Irenarches redivivus, or, A briefe collection of sundry usefull and necessary statutes and petitions in Parliament

(not hitherto published in print, but extant onely in the Parliament rolls) concerning the necessity, utility, institution, qualification, jurisdiction, office, commission, oath, and against the causlesse, clandestine dis-commissioning of justices of the peace, fit to be known and observed in these reforming times : with some short deductions from them, and a touch of the antiquity and institution of assertors and justices of peace in other forraign kingdomes : together with a full refutation of Sir Edward Cooks assertion, and the commonly received erronious opinion of a difference between ordinances and acts of Parliament in former ages, here cleerly manifested to be then but one and the same in all respects, and in point of the threefold assent

by William Prynne