AN EXPLANATION WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS 



THOSE SHOULD BE, THAT ARE TO 



EXECUTE THE POWER OR ORDINANCE OF 



THE KING S PREROGATIVE. 



1. THAT absolute prerogative, according to the king s 

 pleasure, revealed by his laws, may be exercised and 

 executed by any subject, to whom power may be 

 given by the king, in any place of judgment or com 

 mission, which the king by his law hath ordained : 

 in which the judge subordinate cannot wrong the 

 people, the law laying down a measure by which 

 every judge should govern and execute; against 

 which law if any judge proceed, he is by the law 

 questionable, and punishable for his transgression. 



In this nature are all the judges and commis 

 sioners of the land, no otherwise than in their courts* 

 in which the king in person is supposed to sit, who 

 cannot make that trespass, felony, or treason, which 

 the law hath not made so to be, neither can punish 

 the guilty by other punishment than the laws have 

 appointed. 



This prerogative or power as it is over all the 

 subjects, so being known by the subjects, they are 

 without excuse if they offend, and suffer no wrong 

 if they be justly punished ; and by this prerogative 

 the king governeth all sorts of people according unto 

 known will. 



