...journal a "Protestation," in which, replying to the demands and threats of the king, they declared: "That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...and urgent affairs concerning the King, State and defense of the Realm, and of the Church of England, and the maintenance and making of laws, and redress...

...Parliament, 30 January 1621. Source B The Commons make this protestation . . . That the privileges of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright...inheritance of the subjects of England: and that the . . . affairs concerning the king, state and defence of the realm and of the Church of England, and...

...exception. In, for example, their protestation of 1 8 December 1 62 1 , they wrote: that the ardous and urgent affairs concerning the King, state and...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 this...

...inheritance." At Coke's suggestion, the House of Commons entered into its journals a "Protestation" stating "that the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England." It was for this that James removed Coke from the Privy Council and had him committed to the Tower of...

...friendship with Spain, members registered their absolute right to petition him as they saw fit regarding 'arduous and urgent affairs concerning the King, state...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 this...

...requiring an answer. The protestations delivered to the king asserted freedom of speech and informed him that the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient undoubted birth right and inheritance of the subjects of England. The king, sitting in the council...

...calmly as the King's letter was read, "and then consider of this great business." ... It resolve_d: "That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions...of the realm, and of the Church of England, and the 64 COURTS AND LAWYERS when the truce was ended in 1621 and Holland was again at war with Spain, Maurice...

...Protestation (which I quote at greater length in "Freedom of Speech," p. 68) included the insistence that "the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions...birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England. . . ." 112. Hobbes states, in Leviathan, II, xxix: The people of Athens bound themselves but from one...

...repeating the very terms that had so infuriated James. Quoting the writ of summons, it went on to state that 'the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the...defence of the realm, and of the Church of England' were 'proper subjects and matters of counsel and debate in parliament': unlike the Apology, the Protestation...

...Apology, that 'the arduous and urgent affairs [a conventional phrase from the parliamentary writs] concerning the king, state, and 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 this...