...derived from the grace and permission of him and his ancestors.' And when the same parliament protested that ' the liberties, franchises, privileges, and...birth-right and inheritance of the subjects of England,' he was so enraged, that, sending for the journals of the commons,\e, with his own hand, before the...

...beginning with the memorable words " that the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictious of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England," and which the infatuated monarch tore from the journals with his own hand. A prison f was now prepared...

...already begun, in the reign of James I, when (1621) the house of commons framed the famous protestation that the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England. This protestaVOL. X. 6 PETIT JURY. (See Jury.) PETRARCA, Francesco, or, as he ,s generally called by...

...commons framed the famous protestation that the liberties, franchises, privileges and juris'iictions of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England. This protesta. x. 6 tion James, with his own hand, tore out of the journal. The arbitrary measures...

...their rights from the grace and at the will of a master, entered a remonstrance on their journals, in which they declared that "the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are tlie ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England; and that the arduous...

...Charta, declaring that ' the liberties, fran' chises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Par' liament are the ancient and undoubted ' birthright and inheritance of the subjects of ' England ; and that the arduous and urgent ' affairs concerning the king, state, and de' fence of the realm,...

...freedom of debate ; declaring that ' their liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions ' were the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance • of the subjects of England.' These were the schools in which the principles of liberty were canvassed ; and it is difficult to conceive...

...necessities of the king obliged him to assemble them in 1621, they were fully prepared to resist evtry attack that might be made on their privileges. The...subjects of England." In all these proceedings, Sir Kdward Coke, who was one of the leading members on the popular side, took an active part ; and the...

...nation ; the remonstrances made by the representatives of the people ; and the unfounded pretensions or the king, who endeavoured to strike at the root of...consequence was, that he was committed to the Tower, (87th December, 1621,) and subsequently dismissed from the privy council. He had been treated with...

...privileges of parliament, amongst others here mentioned, do make this protestation following: — " That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions...birth-right and inheritance of the subjects of England ; and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and defence of the realm, and...