A plea for the Lords and House of Peers. Or A full, necessary, seasonable enlarged vindication, of the just, antient hereditary right of the earls, lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the Parliaments of England. Wherein their right of session, and sole power of judicature without the Commons House, in criminal, civil, ecclesiastical causes as well of commons as peers; ... are irrefragably evidenced by solid reasons, punctual authorities, memorable presidents ... the seditious anti-Parliamentary pamphlets, libels of Lilbourn, Overton, and other Levellers against the Lords House, and right of judging commoners, fully refuted: and larger discoveries made of the proceedings, iudgements of the Lords in Parliament, ... and of the Commons first summons to, and just power in Parliaments, than in any former publications whatsoever. By William Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolnes Inne.

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  • A plea for the Lords and House of Peers. Or A full, necessary, seasonable enlarged vindication, of the just, antient hereditary right of the earls, lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the Parliaments of England. Wherein their right of session, and sole power of judicature without the Commons House, in criminal, civil, ecclesiastical causes as well of commons as peers; ... are irrefragably evidenced by solid reasons, punctual authorities, memorable presidents ... the seditious anti-Parliamentary pamphlets, libels of Lilbourn, Overton, and other Levellers against the Lords House, and right of judging commoners, fully refuted: and larger discoveries made of the proceedings, iudgements of the Lords in Parliament, ... and of the Commons first summons to, and just power in Parliaments, than in any former publications whatsoever. By William Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolnes Inne.
  • Full, necessary, seasonable enlarged vindication, of the just, ancient hereditary right of the earls, lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the Parliaments of England Full, necessary, seasonable enlarged vindication, of the just, antient hereditary right of the earls, lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the Parliaments of England
  • Plea for the Lords.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Henry Brome, at the sign of the Gun in Ivie Lane, and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1659.
Publication year
1659-1659
ESTC No.
R33925
Grub Street ID
116488
Description
[20], 432, 401-424, [4], 425-516 p. ; 4⁰
Note
A greatly englarged version of: Prynne, William. A plea for the Lords. London, 1648.

A reissue, with a new title page and without pp. 517-518, of the 1658 edition (Wing P4034).

Text is discontinuous between *3H4v and ?3I1r (p. 424 and p. [1], second sequence); catchword on p. 424 is "being", first word on p. [1] is "came".

With marginal notes.
Uncontrolled note
Catalogued from a copy at the British Library