If you stand upon law, and dispute of the prerogative, hark ye what Bracton says: 'Praerogativam nestram nemo audeat disputare.' And for my own part, I like not these courses should be taken.

And you, Mr.Speaker, should perform the charge her majesty gave unto you in the beginning of this parliament, not to receive bills of this nature; for her majesty's ears be open to all grievances, and her hands stretched out to every man's petitions.

When the prince dispenses with a penal law, that is left to the alteration of sovereignty, that is good and irrevocable." Mr.Montague said, "I am loath to speak what I know, lest, perhaps, I should displease.

The prerogative royal is that which is now in question, and which the laws of the land have ever allowed bad maintained.

Let us, therefore, apply by petition to her majesty." After the speaker told the house that the queen had annulled many of the patents, Mr.Francis More said, "I must confess, Mr.Speaker, I moved the house both the last parliament and this, touching this point; but I never meant (and I hope the house thinketh so) to set limits and bounds to the prerogative royal." He proceeds to move that thanks should be given to her majesty; and also that whereas divers speeches have been moved extravagantly in the house, which, doubtless, have been told her majesty, and perhaps ill conceived of by her, Mr.Speaker would apologize, and humbly crave pardon for the same.