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the Kings Friends” that the King could not only tax his English Subjects by his Prerogative, but that he could also seize, imprison, try, and even hang them, by martial Law, without Judge or Jury!
The very same volume of Rymer's Foedera (tome xviii.) affords several authentic precedents for delegating such unlimited Power by the King's Commission! viz. one for the county of Sussex, p. 751; another for the whole county of Kent, p. 763; and a third for the town and county of Southampton, p. 804: (37)
