A History of England Under the Duke of Buckingham and Charles I., 1624-1628, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1875 - Great Britain |
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Page 307 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Page 273 - 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.
Page 292 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 252 - We humbly present this petition to your majesty, not only with a care of preserving our own liberties, but with due regard to leave entire that sovereign power wherewith your majesty is trusted for the protection, safety, and happiness of your people...
Page 204 - They have introduced a privy council, ravishing, at once, the spheres of all ancient government ! imprisoning us without bail or bond ! They have taken from us — what shall I say ? Indeed what have they left us ? They have taken from us all means of supplying the king, and ingratiating ourselves with him, by tearing up the roots of all property; which, if they be not seasonably set again into the ground by his majesty's hand, we shall have, instead of beauty, baldness ! " For this, in the noblest...
Page 89 - I command you to send all the French away to-morrow, out of the town, if you can by fair means, (but stick not long in disputing) ; other ways force them away, driving them away like so many wild beasts, until ye have shipped them, and so the Devil go with them ! Let me hear no answer, but of the performance of my command.
Page 276 - ... they say they advised in this? Was this an act of council, Mr. Speaker? I have more charity than to think it; and unless they make confession of it themselves I cannot believe it.
Page 339 - Gill said that the king was fitter to stand in a Cheapside shop, with an apron before him, and say, What lack ye...
Page 52 - He has broken those nerves and sinews of our land, the stores and treasures of the King. There needs no search for it. It is too visible. His profuse expenses, his superfluous feasts, his magnificent buildings, his riots, his excesses, what are they but the visible evidences of an express exhausting of the state, a chronicle of the immensity of his waste of the revenues of the Crown?
Page 253 - I know not what it is. All our petition is for the laws of England ; and this power seems to be another distinct power from the power of the law.