Petition of Right (1628)

1. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 14 2 passages anchored here

   The Act relies on the 1628 Petition of Right as the legal authority that ship-money violated, and formally re-establishes its provisions as binding.

   be it therefore declared and enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said charge imposed upon the subject for the providing and furnishing of ships commonly called Ship-money, and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Justices and Barons and the said writs, and every of them, an …

2. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 1 refuted 1 citation

   ch. 165

   The Petition of Right is named explicitly and its legal argument from Magna Carta is explicitly judged unsound, though politically effective.

   They embodied it, on the contrary, in the Petition of Right, which condemned the Crown’s practice of imprisoning political offenders “without any cause showed” (other than per speciale mandatum regis), as contrary to the tenor of Magna Carta—an effective contention as a political expedient, but unsound in law.

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