Whitelockes Notes Uppon the Kings Writt for Choosing Members of Parlement XIII Car II Being Disquisitions on the Government of England by King Lords a - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1766 Excerpt: ... o n A p. xxix ».- - -" 8nn tfjere to gaae conference/ fTT H E king resolves " to have conference" with his parlement; " and some matters arc proper for such a conference only: they may be of so-universall and high a consequence, that they are not proper for any other conference butt between the king and his parlement; as Caesar notes, in his recitall of the customes of Brittaine, that none ought to speak about the afrayres of the commonwealth, butt by the councell And it is testifyed by our auntient author b, in his mirroir of justice, that the king and his companions (as he properly enough stiles the comites) used to meet togither att London, to conferre about the governement of the people of God. And although his language be old (and as some call it) law french, yett his matter is good j that affayres of governement ought to be conferred on in parlement only, and not be the subject of conferences and debates att large j least it come to that whereof Tacitus soeakes % that there were in place who. rather would interpret, than obey the commands of governors:" and my lord of St Albane's faitb « that disputing, excusing, cavilling uppon mandates and directions is a kind of shaking off the yoake, and assay of disobedience; and seditious tumults, and seditious conferences and fames, differ no more butt as brother and sister." The word d used in the writ for " conference", is well expressed, in the spanish, " to have speech one with another"; and the Italian a Jani Anglor. Seld. f. 25.--De republica nisi per concilium loqui non conceditur. b Home mirroir, c. i. § 3.--Pour parlementer fur le guidement del peuple de Dieu. ' Erant in officio, fed tamen qui mallent mandata imperantium interpretari quam exc qui. Essay of sedition and tumults. d Collo...

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