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We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in…
Quote byHenry VIII of England · 1491–1547
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to Parliament on parliamentary privilege (March/April 1542), as quoted in Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Volume III (1808), by Raphael Holinshed, p. 824.
English (original)
We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.
— Henry VIII of England
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