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<P>Lex Parlamentorum: OR, AN ABSTRACT OF THE Antiquity and Iuri&s;diction of the High Court of PARLIAMENT, According to the Lawes and Con&s;titutions of this Realme.</P>
<P>LONDON. Printed in the Yeare, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A &s;hort Treati&s;e of the <HI>Parliament</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> and Juri&s;diction thereof.</HEAD>
<P>_THE thing ever among&s;t men in eve|ry Countrey had in mo&s;t Reputation and e&s;teeme, is the Publick flouri&s;h|ing of their Countreys Common|weal: and he that endeavoureth the &s;ame, is worthy to be commended; to which every one Naturally hath a love and zeal; And it followeth, that Man can|not attain the&s;e things, but by a mean, which mean is none other but Rea&s;onable Ordinances and Lawes; the which Lawes proceed and come principally of <HI>God,</HI> for the Providence and will of <HI>God</HI> is ever a&s;&s;i&s;tant.</P>
<P>The <HI>Parliament</HI> is the High, and mo&s;t Honourable,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Coke li. 10. fol. 123, 124. &s;ect. 97.</NOTE> and mo&s;t ab&s;olute Court of Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> con&s;i&s;t|ing of <HI>Lords</HI> in <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>Commons:</HI> The Lords were formerly divided into two &s;orts, <HI>Spirituall</HI> and <HI>Temporal;</HI> The <HI>Commons</HI> are divided into three parts, viz. <HI>Knights</HI> of <HI>Sheirs</HI> or <HI>Counties, Citizens</HI> out of <HI>Cities,</HI> and <HI>Burge&s;&s;es</HI> out of <HI>Burroughs.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>The Antiquity of the High Court of Parliament.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Antiquity of the Court of Parlia|ment.</HI> Bract. c. 2. Re|gi&s;t. 280. 5 H. 4.</NOTE></P>
<P>The King of England is armed with diver&s;e Coun&s;els, one is called <HI>Commune Concilium,</HI> and it is Legally cal|led in writs <HI>Magnum Concilium Regis Angliae;</HI> and that is applied to the Hou&s;e of <HI>Peers,</HI> which is called the <HI>Lords</HI> hou&s;e of <HI>Parliament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Juri&s;diction of the High Court of Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>The Court of <HI>Parliament</HI> is &s;o tran&s;cendent, that it maketh Lawes, dimini&s;heth and inlargeth Lawes, Sta|tutes, and Ordinances; concerning matters <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, Capital, Criminal, Common, Civil, Maritine, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>None can begin, continue or di&s;&s;olve the <HI>Parliament</HI> but by the Kings Authority.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mirr. cap. 2. &s;ect. 4 10.14. c 4. de de|fault, &amp; cap. de Homicid. c. 11. &s;ect. 13. cap. 4.</NOTE> The Court of <HI>Parliament</HI> is of that high Honour and Ju&s;tice, that none ought to imagine any thing di&s;honourable that proceeds from that High Court of Ju&s;tice: The writ of Summons is the Ba&s;is and foundation of the <HI>Parliament, Rex e&s;t ha|biturus colloquium,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Calvins ca&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>&amp; Tractatum cum Praelatis, Magna|tibus, &amp; Proceribus, &s;uper arduis negotiis concernentibus</HI>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Nos.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Defen&s;ionem Regni no&s;tri.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Defen&s;ionem Eccle&s;iae Anglicanae,</HI> 2 <HI>&amp;</HI> 3&punc; <HI>Ed.</HI> 6. <HI>c.</HI> 1. 11. <HI>H.</HI> 7. <HI>c.</HI> 1.</ITEM>
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<P>Every Bil which pa&s;&s;eth the <HI>Parliament,</HI> &s;hal have rela|tion to the fir&s;t day of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> though it be put in at the end of the <HI>Parliament:</HI> 33 Hen: 8.17. If di|ver&s;e Se&s;&s;ions be in one <HI>Parliament,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Divers Se&s;&s;i|ons in one Parliament.</NOTE> and the King doth not &s;ign the Bill untill the la&s;t, then all is the &s;ame day, and all &s;hall have relation to the fir&s;t day of the next Se&s;&s;ions; and the fir&s;t day and the la&s;t, are both one <HI>Par|liament,</HI> and one day in Law.</P>
<P>No Bil is an act of <HI>Parliament,</HI> Ordinance or Edict in Law, although both Hou&s;es agree unanimou&s;ly in it) till it have the Royal A&s;&s;ent it is no act. <HI>A&s;&s;embles de ceux tres e&s;tates e&s;t appelle une act de Parliament,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A&s;&s;embles de trois E&s;tates.</NOTE> <HI>car &s;ans touts trois, ne&s;t a&s;cun acte,</HI> for without all 3 E&s;tates 'tis no Act.</P>
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<P>The Kings con&s;ent &s;ignified under His Great-Seal,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3 H. 7.21.</NOTE> &s;hall be to all intents of Law, as valid and effectuall as if He were Per&s;onally pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Authenticall report of that name <HI>Parliament</HI> that I find,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3 Ed. 1. called We&s;tm' 1.</NOTE> is in the Statute made 3 <HI>Edw.</HI> 1. called <HI>We&s;tmin</HI> 1. where the A&s;&s;embly is &s;aid to be <HI>le primer Parliament, apres Coronment le Roy.</HI> For in the Statute <HI>Articuli Cleri</HI> publi&s;hed 9 <HI>Ed.</HI> 2. the&s;e words are read among&s;t others, <HI>Temporibus progenitorum no&s;trorum quondam Regum Angliae in diver&s;is Parliamentis &s;uis, &amp;c.</HI> Which-words <HI>progenitorum &amp; quondam</HI> mu&s;t reach higher then 1 <HI>Ed.</HI> 1.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sigbert, King of the Ea&s;t-Saxons.</NOTE> I read that <HI>Sigbert</HI> King of the Ea&s;t <HI>Saxons</HI> being moved to be Baptized, did fir&s;t call a Councell of his Subjects; and finding them to favour his motion, did then him&s;elf A&s;&s;ent unto it.</P>
<P>I read moreover in <HI>Mathew Paris,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">M. Paris temp. H. 4.1225.</NOTE> that King <HI>Hen|ry</HI> 3. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1225. called together <HI>omnes Clericos &amp; Laicos totius Regni,</HI> or <HI>Vniver&s;i Regni,</HI> as the &s;ame Writer expre&s;&s;eth. Vide <HI>Magna Charta,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Magna Charta, c. 29.</NOTE> Parliament Charter. <HI>Vide</HI> the Stat. 15 <HI>Ed.</HI> 1. c. 1. Confirmes the 2 Charters, and other Statutes made by the King, Peers, &amp; Commons of this land: The Statute publi&s;hed in the 20 yeer of the &s;ame King <HI>Henry,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stat. de Mer|ton.</NOTE> called <HI>the Statute of Mer|ton,</HI> which &s;aith, <HI>Provi&s;um fuit &amp; Conce&s;&s;um tam &agrave; prae|dictis Archiepi&s;copis, Epi&s;copis, Comitibus, Baronibus, quam ab ip&s;o Rege &amp; aliis.</HI> The Statute of <HI>We&s;tm'</HI> fir&s;t made 3 <HI>Ed:</HI> 1. the title of it is, <HI>[The e&s;tabli&s;hment of King</HI> Edw. <HI>made by his Councell, Arch-bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Abbots, Priors, Earles, Barons, and the Commonalty of the Land, &amp;c.]</HI> The Statute of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> made in the fir&s;t yeer of the &s;aid Kings reign thus providing, <HI>pervenant pur le Roy &amp; appeales le pluis di&s;cretes de &s;on Realme,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">4 Ed. 3. &amp; 36 Ed. 3. c. 10.</NOTE> <HI>auxi bien des grondres come des maindres
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<P>The Judges of the land have re&s;olved,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nevills ca&s;e, 7 part of Coke 34. 2 Iacobi.</NOTE> that no Noble men committing Trea&s;on &s;hall forfeit their office and dignity, their office is to Coun&s;ell the King in time of Peace, to defend him in time of War.</P>
<P>No man &s;hall be impri&s;oned by the King and his Councel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">25 Ed. 3. c. 4. Petition de droit, 3 Carol. Magna Char|ta, c. 29.</NOTE> unle&s;&s;e it be by Indictments, pre&s;entment of his neighbours, where &s;uch deed is done by due proces of law, made by writ Originall at the Common-Law, <HI>pag.</HI> 29. <HI>and expounds Lex terrae.</HI></P>
<P>The order to make an Act,<NOTE PLACE="marg">7 H. 7.14. 12 H. 7.20. 9 H. 3. Magna Charta.</NOTE> is to have the joint A&s;&s;ent of the Communaltie, the Lords and the King; where a Statute is made to re&s;train the liberty of all people; the King &s;hall not be bound by this Statute, unle&s;&s;e he be named in the Statute.</P>
<P>A Statute which is in the negative binds the Com|mon-Law,<NOTE PLACE="marg">We&s;tm' 2. c. 40. 21 H. 7.21.</NOTE> that a man may not after make u&s;e of the Common-Law.</P>
<P>The Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons at every <HI>Parliament</HI> take a Corporal Oath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Eliz. cap. 1. 5 Eliz. cap. 1. Caudrees ca&s;e.</NOTE> that the King is the Supream Head, and onely Governour in all Cau&s;es over all Per&s;ons.</P>
<P>Where there is a <HI>&s;aving or Provi&s;o</HI> in an Act of <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Coke rep. fol. 7. Plowden Com. 563. The Iudgment in the high Court of Par|liament.</NOTE> which is repugnant to the body of the Act, it is void.</P>
<P>The Judgment in the High Court of <HI>Parliament</HI> is of as ample Authority as the &s;entence of any or all other Courts what&s;oever, for it delivereth Lawes that do bind al per&s;ons in all cau&s;es; as wel <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall</HI> as <HI>Temporall;</HI> it hath Juri&s;diction in &s;uch ca&s;es as have need of help where there is no help by any Law already in force; it rever&s;eth erronious judgements given in any Court.</P>
<P>No Court can fine and impri&s;on but a Court of Re|cord:
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 27 -->The Hou&s;e of Commons is no Court of Record.<NOTE PLACE="marg">8 part Coke republ. 120. 27 H. 6. f. 8.</NOTE> The Hou&s;e of <HI>Lords,</HI> where the King is in Per&s;on, his Nobles, and his Judges, and Councel of Law, the ma|&s;ters of the Chancery a&s;&s;i&s;ting, is a Court of Record: That is the Court of <HI>Parliament,</HI> where the <HI>Colloquium &amp; Tractatus e&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>No priviledge of <HI>Parliament</HI> is grantable for Trea&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">8 H. 6. numb. 57. Rot. Parlia|ment' Coke 4. Calvins ca&s;e.</NOTE> Felony, or breach of the Peace, 17 <HI>Ed.</HI> 4.57. <HI>Coke</HI> 4 <HI>part In&s;tit.</HI> 25. 17 <HI>Ed.</HI> 4. <HI>numb.</HI> 39. <HI>Coke</HI> 7 <HI>part, fol.</HI> 21, 22.</P>
<P>A Parliament is to be holden once every year, <HI>Parl.</HI> 4 <HI>Ed.</HI> 3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 36 <HI>Ed.</HI> 3. <HI>c.</HI> 10.</P>
<P>All Trea&s;ons, Felonies, Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on.</NOTE> are <HI>contra pacem Coronam &amp; dignitatem Regis.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Humane Lawes.</NOTE>All humane Lawes, are either the Law of Nature, Cu|&s;tomes, or Statutes, which are called <HI>Con&s;titutions;</HI> but Cu&s;tomes, when they were fir&s;t put in writing, and by &s;ufficient Authority of the Prince publi&s;hed and com|manded to be kept, were changed into the nature of Con&s;titutions and Statutes; and did after that, more pe|nally bind the Subjects.</P>
<P><HI>The Laws of England.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Laws of <HI>England.</HI></NOTE>The Lawes of <HI>England</HI> &s;tand for the maintenance of the ju&s;t Priviledges of the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> the ju&s;t Rites of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> the ju&s;t Rights of the liberty of the People of <HI>England,</HI> &amp; do lay forth their in|tere&s;t, in the pre&s;ervation and maintenance of 3 things:</P>
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<ITEM>1. The fir&s;t is called, the Regi&s;ter of Writs, <HI>privile|gium Regis,</HI> or <HI>jus regni.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The &s;econd is called, <HI>jus Eccle&s;ia&s;ticum,</HI> or <HI>jus Ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticae.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The third is called, <HI>jus Populi,</HI> or <HI>libertates Angliae.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e 3 make up the Body of the Common Law; a Law &s;o peacefull for the keeping all the&s;e in unity, that
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 28 -->for this cau&s;e it is by the Authority of the Laws of this Realme &s;tiled by the name of <HI>Peace,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. 7 Ed. 1. Rot. 21. Lin|wood de jure competenti 71. Coke In&s;tit. 2.489.</NOTE> <HI>pax Dei,</HI> as rela|ting to the Rites of the Church; and <HI>pax Regni,</HI> as relating to the Rights of the People, <HI>vide</HI> the words of the Kings Charters in former times, <HI>conce&s;simus Deo &amp; Eccle&s;iae, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>THat no Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons doe pre&s;ume to &s;it or take their Places in the lower Hou&s;e of Parlia|ment untill they,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Proclamation before the L. Steward,</HI> 3 die Novem|bris, 1640. an. 16. Regis Caroli.</NOTE> <HI>and every of them have fir&s;t taken the Oaths of</HI> Supremacy <HI>and</HI> Allegiance <HI>in the u&s;uall manner and place, nor untill the Sheriffe &s;hall make retourn of his Writ, according to the Statute, unto the Clark of the Crown in Chancery, and his or their Names be entred in &s;uch man|ner, as it hath been heretofore accu&s;tomed.</HI></P>
<P>The number of the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;|&s;es, Cho&s;en to attend this pre&s;ent Parliament, out of Counties, Cities, and Burrough Towns of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Barony of the Ports, now &s;itting at <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter,</HI> (3 <HI>die Novemb.</HI> 1640.) 424. be&s;ides the Lords and Peers of upper Hou&s;e of Parliament.</P>
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