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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… would set up, what the law detests, arbitrary government. Empson and Dudley did not proceed by a half face of Justice; …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… can alleviate a Law, natural Justice dictates it. Empson and Dudley had the modesty to stay for a Law before …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… in five or six men. Something of Conscience in the case Empson and Dudley did not exceed the Law, only put old …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Kings have, and ought to have, power in these things" Empson and Dudley never broke any Law, but advised only the … of the Kingdom, which if they must be the King's duty, Empson and Dudley were wrongfully taken awayEither the King …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… It is said "it is not a grievance unless illegal;" but Empson and Dudley's case was a grievance, and that was …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… it against Magna Charta. The Spencers, father and son, &c. Empson and Dudley, &c. Colonel Birch.] How this comes to …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… them. And I thank God here are none of them that I see. Empson and Dudley were mentioned; and was ever any man …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Power in the Judges, but to prevent it. In the case of Empson and Dudley, the Judges could not proceed upon those … Attorney-General brought in the Indictment of Empson and Dudley, and the Lords took notice of it, and … it is not necessary to be Felony beforeThe Indictment of Empson and Dudley was not " Proditori," but by an additional …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… the Goverment in Henry VIII's time, made Examples of Empson and Dudley, who cunningly got a Patent to punish men in a summary way, without Juries. Empson and Dudley were attainted for Treason, for so the … level before these Commissioners. As that prosecution of Empson and Dudley, who were the Instrument of the ill …