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Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… unto the first Article of this Petition. To the first Point his Majesty answereth, That he will, according to your … my self to that Service. Mr. Hackwel. 'This is a great point, that much concerns the Commonwealth, if the King … then to know, that it is an undoubted and fundamental Point of this so antient Common Law of England, That the …
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… unto us than the sacred Rights and Prerogatives of your Crown: no person or Council can be greater lovers of you, nor …
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… Prerogative, so he presumes, that ye will all confess it a point of extraordinary Grace and Justice in him, to suffer it … his Majesty, being a young King, and newly come to his Crown, which he found ingaged in a War, what could we expect … and greater Liberty, than our Fathers had, and the Crown into a worse than ever? I dare not advise his Majesty …
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… Ships, fit for the satisfaction of a Voyage, either in point of Honour, or in point of Profit: Why was it neglected? … Sovereign Lord and King, and for the preservation of his Crown and Dignity: The Commons in this present Parliament … and hath thereby most grievously offended against the Crown & Dignity of his Majesty, and against the prosperity …
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… in that Way. His Majesty's Message is now explanatory in Point of our Liberties, that he intends not to bar us of our … and not from private Ends. And he vindicated the Duke in point of Religion. 'Tis true, said he, his Mother is a … possessed with extreme Grief and Sorrow; yet in this Point by your Majesty's late Answer to our Petition of Right …
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… Tunnage and Poundage, one of the chief Maintenances of my Crown, by alledging, I have given away my Right thereto by my … be done by Law, he would not use his Prerogative in this Point. And having put this Question to the Lord Chief … in the Time of Henry the Sixth: Note, Fortescue for this Point, in his Book de laudibus legum Angli, see the Preamble …
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… until something be done to secure us in this main point, which we prefer above our lives, and all earthly … that Tunnage and Poundage is a principal Revenue of our Crown, and has been continued for these many years; have … his Majesty being set in his Royal Throne, with his Crown on his Head, in his Robes, and the Lords in their Robes …
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… Word, the Reputation of your State, and your Armies in a point worth by of so much Grandeur, and in checking the … that Title, which We account the most glorious in all our Crown, Defender of the Faith. Neither shall We ever give way … Blood, and extending their Means in the Service of the Crown from time to time; and to conceive of your said …
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… and the Party not to proceed Ore tenus, because it being a point in Law, it is fit to here Council before it be … That it was a matter of great consequence, both to the Crown of the King, and to the Liberty of the Subject: But as … maximum contemptum, and to the disherison of the King, his Crown and Dignity: for which, &c. The Plea of Sir John …
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… Privy-Council, in order to bring in more Revenue to the Crown, advised the King to put forth a Proclamation, … by colour of former Grants, as without any Grant from the Crown); to which purpose a Commission was lately renewed and … spoiled, taken and disarmed,) but it concerned him also in point of State and good Policy, not to suffer the Duke's …