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Show [130] " lefTened by the concurrence of the " two Houfes of Parliament 3" rm] this by no means inval i dates firefly/Ira? But r ‘_ ' I 1 of Mr. IVIolyneux s argument, while 1m this 8 2 " alios fapientes a'e Cma‘lr'o Regm} prove it to be by " Authority Of Parliament; for Candi/‘11": Regm'," (faYS he) " '1': [be Len/5 mu] Cow/210m, LEGALLY CALLED " COMMUNE CONCILIUM Ream." 2d Inlt. p. 267. But, even according to this argument, the word " COM MUNE" is apparently wanting, to make up what he himfelf allows to be the LEGAL expreflion for THE Loans AND Commons; and, if we duly confider the words whichimmediately follow, it mufi appear, that the " fapz'enter (la Cami/[o ngm'," See. here mentioned, were only fuch particular/21pm!" as heldjun'z‘rizzlplmrr, (" qui confuetudines ct ufimzjua‘z‘ciarum hattenus habu" erunt"); {0 that the expreflion cannot, with propriety, be fuppofed to include the maze reprr/ivzmz i-ve Borgfivaft/z/z Commam, as well as the Lords, Ur. but merely [1)! judges, and fuch Lords, Prelates, and others, as heldjua'z'rz‘a/jzlzzm, and were of the Kz'ng': Comm], mentioned in the preamble, rw‘z. In prmfientia, is}. quorundam epifcoporum Anglia, et a/iorum, a} Cami/iv Reg/r, which Sir Edward Coke (by what authority I cannot guefs) is pleafed to call a " Cmmz‘rm " of 501/) Haw/2r," though it can mean nothing more than a‘meeting of the King": Priey-Cozmril; and the fame may be {aid of that {econd meeting, afterwards mentioned, " (arm/z Dam/210 R57? rt Conrir'z‘oflw," where- in the {aid Conflitutions were again read (aux/ire efflueIii-{tire} end ordrrm' to ét ingrgflut' and aé/i'rrver/ ; " quOd " in {cripturam redigerentur ad perpetua m memoriam, " et quad firmffrr od/ér-rz;:fmn"' which (be pleafed to remark) is the principal emu/.9253- or Elf/bl'ti/Ig (Kari/é of this fly/flaw, this Act: And, therefore, when we confider that the fame was agrm/ [0, or amid/22M, by THE Juno ES :2: ear/l a: ot/m-s, (" tam :l7zyl/rinriz' quam alu concordaverunt " qnod in fcripturaur," Ur.) we may he allured {lift the meetingr was mt rive Par/inmmt, (in which the 714317;, as fuch, have not any vote or voice at all), ex. cept that of ("WM/{9'} but merely the {my 5- 1,--.v.;_-~,-Caz/7207; and therefore Judge hid/(1'1, as cztctl by Lord Coke, had, furcly, ren‘uu on his file, when he, " helm/471.3165 manner rift/J, , 212,3 rim/5;; .2335," (C‘om~ pare this with Lord Coke's own Rule, to the lame purpoie, abovcmcntioned,) " stuns. qfo/n‘mhv 1/13 in: " qua; no flfi‘ of Pm‘lz'mumt," though bir hdwartl Lose was pleated to cenl‘ure him, faying, that " the contrary " is hoiden by many exprefs Authonties, borh b81016 " and after him." (2d Init. p. 267.) But what Authorities can be equal to the infer/ml winter: ofthe Aé‘t i‘tfclf, according to his own rule, " Marvh-wfl/t/Je mm:" ner aft/u: penning? See. For, though it may have been allowed the force of an the}, ln‘liltllClfll proceedi‘ugs, as well as in the. writings of (olme relpcftttule Commentators, yet this Is nothing but me naturm conh‘quence of its having been puhzthicd and Pi‘lfll'Ctl, without remarks, among the other Acts, * agreeable to the intention of thofe who unlawfully promoted 112. But Lord Shard declared from the Bench, in the lAlfilec at VV-incheller, * The arr/35w .r/un-Ivcrz'ty, acquired by {inch impofitinus, "as {hil1murn norm-ions, in the credit that has Levn Swen, (Vt-u by the If g, [listlurc l'lirlt', to the three other fag-s Statutes hrh:rc-mrnt oned Iagnrnil \Vt\.l..lt to: .r5,n Pipilucll) «i <3 l ‘l‘Ztl': L 1) 'l‘woof them are exprclsly leaned, am{my}. |