Note 49 — Chapter XIII · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.
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Lords' and Commons' Journals, May and November 1675; Parl. Hist. 721, 791; State Trials, vi. 1121; Hargrave's Preface to Hale, 135; and Hale's Treatise, c. 33.
It may be observed, that the Lords learned a little caution in this affair. An appeal of one Cottington from the court of delegates to their house was rejected, by a vote that it did not properly belong to them, Shaftesbury alone dissentient. June 17, 1678. Yet they had asserted their right to receive appeals from inferior courts, that there might be no failure of justice, in terms large enough to embrace the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. May 6, 1675. And it is said that they actually had done so in 1628. Hargrave, 53.