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 their unlawful counsels; but it by no means "shews” that such an arbitrary proceeding was really Law at that time, any more than it is at present! for the very same volume of Rymer's Foedera, (viz. tome xviii.) that contains the above-mentioned precedent, contains also other precedents of the like authority, “which equally shew that it was then imagined the King could tax” even England ITSELF “by his Prerogative, without the intervention of Parliament.” — See "A Declaration of his Majesty's cleere intention in requiring the ayde of his loving subjects in that way of Loane (36) which is now intended by his Highness.” Tome xviii. p. 764.