iberties of England," it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may
be taken or imprisoned or be disseized of his freeholds or liberties,
or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled; or in any manner
destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of
the land:

And in the eighth and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the
Third, it was declared and enacted by authority of Parliament, that no
man of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his
lands or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disenherited, nor
put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law:

Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the
good laws and statutes of your realm, to that end provided, divers of
your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed,
and when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices,
by your Majesty's writs of Habeas Corpus, there to undergo and receive
as the Court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the
causes of their detainer; no cause was certified, but that they were
detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the Lords of
your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons,
without being charged with anything to which they might make answer
according to law:

And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been
dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants
against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their
houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and
customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the
people:

And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have been
dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants
against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their
houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and
customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the
people:

And whereas also by authority of Parliament, in the 25th year of the
reign of King Edward the Third, it is declared and enacted, that no
man shall be forejudged of life or limb against the form of the Great
Charter, and the law of the land: and by the said Great Charter and
other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be
adjudged to death; but by the laws established in this your realm,
either