Sir John Eliot: A Biography. 1590-1632, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 |
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Page 193 - ... commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 316 - Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke? The devil.
Page 233 - 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 192 - 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 204 - 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. I know how to add ' sovereign' to the king's person, but not to his power; and we cannot leave to him a ' sovereign power,' for we never were possessed of it.
Page 324 - I command you all that are here to take notice of what I have spoken at this time, to be the true intent and meaning of what I granted you in your Petition ; but especially, you my Lords the Judges, for to you only under me belongs the interpretation of...
Page 237 - ... of our generals abroad; the ignorance or corruption of our ministers at home; the impoverishing of the sovereign; the oppression and depression of the subject; the exhausting of our treasures; the waste of our provisions; consumption of our ships; destruction of our men; — these make the advantage to our enemies, not the reputation of their arms; and if in these there be not reformation, we need no foes abroad; time itself will ruin us.
Page 245 - ... was at an end. For the next undertaking, at Rhee, I will not trouble you much ; only this in short : Was not that whole action carried against the judgment and opinion of...
Page 450 - None have gone about to break parliaments but in the end parliaments have broken them ! The examples of all ages confirm it. The fates in that hold correspondency with justice. No man was ever blasted in this house but a curse fell upon him ! " ' I return to the consideration of our dangers.
Page 122 - What a word is that franchise ! The lord may tax his villein high or low; but it is against the franchises of the land for freemen to be taxed but by their consent in parliament.