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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
TOUCHING Our Soveraigne LORD the KING AND HIS PARLIAMENT
Claudian. de laudibus Stiliconis.
Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit
Servitium: Nunquam LIBERTAS gratior extat,
Quam sub rege pio – –
[Claudian, De Consulatu Stilichonisiii, 113–15][Anyone who believes that it is servitude to live under a prince is badly mistaken: there is no more welcome liberty than to be under a righteous king]
THE PREFACE
There is a general belief that the parliament of England was at first an imitation of the assembly of the three estates in France. Therefore, in order to prepare the understanding in the [research] we have in hand, it is proper to give a brief account of the mode of France in those assemblies. Scotland and Ireland being also under the dominion of the king of England, a touch of the manner of their parliaments shall be by way of preface.
1. In France the king's writ goeth to the bailiffs, seneschals or stewards of liberties, who issue out warrants to all such as have fees and lands within their liberties, and to all towns, requiring all such as have any complaints to meet in the principal city, there to choose two or three delegates in the name of that province to be present at the general assembly.
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