A plea for the Lords, and House of Peers, or, A full, necessary, seasonable, enlarged vindication of the just, antient hereditary right of the lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge in all the Parliamemts of England

wherein their right of session, and sole power of judicature without the Commons house, in criminal, civil, ecclesiastical causes as well of commons as peers, year in cases of elections, breach of privilege, misdemeanors of the Ccommons themselves, is irrefragably evidenced by solid reasons, punctualauthorities, memorable presidents out of histories and records in all ages, most of them not extant in any writers of our Parliaments

by William Prynne