- Richard Strode (c. 1480–1522)
Richard Strode (c. 1480 – 1522)Fact|date=February 2007 was a 16th-century
tinner andMember of Parliament for Plympton, Devonshire. He is best known for instigating one of the earliest and most important English cases dealing withparliamentary privilege .trode's Case
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Strode's Case "With the aid of some fellow MPs, Strode attempted to introduce legislation restricting the rights oftin miner s in his county. However, Strode was himself a tinner, and an influential competitor brought charges against Strode in theStannary Court , a regional tribunal empowered to judge mining disputes. Strode was fined £160, but refused to pay the fine, whereupon he was imprisoned in a dungeon deep underLydford Castle . He was released three weeks later by a letter from theExchequer ; at Strode's request, Parliament had passed a law (Strode's Act ) reversing the local court decision and granting him immunity from further prosecution related to his Parliamentary activities.References
*Zechariah Chafee, Jr. "
Three Human Rights in the Constitution of 1787 ". University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1956, pp. 27–28.
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