Grand Question, concerning the Bishops Right to Vote in Parlament in Cases Capital
Subtitle: Stated and Argued, from the Parlament-Rolls, and the History of former Times : With An Enquiry into their Peerage, and the Three Estates in Parlament
By: [By Edward Stillingfleet].
Publisher: Printed for M.P. and sold by Richard Rumball Book-binder, at the Ball and Coffin in the Old Change
Published: 1680
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Osborne, Thomas, -- Sir, -- 1st Duke of Leeds, -- 1631-1712.; England and Wales. -- Parliament.
Notes: Author supplied by H&L and Wing.

Stillingfleet was appointed preacher at the Rolls chapel in 1664; the DNB records: 'His treatise on the jurisdiction of the bishops in capital cases, published on the occasion of Danby's trial, was considered, says Burnet, "to put an end to the controversy in the opinion of all impartial men"'.

Sir Thomas Osborne was successively 1st Earl of Danby, Marquis of Carmarthen and Duke of Leeds.

In 1679 the Commons had demanded that judgment should be passed on the prisoner in the Tower, the Earl of Danby; 'they ... denied the right of the bishops to vote on the validity of the King's pardon, and demanded the appointment of a committee of both houses to regulate the further procedure of the impeachment. The Peers assented to the appointment of the committee, but declared that the bishops had a right to sit and vote in Parliament on capital cases until sentence of death should be pronounced' [DNB]

Wing S5594; T.C.I, 374; McAlpin IV, 38.