And upon the same our said sovereign
lord the king shall do (cause) to be pronounced and made execution
without delay, according to the judgment (sentence) of the said peers
in the Parliament."
Here is an admission that the peers were to fix the sentence, or
judgment, and the king promises to make execution "according to"
that sentence.
And this appears to be the law, under which peers of the realm
and the great officers of the crown were tried and sentenced, for
four hundred years after its passage, and, for aught I know, until this
day.
The first case given in Hargrave's collection of English State
Trials, is that of Alexander Nevil, Archbishop of York, Robert
Vere Duke of Ireland; Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, and
Robert Tresilian, Lord Chief Justice of England, with several
others, convicted of treason, before "the Lords of Parliament," in
1388. The sentences in these cases were adjudged by the "Lords
of Parliament," in the following terms, as they are reported.
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