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PARLIAMENTS.
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18th chap. concerning the ſtatutes of England[1].
“And if theſe ſtatutes fall ſhort of their intended efficacy, though deviled with ſuch great ſolemnity and wiſdom of parliament; they may very quickly be reformed, but not without the aſſent of the commons and peers of the realm, which was their ſource from the beginning.”
Now I only deſire that the word Concito may be taken notice of, which is the quickeſt word that can be imagined, and ſhews that our parliaments were always at hand; and the whole paſſage ſhews for what wiſe and juſt reaſons they were ſo.
The next paſſage is chap. xliii. fol. 129. a[2]. “Neither do the laws of England allow in law-
- ↑ Et ſi ſtatuta hæc, tanta ſolemnitate & prudentia edita, efficaciæ tantſ, quantæ condituorum cupiebat intentio, non eſſe contingant: concito reformari ipſa poſſunt, at non ſine communitatis & procerum regni illius aſſenſu, quali ipſa primitus emanarunt.
- ↑ Neque leges Angliae frivolas & infructuoſas permittunt inducias. Et ſiquae in regno illo dilationes in plocitis minus accommodae fuerint uſitatae, in omni parliamento amputari illae poſſunt: etiam & omnes leges aliae in regno illo uſitatae, cum in aliquo claudicaverint, in omni parliamento poterunt reformari. Quo recte concludi poteſt, quod omnes leges regni illius optimæ ſunt in actu vel potentia, quo faciliter in actum
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