Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England ...G. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode, 1837 - Great Britain |
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Page xxv - Parliament, that neither His Majesty nor his Privy Council have or ought to have any jurisdiction, power or authority by English bill, petition, articles, libel, or any other arbitrary way whatsoever, to examine or draw into question, determine or dispose of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels of any the subjects of this kingdom, but that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of Justice and by the ordinary course of the law.
Page xxiv - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...
Page ii - That there should be a clerk attendant upon the said Council to write, enter, and register all such decrees, determinations, letters and other such things as he should be appointed to enter in a book, to remain always as a ledger, as well for the discharge of the said councillors touching such things as they should pass from time to time, as also for a memorial unto them of their own proceedings...
Page vii - Chapel, or two of them at the least, always " be present, except the King's Grace give licence " to any of them of the contrary. Which said " Counsellors, so appointed for continual attend" ance, shall apply themselves effectually, dili" gently, uprightly, and justly in the premises...
Page v - Cap. 74. And to the intent that as well matters of justice and complaints touching the griefs of the king's subjects and disorder of his realm and otherwise which shall fortune to be made, brought, and presented unto his Highness by his said subjects in his...
Page iv - Darcy, but scant well born gendemen; and yet of no great lands till they were promoted by us, and so made Knights and Lords; the rest were lawyers and priests, save two Bishops, which were Canterbury and Winchester.
Page xxiv - ... council in the fifteenth century now appear, they almost seem mild when compared with many of those of the Privy Council of Henry VIII. Combining much of the legal authority with the civil and political, it exerted a despotic control over the freedom and property of every man in the realm, without regard to rank or station. Its vigilance was as unremitting as its resentment was fatal ; and its proceedings cannot be read without astonishment, that the liberties and constitutional rights of Englishmen...
Page v - Highness by his said subjects in his demurre1 or passing from place to place within the same, as also other great occurrences concerning his own particular affairs, may be the better ordered and with his Grace more ripely debated, digested, and resolved, from time to time, as the case shall require : It is ordered and appointed by his...
Page viii - King's dining chamber, or in such other place as shall fortune to be appointed for the Council chamber, there to be in readiness, not only in case the King's pleasure shall be to commune or confer with them upon any cause or matter, but also for hearing and direction of poor men's complaints on matters of justice...