"That in every Parliament, at the third day of every Parliament, the king shall take in his hands the offices of all the ministers aforesaid," (that is, "the chancellor, treasurer, barons, and chancellor of the exchequer, the justices of the one bench and of the other, justices assigned in the country, steward and chamberlain of the king's house, keeper of the privy seal, treasurer of the wardrobe, controllers, and they that be chief deputed to abide nigh the king's son, Duke of Cornwall,") "and so they shall abide four or five days; except the offices of justices of the one place or the other, justices assigned, barons of exchequer; so always that they and all other ministers be put to answer to every complaint; and if default be found in any of the said ministers, by complaint or other manner, and of that attainted in Parliament, he shall be punished by judgment of the peers, and put out of his office, and another convenient put in his place. And upon the same our said sovereign lord the king shall do (cause) to be pronounced and made execution without delay, _according to the judgment_ (_sentence_) of the said peers in the Parliament." Here is an admission that the peers were to fix the sentence, or judgment, and the king promises to make execution "_according to_" that sentence. And this appears to be the law, under which peers of the realm and the great officers of the crown were tried and sentenced, for four hundred years after its passage, and, for aught I know, until this day. The first case given in Hargrave's collection of English State Trials, is that of _Alexander Nevil_, Archbishop of York, _Robert Vere_, Duke of Ireland, _Michael de la Pole_, Earl of Suffolk, and _Robert Tresilian_, Lord Chief Justice of England, with several others, convicted of treason, before "the Lords of Parliament," in 1388. The sentences in these cases were adjudged by the "Lords of Parliament," in the following terms, as they are reported. "Wherefore the said _Lords of Parliament_, there present, as judges in Parliament, in this case, _by assent of the king, pronounced their sentence_, and did adjudge the said archbishop, duke, and earl, with Robert Tresilian, so appealed, as aforesaid, to be guilty, and convicted of treason, and to be drawn and hanged, as traitors and enemies to the king and kingdom; and that their heirs should be disinherited forever, and their lands and tenements, goods and chattels, forfeited to the king, and that the temporalities of the Archbishop of York should be taken into the king's hands." Also, in the same case, Sir _John Holt_, Sir _William Burgh_, Sir _John Cary_, Sir _Roger Fulthorpe_, and _John Locton_, "_were by the lords temporal, by the assent of the king_, adjudged to be drawn and hanged, as traitors, their heirs disinherited, and their lands and tenements, goods and chattels, to be forfeited to the king."