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A44187	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	A letter of a gentleman to his friend, shewing that the bishops are not to be judges in Parliament in cases capital	1679.0		.xml	application/xml	21604	403	40	This makes me doubt if the Clergy was of another mind in Richard the Seconds time , and if they could not have been well enough contented to have continued sitting as Judges in all Cases , if the Canon Law had not debarred them , but that being they would make that Protestation , consisting , as I say , of those two parts , both which being so approved of by the Parliament , and there enrolled , became then , and so continue to be , the Law of the Kingdom : For in those times all Laws were so made : Only the substance of the Law was agreed upon in Parliament by King , Lords , and Commons , and entred in the Journal Book ; And the Kings Justices did afterwards draw it up into form , and then publish it to be the known standing Law of the Kingdom . Then for the Common Law , you have Finch in his Book of Law dedicated to King Iames , the first Chapter of the second Book , p. 21. who saith the very same thing in very plain terms : His words are these , Lassemblie de ceux trois Estates c ' est assavoir , Roy , Nobilitie , & Commons , qui sont le Corps del Realme , est appel une Parlement , & lour decree un Act de Parlement , car sans touts troys ( come si soit fait per Roy & Seigniors , mes rien parle del Commons ) nest ascun Act de Parlement , The Assembly of the Three Estates , that is to say , King , Nobles , and Commons , who are the Body of the Realm , is called a Parliament , and their Decree is an Act of Parliament , for without all three ( as if it were done by the King and Lords , and no mention of the Commons ) it is no Act of Parliament .	cache/A44187.xml	txt/A44187.txt
