Elizabeth I · Atlas

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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

Tudor queen whose reign and use of royal prerogative, including Impositions, set precedents invoked in the constitutional disputes of James I and Charles I.

Elizabeth had, indeed, for special reasons, levied a few;

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

In the main, however, the spiritual force which bore Elizabeth to triumph was religious zeal, or at least zeal which was permeated by the influence of religion.

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

It is true that Elizabeth exercised her powers with extreme sagacity and moderation, and that the nation, confident in her leadership, had not been ready to take offence;

introduction i to the meeting of the third parliam ¶

An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

Queen of England under whom a jury qualification statute was enacted.

In 1585 it was enacted, “That in all cases where any jurors to be returned for trial of any issue or issues joined in any of the Queen’s majesty’s courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and the Exchequer, or before justices of assize, by the laws of this realm now in force, ought to have estate of freehold in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of forty shillings, that in …

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The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

Sixteenth-century queen in whose reign the conflict between the Chancellor's equity and the common-law courts is said to have taken place.

We may doubt whether the conflict that took place in the days of Elizabeth and James I was at all reasonably necessary;

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