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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83884	The agreement of the House of Lords, during this session, with the concurrence of the House of Commons, to this present eleventh. of February, in the great affair of these nations; Proceedings. 1689-02-11	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1689 (1689)	Wing E2788; ESTC R212871	2,563	2

The AGREEMENT of the House of Lords during this Session with the Concurrence of the House of Commons to this present Eleventh of February in the Great Affair of these Nations WHereas the Late King James the Second by the Assistance of divers Evil Counsellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to Subvert and Extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By Assuming and Exercising a Power of Dispensing and Suspending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without Consent of Parliament By Committing and Prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for Humbly Petitioning to be Excus'd from Concurring to the said Assum'd Power By Issuing a Commission under the Great Seal for Erecting a Court called a Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By Levying Mony for and to the Use of the Crown by Pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was Granted by Parliament By Raising and Keeping a Standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without Consent of Parliament By Causing several Good Subjects being Protestants to be Disarm'd By Violating the Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By Causing Informations to be brought and prosecuted in the Court of Kings-Bench for Matters and Causes Cognizable only in Parliament and by divers other Arbitrary and Illegal Courses And whereas of late Years Partial Corrupt and Unqualified Persons have been Return'd and Served on Juries in Tryals particularly divers Jurors in Tryals for High Treasons which were not Freeholders And Excessive Bail hath been Required of Persons Committed in Criminal Causes to Exclude the Benefit of the Laws made for the Liberty of the Subjects And Excessive Fines have been Imposed And Illegal and Cruel Punishments Inflicted And several Grants and Promises made of Fines and Forfeitures before any Conviction or Punishment against the Persons upon whom the same were to be Levyed All which were utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm And whereas the said Late King James the Second having Abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby Vacant His Highness the Prince of Orange whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the Glorious Instrument of Delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power did by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers Principle Persons of the Commons Cause Letters to be Written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants And other Letters to the several Counties Universities Cities Boroughs and Cinque Ports for the Choosing of such Persons to Represent them as were of Right to be sent to Parliament to Meet and Sit at Westminster upon the Two and Twentieth Day of January in this Year 1688. in order to such an Establishment as that their Religion Laws and Liberties might not again be in Danger to be Subverted Upon which Letters Elections having been accordingly made And thereupon the said _____ and the Commons so Elected being now Assembled in a Full and Free Representative of this Nation taking into their Serious Consideration the best means for attaining the Ends aforesaid Do in the first place as their Ancestors in like case have usually done for the Vindicating and Assisting their Antient Rights and Liberties Unanimously Declare That the Pretended Power of Dispensing or Suspending of Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority without Consent of Parliament is Illegal That the Commission for Electing the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes and all other Commissions and Courts of like Nature are Illegal and Pernitious That Levying of Mony for or to the Use of the Crown by Pretence of Prerogative without Grant of Parliament or for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be Granted is Illegal That it is the Right of the Subjects to Petition the King and all Commitments and Prosecutions for such Petitioning are Illegal That the Raising or Keeping of a Standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace unless it be by Consent of Parliament is against Law. That the Subjects which are Protestants may Provide and Keep Arms for their Common Defence That Election of Members of Parliament ought to be Free. That the Freedom of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be Questioned or Permitted in any Court or place out of Parliament The Excessive Bail ought not to be Required nor Excessive Fines Imposed nor Cruel or Unusual Punishments Inflicted That Jurors ought to be duly Impannelled and Returned and Jurors which pass upon Men in Tryal for High Treason ought to be Freeholders That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular Persons before Conviction are Illegal and Void And for Redress of all Grievances and for the Amending Strengthning and Preserving of the Laws Parliaments ought to be held frequently and suffer'd to Sit. And they claim Demand and insist upon all and singular the Premises as they are Undoubted Rights and Liberties And that no Declaration Judgments Doings or Proceedings to the Prejudice of the People in any of the said Premises or in any-wise to be drawn hereafter into Consequence of Example To which Demand or their Rights they are particularly Invited by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only Means for obtaining a full Redress and Remedy therein Having therefore an intire Conference that his Highness the Prince of Orange will Perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by him and will still Preserve them upon the Violation of their Rights which they have here Asserted and from all other Attempts upon their Religion Laws and Liberties The said _____ and Commons Assembled at Westminster Do Resolve _____ That the Prince and Princess of Orange and be Declar'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to them during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them And that the Administration of the Government be only in and Executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princess during their Joynt Lives And after their Deceases the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Princess And for Default of such Issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body And for Default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the said Prince of Orange And they do pray the said Prince and Princess of Orange to accept the same accordingly And that the Oaths hereafter mentioned be taken by all Persons of whom the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy might be required by Law instead of them And that the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy may be Abrogated I A. B. do sincerely Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God. I A. B. do Swear That I do from my Heart Abhor and Detest as Impious and Heretical this Damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes Excommunicated or Depriv'd by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be Depos'd or Murder'd by the Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do Declare that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God. FINIS