...anything to which they might make answer according to law." '" Therefore the petitioners prayed: 1. That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge, without common consent by act of parliament; 2. and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined,...

...anything to which they might make answer according to law." "* Therefore the petitioners prayed: 1. That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge, without common consent by act of parliament; 2. and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined,...

...grievances were brought together in the Petition of Right in 1628. Its four clauses laid it down (i) ‘that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such-like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament'; (ii) that no free man be detained in...

...laws and statutes of this your realm. VIII. They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge without common consent by act of parliament, and that none be called to make answer or take such oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise...

...procedure and by imprisonments "without any cause shewed." In conclusion, the petition asks the king, "That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge, without common consent by act of parliament; . . . and that no freeman in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained." When...

...Blaekstone's Charters. The Petition of Right—1 Car. L ch. 1 —prayed, among other things, "that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence,...charge, without common consent, by act of Parliament ; that none be called upon to make answer for refusal so to do ; that freemen be imprisoned or detained...

...whereof people have been required to lend money—and have been imprisoned for not doing so. It prays that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge, without common consent by act of parliament. This request the king concedes. means clear 1 . We have to remember that the Court of Exchequer had...

...themselves and their families from cruelty. Markets unfrequented, anil our ways grown eo dangerous that man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift,...charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; and that none be called to answer or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined or otherwise...

...This might have persuaded some observers that the demand that no-one should be required to yield to ‘any gift, loan, benevolence, tax or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament' might apply to the muster master's fee. 49 On the other hand, the powers of the lieutenancy did have...

...Therefore the Petition of Right, after recalling the statutes and precedents of Plantagenet times, prayed that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield...charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament. But most of all had feeling been stirred by the imprisonment without trial of the eighty gentlemen...