Yale Center for Parliamentary History

FAIN: RE-10424-77

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
J. H. Hexter (Project Director: April 1977 to present)

To edit and publish the manuscript accounts of the proceedings of the Parliament of 1628. This Parliament produced the Petition of Right, a document second in importance only to the Magna Carta, affirming that a subject should be tried by due process of law, should be free from martial law in time of peace, and should not be long detained or imprisoned without cause shown.