Statutes of the Realm

1. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations · 7 passages

   ch. 22 2 passages anchored here · ch. 23 · ch. 229 4 passages anchored here

   McKechnie repeatedly cites the Statutes of the Realm as the authoritative published source for both the Lincoln Magna Carta and the Articles of the Barons.

   The Record Commissioners, in preparing the Statutes of the Realm, considered this version of superior authority to the others and have chosen it for their engraving published in 1810 in that valuable work, and also in the first volume of their edition of Rymer’s Foedera in 1816.

2. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 2 authority 2 citations · 10 passages

   ch. 11 · appendix 9 passages anchored here

   The speaker explicitly appeals to 'our statutes' in p-600758 as authority supporting his interpretation of Magna Carta.

   If any man shall say, this doth not warrant that the King may, for reasons moving him, commit a man and not be answerable for it, neither to the party nor (under your Lordship’s favour) unto any court of justice, but to the High Court of Heaven, I do deny it and will prove it by our statutes.

3. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 12

   Directly cited by title and volume/page as the source of the coronation oath text.

   The ancient coronation oath is printed with the Statutes of the Realm, vol.

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