In April 1952 introduced the High Court of Parliament Bill, which would constitute the members of Parliament into a High Court with the power to review and overturn any ruling of the Appellate Division declaring an act of Parliament to be invalid.
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This was followed by " An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament " ( 1640 and 1641 ), an eloquent and forceful defence of his order, which produced a retort from the syndicate of Puritan divines, who wrote under the name of Smectymnuus.
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By the reign of Henry VII of England, there were two methods of trial by peers of the realm : trial in the House of Lords ( or, in proper terms, by the High Court of Parliament ) and trial in the Court of the Lord High Steward.
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He edited Josiah Brown's " Reports of Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error determined in the High Court of Parliament " ( London, 1803 ), and, as sub-commissioner of the records, took a major part in editing the " Statutes of the Realm " ( 9 vols . 1810 24 ).
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Another work of great merit was his " History of the High Court of Parliament, its Antiquity, Preheminence, and Authority; and the History of Court Baron and Court Leet, . . . Together with the Rights of Lords of Manors in Common Pastures, and the Growth of the Privileges the Tenants Now Enjoy There " ( 2 vols ., octavo, 1731 ).
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In 1622 he published, in support of his views, " An Appeale to Truth, in the Controuersie betweene Art and Vse " ( London ), which he supplemented in 1623 by " A Petition to the High Court of Parliament, in the behalf of auncient and authentique Authors " ( London ), in which he says that his system has received encouragement from James I, and that he wishes to receive a monopoly of the right to teach by his method.
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And in his long career, Butter published a wide range of other material : from joke books like " The Cobbler of Canterbury " ( 1608 ), to Tobias Gentleman's " England's Way to Win Wealth, and to Employ Ships and Mariners " ( 1614 ), to religious works like Abraham Darcy's " The Original of Idolatries " ( 1624 ), to polemics like Joseph Hall's " An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament " ( 1640 ) & mdash; and virtually everything in between.
