High Commission Court
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 (English)
The same thing may be said of the Court of High Commission, which dealt with ecclesiastical offences and in which the judicial authority was practically exercised by the Bishops and the lawyers of the Ecclesiastical Courts, as the laymen named in the commission seldom or never attended to their duties.
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Court of High Commission, the ecclesiastical tribunal established under Elizabethan letters patent, whose coercive powers this Act repeals and forbids re-establishing.
And be it further enacted, that from and after the said first day of August, no new Court shall be erected, ordained or appointed within this realm of England or dominion of Wales, which shall or may have the like power, jurisdiction or authority as the said High Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have;
An Act for the repeal of a branch of a Statute primo Elizabethae, concerning Commissioners for causes ecclesiastical.
The exorbitant power of Bishops and their courts are much abated, by some provisions in the Bill against the High Commission Court, the authors of the many innovations in doctrine and ceremonies.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The English Court of High Commission, cited alongside the star-chamber as an instrument by which Charles I extracted fines from his subjects.
Much larger sums of money are annually taken from free citizens by charter-bounties and monopolies, than were taken from Charles’s subjects by the star-chamber and high commission courts.
Large sums of money were raised by the fines of the star-chamber and high commission court, and the extraordinary projects of loans, benevolences and free gifts.