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Attainder of Norfolk.

The House of Peers, without examining the prisoner, without trial or evidence, passed a Bill of Attainder against him and sent it down to the Commons. . . . The obsequious Commons obeyed his [the King’s] directions; and the King, having affixed the Royal assent to the Bill by commissioners, issued orders for the execution of Norfolk on the morning of January 29 [the next day].

Hume’s “History of England,” vol. iii. p. 306.