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, Original Manuscripts, Scarce Speeches, and Tracts; All Compared Withthe Several Contemporary Writers, and Connected, Throughout, with the History of the Times. By Several Hands...Printed; and sold by T. Osborne; and W. Sandby, 1760 - Great Britain |
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... ordered to be drawn up and fet forth for that Purpofe . The Houfe alfo appointed Committees on several Occafions ; for Privileges and Elections ; for Reli- gion ; Courts of Juftice , and for Trade . Sir Charles Wolfeley prefented a Bill ...
... ordered to be drawn up and fet forth for that Purpofe . The Houfe alfo appointed Committees on several Occafions ; for Privileges and Elections ; for Reli- gion ; Courts of Juftice , and for Trade . Sir Charles Wolfeley prefented a Bill ...
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... ordered to read privately firft ; and , afterwards , it was read openly , in thefe Words : SIR , They prefer a WE whofe Names are fubfcribed , with others , be- - ing chofen , and accordingly returned , to ferve plaint to the Speaker ...
... ordered to read privately firft ; and , afterwards , it was read openly , in thefe Words : SIR , They prefer a WE whofe Names are fubfcribed , with others , be- - ing chofen , and accordingly returned , to ferve plaint to the Speaker ...
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... ordered , at the fame Time , That the Lord Protector's Af- fent be defired to this Bill . Laftly , a Committee was appointed to confider of the Way of Addrefs to his Highness , with Bills , and report it to the House . Accordingly ...
... ordered , at the fame Time , That the Lord Protector's Af- fent be defired to this Bill . Laftly , a Committee was appointed to confider of the Way of Addrefs to his Highness , with Bills , and report it to the House . Accordingly ...
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... ordered , That this Bill be the first that should be prefented to his Highness for his Confent . ' It was fo done ; and accordingly ftands firft in the Acts of this Seffion . P The Ceremonial thereof . So extraordinary a Caution fhews ...
... ordered , That this Bill be the first that should be prefented to his Highness for his Confent . ' It was fo done ; and accordingly ftands firft in the Acts of this Seffion . P The Ceremonial thereof . So extraordinary a Caution fhews ...
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... Perfons . After this the Clerk read the Title of the first Bill presented to the Lord Protector , which his Highness ordered to be read through , and declared to Inter - regnum . to the Clerk his Confent to Of ENGLAND . 43.
... Perfons . After this the Clerk read the Title of the first Bill presented to the Lord Protector , which his Highness ordered to be read through , and declared to Inter - regnum . to the Clerk his Confent to Of ENGLAND . 43.
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Page 140 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 128 - Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging...
Page 182 - I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.
Page 371 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid ; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and shall in other things differ in doctrine, worship or discipline, from the public profession held forth...
Page 140 - God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Page 184 - ... people might be the men that might rule all ; and they are endeavouring to engage the army to carry that thing. And hath that man been true to this nation...
Page 110 - I say I am persuaded to return this answer to you : that I cannot undertake this government with the title of King.
Page 199 - His most Serene and Renowned Highness Oliver Lord Protector, being after a sickness of about fourteen days (which appeared an Ague in the beginning) reduced to a very low condition of Body, began early this morning to draw near the gate of death; and it pleased God about three a clock afternoon to put a period to his life.
Page 43 - Westminster to the Old Exchange, London : and there likewise be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of his crimes ; and that at the Old Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 254 - presuming to carry all before them, grew unmeasurably insolent, and all that could be done, was only to lengthen out their debates, and to hang on the wheels of the chariot, that they might not be able to drive so furiously.