Jus regium coronæ, or, The King's supream power in dispensing with penal statutes more particularly as it relates to the the two test-acts of the twenty fifth, and thirtieth of His late Majesty, King Charles the Second, argu'd by reason, and confirm'd by the common, and statute laws of this kingdom : in two parts / auctore Jo. Wilsonio J.C.

Title

Jus regium coronæ, or, The King's supream power in dispensing with penal statutes more particularly as it relates to the the two test-acts of the twenty fifth, and thirtieth of His late Majesty, King Charles the Second, argu'd by reason, and confirm'd by the common, and statute laws of this kingdom : in two parts / auctore Jo. Wilsonio J.C.

Author

Wilson, John, 1626-1696.

Publication

London :: Printed by Henry Hills ... and are sold at his printing-house ...,

1688.

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Subject terms

Prerogative, Royal -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.

Dissenters, Religious -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.

Dissenters, Religious -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE HONORABLE SOCIETY OF Lincolns-Inn.
• THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART.
• Jus Regium Coronae, &c.
  • The First Part.
    • SECT. I. That the rigor of Penal Laws were insuppor∣table, without some Supreme Power above those Laws, to temper that rigor, and di∣spense with them, as they shall become in∣convenient, &c.
    • SECT. II. That this Power cannot lie in any Select part of the People, or in the whole: Therefore, it must be in every Sovereign Prince, or Absolute Monarch; And such the Kings of England ever have been, and now are, &c.
    • SECT. III. That without this Supreme Power the King were in a worse Condition than the Sub∣ject, &c.
    • SECT. IV. That no Government can be entire, that is defective in any necessary part; and therefore all Governments, besides the Power of the Sword, have ever preten∣ded to this Supreme Power, as a sine qua non, &c.
    • SECT. V. The Case of the Test (25 Car. 2d.) stated: And that his Majesties granting Commis∣sions, to certain Persons, not qualify'd ac∣cording to that Act; and retaining them in his Service, is warrantable by the Law of Reason, and the Laws of this Land, &c.
    • SECT. VI. That the Statute has created a Disability in the Person, and other Objections, an∣swered.
    • SECT. VII. The Sum of the whole further asserted, and confirm'd, from several Statutes, and other Authorities of the Common-Law, &c.
• POSTSCRIPT.