...make this protestation following : That the liberties, franchises, and jurisdictions of Parliament arc the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England ; and that the urgent and arduous affairs concerning the king, state, and defence of the realm, and of the church...

...others not herein mentioned, do make this protestation following : That the liberties, francliises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the...and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and the defense of the realm, and of the Church of England, and the making and maintenance of laws, and...

...jurisdictions of parliament, amongst others not herein mentioned, do make this protestation following : — That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions...and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and the defence of the realm, and of the church of England, and the making arid maintenance of laws, and...

...and us," u the House of Commons passed the famous Protestation of December 18, 1621, which asserted: That the Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and Jurisdictions...the making and maintenance of laws, and redress of michiefs and grievances, which daily happen within this realm, are proper subjects and matter of counsel...

...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...the making and maintenance of laws, and redress of michiefs and grievances, which daily happen within this realm, arc projKr subjects and matter of counsel...

...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...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...