shire to admonish the whole Shire to choose two Knights of the Parliament in the name of the Shire to hear and reason and to give their Advice and Consent in the name of the Shire and to be present at that day likewise to every City and Town which of ancient time hath been wont to find Burgesses of the Parliament so to make Election that they might be present there at the first day of the Parliament The Knights of the Shire be chosen by all the Gentlemen and Yeomen of the Shire present at the day assign'd for the Election the voice of any absent can be counted for none Yeomen I call here as before that may dispend at the least forty shillings of yearly Rent of free Land of his own The Writ of Parliament for the Lords JAcobus Secundus c. Charissimo consanguineo suo Edwardo Comit ' Oxon ' salutem Quia de advisamento assensu consilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernent ' quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasterium decimonono die prox ' futur ' tener ' ordinavimus ibid ' vobiscum ac cum Prelat ' Magnatibus Proceribus dict' Regni nostri colloquium habere tractare vobis sub fide ligeanciis quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungend ' mandamus quod considerat ' dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dict' die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Prelatis magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatur ' vestrumque consilium impensur ' hoo sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictorum expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westm ' decimo die anno Regni nostri The Writ of Parliament for the Knights REx Vic' N. c. salut quia de advisamento assensu Consilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernen ' quoddam Parliamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westm ' duodecimo die prox ' futur ' teneri ordinavimus ibid ' cum Prelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tract Tibi praecipimus firmiter injungentes quod facta proclamac ' in prox ' comitat ' tuo post receptionem hujus brevis nostri tenend ' die loco praedict ' duos milit ' gladiis cinct ' magis idoneos discretos comit ' praedicti de

House wherein they first pass but the amendments only for no Bill shall be read above three times Ibidem No Lord ought to speak to the Bill twice in one day Also no Knight Citizen or Burgess ought to speak above once to one Bill in one day unless sometimes by way of Explication No private Bill ought to be read before the publick Bills unless the one House or the other do require it Coke lib. 13. Note in the House of Commons those that are for the new Bill if there be a question of Voices shall go out of the House and those who are against the Bill and for the Common Law or any former Law shall sit still in the House for they are in possession of the old Law the other of the other to number the Voices Coke lib. 13. In both Houses he which first stands up to speak he shall first speak without any difference of Persons Ibid. When a Bill is ingrossed at the third reading it may be amended in the same House in any matter of Substance à fortiori the Errour of the Clerk in the Ingrossing may be amended Note The Priviledge Order or Custom of Parliament either of the Upper House or of the House of Commons belongs to the Determination or Decision only of the Court of Parliament And this appeareth by two notable Precedents The one at a Parliament holden the twenty seventh Year of King Henry the 6 th There was a Controversie moved in the Upper House between the Earls of Arundel and of Devon-shire for their Seats Places and Preheminencies of the same to be had in the King's Presence as well in the High Court of Parliament as in his Counsels and else-where The King by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal committed the same to certain Lords of Parliament who for that they had not leisure to examine the same it pleased the King by the advice of the Lords at this Parliament in Anno 27 th of his Reign that the Judges of the Land should hear see and examine the Title c. and to report what they conceive herein The Judges made Report as followeth That this matter viz. of Honour and Precedency between the two Earls Lords of Parliament was a matter of Parliament and belonged to the King's Highness and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament by them to be decided and determined yet being there so commanded they shewed what they found upon Examination and their Opinions thereupon Another Parliament in 31 H. 6. which Parliament begun the sixth of March and after it had continued some time it was prorogued untill the fourteenth of February and afterwards in Michaelmas Term Anno 31 H. 6. Thomas Thorpe the Speaker of the Commons House at the Suit of the Duke of Buckingham was condemned in the Exchequer in 1000 l. damages for a Trespass done to him The fourteenth of February the Commons moved in the Upper House That their Speaker might be set at liberty to exercise his Place The Lords referred this Case to the Judges and Fortescue and Prisot the two Chief Justices in the name of all the Judges after sad Consideration and mature Deliberation had amongst them answered and said that they ought not to answer to this Question for it hath not been used aforetime That the Justices should in any wise determine the Priviledge of this High Court of Parliament for it is so High and Mighty in its nature that it may make Laws and that that is Law it may make no Law And the determination and knowledge of that Priviledge belongeth to the Lords of the Parliament and not to the Justices But as for the proceedings in the Lower Courts in such Cases they delivered their Opinions And in 12 E. 4. 2. in Sir John Paston's Case it is holden that every Court shall determine and decide the Privileges and Customs of the same Court c. See Dier Fol. 275. One was in Execution that was a Burgess of Parliament and was let at large by a Priviledge Writ of Parliament P. 34 35 H. 8. Rot. 23. And Debt brought against the Jaylor for an escape but he says not what happened thereon See Hollinsked in his Cronicle Fol. 1584. The Case of one Ferrers set at liberty that was a Burgess of Parliament and arrested and put in Execution in London sitting the Parliament and this was Anno 34 H. 8. and was the Case of Ferrers as I believe of which Dier Fol. 275 speaks In the Lent Season whilst the Parliament yet continued one George Ferrers Gentleman Servant to the King being elect a Burgess for the Town of Plimmouth in the County of Devon in going to the Parliament-House was arrested in London by a Process out of the King's Bench at the Suit of one White for the Sum of two hundred Marks or thereabouts wherein he was late afore condemned as a Surety for the Debt of one Welden of Salisbury which Arrest being signified to Sir Thomas Moile Knight then Speaker of the Parliament and to the Knights and Burgesses there Order was taken that the Serjeant of the Parliament called S. I. should forthwith repair to the Counter in Breadstreet whither the said Ferrers was carried and there to demand delivery of the Prisoner The Serjeant as he had in charge went to the Counter and declared to the Clerks there what he had in commandment but they and other Officers of the City were so far from obeying the said Commandment as after many stout words they forcibly resisted the said Serjeant whereof ensued a Fray within the Counter-gates between the said Ferrers and the said Officers not without hurt of either part so that the said Serjeant was driven to defend himself with his Mace of Arms and had the Crown thereof broken by bearing off a stroke and his man strucken down During this Brawl the Sheriffs of London called Rowland Hill and H. Suckley came thither to whom the Serjeant complained of this Injury and required of them the delivery of the said Burgess as afore but they bearing with their Officers made little account either of his Complaint or his Message rejecting the same contemptuously with much proud Language so as the Serjeant was forc'd to return without the Prisoner and finding the Speaker and all the Knights and Burgesses set in their places declared unto them the whole cause as it fell out who took the same in so ill part that they all together of whom there were not a few as well of the King 's Privy Council as also of his Privy Chamber would sit no longer without their Burgess but rose up wholly and repaired to the Upper House where the whole Case was declared by the mouth of the Speaker before Sir T. Audley Knight then Lord Chancellour of England and all the Lords and Judges there assembled who judging the Contempt to be very great referred the punishment thereof to the order of the Common House They returning to their places again upon

E. 4.6 Stam. 152. Otherwise it is in an Indictment of Treason or Felony for that it is at the suit of the King 10 E 4.6 The Duke of Somerset in the time of Ed. 6. was tried for Felony and Treason by his Peers upon an Indictment for it is the Suit of the King Coron Br. 153.10 Ed. 4.6 accords And there it is said by Littleton that the Lord Gray of Codnor in an Appeal was tried as a Common Person is and not by his Peers although he was a Lord of Parliament Treason Br. 2. A man may be attainted by Parliament of Treason as well as by the Common Law by Verdict Outlawry or Confession because the Parliament is the highest Court of Record in England and shall not be restored in his Blood without Parliament but the King may give to him that is attainted his Life by his Charter of Pardon and that by apt Words Stanford 53. The King cannot alter the Common Law nor a general custom of the Country as the descent of Land in Gavil-kind Borough-English and such like withoutParliament Prerogative Brooke 15. 11 H. 4. 74. and see the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 3. of the alteration of descents of Gavil-kind and that the descent shall be as to Heirs at Common Law When a Lord of Parliament is tried by his Peers they shall not be sworn to say their Verdict but they shall give their Verdict upon their Honour and are not otherwise charged but upon their Honours 1 H. 4. 1. and Stamford 152. From this note what accompt the Law makes of a Peers Word when he speaks upon his Honour and this in case of a mans Life A multo fortiori they ought to observe in lesser Cases when they speak and make promise upon their Honour upon good Considerations When a Statute may be taken to a double intent the better shall be taken for the King as the Statute of 14 E. 3. c. ultimo in Stat. 1. it is ordained that for every Sack of Wool carried out of the Realm the Merchant shall find Surety to bring into England Plate of Silver of two Marks and to take two marks of Coyn again for Bullion and after were two Statutes one made 36 E. 3. c. 11. whereby it is ordained for that the Commons have granted to the King of every Sack of Wool for three years one grand Subsidy he grants by the same Statute that after the three years nothing shall be taken or demanded of the Commons but the ancient Custom of one Mark of every Sack of Wool and the other Statute made 45 E. 3. c. 4. which ordains that no Imposition or Charge shall be put upon Wools c. other than the Custom and Subsidy granted to the King in no sort without the assent of the Parliament and upon an Information in the Exchequer against one that had carried Wools and had not found Surety according to the said Statute of 14 E. 3. which two Statutes aforesaid were pleaded and adjudged that the finding of Surety for bringing in the two Marks of Bullion is not taken way for every Statute shall be taken most beneficial for the King where it may be taken to a double intent and it shall be taken that it was the intent of the Makers of those said Statutes to discharge the Commons of the grand Charges upon Wools after the three years 4 E. 3. fol. 3. fol. 12. Barre Fitzh 309. Vide Com. 10. 11. The Duke of Buckingham brought an Action de Scandalis Magnatum against one Lucas for that he had said the Duke had no more Conscience than a Dog and so that he may have Goods he cared not how he came by them and recovered forty pound as appears Mich. 4 H. 8. Rot. 659. And the Duke may have a Suit in the Star-Chamber for such words and I have viewed a Copy of the Record The Lord Abergaveny brought an Action upon the said Statute against Cartwright for that the Defendant had told and counterfeited false news of the Plaintiff to which the Defendant said that the Plaintiff will wind the Guts of the Defendant about his Neck the Defendant pleaded not Guilty and in Evidence the Plaintiff shewed a Letter written to one B. wherein the Defendant said that he understands by Report that the Lord had said ut supra and held good Evidence and it was found for the Plaintiff and had Judgment accordingly And so see that to write and to say are all one for it is publick Vide Book of Entries 13. that fixing a slanderous Bill in an open and and publick Place bears an Action c. In an Errour in Parliament the Record remains with the Justices and they are to shew it to the Parliament and it shall not be removed to Parliament 8 H. 5. Errour Fitzh 88. Dyer 375. In such Case the Roll was carried by Wray Chief Justice into Parliament for the Errour was assign'd in the King's Bench but after that the Court of Parliament had examined it he takes the Record with him and leaves a Transcript in the Court of Parliament A Petition in Parliament exhibited by A. T. for a Title he made to Land that the King enjoyed which was received and sent into Chancery to be tried Ass. Fitzh 287. Lib. Ass. and he surmised that there was a delay in the Tryal of his Right Those of London may bargain and sell their Land there as they might before the Statute of Inrolments and so it may be done in other Boroughs and Cities and it was the Opinion of the Justices of both Benches that the Lands in Cities c. are where the Common Law is exempted from the Act and so that Lands devisable before 32 H. 8. c. 1. are devisable at this day notwithstanding the Act aforesaid Dyer 155. And so a Statute in the Affirmative shall not change the Common Law nor common Custom of a Town as to Inheritances A Lord of Parliament shall have Knights upon his Tryal in every Action 27 H. 8 fol. 27. Challenge Fitzh 115. 13 E. 3. in a Quare Impedit against a Bishop it has been so adjudged Com. 117. Dyer 208. according A Lord of Parliament may be Outlaw'd for Murder 27 H. 8. Fol. 17. and it was the Case of the Bishop of Winchester Ibidem Vide Proc ' F. 224. If a Lord of Parliament makes a Rescous a Capias shall be taken out against him if the Sheriff return the Rescous otherwise it is in Case of Debt 27 H. 8.27 An Exigent shall issue forth against a Lord of Parliament if it be not certified that he is a Lord of Parliament 27 H. 8.27 35 H. 6. A Lord of Parliament shall not be Sworn on an Inquest 27 H. 8.27 Day of Grace shall not be given against a Lord of Parliament 27 H. 8.27 27 E. 3. A Capias ad Satisfaciendum does not lye against a Lord of Parliament 27 H. 8.27 for the Law presumes that he has Assets c. 11 H. 4.15