t does not take notice
what sort of repeal it had.

[196] 15 R. II. p. 285. See, too, 16 R. II. p. 301, where the same power
is renewed in H. IV.'s parliaments.

[197] 13 H. IV. p. 643.

[198] Rot. Parl. v. 4 H. V. p. 6, 9.

[199] 5 R. II. stat. 2, c. 5; Rot. Parl. 6 R. II. p. 141. Some other
instances of the commons attempting to prevent these unfair practices
are adduced by Ruffhead, in his preface to the Statutes, and in Prynne's
preface to Cotton's Abridgment of the Records. The act 13 R. II. stat.
1, c. 15, that the king's castles and gaols which had been separated
from the body of the adjoining counties should be reunited to them, is
not founded upon any petition that appears on the roll; and probably, by
making search, other instances equally flagrant might be discovered.

[200] There had been, however, a petition of the commons on the same
subject, expressed in very general terms, on which this terrible
superstructure might artfully be raised. p. 474.

[201] p. 626.

[202] We find a remarkable petition in 8 H. IV., professedly aimed
against the Lollards, but intended, as I strongly suspect, in their
favour. It condemns persons preaching against the catholic faith or
sacraments to imprisonment till the next parliament, where they were to
abide such judgment as should be rendered _by the king and peers of the
realm_. This seems to supersede the burning statute of 2 H. IV., and the
spiritual cognizance of heresy. Rot. Parl. p. 583. See, too, p. 626. The
petition was expressly granted; but the clergy, I suppose, prevented its
appearing on the statute roll.

[203] Rot. Parl. vol iii. p. 102.

[204] Rot. Parl. vol. iv. p. 22. It is curious that the authors of the
Parliamentary History say that the roll of this parliament is lost, and
consequently suppress altogether this important petition. Instead of
which they give, as their fashion is, impertinent speeches out of
Holingshed, which are certainly not genuine, and would be of no value if
they were so.

[205] Henry VI. and Edward IV. in some cases passed bills with sundry
provisions annexed by themselves. Thus the act for resumption of grants,
4 E. IV., was encumbered with 289 clauses in favour of so many persons
whom the king meant to exempt from its operation; and the same was done
in other acts of the same description. Rot. Parl. vol. v. p. 517.

[206] The variations of each statute, as now printed, from the
parliamentary roll, whether in form or subst