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the Vindication and Asserting their ancient Rights and
Liberties, declare,
20) That the pretended Power of suspending of Laws by
Regal Authority, without Consent of! Parliament, is illegal:
21) That the pretended Power of dispensing with Laws, or
the execution of Laws, by Regal Authority, as it hath been
assumed and exercised of late, is illegal:
22) That the Commission for Erecting the late Court of
Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other
Commissions and Courts of like Natur are illegal and pernicious;
23) That levying of Money for or to the Use of Crown, by
Pretence of Prerogative, without Grant of Parliament, for
longer Time, or in other Manner, that the same is or shall be
granted, is illegal:
24) That the raising or keeping a Standing Army within the
Kingdom in Time of Peace, unless it be with Consent of
Parliament, is against Law:
25) That the Subjects, which are Protestants, may have
Aims for their Defence, suitable to their Conditions, as
allowed by Law:
26) That Election of Membres of Parliament ought to be
free:
27) That the Freedom and Debates or Proceedings in
Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court
or Place out of Parliament:
28) That excessive Bail ought not to be required; nor
excessive Fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual Punishments
inflicted:
29) That jurors ought to be impanelled and returned; and
jurors, which pass upon Men in Trials for High Treason, ought
to be Freeholders:
30) That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures
of particular Persons, before Conviction, are illegal and void:
31) And that, for Redress of all Grievaeces, and for the
Amending, Strengthening, and Preserving of Laws, Parliaments
ought to he hold frequently.
32) And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and
singular the Promises, as their undoubted Rights and
Liberties; and that no Declarations, judgemeets, Doings or Procee-
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