 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 488 pages
...agitation by means of petitions. Lord Clarendon states that in 1640, " when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names, which were subscribed to the... | |
 | John Walker - Clergy - 1863 - 422 pages
...all the credit, and procured all the countenance to the undertaking ; when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names which were subscribed to the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...what churches these should be ;5 And is indeed the self-same case With those that swore et caterasjf* countenance to the undertaking. When a multitude of...to petitions of which they before had never heard." 1 The ancients made use of gallies with sails and oars, vid. Lucani Pharsal. passim. Such are the gallies... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 670 pages
...gave all the credit and procured all the countenance to the undertaking. When a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names which were subscribed to the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 pages
...agitation by means of petitions. Lord Clarendon states that in 1640, " when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names, which were subscribed to the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...agitation by means of petitions. Lord Clurendon states that in 1640, " when a multitude of hands was procured, the petition itself was cut off, and a new one framed suitable to the design in hand, and annexed to the long list of names, which were subscribed to the... | |
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... very few hands filled the paper itself where the petition was written, and therefore many more sheets were annexed for the reception of the numbers, which gave all the credit, and procured all the countenance to the undertaking. 
