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Page 12
... commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The ...
... commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The ...
Page 78
... Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ineasure in which that House was concerned , without consulting them . On this occasion he did not consult them . His con- duct astonished them more than any other ...
... Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ineasure in which that House was concerned , without consulting them . On this occasion he did not consult them . His con- duct astonished them more than any other ...
Page 80
... commons , should approve of revolutions which quisite illustration of Butler , the formal bound- the nobles and commons had effected . The aries which had excluded it now held it in . Parliament did not blindly follow the event of The ...
... commons , should approve of revolutions which quisite illustration of Butler , the formal bound- the nobles and commons had effected . The aries which had excluded it now held it in . Parliament did not blindly follow the event of The ...
Page 81
... Commons as a disbeliever in the Popish Plot , and by the king as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had es- caped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jeffries , he would , after manfully opposing James ...
... Commons as a disbeliever in the Popish Plot , and by the king as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had es- caped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jeffries , he would , after manfully opposing James ...
Page 85
... Commons would have been more se- Commons by force , to make a new crime , a rious than that with which he last honoured new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The them ; more serious than that which their own whole legislative and ...
... Commons would have been more se- Commons by force , to make a new crime , a rious than that with which he last honoured new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The them ; more serious than that which their own whole legislative and ...
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