| Globe encyclopaedia - 1879 - 642 pages
...and iheir most recent violations enumerated, after which occurred the prayer, ' That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament, and that none be called to answer or... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1880 - 426 pages
...assent to The Petition of Right.1 — By this petition it was prayed, among other things, " that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament ; that none be called upon to make answer... | |
| Archibald Hastie Dick - 1882 - 204 pages
...went on to say : — " They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament ; and that none be called to make, answer,... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 404 pages
...through a distorting lens. If 1 The wording of this clause in the petition is ' that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament." In the Tonnage and Poundage Act of the... | |
| George Gunton - 1897 - 522 pages
...this your realm. X. They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament ; and that none be called to make answer,... | |
| Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 pages
...together in the Petition of Right in 1628. Its four clauses laid it down (i) 'that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence,...charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament'; (ii) that no free man be detained in prison without cause shown; (iii) that soldiers and sailors should... | |
| 1876 - 1102 pages
...people, and by that famous constitutional charter, it was firmly laid down, " That no man, hereafter, be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax or sueh like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament/' But it is just in this element that... | |
| J. P. Kenyon - 1986 - 504 pages
...this your realm. VIII. They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax or such like charge without common consent by act of parliament, and that none be called to make answer... | |
| Jack H. Hexter - 1992 - 368 pages
...difficult part was persuading Charles to accept, among other things, the assertion that "no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament." Given the magnitude of the task before... | |
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