Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for somuch as she said Ferrers being in exe|cution vpon a condemnation of debt, and set at large by priuilege of parlement, was not by law to be brought againe into execution, and so the partie with|out remedie for his debt, as well against him as his principall debter; after long debate of the same by the space of nine or ten daies togither, at last they resolued vpon an act of parlement to be made, and to reuiue the execution of the said debt against the said Welden which was principall debter, and to dis|charge the said Ferrers.An act passeth for George Ferrers. But before this came to passe, the common house was diuided vpon the que|stion: howbeit in conclusion, the act passed for the said Ferrers, woone by fourtéene voices.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king then being aduertised of all this procée|ding, called immediatlie before him the lord chancel|lor of England and his iudges, with the speaker of the parlement, and other of the grauest persons of the nether house, to whome he declared his opinion to this effect. First commending their wisedomes in mainteining the priuileges of their house (which he would not haue to be infringed in anie point) he alle|ged that he being head of the parlement, and atten|ding in his owne person vpon the businesse thereof, ought in reason to haue priuilege for him and all his seruants attending there vpon him.Priuilege of a burgesse of the parlement or of anie ser|uant to such like officers belonging. So that if the said Ferrers had beene no burgesse, but onlie his ser|uant, yet in respect thereof he was to haue the pri|uilege as well as anie other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 For I vnderstand (quoth he) that you not onelie for your owne persons, but also for your necessarie seruants, euen to your cookes and horssekéepers, in|ioie the said priuilege; in somuch as my lord chancel|lor here present hath informed vs, that he being spea|ker of the parlement, the cooke of the Temple was arrested in London, and in execution vpon a statute of the staple. And for somuch as the said cooke, du|ring all the parlement, serued the speaker in that of|fice, he was taken out of execution, by the priuilege of the parlement. And further we be informed by our iudges, that we at no time stand so highlie in our estate roiall, as in the time of parlement, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conioined and knit togither into one bodie politike, so as whatsoe|uer offense or iniurie (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the house, is to be iudged as doone against our person, and the whole court of par|lement. Which prerogatiue of the court is so great (as our learned councell informeth vs) as all acts and processes comming out of anie other inferiour courts must for the time cease and giue place to the highest.