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Show mil-"Ill II". [166] [167] :been a legal and confiitutional Parlia~ ment, yet the Refolutio‘ns he has men. tinned" would have been totally illegal, and amount to no more than a mere vain- tioned afiertion, (fays he) " are fo logy? mid evaguc, that fuch of our mo" narchs as were enciined to govern without Parlia- " ments, neglected the convoking them, fometimcs for " a very confiderable period, under pretence that there " (war )1!) need off/Jim," Sec. But " tlJefl Jig/I words" are notfi [00ft andtvague as either tojultify his own explanation of the faid Statutes, (1259:. not " to call a new Parliament every year, " but only to pcrmit a Parliament to fit," '34.) or to a confiderable number of years after the hit of the faid Aéts was made, (which confirms the main purpofe of the Acts, miz. the holding annual Par/iamm'n) but i: is alfo manifeft, that Parliaments were frequently held " more often" than once a year;1 which amply confirms alfo what i have before faid, concerning the meaning of the difcretionary power, exprefied in the faid Aft, by the words " z'frmzl be." Thefe very frequent Elections (fometimes two,. excufe, in the leafi degree, the criminal neglects of three, and four, times IN ONE YEAR) fufiicient-- thofe depraved monarchs who were inclined to govern ly prove that the power, delegated by the people to. without them : for the words, " z'fnm! .52," cannot, their Reprefcntntives, continued no longer in force than according to the mofi obvious fenfe of the Act wherein they are found, be applied to the main purpofe of the Afl, (the holding mmrzall'arliamexts,) but merely to the remaining part of the fentence, rw‘z. " and more during the Sellion of the particular Parliament to which they were fummoned; which being " once determined," (fays Prynne, IR part of Brief Regil'ter, 65:. of Parl. Writs, p. 334.) " 1120' [org/221M} rstz/éa' to be Xng/Ju, Cz'. " cftm:" that is, " Iz'zcm, " and more often, if need be." Burgrflr, Emmy, in (my flattering Par/ia- The Order, " that a Parliament flail 52 6:21:15): avert-Y " mam: or Counti/r, arr/raj} weary (rifled and razor-71571;.) ‘" YEAR ONCE," is abfolute, " fir-w in 111ml, 6} the King's NEW "Grits, or: our Lam- and the difcretionary "power, exprefled in the words " z‘fmed by," relates apparently to the calling Parliaments "more qfieni" for, if the faid difcretionary words, " if need [72," Could, with any propriety, be applied to the whole fentence, the Act itfelfwould have been nugatcry.; which could never be the z‘ntmzian of the Legiflature: but the true meaning and fenfe of the Legiflature is :'very clearly proved by the hiflories of thofe times : for it is manifcfl, not only that new Reprefentatives were elected Hwy year (with only one exception) for a " Barb" (referring to 4 Ed. lV.f. 45,. Brook, Officer, 25. 34 Hen. VIII. c. 2+.) " and exprrimre. rc" film," sec. And therefore Judge Blacltitone's mfinuation, againfl the calling of a New Parliament, has no real foundation : for, if it was the intention of the Legiflature, year‘ I Writs were iff-Jezl for shifting 3 en: Parlézmsnts in the 6th in of Edw. lll. 2 in his nth yerr, 3m his lath year, and evcnq his 14th year; and there appear re have been :2 nevaJIllam-enta in the 7th of R. Il, Sec Prymr': Bran; Par/inmate": detwc'a, p. 5 8.: 6. |