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HUNTLEY (George). An Argument upon a generall Demurrer joyned and entred in an Action of false Imprisonment in the Kings Bench Court termino Trinitatis 1631. rot. 1483. parte tertia, betweene George Huntley Clerke plaintife, and William Kingsley Archdeacon of Canterbury and others Commissioners Defendants, as it was prepared to have beene uttered in Court by the said George Huntley, but was not permitted by the Judges of tha Court because, as they pretend, the action or Plea or Demurrer was discontinued termino Sancti Michaelis. 1632. Published by the said George Huntley to shew whose duty it is to preach the visitation Sermon, and thereby principally to vindicate the auntient Iurisdiction of the Crowne over the State Ecclesiasticall... A discovery also and confutation of the foresaid pretended discontinuance, with a true copy of so much of the two parts of the High Commissioners, first finall sentence, as is pleaded by the Defendants, and as conteines the whole matter to justifie the said Huntleys nine years three quarters imprisonment at severall times, his five hundred pouns fine, deprivation, degredation and excommunication. Both placed before the Argument, the one to remove the foresaid rub of the pretended discontinuance,... the other to shew the state of the controversie... against which the Law admitts no exception.1642

London: Printed by George Huntley, and are to be sold be Michaell Sparkes in Green-Harbour in the Little Old-baily, First Edition, 4to, [2], 102, 105-119, [1]pp.,, some page numerals shaved, with a final errata leaf, pagination erratic but text and register are continuous, disbound. Wing, H3779: McAlpin, II, p.140.

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