The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England;: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, ...Printed; and sold by Thomas Osborne, ... and William Sandby, 1751 |
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Page 316 - Whether there be any council which can make, add to, or diminish from the laws of the realm but only this council of parliament? Whether it be not against the orders of this council to make any secret or matter of weight, which is here in hand, known to the prince or any other concerning the high service of God, prince or state, without the consent of the House?
Page 456 - If these blood-suckers be still let alone to suck up the best and principalest commodities, which the earth there hath given us, what will become of us, from whom the fruits of our own soil, and the commodities of our own labour, which, with the sweat of our brows, even up to the knees in mire and dirt, we have laboured for, shall be taken by warrant of supreme authority, which the poor subject dare not gainsay?
Page 445 - Mr. Speaker, I marvel much that the House should stand upon granting of a subsidy or the time of payment, when all we have is Her Majesty's, and she may lawfully at her pleasure take it from us : Yea, she hath as much right to all our lands and goods as to any revenue of her crown.
Page 463 - And for my own part, I like not these courses should be taken. And you, Mr. Speaker, should perform the charge her majesty gave unto you in the beginning of this parliament, not to receive bills of this nature : For her majesty's ears be open to all grievances, and her hands stretched out to every man's petitions. — When the prince dispenses with a penal law, that is left to the alteration of sovereignty, that is good and irrevocable.
Page 147 - He further said that all matters not treason, or too much to the derogation of the imperial crown, were tolerable there where all things came to be considered of, and where there was such fulness of power as even the right of the Crown was to be determined, and by warrant whereof we had so resolved.
Page 478 - And though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves. This makes me that I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a queen as to be a queen over so thankful a people.
Page 194 - I, because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God: What, said he, surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein? No, by the faith I bear to God...
Page 10 - I dare say a hundred schools want in England, which before this time have been. And if in every school there had been but an hundred scholars, yet that had been ten thousand, so that now I doubt whether there be so many learned men in England as the number wants of these scholars.
Page 187 - House, whereby her peril may be prevented and her benefit provided for? God forbid! Then were Her Majesty in worse case than any of her subjects. And, in the beginning of our speech, I showed it to be a special cause of our...
Page 399 - It may be thought simplicity in me, that, all this time of my reign, I have not sought to advance my territories, and enlarge my dominions; for opportunity hath served me to do it.