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Show i 162 1'. j 163 ] the refpective inhabitants, is manifeft-v what he calls " {/26 Eng/if") Lrgf/Zztm-c, ly illegal; " in the year 1630," was totally void of every Y 2 fince it mull appear, that what " excel/mt Law" (viz. the A61 for amzual Parliaments) " hing applizd ta tile/aid 1/1/7775 ofPar/iament," &C. be: fore recited. Aman of f0 much good-fenfe, learning, andjudgement, as Sir William Blackfione is matter of, mull be well aware of the pernicious efl‘eé‘ts of invefiing the Reprefentatives of the people with alegiflative power beyond the conltitutional term of A smch. SESSION, without RE-elfflin ; and therefore I cannot but be fur: prized at the unguarded manner in- which he has ex~ prefled himfelf in his Comment on the two (acre/1m: Smmm of. Edward 111. for amma/ Parliaments; wine. that the King 13 not, "‘ or ever was, obliged by thefe Statutes to call a 71qu Parliament every yeah." {5}. .He has caufed the word new to be printed in India, as if he meant thereby to infinuate, that the Legiflatures. of sliolelgarlyftlmcs were not unacquainted with our mo erni ea 0 conferrin on the no u a ' are (till prefer-veal with the Returns upon them. In the catalogue of Election-Writs, which Prynn has given in his Bree/in Par/iamenmrz'a Radix/Ema, p. 4 to 6, there is an account of Writs ifi‘ued for new Eleé‘tions 'in every year of that King's reign, between his 3+Lll (when the laft Act for annual Parliaments was made) and and his 50th year, except 3, mix. the 40th, 41", s 48th years; in which years the Records of Summon wantallo are ent :to the Prelates and Lords of Parliam Coing, as appears by Sir William Dugdale's " perfect ‘55. ty," Nobili the of ment, Parlia to mons " py ofSum ments Parlia that And yet this atlbrds no abfolute proof the \Vrits are were not held in I/Jnyé «arrive/m for which ars wanting; becaufe the bunnles of Writs for the {aidyc is,that r wonde only The . miflaid or loft may have been we confidcr the more have not been abfolutely loll,when iii/537111;?hiiieifioiimihiigetierl ‘ ‘ > this corrupt modern» "W he for Prynnc very little care that had been taken of them; t a val‘: amongl fed dil'per Writs found many of thel'e ts, l'ubjei s vari::-u on s record other of heap s mifccllnneou King to atory .(as he himl'elf relates in his Epifilc-Dedic practice has produced a 113w order of men amongll: us,-:1 molt dangerous increafe of arifiocratical ower wlhich was entirely unknown to our Anceltorspin th; iva) Charles ll. Of his Brawn Pur/iztlzzsnlariu Edi-v cor- under C/mw, d (unfit/E callingr the faid heap a " the in filth, and dot}, s, cobweb " roding, putrif‘ying §h212°lifl§§s°§ liliii‘llcn‘i' ~ Ifthofehe tunes t nt, in that that was "um mew be m/rnr/rrd," , " Tower,as mtre u/é/rji‘Rr/ifnr; n')!~‘.'.'0:‘t'/i:;' (a mt a NEW I'arls'am-‘m, his Comment might bejulii- of {5%. And, in page 103 of that {nine work, he {peaks then been only had ofg; where Writs, ot 117 Bundles IJVCS a kind of (alumni! flnn/orinlpdig;i:,epi:flild:t fled! But it is notorious that Writs were itTued [0 the Sherif‘s, for 71€~1oElc€tions, almoit marry pear du- ring that whole reign : The Writs, for :he nioll part, are White " darkeit corner of Cztlhr's Chapel in the lair/y dilc0\'ered, filed, and bundled, by himfelt‘: he) " nae ~" But many of thel‘e 117 Bundles" {hiya " first |
