...laws and statutes of this your realm. 10. "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...

...house resound with complaints of grievances; and the memorable Petition of Eight was adopted, imploring "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...

...article in the Petition of Right, 3 Car. I., that no man shall be compelled to yield any gift, loan, or benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament. And lastly, by the Statute, 1 William and Mary, st. 2, c. 2, it is declared, that levying money for...

...acknowledgement on the part of his majesty, that no man ought to be " compelled to make or yield anygift,loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge* without common consent by act of parliament." After a mean attempt to prevent the passing of the bill embodying the petition into a law, he at last...

...pray your most excellent majesty, 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; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or...

...bound himself and his successors, so long as it remained unrepealed, not to compel the payment of " any tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament," and this, whether he intended it or not, included Tonnage and Poundage. Nor was there any valid reason...

...bound himself and his successors, so long as it remained unrepealed, not to compel the payment of " any tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament," and this, whether he intended it or not, included Tonnage and Poundage. Nor was there any valid reason...

...himself and his successors, so long as it remained unrepealed, not to compel the payment of “any tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament,” and this, whether he intended it or not, included Tonnage and Poundage. Nor was there any valid reason...

...declare and grant, in open parliament, that none might he compelled to make or yeeld, any gift, loan, or benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent, by act of parliament. That none be compelled to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, molested,...

...various statutes by which their rights and privileges were recognised, they pray the king " that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such-like charge, without common consent by act of parliament,—that none be called upon to make answer...