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8 Indempnitali illorum, qui ad prcsens Piirliamcnlum nostrum ' usque Eborum ad sumnionicionem noslram pcrsonaliter ' venerunt, & similiter alioriim qui ibidem per preccptum ' nostrum moram faciunt, prospicere volentes, prcsertim cum ' mandamus, quod ad aliquas Assisas illos, qui ad Parlia- ' mentum nostrum predictum ad sumnionicionem nostram ' venerunt, ac alios qui ibidem per preceptum nostrum ut ' premitlitur moram trahunt, vel eorum aliquem tangentes ' capiendas, eodem Parliamento durante, mini me procedatis. ' Teste Rege, apud Eborum, xii° die Septembris.
 * absentes jura sua defendere nequeant ut presentes ; vobis

' Eodem modo mandatum est Lamberto de Trykyngham, ' & Johanni Chaynel, Justiciariis ad Assisas in Comitatu ' Lincolnei capiendas assignatis, de verbo ad verbum. Teste ' ut supra.

' Per ipsum Regem & Consilium.'

It is very remarkable, as Prynn observes, that these two precedents of "General" Writs of Supersedeas are singular, there being none of this kind extant on record before or since this 8th year of Edward II.—And they are the more extraordinary, as 150 years elapse, before the House of Commons appear to have claimed the Privilege, "that their Members should not be impleaded during the sitting of Parliament ." These writs were certainly issued upon those very rational principles, to which I have before alluded, " That the Rh