The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II

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J. Murray, 1827 - Всего страниц: 828

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Стр. 472 - 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...
Стр. 119 - VI, which is, and was of ancient time, due to the imperial crown of this realm ; that is, under God, to have the sovereignty and rule over all manner of persons born within these her realms, dominions, and countries, of what estate, either ecclesiastical or temporal, soever they be, so as no foreign power shall or ought to have any superiority over them.
Стр. 328 - The prerogatives of princes may easily and do daily grow. The privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand. They may be by good providence and care preserved ; but, being once lost, are not recovered but with much disquiet.
Стр. 118 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Стр. 422 - ... 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.
Стр. 204 - ... declare his assent, and subscribe to all the articles of religion, which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the sacraments, comprised in a book imprinted, intituled : Articles, whereupon it was agreed...
Стр. 338 - ... heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Стр. 233 - ... a kind of natural right in the noble, wise, and virtuous, to govern them which are of servile disposition* ; nevertheless for manifestation of this their right, and men's more peaceable contentment on both sides, the assent of them who are to be governed seemeth necessary.
Стр. 236 - ... from power which the prince doth communicate unto the parliament, or to any other court under him, but from power which the whole body of this realm being naturally possessed with, hath by free and deliberate assent derived unto him that ruleth over them, so far forth as hath been declared. So that our laws made concerning religion, do take originally their essence from the power of the whole realm and church of England...
Стр. 20 - The people, we are told, said that, if they were treated thus, " then were it worse than the taxes of France; and England should be bond, and not free.

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