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Page viii
... debate . Such a freedom was accorded to the two Houses from the earliest times , and is indeed the original privilege of Parliament , of which all other privileges are developments . A tongue - tied Parliament is a contradiction in ...
... debate . Such a freedom was accorded to the two Houses from the earliest times , and is indeed the original privilege of Parliament , of which all other privileges are developments . A tongue - tied Parliament is a contradiction in ...
Page xi
... debate was conducted . This secrecy was at once a safeguard and an apology , the former in that any communication of what had been said in the House must have been made for sinister ends , and should be resented ; the latter because no ...
... debate was conducted . This secrecy was at once a safeguard and an apology , the former in that any communication of what had been said in the House must have been made for sinister ends , and should be resented ; the latter because no ...
Page xii
... debate , the meagreness and colourlessness of the record , were characteristic in the Journals of both Houses , long after the plea for secrecy had ceased . The Journals of the Commons were always indeed much fuller than those of the ...
... debate , the meagreness and colourlessness of the record , were characteristic in the Journals of both Houses , long after the plea for secrecy had ceased . The Journals of the Commons were always indeed much fuller than those of the ...
Page xiv
... debate , or such others as shall then be offered to this House . ' On the 18th of November the debate was adjourned to the 22nd , when Parliament was prorogued . The question was then dropped and was never revived . C I have been unable ...
... debate , or such others as shall then be offered to this House . ' On the 18th of November the debate was adjourned to the 22nd , when Parliament was prorogued . The question was then dropped and was never revived . C I have been unable ...
Page xv
... debate on the Grand Remonstrance , and which formed thereupon a special distinction of the peerage . I may here observe that the first protest with reasons entered in the Journals of the Irish House of Lords was in 1695 , and that the ...
... debate on the Grand Remonstrance , and which formed thereupon a special distinction of the peerage . I may here observe that the first protest with reasons entered in the Journals of the Irish House of Lords was in 1695 , and that the ...
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Page 172 - Majesties protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws...
Page 159 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 477 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 157 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 172 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Page 204 - ... the united kingdom of Great Britain shall from and after the union have full freedom and intercourse of trade and navigation to and from any port or place within the said united kingdom and the dominions and plantations thereunto belonging, and that there be a communication of all other rights, privileges and advantages which do or may belong to the subjects of either kingdom, except where it is otherwise expressly agreed in these articles.
Page 344 - That in case the Crown and imperial dignity of this Realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this Kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 259 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject. and settling the succession of the crown.
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Page 7 - December 1641, have already passed; as likewise against all such as shall hereafter pass in that most honourable house, during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most honourable house...