"præamble" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1766, Bulſtrode Whitelocke, Whitelockes notes uppon the kings writt for choosing members of parlement (XIII car II), page 134",
          "text": "That the word “magnates” beares the meaning of “commoners,” as well as lords, is expounded by a parlement itſelfe, in the præamble to the ſtatute Staple; wherin is ſaid. “Wheras good deliberation had with the prelats, dukes, earles, barons, and great men of the counties; that is to ſay, of every countey one, for all the countey, &c.ᵃ” So that the word “magnates” here is expreſſely uſed for “commoners, knights of ſhires;” and may therfore beare the like conſtruction in other times, and places. So in a plea rolle, in the tower, a law is mentioned made by the king, biſhops, earles, “barons, and other great men,” and the king’s councell; where magnates are reckoned beſides, and after, baronsᵇ."
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          "ref": "1775, A Collection of Curious Diſcourſes Written by Eminent Antiquaries upon Several Heads in Our Engliſh Antiquities, volume II, page 78",
          "text": "The conquerour, to winne the fauour of the people, did yeeld to them to be gouerned by St. Edward’s laws. And yet, that hee might the better ouer-rule, he followed the courſe of the French and Norman gouernment. That was, in appointing ſtately offices to high and noble perſonages, knowing this to be a cheife poynt in gouernment, to haue authority regarded : as it is ſet downe in the præamble of the ſayd Black booke.",
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