A92147:1336
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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So it is declared, Parliament at Stirling, 1578. and Parl. 1567, concerning Queen Mary, I need not insist here. K. James the 6. Anno 1567. Jul. 21. was Crowned, the Earle of Morton and Humne, jurarunt pro co, & ejus nomine, in leges, eum doctrinam & ritus religionis, quae tum docebantur, publice quoad posset, servaturum, & contrarios oppugnaturum. Buch. Rer. Scot. Hist. l. 18. The three Estates revoke all alienations made by the King without consent of the Parliament. Parliam. K. James, 2. cap. 2. K. James, 4, 5, 6.
So it is declared, Parliament at Stirling, 1578. and Parl. 1567, concerning Queene Mary, I need not insist here. K. James the 6. Anno 1567. Iul. 21. was Crowned, the Earle of Morton and Humne, jurarunt pro co, & ejus nomine, in leges, eum doctrinam & ritus religionis, quae tum docebantur, publice quoad posset, servaturum, & contrarios oppugnaturum. Buch. Rer. Scot. Hist. l. 18. The three Estates revoke all alienations made by the King without consent of the Parliament. Parliam. K. Iames, 2. cap. 2. K. Iames, 4, 5, 6.
Three Parliaments of K. James the 2. are holden without any mention of the King, as Anno 1437. Anno 1438. Anno 1440. and the 5. and 6. Act of Parl. 1440. the Estates ordain the King to do such and such things, to ride through the country for doing of Justice. And Parl. 1. K. James 1. Act. 23. the Estates ordained the King to mend his money. But show any Parliament where ever the King doth prescribe Laws to the States, or censure the States.
Three Parliaments of K. Iames the 2. are holden without any mention of the King, as Anno 1437. Anno 1438. Anno 1440. and the 5. and 6. Act of Parl. 1440. the Estates ordaine the King to doe such and such things, to ride through the country for doing of Iustice. And Parl. 1. K.