...that the convention-parliament, which restored king Charles the Second, met above a month before his return; the lords by their own authority, and the...the liberty of England, by authority of parliament : and that the said parliament sat till the twenty-ninth of December, full seven months after the restoration...

...seal was committed to three commissioners, Lisle, Keble, and Whitelock. All writs were ordered to run in the name of " the keepers of the liberty of England, by authority of parliament". New commissions were issued to magistrates, sheriffs, and judges ; of the latter six resigned, and...

...lords-commissioners, Lysle, Kehle, and Whitelocke ; the writs no longer ran in the name of the king, hut of " the keepers of the liberty of England " by authority of parliament ;" new commissions were issued to the judges, sheriffs, and magistrates : and in lieu of the oaths...

...Other changes followed. Lisle, Keble, and Whitelocke were entrusted with the great seal ; all writs ran in the name of " the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of parliament ; " new commissions were issued to all judges and magistrates; but with the exception that the name...

...of Charles II., without the King's writ — the Lords by their own authority, the Commons by virtue of writs issued in the name of the keepers of the liberty of England — was named "the ConTention," probably because they convened without the assent or summons of the...

...intended no alteration of the government ; and since there was no method of issuing summonses but by writs in the name of the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of Parliament, it could not be apprehended that any other government would be introduced]." * The admission of the...

...all writs, warrants and other process whatsoever to 191 be issued forth as occasion shall require, in the name of the keepers of the liberty of England, by authority of parliament. In case of mortality or absence of Capt. Rob't Dennis, you or any two or more of you, have power to...

...to see the same kept and observed ; That all writs, warrants and process whatsoever be issued forth in the name of the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of parliament; that they be signed under the hand of one or more of the council hereafter named, viz : Robert Brooke,...

...dated " the first year of the restoration of liberty, DG 1648," and replacing the King's title by that of " the keepers of the liberty of England, by authority of parliament." The statue of the King at the Exchange in London was overthrown, and replaced by an inscription announcing...

...Rolls of the period show that the writs which formerly issued in the name of the king now issued from ' The Keepers of the Liberty of England, by authority of Parliament/ the ancient legal forms being in other respects fully preserved. The men who thus assumed a portion of...