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A58640	The laws and acts of the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraign Charles the Second ... holden at Edinburgh the first of January, 1661 by a noble Lord, John, Earl of Middleton ... with the special advice and consent of the estates of Parliament / extracted and collected from the records of Parliament by Sir Archibald Primerose.; Laws, etc.	Scotland.; Primrose, Archibald, Sir, 1616-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S1271; ESTC R30550	109,236	124

Parliament of this Kingdom by their several Acts of the eleventh and twenty fifth of January last have from the sense of their humble duty and in recognisance of His Majesties just Right Declared That it is an inherent Priviledge of the Crown and an undoubted part of the Royal Prerogative of the Kings of this Kingdom to have the sole choice and appointment of the Officers of Estate Privy-Councellors and Lords of Session That the power of calling holding and dissolving of Parliaments and all Conventions and Meetings of the Estates doth soly reside in the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and that as no Parliament can be lawfully kept without the special warrand and presence of the Kings Majesty or His Commissioner So no Acts nor Statutes to be past in any Parliament can be binding on the people or have the Authority and force of Laws without the special approbation of His Majesty or His Commissioner interponed thereto at the making thereof That the power of Armes making of Peace and War and making of Treaties and Leagues with Forreign Princes or States or at home by the Subjects among themselves doth properly reside in the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and is their undoubted Right and their's alone And that it is high Treason in the Subjects of this Kingdom or any number of them upon whatsoever ground to rise or continue in Armes to maintain any Forts Garisons or Strengths to make Peace or War or to make any Treaties or Leagues with Forreigners or among themselves without His Majesties Authority first interponed thereto That it is unlawfull to the Subjects of whatsoever quality or function to convocat conveen or assemble themselves for holding of Councils Conventions and Assemblies to Treat Consult and Determin in any matters of State Civil or Ecclesiastick except in the ordinary Judgements or to make Leagues or Bonds upon whatsoever colour or pretence without His Majesties special consent and approbation had thereunto That the League and Covenant and all Treaties following thereupon and Acts or Deeds that do or may relate thereunto are not obligatory nor do infer any Obligation upon this Kingdom or the Subjects thereof to meddle or interpose by Armes or any seditious way in any thing concerning the Religion and Government of the Churches in England and Ireland or in what may concern the Administration of His Majesties Government there And that none of His Majesties Subjects should presume upon any pretext of any Authority whatsoever to require the renewing or swearing of the said League and Covenant or of any other Covenants or publick Oaths concerning the Government of the Church or Kingdom And that none offer to renew or swear the same without His Majesties special warrand and approbation c. I do conform to the Acts of Parliament aforesaid Declare That I do with all humble duty acknowledge His Majesties Royal Prerogative Right and Power in all the particulars and in the manner aforementioned and that I do heartily give my consent thereto by these presents Subscribed by me at XII Act concerning the Judicial proceedings in the time of the late Vsurpers FOrasmuch since the year of GOD one thousand six hundred and fifty one the late Usurpers did take upon them to establish Judicatories superior and inferior within this Nation as Judges for Administration of Justice in place of the Judicatory of the Session formerly established by Law Commissioners for the Admirality Sheriffs of Shires Commissars Justices of Peace and other inferiour Courts In which Courts the people did in name of the Usurpers or under the notion of the Keepers of the Liberties prosecute and defend their several Causes and Interests these many years past And His Majesty considering that the matters agitate pursued and concluded were for the most part things of course belonging to the ordinary Judicatories formerly established in this Kingdom and being unwilling that the people should be put to any further trouble where Matters have been acted and Cases determined according to Law Therefore His Majesty with consent of the Estates of Parliament Declares That all and whatsoever Acts Interloquiters Decreets and Sentences made pronounced and given forth by the saids Courts superiour and inferiour with all execution thereupon and all execution by Horning Inhibition Caption Comprising Poynding and others to have been and to be valid and stand in full force notwithstanding of the unlawfulness of the Authority by which these Courts were held and the execution used But because the Judges or Commissioners for Administration of Justice did sometimes proceed in an arbitrary way contrair to Law and Justice and at other times many of them being strangers and ignorant of the Law did proceed unwarrantably and unjustly betwixt parties Therefore His Majesty with consent foresaid doth Declare That whatsoever person or persons hath any just reason to quarrel their Acts Interloquiters Decreets and Sentences they are hereby warranded and allowed to do the same without any Reduction or Suspension within the space of one year next after the down-sitting of the Session And if parties complainers be Minors within the space of year and day next after they shall attain the age of twenty one years compleat Parties alwayes being lawfully cited thereto And if any person or persons be charged under the pain of Horning Suspension shall be granted to them upon Caution or if they be not able to find Caution super cautione Juratoria And if it shall be found that the Complainer doth without any just ground unnecessarly vex the party complained upon in that case the Lords of the Session are hereby authorized to determine the parties damage and charges to be paid by the unjust Complainer Likeas all Decreets before the saids pretended Commissioners for Administration of Justice whether given in absence or parties compearand are hereby allowed to be brought in question revised and recognosced in manner foresaid And whereas there be many Processes as yet depending undecided upon Summons and Letters raised in the saids Usurpers names the same Processes shall be all wakned in His Majesties Name and be put to a final close by the Lords of Session as if they had been intended from the beginning in His Majesties Name and Authority And whereas any Acts or Decreets have been made or given forth in the Admiral Courts or any other inferiour Courts the same may be brought in question before the Lords of Session in the same forme and manner as was formerly established by the Law and Practick of this Kingdom And forasmuch as the said Usurpers did from time to time nominate and appoint Commissioners of Exchequer having the same power to passe all sorts of Writs Signators and others and to discusse Processes and Suspensions in the same manner as His Majesties Treasurer and Commissioners appointed by His Majesty had power to do Therefore His Majesty with advice and consent foresaid for the good and case of His people under the provisions underwritten doth Declare all and whatsoever Writs

been or upon any pretext whatsoever may be or seem contrair to or inconsistent with His MAJESTIES just Power and Prerogative above-mentioned and Declares the same to have been unlawfull and to be void and null in all time coming And to the end that this Act and Acknowledgement which the Estates of Parliament from the sense of their humble duty and certain knowledge have hereby made may receive the more exact obedience in time coming It is by His MAJESTY with advice foresaid Statute and Ordained that the punctual observance thereof be specially regarded by all His MAJESTIES Subjects and that none of them upon any pretext whatsoever offer to call in question impugne or do any deed to the contrair hereof under the pain of Treason IIII. Act asserting His Majesties Royal Prerogative in the making of Leagues and the conventions of the Subjects THe Estates of Parliament considering that the maintenance of His MAjESTIES Authority and Royal Prerogative in and concerning the making of Leagues and the conventions of the Subjects is not only a necessary duty of the people but of singular advantage to their happiness and peace And that their Predecessors wisely foreseing the good and benefit thereof and the prejudices and miseries that inevitably did accompany the neglect of the same did therefore by many several Acts and Laws assert the Kings Prerogative and Authority therein and particularly by the hundred and thirty one Act of the eight Parliament of King James the sixth it is Statute and Ordained That none of his Highness Subjects of whatsoever quality state or function presume to convocat conveen or assemble themselves for holding of Councils Conventions or Assemblies to treat consult and determine in any matter of State Civil or Ecclesiastick except in the ordinary Judgements without His MAJESTIES special command or express licence had and obtained thereto under the pains made against such as unlawfully convocats the Kings Leidges And by the twelfth Act of the tenth Parliament holden the tenth of December one thousand five hundred and eighty five It is by His MAJESTY with advice of His three Estates Statute and Ordained that no Leagues nor Bonds be made among His Subjects of any degree upon whatsoever colour or pretence without His Highness or His Successors privitie and consent had and obtained thereunto under the pain to be holden and execute as movers of Sedition to the breach of the Peace And now finding that the due observance of these Laws might have contribute much to the preventing of these confusions and troubles which in these late times have almost ruined both the Kings MAJESTY and all His loyal Subjects Therefore His MAJESTY with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament doth revive renew ratifie and approve these Acts above-mentioned and Ordain the same to be punctually obeyed in all time coming conform to the tenor thereof and under the pains therein contained And Declares that any explanation or glosse that during these late troubles hath been put upon these Acts as that they are not to be extended against any Leagues Councils Conventions Assemblies or Meetings made holden or kept by the Subjects for preservation of the Kings MAJESTY the Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom or for the publick good either of Kirk or Kingdom are false and disloyal and contrair to the true and genuine meaning of these Acts And therefore His MAJESTY with advice foresaid doth Discharge and for ever Annull the same and all Acts and Practices that have been in pursuance thereof V. Act asserting His Majesties Royal Prerogative in the Militia and in making Peace and War c. THe Estates of Parliament considering the great happiness that this Kingdom hath for many ages enjoyed under the princely Government of their Royal Kings who by the special blessing of Almighty GOD have reigned over them in so long and an unparallel'd series of Royal descents and the obligation thereby lying upon them in conscience honour and gratitude to owne and assert the Royal Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom which the Kings MAJESTY holds from GOD Almighty alone An to vindicat the same from these invasions which by the malice or specious pretexts of ill affected persons and the confusions and disorders of the late times have been made upon it Do therefore Declare That the power of Armes and making of Peace and War or Treaties and Leagues with Forraign Princes or Estates doth properly reside in the Kings MAJESTY His Heirs and Successors and that it was and is their undoubted Right and theirs alone to have the power of raising in Armes the Subjects of this Kingdom and of the commanding ordering and disbanding or otherwise disposing thereof and of all Strengths Forts or Garrisons within the same as they shall think fit the Subjects alwayes being free of the Provisions and Maintenance of these Forts and Armies unless the same be concluded in Parliament or Convention of Estates Likeas the Kings MAJESTY with advice and consent foresaid doth hereby Declare That it is and shall be high Treason to the Subjects of this Kingdom or any number of them more or less upon any ground or pretext whatsoever to rise or continue in Armes to maintain any Forts Strengths or Garrisons to make Peace or War or to make any Treaties or Leagues with Forraign Princes or Estates or among themselves without His MAJESTIES special Authority and Approbation first interponed thereto And doth discharge all His MAJESTIES Subjects to offer upon any pretext whatsoever to attempt the doing of any of these things hereafter under the said pain of Treason And in further detestation of such unlawfull and unwarratnable practices the Kings MAJESTY with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament doth hereby Rescind and Annull all Acts Statutes Ordinances or Deeds past or done in any Parliaments Conventions or other Meetings whatsoever or any otherwise in so far as they are or may be contrair to or inconsistent with this present Act and Declares the same dispensing with the generality and holding all the particulars as verbatim herein inserted to be void and of no force nor effect in time coming VI. Act annulling the pretended Convention of Estates kept in the year 1643. FOrasmuch as the power of calling of Parliaments or Conventions of the Estates of this Kingdom hath alwayes been and is an undoubted priviledge of the Crown and doth soly reside in the Kings MAJESTY And that notwithstanding thereof among the many other invasions which during these late times have been made upon the Royal Prerogative a pretended Meeting and Convention of the Estates was called and kept at Edinburgh in June one thousand six hundred fourty three without any warrand from the Kings MAjESTY And the Estates of Parliament now conveened by His MAjESTIES speciall Authority having taken into their consideration the indiction reasons and grounds of the calling of the said Convention do find that the said pretended Convention of Estates notwithstanding of all the specious