An Argvment upon a generall Demurrer joyned and entred in an Action of false Imprisonment in the Kings Bench Court termino Trinitatis 1631. rot. 1483. parte tertia, betweene George Huntley Clerke plaintife, and William Kingsley Archdeacon of Canterbury and others Commissioners Defendants as it was prepared to have beene uttered in Court by the said George Huntley, but was not permitted by the Judges of that Court because, as they pretend, the said Action or Plea or De- murrer was discontinued termino Sancti Michaelis, 1632
By: Published by the said George Huntley to shew whose duty it is to preach the visitation Sermon, and thereby principally to vindi- cate the auntient Iurisdiction of the Crowne over the State Eccle- siastical against the usurpation and presumption of the High Commissioners where- unto hee is bound to the utmost of his power by the oath of supremacy, and secondly to cleare his own innocency, and to recover his former credit and good name much blemished by their scandalous and opprobrious sentences, whereun- to he is tyed iure naturali. A discovery also and confutation of the foresaid pretended discon- tinuance, with a true copy of so much of the two parts of the High Commissioners, first finall sentence, as is pleaded by the Defendants and as con- teines the whole matter to justifie the said Huntleys nine yeares three quarters im- prisonment at severall times, his five hundred pounds fine, deprivation degradation and excommunication. Both placed before the Argument, the one to remove the foresaid rub of the pretended discontinuance, and to open a faire and cleare passage for the Argument, the other to shew the state of the con- troversie and ground of the Argument out out of the de- fendants owne words, against which the Law admitts no exception. ... (2 lines)
Contributors: Kingsley, William, 1583 or 1584-1648; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Printed for George Huntley, and are to be sold be Michaell
Published: 1642
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118