The sources of The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660

1. Petition of Right Parliament (House of Commons and House of Lords) 7 authority 7 citations · 10 passages

   ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 5 · ch. 13 2 passages anchored here · ch. 14 5 passages anchored here

   The passage relies on the Petition of Right as the authoritative statutory basis restricting royal taxation and describes it as legally binding on later disputes.

   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. Book of Common Prayer Church of England 1 authority · 2 neutral · 2 refuted · 1 endorsed 6 citations

   ch. 6 · ch. 13 2 passages anchored here · vi. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 22

   The Book of Common Prayer is cited by the complaining parishioners; the Council reports but reinterprets its meaning rather than simply endorsing their reading.

   yet some few of the parishioners, being but five in number, did complain of this act by appeal to the Court of Arches, pretending that the Book of Common Prayer and the 82nd Canon do give permission to place the communion table where it may stand with the most fitness and convenience.

3. Solemn League and Covenant the Parliaments of England and Scotland 4 authority · 1 neutral 5 citations · 10 passages

   ch. 5 2 passages anchored here · vi. 7 passages anchored here · ch. 22

   The Solemn League and Covenant is cited as the founding authoritative agreement underlying the Anglo-Scottish alliance and subsequent negotiations.

   That His Majesty, according to the laudable example of his royal father of happy memory, may be pleased to swear and sign the late solemn League and Covenant;

4. Nineteen Propositions House of Commons (prevailing party) 2 authority · 1 extended 3 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 4 · ch. 5 3 passages anchored here · ch. 15

   The passage treats the Nineteen Propositions as extending the Commons majority's earlier constitutional demands to their furthest point, effectively displacing royal sovereignty.

   The Presbyterians, with a majority in Parliament at their disposal, gave up the attempt to coerce Charles which they had made in the Nineteen Propositions, and in the Propositions of Oxford, of Uxbridge, and Newcastle, and fell back on the principle of re-establishing his authority as it was in August, 1641, in return for the concession, scarcely more than nominal, of a three years’ Presbyterianism.

5. the Propositions Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland 1 authority · 1 neutral · 1 refuted 3 citations · 4 passages

   vi. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 22

   The King repeatedly identifies and answers 'the Propositions' as a specific document tendered by both Parliaments.

   The propositions tendered to His Majesty by the Commissioners from the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England at Westminster, and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland (to which the Houses of Parliament have taken twice so many months for deliberation, as they have assigned days for His Majesty’s answer), do import so great alterations in government both in the Church a …

6. An Act against several atheistical, blasphemous, and execrable opinions derogatory to the honour of God and destructive to human society (9 August 1650) Parliament of the Commonwealth 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 23 2 passages anchored here

   Named explicitly by title and date as the statutory basis for a disqualification.

   That the persons who shall be elected to serve in Parliament shall be such and none other than such as are persons of known integrity, fearing God, and of good conversation, and being of the age of one and twenty years, and not such as are disabled by the Act of the 17th of King Charles, intituled An Act for disabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority, n …

7. An Act declaring and settling the government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland Parliament of the Commonwealth 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 23 6 passages anchored here

   The Act names and re-invokes itself as authoritative across the oath and writ provisions it contains.

   and that I will not wittingly or willingly violate nor infringe the liberties and privileges of Parliament, or any of the matters or things contained in the Act of Parliament declaring and settling the government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland;

8. An Act for disenabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority Charles I (seventeenth regnal year) 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 23 2 passages anchored here

   The Act is named by its full title and dated to the late King's seventeenth regnal year, and relied upon as authority for excluding clergy from Parliament.

   And that the persons who shall be elected to serve in Parliament be such, and no other than such, as are persons of known integrity, fearing God, and of good conversation, and being of the age of twenty-one years, and not such as are disabled by the Act of the seventeenth year of the late King, entitled, ‘An Act for disenabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or au …

9. Bates's Case Court of Exchequer 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 2 2 passages anchored here · ch. 3

   The case is repeatedly invoked as the binding legal precedent determining the legality of Impositions.

   and one of these, the Imposition on currants, was in 1607 the subject of a trial in the Court of Exchequer, known as Bates’s case.

10. Four Bills the Long Parliament 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 4 passages

    ch. 5 2 passages anchored here · ch. 22 2 passages anchored here

    The Four Bills are cited as Parliament's final legislative proposal to Charles before negotiations broke down entirely.

    Two days after the signature of the Engagement, Charles refused his consent to the Four Bills in a paper (No.

11. Grand Remonstrance House of Commons (majority) 1 neutral · 1 extended 2 citations

    ch. 4 · ch. 6

    The passage treats the Grand Remonstrance as the Commons majority's extension of their prior grievances into a full political programme, narrowly carried.

    1 a deputation of the Commons presented to him the Grand Remonstrance (No.

12. Heads of the Proposals Henry Ireton and the Council of the Army 1 neutral · 1 endorsed 2 citations · 3 passages

    ch. 5 2 passages anchored here · ch. 6

    Gardiner explicitly praises the Heads of the Proposals as constitutionally superior to rival plans, an endorsing stance toward the cited document.

    On August 1, the army came forward with its own plan for the settlement of the kingdom, the Heads of the Proposals which were drawn up by Ireton and amended by the Council of the Army after they had been informally submitted to the King (No.

13. Humble Petition and Advice the Second Protectorate Parliament 2 extended 2 citations · 7 passages

    ch. 6 · ch. 23 6 passages anchored here

    The Humble Petition and Advice is presented as developing and extending the constitutional scheme of the Instrument of Government.

    Whereas upon the humble Petition and Advice of the said knights, citizens and burgesses, now assembled in the Parliament of this Commonwealth, lately presented and consented unto by your Highness, certain doubts and questions have arisen, concerning some particulars therein comprised, for explanation whereof may it please your Highness to declare and consent unto the additions and explanations her …

14. Instrument of Government John Lambert and the Council of Officers 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations

    ch. 6 · ch. 23

    The Instrument of Government is treated throughout as the authoritative constitutional text governing the Protectorate.

    In the end, the Assembly dissolved itself, surrendering authority to Cromwell as Lord Protector, who, on December 16, 1653, announced his intention of ruling according to a constitutional document prepared by a select body of officers, and known as the Instrument of Government (No.

15. Joint Declaration of both kingdoms (30 January 1643/1644) Parliament of England and Convention of Estates of Scotland 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

    vi. 5 passages anchored here

    The joint Declaration is named explicitly by date and repeatedly invoked as the authority underlying the pardon qualifications.

    That an Act be passed in the Parliaments of both kingdoms respectively for establishing the joint declaration of both kingdoms, bearing date the 30th of January, 1643, in England, and 1644 in Scotland, with the qualifications ensuing:

16. Journals of the House of Commons House of Commons 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

    ch. 1 · appendix 3 passages anchored here

    The Journals are treated as the authoritative record against which the manuscript's completeness is judged.

    Journals of the House of Commons, ii.

17. Magna Carta King John of England 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

    ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here

    Both bail arguments explicitly rely on Magna Carta as settled law guaranteeing that no free man may be imprisoned except by the law of the land.

    and therefore this return cannot stand with the laws of the realm or that of Magna Carta, nor with the statute of 28 Edw.

18. The statutes of the realm Parliament of England 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.

    Statutes of the Realm, v.

19. the Great Charter (Magna Carta) the Crown and Parliament of England 2 authority 2 citations

    ch. 14 · vi.

    Cited by name as 'the Great Charter' and relied upon as the first and foremost authority establishing the due-process principle the Star Chamber is said to have violated.

    Whereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament, it is enacted that no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful judgment of his Peers or by the law of the land;

20. the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament traditional biblical authors 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

    ch. 23 5 passages anchored here

    The Scriptures are explicitly invoked as the exclusive authoritative textual basis for the Commonwealth's public religious profession.

    That the true reformed Protestant Christian religion as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and no other, shall be asserted and maintained as the public profession of these nations.

21. the Ordinance concerning the Militia Lords and Commons in Parliament 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations · 4 passages

    ch. 14 4 passages anchored here

    Paragraphs 6e7644 and a3c361 explicitly treat the Ordinance as legally binding authority that officers must obey.

    Do thereupon declare, that neither the statute of the seventh of Edward the First, therein vouched, nor any other law of this kingdom, doth restrain or make void the Ordinance agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, for the ordering and disposing the militia of the kingdom in this time of extreme and imminent danger, nor expose His Majesty’s subjects to any punishment for obeying the same, notwi …

22. the Scriptures biblical authors 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

    ch. 2 · ch. 23 2 passages anchored here

    The Church is described as basing its claims on the Scriptures as an authoritative foundation.

    That the Christian religion, as contained in the Scriptures, be held forth and recommended as the public profession of these nations;

23. the statute of 7 Edward I Parliament of Edward I 1 authority · 1 refuted 2 citations · 5 passages

    ch. 14 5 passages anchored here

    The Proclamation explicitly grounds the King's claim to control armed musters in the statute of 7 Edward I, using it as an authority.

    Whereas, by the statute made in the seventh year of King Edward the First, the Prelates, Earls, Barons and Commonalty of the realm affirmed in Parliament, that to the King it belongeth, and his part it is by his royal seigniory straightly to defend wearing of armour and all other force against the peace, at all times when it shall please him, and to punish them which do the contrary according to t …

24. Book of Esther Hebrew Bible 1 authority 1 citation

    ch. 7

    The King invokes a phrase from the Book of Esther as rhetorical authority for defending his favoured servant against parliamentary censure.

    It hath been said, ‘What shall be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour?

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