Arguments exhibited in Parliament by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England ; whereby it is proved that the persons of noble men are attachable by law for contempts by them committed in the Right Honorable Court of Chancery for disobeying the decrees of that court.

His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the originall copie under the kings own hand.

Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Place of publication suggested by Wing.His protest against the legality of the Court...

Die Mercurii, 20 Julii, 1642. An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that the judges and justices of assize, in the severall counties of England and Wales, in open court, and in their severall charges to be delivered to the grand juries at the next assizes, shall declare and publish, that the said Lords and Commons have resolved upon the question, that His majesties commissions of array are against law, and against the liberty and property of the subject.

England and Wales. Parliament.

July 1642

1 sheet ([1] p.)Order to be printed dated and signed: Die Mercurii, 20 Julij, 1642. Io: Browne Cleri...

The humble petition of the worshipful Thomas Adams, John Langham, and James Bunce, aldermen of London, presented to the Lords at their bar on Tuesday April 25. 1648. Wherein is declared their firm resolution to stand for the defence of the established laws of the land. Also their protestation against the lords jurisdiction over them or any other commoners in criminal cases. With their appeal from the Lords to their proper and competent judges (a jury of their equals) and judges sworn to proceed according to the known law of England. Together with a salva libertate by them sent to the lieutenant of the Tower, April 23. 1648.

Adams, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1668.
Langham, John, Sir, 1584-1671.
Bunce, James, Sir, d. 1670.

April 1648

7, [1] p.A salva libertate is dated and signed on p.4: From our chambers in the Tower of London, Apr...

Cases of treason written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight ...

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

January 1641

[4], 35 p.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library and Thomason Collection, British Library

A defiance against all arbitrary usurpations or encroachments, either of the House of Lords, or any other, upon the soveraignty of the supreme House of Commons, (the high court of judicature of the land) or upon the rights, properties and freedoms of the people in generall. Whereunto is annexed, a relation of the unjust and barbarous proceedings of the House of Lords, against that worthy commoner, Mr. Overton, who standeth by them committed to the most contemptuous goal of Newgate, for refusing to answer to interrogatories, and appealing from that court to the Honourable House of Commons (as by the great Charter of England he was bound) for the triall of his cause. Howsoever the House of Lords do suggest in their commitment of him, that it was for his contemptuous words and gesture, refusing to answer unto their speaker. Which being every mans case, is published ... as it was enclosed in a letter to one of his friends.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657,

January 1646

[2], 26 p.Signed on page D2r: R. Overton.Sometimes attributed to John Lilburne.Place of publication ...

Englands compleat law-judge, and lawyer.: Declared in these ensuing heads; 1. Whether that law and those judges and practizers owned time out of minde by the supreme authority of the nation, be not the laws, judges, and lawyers of this Common-wealth, &c. 2. Whether courts so constituted are not records of the nation. 3. Whether each court hath not power, as such, to enforce its owne decrees. 4. That the decrees and usages of such a court are as valid as of any court. 5. Whether it be not against reason, that when divers courts in the same nation act by divers lawes, one of the courts should have power to prohibit the other to proceed to bring the matters in difference before it self. 6. Concerning judges of appeale.

Cock, Charles George.
Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.

[14], 26 p.Another edition has title page signed: By Charles, George Cocke.Sometimes attributed to: ...

A declaration and protestation: of the peers, lords, and barons of this realme, against the late treasonable proceedings, and tyrannicall usurpations of some members of the Commons House, who endeavour to subvert the fundamentall laws and regall government of this kingdom, and enslave the people to their boundlesse tyranny instead of freedom. February 8. 1648.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
England and Wales. Parliament.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Anonymous. By William Prynne. Cf. Wing. Pretends to be from the House of Lords, and ...

A protestation of the gentlemen prisoners in the Tower of London dated October 1647 made by them upon the occasion of an order of the House of Commons for their sudden removall thence to severall other persons where by treason of the sequestring them of all their estates (contrary to the known and fundamentall laws of England, contained in Magna Charta and the petition of right, &c. so often sword to be maintained and inviolably observed by this present Parliament) and denying unto them according to the known law of the land, allowance for their maintenance) they must in reason be necessitated to sterve and perish : unto which is prefixed their letter, which the 14 of October 1647 was delivered to the speaker of the House of Commons.

Vaughan, Henry, Sir, 1587?-1659?

January 1647

7 p.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.Signed at end: Henry Vaughan, Wingfield Bodenham,...

By the Lords Justices, a proclamation. Tho. Cantuar. J. Sommers C. Shrewsbury, Dorsett, Romney, Orford. Whereas James late Duke of Berwick stands outlawed for high treason; and Sir George Barclay knight, ...

England and Wales. Lords Justices.

January 1697

1 sheet ([1] p.).Title from caption and opening words of text."Given at the court at Whitehall the e...

The charge of the Commons of England, against Charls Stuart, King of England,: of high treason, and other high crimes, exhibited to the High Court of Justice, by John Cook Esquire, Solicitor General, appointed by the said Court, for, and on the behalf of the people of England. As it was read to him by the clerk in the said court, as soon as Mr. Solicitor General for the Kingdom had impeached him, in the name of the Commons of England, at his first araignment, Saturday, Ian. 20. 1648. Examined by the original copy. Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot.

England and Wales. Parliament.

8 p.Unauthorized -- Wing.Annotations on Thomason copies: "Jan 26." (E.540[18]); "feb. 6" (E.541[18])...

An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice : together with 1. An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be king of England or Ireland, or the dominions thereof. 2. An act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 3. Another act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 4. An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England : Tuesday the 22 of November, 1653, ordered by the Parliament, that the act passed yesterday, entituled, An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice, be forthwith printed and published, and that the several other acts therein mentioned be printed therewith : Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.

England and Wales.
Field, John, d. 1668, printer.
Scobell, Henry, d. 1660.
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R
England and Wales. Parliament.

January 1653

Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden...

An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice.: Together with 1. An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be king over England or Ireland, or the dominions thereof. 2. An act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 3. An another act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 4. An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. Tuesday the 22th of November, 1653. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act passed yesterday, entituled, An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice, be forthwith printed and published: and that the several other acts therein mentioned be printed therewith. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.

England and Wales. Parliament.

January 1653

[2], 191-204 p.Also issued as part of a through-paged folio set.Signatures: 2M-2N4?.Text in black le...

The subjection of all traytors, rebels, as well peers, as commons in Ireland, to the laws, statutes, and trials by juries of good and lawfull men of England, in the Kings Bench at Westminster, for treasons perpetuated by them in Ireland, or any foreign country out of the realm of England. Being an argument at law made in the Court of Kings Bench, Hil. 20 Caroli Regis, in the case of Connor Magwire, an Irish baron ... fully proving; that Irish peers, as well as commons may be lawfully tried in this court in England, by the statute of 35 H.8.c.2. for treasons committed by them in Ireland, by a Middlesex jury, and outed of a trial by Irish peers: which was accordingly adjudged, and he thereupon tried, condemned, executed as a traytor ... By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

January 1658

[20], 72 p.Running title reads: The case of the Lord Magwire, Hil. 20 Car. Banc. Regis, &c.Annotatio...

A plea for the Lords: or, A short, yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peeres,: and the hereditary just right of the lords and barons of this realme, to sit, vote and judge in the high Court of Parliament. Against the late seditious anti-Parliamentary printed petitions, libells and pamphlets of Anabaptists, Levellers, agitators, Lilburne, Overton, and their dangerous confederates, who endeavour the utter subversion both of parliaments, King and peers, to set up an arbitrary polarchy and anarchy of their own new-modelling. / By William Prynne Esquire, a well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament, and the republike; now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very foundations.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

January 1648

[6], (8), 69, [1] p.A4v-B3v have page numbers in parentheses; pagination begins again in mid-text, w...

The vindication of Abraham Reinaldson, late Lord Major of the City of London.: With certaine queryes of conscience resolved, concerning his refusing to obey a late order of Parliament, for the proclaiming an unjust act for abolishing the kingly office in England and Ireland. For which supposed contempt, he was unjustly fined 2000l. by the House of Commons, degraded of his Maioralty, and committed prisoner to the Tower of London, Aprill 2. 1648.

Reynardson, Abraham, Sir, 1590-1661.

8 p.Place of publication from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 10th London".Reproduction of...

His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the originall copie under the kings own hand.

Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Place of publication suggested by Wing.His protest against the legality of the Court...

Die Mercurii, 20 Julii, 1642. An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that the judges and justices of assize, in the severall counties of England and Wales, in open court, and in their severall charges to be delivered to the grand juries at the next assizes, shall declare and publish, that the said Lords and Commons have resolved upon the question, that His majesties commissions of array are against law, and against the liberty and property of the subject.

England and Wales. Parliament.

July 1642

1 sheet ([1] p.)Order to be printed dated and signed: Die Mercurii, 20 Julij, 1642. Io: Browne Cleri...

The humble petition of the worshipful Thomas Adams, John Langham, and James Bunce, aldermen of London, presented to the Lords at their bar on Tuesday April 25. 1648. Wherein is declared their firm resolution to stand for the defence of the established laws of the land. Also their protestation against the lords jurisdiction over them or any other commoners in criminal cases. With their appeal from the Lords to their proper and competent judges (a jury of their equals) and judges sworn to proceed according to the known law of England. Together with a salva libertate by them sent to the lieutenant of the Tower, April 23. 1648.

Adams, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1668.
Langham, John, Sir, 1584-1671.
Bunce, James, Sir, d. 1670.

April 1648

7, [1] p.A salva libertate is dated and signed on p.4: From our chambers in the Tower of London, Apr...

Cases of treason written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight ...

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

January 1641

[4], 35 p.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library and Thomason Collection, British Library

A defiance against all arbitrary usurpations or encroachments, either of the House of Lords, or any other, upon the soveraignty of the supreme House of Commons, (the high court of judicature of the land) or upon the rights, properties and freedoms of the people in generall. Whereunto is annexed, a relation of the unjust and barbarous proceedings of the House of Lords, against that worthy commoner, Mr. Overton, who standeth by them committed to the most contemptuous goal of Newgate, for refusing to answer to interrogatories, and appealing from that court to the Honourable House of Commons (as by the great Charter of England he was bound) for the triall of his cause. Howsoever the House of Lords do suggest in their commitment of him, that it was for his contemptuous words and gesture, refusing to answer unto their speaker. Which being every mans case, is published ... as it was enclosed in a letter to one of his friends.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657,

January 1646

[2], 26 p.Signed on page D2r: R. Overton.Sometimes attributed to John Lilburne.Place of publication ...

Englands compleat law-judge, and lawyer.: Declared in these ensuing heads; 1. Whether that law and those judges and practizers owned time out of minde by the supreme authority of the nation, be not the laws, judges, and lawyers of this Common-wealth, &c. 2. Whether courts so constituted are not records of the nation. 3. Whether each court hath not power, as such, to enforce its owne decrees. 4. That the decrees and usages of such a court are as valid as of any court. 5. Whether it be not against reason, that when divers courts in the same nation act by divers lawes, one of the courts should have power to prohibit the other to proceed to bring the matters in difference before it self. 6. Concerning judges of appeale.

Cock, Charles George.
Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.

[14], 26 p.Another edition has title page signed: By Charles, George Cocke.Sometimes attributed to: ...

A declaration and protestation: of the peers, lords, and barons of this realme, against the late treasonable proceedings, and tyrannicall usurpations of some members of the Commons House, who endeavour to subvert the fundamentall laws and regall government of this kingdom, and enslave the people to their boundlesse tyranny instead of freedom. February 8. 1648.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
England and Wales. Parliament.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Anonymous. By William Prynne. Cf. Wing. Pretends to be from the House of Lords, and ...

A protestation of the gentlemen prisoners in the Tower of London dated October 1647 made by them upon the occasion of an order of the House of Commons for their sudden removall thence to severall other persons where by treason of the sequestring them of all their estates (contrary to the known and fundamentall laws of England, contained in Magna Charta and the petition of right, &c. so often sword to be maintained and inviolably observed by this present Parliament) and denying unto them according to the known law of the land, allowance for their maintenance) they must in reason be necessitated to sterve and perish : unto which is prefixed their letter, which the 14 of October 1647 was delivered to the speaker of the House of Commons.

Vaughan, Henry, Sir, 1587?-1659?

January 1647

7 p.Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.Signed at end: Henry Vaughan, Wingfield Bodenham,...

By the Lords Justices, a proclamation. Tho. Cantuar. J. Sommers C. Shrewsbury, Dorsett, Romney, Orford. Whereas James late Duke of Berwick stands outlawed for high treason; and Sir George Barclay knight, ...

England and Wales. Lords Justices.

January 1697

1 sheet ([1] p.).Title from caption and opening words of text."Given at the court at Whitehall the e...

The charge of the Commons of England, against Charls Stuart, King of England,: of high treason, and other high crimes, exhibited to the High Court of Justice, by John Cook Esquire, Solicitor General, appointed by the said Court, for, and on the behalf of the people of England. As it was read to him by the clerk in the said court, as soon as Mr. Solicitor General for the Kingdom had impeached him, in the name of the Commons of England, at his first araignment, Saturday, Ian. 20. 1648. Examined by the original copy. Imprimatur, Gilbert Mabbot.

England and Wales. Parliament.

8 p.Unauthorized -- Wing.Annotations on Thomason copies: "Jan 26." (E.540[18]); "feb. 6" (E.541[18])...

An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice : together with 1. An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be king of England or Ireland, or the dominions thereof. 2. An act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 3. Another act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 4. An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England : Tuesday the 22 of November, 1653, ordered by the Parliament, that the act passed yesterday, entituled, An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice, be forthwith printed and published, and that the several other acts therein mentioned be printed therewith : Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.

England and Wales.
Field, John, d. 1668, printer.
Scobell, Henry, d. 1660.
Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R
England and Wales. Parliament.

January 1653

Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden...

An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice.: Together with 1. An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be king over England or Ireland, or the dominions thereof. 2. An act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 3. An another act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason. 4. An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. Tuesday the 22th of November, 1653. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act passed yesterday, entituled, An act for the establishing an High Court of Justice, be forthwith printed and published: and that the several other acts therein mentioned be printed therewith. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.

England and Wales. Parliament.

January 1653

[2], 191-204 p.Also issued as part of a through-paged folio set.Signatures: 2M-2N4?.Text in black le...

The subjection of all traytors, rebels, as well peers, as commons in Ireland, to the laws, statutes, and trials by juries of good and lawfull men of England, in the Kings Bench at Westminster, for treasons perpetuated by them in Ireland, or any foreign country out of the realm of England. Being an argument at law made in the Court of Kings Bench, Hil. 20 Caroli Regis, in the case of Connor Magwire, an Irish baron ... fully proving; that Irish peers, as well as commons may be lawfully tried in this court in England, by the statute of 35 H.8.c.2. for treasons committed by them in Ireland, by a Middlesex jury, and outed of a trial by Irish peers: which was accordingly adjudged, and he thereupon tried, condemned, executed as a traytor ... By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

January 1658

[20], 72 p.Running title reads: The case of the Lord Magwire, Hil. 20 Car. Banc. Regis, &c.Annotatio...

A plea for the Lords: or, A short, yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peeres,: and the hereditary just right of the lords and barons of this realme, to sit, vote and judge in the high Court of Parliament. Against the late seditious anti-Parliamentary printed petitions, libells and pamphlets of Anabaptists, Levellers, agitators, Lilburne, Overton, and their dangerous confederates, who endeavour the utter subversion both of parliaments, King and peers, to set up an arbitrary polarchy and anarchy of their own new-modelling. / By William Prynne Esquire, a well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament, and the republike; now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very foundations.

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

January 1648

[6], (8), 69, [1] p.A4v-B3v have page numbers in parentheses; pagination begins again in mid-text, w...

The vindication of Abraham Reinaldson, late Lord Major of the City of London.: With certaine queryes of conscience resolved, concerning his refusing to obey a late order of Parliament, for the proclaiming an unjust act for abolishing the kingly office in England and Ireland. For which supposed contempt, he was unjustly fined 2000l. by the House of Commons, degraded of his Maioralty, and committed prisoner to the Tower of London, Aprill 2. 1648.

Reynardson, Abraham, Sir, 1590-1661.

8 p.Place of publication from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 10th London".Reproduction of...

His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the originall copie under the kings own hand.

Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Place of publication suggested by Wing.His protest against the legality of the Court...

Die Mercurii, 20 Julii, 1642. An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that the judges and justices of assize, in the severall counties of England and Wales, in open court, and in their severall charges to be delivered to the grand juries at the next assizes, shall declare and publish, that the said Lords and Commons have resolved upon the question, that His majesties commissions of array are against law, and against the liberty and property of the subject.

England and Wales. Parliament.

July 1642

1 sheet ([1] p.)Order to be printed dated and signed: Die Mercurii, 20 Julij, 1642. Io: Browne Cleri...

The humble petition of the worshipful Thomas Adams, John Langham, and James Bunce, aldermen of London, presented to the Lords at their bar on Tuesday April 25. 1648. Wherein is declared their firm resolution to stand for the defence of the established laws of the land. Also their protestation against the lords jurisdiction over them or any other commoners in criminal cases. With their appeal from the Lords to their proper and competent judges (a jury of their equals) and judges sworn to proceed according to the known law of England. Together with a salva libertate by them sent to the lieutenant of the Tower, April 23. 1648.

Adams, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1668.
Langham, John, Sir, 1584-1671.
Bunce, James, Sir, d. 1670.

April 1648

7, [1] p.A salva libertate is dated and signed on p.4: From our chambers in the Tower of London, Apr...

Arguments exhibited in Parliament by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England ; whereby it is proved that the persons of noble men are attachable by law for contempts by them committed in the Right Honorable Court of Chancery for disobeying the decrees of that court.

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Arguments exhibited in Parliament by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England ; whereby it is proved that the persons of noble men are attachable by law for contempts by them committed in the Right Honorable Court of Chancery for disobeying the decrees of that court.

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