...there were so many kings a coming." He browbeat. They resisted: and passed the spirited resolution: "that the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England." The king tore the protest from the book, dissolved the houses, and committed several leading members...

...Rupture between James and the Commons: their protestation : — " That the liberties, privileges, &c. of parliament, are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England." — Prerogative and Privilege come into collision. 1 622. Marriage of Charles and the Infanta of Spain...

...and us," u the House of Commons passed the famous Protestation of December 18, 1621, which asserted: That the Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and Jurisdictions...defence of the realm, and of the Church of England, and the making and maintenance of laws, and redress of michiefs and grievances, which daily happen within...

...concerning our government or deep matters of state." Thereupon the Commons adopted a Protestation asserting ''that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the King, state, and defence of the realm" — meaning foreign affairs — as well as "the maintenance and making of laws," were "proper subjects...

...acknowledged nonetheless that "prerogative" is part of the law.73 When the Protestation of 1621 stated "that the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England," the assertion obviously benefited from the myth of an ancient constitution. By 1628, in arguing for...

...Franchises, Privileges and Jurisdictions ol railiaincni, arc the ancient and undoubted birthright ;ind inheritance. of the subjects of England; and that...defence of the realm, and of the Church of England, and the making and maintenance of laws, and redress of michiefs and grievances, which daily happen within...

...ancestors'. The House replied in a protestation, which the angry King tore from the Journal of the House: 'The liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England; . . . the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state and defence of the realm and of the...

...their journal their insistence that their privileges were not dependent on any such compromise, but "the ancient and undoubted Birthright and Inheritance of the Subjects of England" (p. 360). James lost his patience. In January 1622, he dissolved the House, and with his own hands...

...franchises and privileges of parliament, amongst others here mentioned, do make this Protestation following. That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...defence of the realm, and of the Church of England, and the maintenance and making of laws, and redress of mischiefs and grievances which daily happen within...

...of pleading to the constitutional merits. "[T]he liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdiction of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England," the English Commons reminded Charles I in 1628. Thirteen years later, the Irish Commons claimed "their...