June to the king most excellent majesty humble show unto our sovereign lord  the king the lord spiritual and temporal and commons in parliament assemble  that whereas it be declare and enact by a statute make in the reign of king  Edward common call to cause to stand de Tallagio non  to go away that no  tallage or aid shall be lie or levy by the king or his heir in this realm  without the good will and assent of the archbishop bishop earl baron knight  burgess and other the freeman of the commonalty of this realm and by authority  of parliament hold in the that year of king Edward it be declare and enact  that from thenceforth no person shall be compel to make any loan to the king  against his will because such loan be against reason and the franchise of the  land and by other law of this realm it be provide that none shall be charge by  any charge or the position call a benevolence nor by such like charge by which  the statute before mention and the other the good law and statute of this  realm your subject have inherit this freedom that they shall not be compel to  contribute to any tax tallage aid or other like charge not set by common  consent in parliament yet nevertheless of late diverse commission direct to  sundry commissioner in several county with instruction have issue by pretext  whereof your people have be in diverse place assemble and require to lend  certain sum of money unto your majesty and many of they upon their refusal so  to do have have a unlawful oath administer unto they not warrantable by the  law and statute of this realm and have be constrain to become bind to make  appearance and give attendance before your privycouncil and in other place and  other of they have therefore be imprison confine and sundry other way molest  and disquiet and diverse other charge have be lie and levy upon your people in  several county by lord lieutenant deputy lieutenant commissioner for muster  justice of peace and other by command or direction from your majesty or your  privycouncil against the law and free custom of this realm and whereas also by  the statute call the magnacarta of the liberty of England it be declare and  enact that no freeman may be take or imprison or be seize of his freehold or  liberty or his free custom or be outlaw or exile or in any manner destroy but  by the lawful judgement of his peer or by the law of the land and in the that  year of the reign of king Edward it be declare and enact by authority of  parliament that no man of what estate or condition that he be shall be put out  of his land or tenement nor take nor imprison nor disherit nor put to death  without be bring to answer by due process of law nevertheless against the  tenor of the say statute and other the good law and statute of your realm to  that end provide diverse of your subject have of late be imprison without any  cause show and when for their deliverance they be bring before your justice by  your majesty S writ of habeas corpus there to undergo and receive as the court  shall order and their keeper command to certify the cause of their detainer no  cause be certify but that they be detain by your majesty S special command  signify by the lord of your privycouncil and yet be return back to several  prison without be charge with any thing to which they may make answer by due  process of law and whereas of late great company of soldier and mariner have  be disperse into diverse county of the realm and the inhabitant against their  will have be compel to receive they into their house and there to suffer they  to sojourn against the law and custom of this realm and to the great grievance  and vexation of the people and whereas also by authority of parliament in the  that year of the reign of king Edward it be declare and enact that no man  shall be before judge of life or limb against the from of the magnacarta and  other the law and statute of this realm and by the say magnacarta and other  the law and statute of this your realm no man ought to be adjudge to death but  by the law establish in this your realm either by the custom of the same realm  or by act of parliament and whereas no offender of what kind soever be exempt  from the proceed to be use and punishment to be inflict by the law and statute  of this your realm nevertheless of late diverse commission under your majesty  great seal have issue forth by which certain person have be assign and appoint  commissioner with power and authority to proceed within the land accord to the  justice of martial law against such soldier and mariner or other dissolute  person join with they as shall commit any murder robbery felony mutiny or  other outrage or misdemeanour whatsoever and by such summary course and order  as be agreeable to martial law and be use in army in time of war to proceed to  the trial and condemnation of such offender and they to cause to be execute  and put to death accord to the martial law by pretext whereof some of your  majesty subject have be by some of the say commissioner put to death when and  where if by the law and statute of the land they have deserve death by the  same law and statute also they may and by no other ought to have be adjudge  and execute and also sundry grievous offender by colour thereof claim a  exemption have escape the punishment due to they by the law and statute of  this your realm by reason that diverse of your officer and minister of justice  have unjust refuse or forbear to proceed against such offender accord to the  same law and statute upon pretence that the say offender be punishable only by  martial law and by authority of such commission as aforesaid which commission  and all other of like nature be whole and direct contrary to the say law and  statute of this your realm they do therefore humble pray your most excellent  majesty that no man hereafter be compel to make or yield any gift loan  benevolence tax or such like charge without common consent by act of  parliament and that none be call to make answer or take such oath or to give  attendance or be confine or otherwise molest or disquiet concern the same or  for refusal thereof and that no freeman in any such manner as be before  mention be so imprison or detain and that your majesty will be please to  remove the say soldier and mariner and that your people may not be so burden  in time to come and that the aforesaid commission for proceed by martial law  may be revoke and annul and that hereafter no commission of like nature may  issue forth to any person or person whatsoever to be execute as aforesaid lest  by colour of they any of your majesty subject be destroy or put to death  contrary to the law and franchise of the land all which they most humble pray  of your most excellent majesty as their right and liberty accord to the law  and statute of this realm and that your majesty will also vouchsafe to declare  that the award do and proceed to the prejudice of your people in any of the  premise shall not be draw hereafter into consequence or example and that your  majesty will be also gracious please for the further comfort and safety of  your people to declare your royal will and pleasure that in the thing  aforesaid all your officer and minister shall serve you accord to the law and  statute of this realm as they tender the honour of your majesty and the  prosperity of this kingdom June I have have no conference with any yet we may  do it comparison to flower arm et encouraged arm if I do think in my  conscience that the king be true inform of our dishonour and disaster I will  leave they to his wisdom let we join in a humble remonstrance leave all to his  wisdom let we fly to he as our refuge we be now in a miserable condition  another thing be to be consider of no king but must be able to live on himself  and to supply his alley who will aid he if he be not able to aid they the king  I hope shall never want that that be necessary but it be our duty to look that  his ordinary revenue may defray his ordinary charge that he may live on his  own else he must live on we I will not say how much his ordinary expense be  more than the ordinary revenue but if thing be restore as they be all the  hang-bys and encroachment all must away let there be a restitution of his  wardrobe and table if he will feed no more than he ought he may yet subsist  and I think this will give wing to the parliament and I hope we shall have a  better answer than yet we have I well like of this motion so as it be with all  duty and humility without restriction June we have deal with that duty and  moderation that never be the like rebus such to stand after such a violation  of the liberty of the subject whoever daring be of law non some to hurt  fellow citizen say all remember public officer to overturn attempt be let we  take this to heart in Edward they be then in doubt in parliament to name man  that mislead the king they accuse John of gaunt the king son and lord Latimer  and lord Neville for misadvising the king and they go to the tower for it now  when there be such a downfall of the state shall we hold our tongue how shall  we answer our duty to God and man Henry parliament roll num et Henry num there  the Council be complain of and be remove from the king they mew up the king  and dissuade he from the common good and why be we now require from that way  we be in why may we not now name those that be the cause of all our evil in  Edward and Edward and r the parliament moderate the king prerogative  Nothinggrows to abuse but this house have power to treat of it what shall we  now do let we palliate no long if we do God will not prosper we I think the  duke of Buckingham be the cause of all our misery and till the king be inform  thereof we shall never go out with honour nor sit with honour here that man be  the grievance of grievance let we set down the cause of all our disaster and  all will reflect upon he as for go to the lord that be not regius way our  liberty be now impeach we be require it be not vox king the lord be not  participant with our liberty June we shall never know the commonwealth  flourish but when the church flourish they live and die together Henry man be  bold to speak in good and true cause and they put up a petition and pray  execution of law and pray performance of promise it be not credible to tell  you of the increase of papist if you have law and they be not execute it will  to bring to pass wicked doer when queen Elizabeth in  have repel the Spaniard  there be a conspiracy to poison our queen and no three year but some attempt  be threaten in the end of her time one wright go into Spain and the king say  the Catholic of England be as dear to he as his Castilian and they promise he  aid if he come hither and they never leave work till the powder treason Popham  tell I of one Winchley a papist that be take and carry into Spain and there be  a counsel to invade England by reason of the papist and one say that can be  papist be lie in jail if there be so many recusant now we be not safe they  intend to make Spain a monarchy if we proceed against these weapon I fear no  invasion let the law be execute against papist I see a commission for a  toleration I dare say queen Elizabeth will never have consent to the like June  this be a cause of great consequence I commend they that reveal more per tear  how per laughter see now how these excise be disguise nothing be unjust but be  ashamed of light all monopoly have fair pretence but they be like apothecary  box plus in distinction how in these excise be under the name of imposition  and sure to come to this commission usual the signature and the great seal go  together this come by immediate warrant from the king where be the warrant let  we consider what be do we have make a petition of right that be divide into  many branch and I be persuade his majesty meaning be at first to give we as  absolute and real a answer as now and now it be soit droit fait comme ill  desire if this have be a private bill it be soit fait comme ill desire if a  public Le roy veult but the king now say soit droit fait comme ils desire nt  we can never have have a better answer if we have desire good thing it be  grant let we so proceed as we may express our thankfulness and let we all say  amen and communicate this joy to other June this head be the fear of  alteration of government now what great fear can there be than when a general  law be make for lend and this be alter by proclamation proclamation come too  high for the loan I have little reason to speak of they I lend none but it be  say in my hear that I have lend as much as any and his majesty be inform I do  it with great alacrity I be press to lend private but I deny it be say that as  wise and as learned as I have lend I differ in the ground of he that speak  last natural motion go swift in the end for the application I say let we now  be quick in the end I owe no duty to fear any but God and the king I speak not  out of malice but out of duty I will never palliate I free my gracious  sovereign he see with other man eye and proceed with other man hand this great  duke have monopolize many great office we free our sovereign and lie all on  his minister and the way to free he be to lie it where it be if the judge do  not their duty it be their fault we now go with a lamentable complaint as  never be the like do not we know that Spain look for a monarchy in of a time I  see the weakness that be in the kingdom who fault be it they that misguide he  so we must name the duke lest the aspersion lie on his majesty June report  that he deliver the message yesterday to the lord and it be answer that the  king message shall be enter on record and that the petition be in the  parliament roll and that it be send to the court and print and so they all  agree to what he desire the question be how this shall be do the petition  ought of right to be enter as for the enter of it the king must send a writ  and recite the petition and so send it to the court for so it be do in former  time Edward lun post holiday Epiphaniae magnum placitum inter Bohun et Le  count de Gloucester when judgement be give there between they both be fine and  by the king writ this judgement be send to the king court to be enrol Edward  rot enclosed space membrane there be a writ to enrol magnacarta and to see it  observe and so it have be use in all time this petition be a branch of  magnacarta let a committee consider on a writ to be draw for the make of the  writ my other message be about mainwaring his venomous book and they that give  a warrant for that book and to demand justice against he to this be answer  that their lordship will take it into due consideration a I observe some  circumstance in this commission it be the summons to the parliament sure some  think the parliament will not be let we go up to the lord they can but comply  with we I will be glad to hear of the projector else we will never be quiet  there be a pudor about it some great lord S never know it the end of it be  excise for they be imposition and to be sure he will have the word otherwise  let we go up to the lord and desire a conference and let we complain  ofthiscommission and desire it may be cancel and if there be any enrolment of  it cancel it also and that the projector may be punish and find out let we  vote it and pass our judgement a it be true if the king will grant a pardon  who can question what can be leave out but if he will have our consent to have  it enact the head must be bring to we when I be attorney myself it be then  question I deny to send it but I do after yield I will never refuse a pardon  from God and the king but let we require the head of the attorney a Edward the  Commons do then send up a from of a pardon and desire it may be grant and more  James the head be produce the concurrence between your lordship and we in the  urgent affair of the commonwealth have invite we often to your lordship and  conference have produce trust and trust confidence though counsel be not to be  judge by event yet bless be God our counsel and conference have bring forth  good effect but my lord I must contract myself the subject of this conference  be a commission therefore we shall desire your lordship to hear it read which  be do accord that that I shall say be of two part first the observation out of  the patent the person to who it be direct the authority that be commit the  great penalty lie on they if they do it not the time first the person to who  it be direct be lord and other of his majesty honourable privycouncils dly the  authority commit to they be to consider how money may be levy by imposition or  otherwise it be true it be but a power to levy money by imposition we do not  find any thing raise that be leave to your lordship but to have a commission  to levy money by imposition or otherwise give we leave to fear that excise and  whatever be comprehend in it be intend sure I be it be against the law it be a  very high breach of your lordship and our the poor commons liberty and yet  this be ill in itself may produce a happy effect the king and both house have  give a judgement the great that ever be against this in the petition of right  and when this judgement be give see how God goodness have bring it to pass  that this patent shall be part of the execution of that judgement to damn it  for the punishment I do utter dislike that clause as you tender the king  honour that that must come to a thing of this nature and it be strange to me-I  can dive into it-I leave it to your lordship for the time it come out day  after the summons of parliament all know the parliament will descry this but I  hope it will now turn to good I will not say it be keep secret that which I be  to demand of your lordship first be that we have consider of the commission we  find it ex a diameter against the late judgement in the petition of right now  as we have condemn it so your lordship will concur with we as hitherto you  have do second that this commission as a thing direct against law may be  cancel that if it be enrol a vacat may be make of it and if not that order may  be take that it be not enrol thly that the warrant may be damn and destroy  thly that it will please your lordship in your wisdom to take into  consideration who be the projector of this device and if he can be find out  that some exemplary punishment may be accord to justice inflict upon he June  let there be no other introduction but to say the business be of that weight  that it will admit no introduction June when I be swear attorney to queen  Elizabeth she say do not inform against any pro owner queen say pro owner  in point of fact Icharge you do not oppress my subject and this then be a  project in her time a old man die a projector will pretend he be a bastard and  so entitle the queen but when I be attorney I ever do disclaim it when he die  the property without question be in the ordinary to dispose of but the crown  can claim it and though the bastard have no kindred yet he have friend that be  de meat who be to have it a have leave to speak again who say shall the king  have title as supreme ordinary shall the king be quasi a ordinary as owner he  can it be clear when a bishop die his good be call multura bishop the king  shall have his best horse and cup and his best cloak et dumb dog that be his  kennel of hound for they get their good by the church and shall leave they to  the church now to have licence to make their will the king have this I know it  can be put out of any book or record that the king shall have this prerogative  June let we not send to the king to know how long we shall sit let we show the  cause and the reason why we desire to know the time the bill of subsidy be  very difficult unless you will double it and make S S non such to go and star  no king be safe that be not able to defend himself and to aid his alley and to  reward his well deserve servant our great king can be able to subsist as thing  now stand if his ordinary revenue do not discharge his ordinary expense his  house as now it be be ignite see dare the king have want of money what needs  superfluous expense why shall the duchy of Lancaster continue there be a  Council of York when Scotland be sever from we it be then of some use but now  man inheritance be carry by discretion so for Wales it be a marvelous thing  the subject right be try by other examen by witness and not by jury as for the  household you will say will you talk of that without the king leave but thus  the parliament do in old time Edward num Edward num and especial in Edward the  subject take into consideration the revenue of the king and how to regulate it  I will abate never a dish some have negative wit I like they not for the  forest I hope to see man live where wild beast do queen Elizabeth pension be  all due she have but l in voluntary pension I will not say what be now I will  take away all your new fee and new office I speak of this at Oxford I speak of  art of medicine to move back I will spare that now I do not like we shall go  to the king in a heat a here be sufficient to convict sir Edmund sawyer before  he say he never meddle with the book of rate and wish that he be hang if he do  but now he confess it I love not that man shall lie wager that can be take  part of the word he confess the rest he do not remember this be a great  offence this poison the fountain it be true we examine not upon oath but usual  in their discretion they that come here speak the truth or else we can punish  they we will teach man to equivocate here he be a member of this house and  therefore great be the wrong to this house I will parallel it with Longe's  case in Elizabeth l be give to the mayor to be a burgess and he be turn out of  the house let sir Edmund sawyer be turn out of the house and go to the tower  June the king have no manner of custom but by act of parliament the ancient  custom be upon wool and leather but this come by parliament and the subsidy on  cloth these imposition come by a pretend power in the king to impose in a time  of necessity rot that which divides Edward there be the demi mark grant by the  commonalty to the king rot pat Edward memb this custom be grant by the lord  and Commons in Edward returnum narrow places  friends are living we custom  wool per partnership concession Edward there be a save of the custom grant to  the king by the commonalty the bill of tonnage and poundage except cloth but  it be pretend that wool be pretermit Henry num there can be no imposition  without a act of parliament for the defence of the realm also every king have  accept poundage by act of parliament and therefore can not do it without a  parliament if the king now in the face of the parliament will take it without  our grant I fear to see it we can now in this short time make a book of rate  we can do nothing let we give he thank for his answer to our petition and let  we humble desire that no more be take by he till it be grant by parliament a  before Henry it be never grant for life but then he be a victorious prince his  Commons give it to he and he say that it shall never be draw into example for  it be think that never king shall have the like occasion as he then have in  Henry his time it go but for year h get it for life it be a good warning for  we to look what we do without a book of rate we can grant it and never have  king imposition grant he