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2 They had many Expreions and Phraes (as, Omnes Regni Nobile Totius Regni Magnates, Proceres & Fideles Regni, Univeritas Regni Clerus & Papulus Communitas Regni Dicretio totius Regni, Generale Concilium Regni, and many more) varying in everal Ages, till at lat they fixed on the word, Parliamentum.

Vide many Records and Precedents touching this Matter in the Appendix to Petyt's Micelaneum Parliamentaria.

This Court is the highet Court of England, in which the Prince himelf its in Peron, and comes there at the Beginning of the Parliament, and at the End, and at any other Time when he pleaeth, d---ring the Parliament.

The Judges in Parliament are the King or Queen, the Lords Temporal and Spiritual, the Commons repreented by the Knights and Burgees of every Shire, and Borough Town. Thee all or the greater Part of them, and that with the Cone

Id. 98,99.

Crompton’s Juri. p. 1.

Sir Tho. Smith's Commonwealth, 74.