A92147:1332
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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Robert the 100. K. in a Parliament at Scone moved the States, ⟨p. 452⟩to appoint the Earle of Carick his eldest son, of the second Marriage to the Crown, passing his children of the first Marriage; and when he would have made a Treaty, he was told, That he could not inducias facere nisi ex sententia conventus publici; he could not make Truces but with the consent of the Estates of Parliament.
Robert the 100. K. in a Parliament at Scoone moved the States, ⟨p. 452⟩to appoint the Earle of Carick his eldest sonne, of the second Mariage to the Crowne, passing his children of the first Mariage; and when he would have made a Treatie, he was told, That he could not inducias facere nisi ex sententia conventus publici; he could not make Truces but with the consent of the Estates of Parliament.
K. James the 1. could not do any thing in his Oath in England. The Parliaments approbation of the Battle at Stirling against King James the 3. is set down in the printed Acts, because he had not the consent of the States.
K. James the 1. could not doe any thing in his Oath in England. The Parliaments approbation of the Battell at Stirling against King Iames the 3. is set downe in the printed Acts, because he had not the consent of the States.
To come to our first Reformation, Queen Regent breaking her promise to the States, said, Faith of promise should not be sought from Princes; the States answered, That they then were not obliged to obey, and suspended her government as inconsistent with the duty of Princes, by the Articles of pacification at Leith, Anno 1560. Junii 16. No peace or war can be without the States.