The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution |
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Abbot aforesaid ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Archbishop assembly authority bailiffs barons bishops boroughs burgesses cause century Chapter of John's chief civil classes clause Conquest consent constitutional Council county court court leet criminal Crown customs Earl Edward elected enacted England English exercised feudal France freeholders freemen granted Guizot Habeas Corpus Hallam heirs Henry Henry II History House of Commons House of Lords important imprisoned John John's Charter judges judgment judicial jurors justice king king's kingdom knights land Langton liberties lord Lord Coke Lords Spiritual Magna Carta ment military ministers nation Norman Normandy oath observed officers parium parlia parliament parliamentary party peace peers person Petition Petition of Right political population possessed present principle realm reign respect Roman royal Saxon sheriff shire sovereign spirit statute summoned supra tenants tenure tion towns trial by jury villein villeinage William words writ
Popular passages
Page 320 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence and prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 322 - I, AB, 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.
Page 321 - And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.
Page 204 - John, the variations not being very material) shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or. any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.* We will sell to no man, we will not deny, or delay to any man justice or right.
Page 318 - And whereas of late years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have been returned and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders. 10. And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects. 1 1 . And excessive fines have been imposed; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
Page 322 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So help me God.
Page 319 - ... principal persons of the commons) cause letters to be written to the lords spiritual and temporal, being Protestants...
Page 293 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided...
Page 133 - A widow, after the death of her husband, shall forthwith and without difficulty have her marriage and inheritance; nor shall she give anything for her dower, or her marriage, or her inheritance, which her husband and she held at the day of his death ; and she may remain in the mansion house of her husband forty days after his death, within which time her dower shall be assigned.
Page 290 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.