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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B.

CHAPTER XVI
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148.
****** Cotton's Abridg.p.

71.
******* Cotton's Abridg.p.56, 61, 122.
******** Rymer, vol.v.p.

491, 574.

Cotton's Abridg.p.

56.
-- stopping justice by particular warrants;[*] the renewal of the commission of "trailbaton;"[**] pressing men and ships into the public service;[***] levying arbitrary and exorbitant fines;[****] extending the authority of the privy council or star-chamber to the decision of private causes;[*****] enlarging the power of the mareschal's and other arbitrary courts;[******] imprisoning members for freedom of speech in parliament;[*******] obliging people without any rule to send recruits of men at arms, archers, and hoblers to the army.[********] * Cotton, p.


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