Ruth,
I should like to thank you for your useful instructions.
Hideaki
2008/1/7, Ruth Paley <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>
> The paragraph is based on Commons Journal vol 5, 11 March 1647 which you can
> access on the web. Basically the judges are being told that following the
> orders of parliament is a defence to a criminal charge. The judges are to
> disseminate this information by including it in their charge to the grand
> juries.
>
> The CJ entry reads:
>
> Tryals for Facts during the War.
> Ordered, &c. That Mr. Recorder and Mr. Selden do confer with such Judges as
> are in the Town; and acquaint them from this House, That if they shall have
> any Persons brought before them, upon any Fact committed by them, which,
> upon Examination, shall appear to be done in tempora & loco belli, in
> Pursuance and Obedience of any Ordinance of Parliament, that the Parties be
> discharged: And that the Judges do give so much in Charge and Direction to
> the Jurors: And that Mr. Recorder and Mr. Selden do prepare a Letter, to be
> sent to such other of the Judges as they shall not meet with in Town.
> The Serjeant is to give Notice to the Judges of this Order; and desire them
> to nominate the Time and Place, some time To-morrow, where they may all
> meet.
>
> From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 5: 11 March 1647', Journal of the
> House of Commons: volume 5: 1646-1648 (1802), pp. 109-110. URL:
> http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25041.
> Date accessed: 07 January 2008.
>
>
>
>
|