A Plea for the Lords, And House of Peers : Or, A full, necessary, seasonable, enlarged Vindication, of the just, antient hereditary Right of the Lords, Peers, and Barons of this Realms to sit, vote, judge in all the Parliamemts of England : Wherein their Right of Session, and Sole Power of Judicature without the Commons House, in Criminal, Civil, Ecclesiastical causes as well of Commons as Peers; yea in cases of Elections, Breach of Privilege, misdemeanors of the Commons themselves, is irrefra- gably evidenced by solid reasons, punctual Authorities, memora- ble Presidents out of Histories and Records in all ages, most of them not extant in any Writers of our Parliaments : Whose Errors are here rectified; the Seditious Anti-Parliamentary Pamphlets, Libels of Lilbourn, Overton, and other Levellers against the Lords House, and Right of judging Commoners, fully refuted : and larger Discoveries made of the Proceedings, Judgements of the Lords in Parliament, in Criminal, Civil causes, Elections, Breaches of Pri- vilege
Subtitle: and of their Gallantry in gaining maintaining, preserving the Great Charters, Laws, Liberties, Properties of the Nation, and oppugning all Regal, Papal Vsurpations, Exactions, Oppressions, illegal Aydes, Taxes required or imposed, and of the Commons first summons to, and just Power in Parliaments, than in any for- mer Publications whatsoever
By: By William Prynne Esquire, a Bencher of Lincolnes Inne. ... (2 lines)
Contributors: Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657; Overton, Richard, active 1646; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Published: 1658
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Notes: Mispagings throughout.