A Plea for the Lords And House of Peers, Or, A full, necessary, seasonable enlarged Vindication, of the just, antient nereditary Right of the Earls, Lords, Peers, and Barons of this Realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the Parliaments of England. Wherein their Right of Session, and Sole Power of Judicature with- out the Commons House, in Criminal, Civil, Ecclesiastical causes as well of Commons as Peers; Yea in cases of Elections, Breach of Privilege, misdemeanors of the Commons themselves, are irrefra- gably evidenced by solid reasons, punctual Authorities, memora- ble Presidents out of Histories and Records in all ages, most of them not extant in any Writers of our Parliaments : Whose Errors are here rectified; the Seditious Anti-Parliamentary Pamphlets, Li- bels of Lilbourn, Overton, and other Levellers against the Lords House, and Rights of judging Commoners, fully refuted

and larger Discoveries made of the Proceedings, Iudgements of the Lords in Parliament, in Criminal, Civil causes, Elections, Brcaehes of Privilege, of their Gallantry in gaining, maintaiuing, preser- ving the Great Charters, Laws, Liberties, Properties of the Nation, and oppugning all Regal, Papal Vsurpations, Exactions, Oppressions, illegal Ayds, Taxes required or imposed; and of the Commons first summons to, and full Power in Parliaments, than in any former Publications whatsoever

by William Prynne