The royalist's defence vindicating the King's proceedings in the late warre made against him, clearly discovering, how and by what impostures the incendiaries of these distractions have subverted the knowne law of the land, the Protestant religion, and reduced the people to an unparallel'd slavery.

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The royalist's defence vindicating the King's proceedings in the late warre made against him, clearly discovering, how and by what impostures the incendiaries of these distractions have subverted the knowne law of the land, the Protestant religion, and reduced the people to an unparallel'd slavery.

Author

Dallison, Charles, d. 1669.

Publication

[London :: s.n.],

1648.

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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.

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"The royalist's defence vindicating the King's proceedings in the late warre made against him, clearly discovering, how and by what impostures the incendiaries of these distractions have subverted the knowne law of the land, the Protestant religion, and reduced the people to an unparallel'd slavery." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35931.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To all the People of ENGLAND.
• table of contents
• The Preamble, or Introduction to the insuing Discourse, wherein are contained the Mo∣tives which induced the Authour to take up Armes for the KING against the Forces raised by command of the Members of the two Houses of PARLIAMENT.
  • CHAP. I. That the Lawes of England consist in generall customes, particular Customes, and Acts of Parliament.
  • CHAP. II. What is a Parliament, and how, and when the two Houses were Instituted.
  • CHAP. III. That the Members of the two Houses have not power in any one particular to make a new Law, or to change the old, The King of England for the time being, having an abso∣lute negative Voice therein.
  • CHAP. IV., That the King, the Lords House and the Commons House, concurring, have not an unlimited power to make Laws, it being in the brest of the Judges of the Realme, to de∣termine which Acts of Parliament are binding, and, which void, and to expound the meaning of every Act.
  • CHAP. V. That the Judges of the Kings Bench, of the Common Pleas, and the Barons of the Exchequer, are the Judges of the Realme, unto whom the people are bound lastly and finally, to submit themselves for matter of Law.
  • CHAP. VI. That the Judges of the Realme ought to be elected, and au∣thorized by the King of England, for the time being, and by none else.
  • CHAP. VII. That the King is the onely Supreame Governour, unto whom, all the people of this Nation in point of Soveraignty, and Government are bound to submit themselves.
  • CHAP. VIII. That the Militia of the Kingdome by the knowne Laws of the Realme, is inherent in the Crowne. And at the absolute command of the King and none else.
  • CHAP. IX. That all persons, who have promoted this Warre in the name of King and Parliament, and such as have acted therein, or adhered thereunto, are guilty of Trea∣son.
  • CHAP. X. That the Subjects of this Nation are not onely commanded from doing violence to the Kings Person, or prejudice to His Authority, but are obliged with their lives and for∣tunes to assist and preserve His Person and Just Rights from the fury of His enemies, both forraigne and do∣mestick.
  • CHAP. XI. That the persons at Westminster, who call themselves the Parliament of England, are not the two Houses, nor Members of the Parliament.
  • CHAP. XII. Results upon the premises. That the people of England under the government of the KING, according to the known Laws of the Realme, are a free Subject.
  • CHAP. XIII. That the people of England, under the government clai∣med by the Members of the two Houses, are absolute slaves.
  • CHAP. XIV. How the Subjects of England were brought unto this sla∣very.
  • CHAP. XV. The way how to restore the people to their former Liber∣ties.
• ERRATA.