The first part of an historical collection of the ancient Parliaments of England, from the yeer of our Lord 673, till the end of King John's reign, anno 1216. Wherein is cleerly demonstrated by histories and records beyond contradiction, that the ancient parliaments, and great councels of England, ... were constituted, and consisted onely of our kings, princes, dukes, earls, nobles, barons, spiritual and temporal lords, and those we now usually stile the House of Peers; and that both the legislative and judicial power of our parliaments resided onliy [sic] in them without any knights, citizens, burgesses of Parliament, or Commons House, not knowne, nor heard of, till of punier times then these. Published, to inform the ignorance, and check the insolent usurpations of those few commoners, who now call themselves not only the Commons House, but Parliament of England; and (as much as in them lies) have most unjustly excluded both our King and lords from being any Members, or branches of o

People / Organizations

• Robert Hodges ("printed for")
• William Prynne (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Robert Hodges, 1649.

Publication year

1649-1649

ESTC No.

R203232

Grub Street ID

80366

Description

31, [1] p. ; 4⁰

Note

No more published.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug. 20".

Uncontrolled note

L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5921[288]): title page only