The Nobility
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The privileged hereditary class whose punishment the passage argues should not differ from that of commoners.
What punishments shall be ordained for the nobles, whose privileges make so great a part of the laws of nations?
It may be objected, that the same punishment inflicted on a nobleman and a plebeian, becomes really different from the difference of their education and from the infamy it reflects on an illustrious family;
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The titled nobility of England, mostly excluded from real power but including a group who petitioned the King for redress.
The nobility began to weary of their silence and patience, and sensible of the duty and trust which belongs to them:
Many noble personages were councillors in name, but the power and authority remained in a few of such as were most addicted to this party, whose resolutions and determinations were brought to the table for countenance and execution, and not for debate and deliberation, and no man could offer to oppose them without disgrace and hazard to himself.