P.S. The error which my former note was intended to correct was not
utterly a "cockney" one, as the following Proposition, condemned in
1683, by the University of Oxford, together with several others
contained in the books of the time, as "damnable and destructive," will
show:--
"The sovereignty of England is in _the Three Estates, viz. King,
Lords, and Commons_. The King has but a co-ordinate power, and may
be overruled by the other two." _Lex Rex. Hunter of a limited and
mixed Monarchy._ Baxter's _H. C. Polit. Catech._ See Collier's
_Eccl. Hist._, Part 2. Book ix.