| William Betham - Baronetage - 1801 - 580 pages
...names of Rufus, Le Rous, Rouse, Rowse, and other modes of spelling. i * We find it stated by the Select Committee of the House of Commons (of which he Was a member) appointed to consider the state of the administration of justice in Bengal, and how the British possessions... | |
| Sir John Comyns - Digests, etc - 1822 - 652 pages
...corruption. 29 Nov. 1710. Vide ante, (E 15.) — Vide officer (I). Hill writing a book to the dishonour of the house of commons, of which he was a member, and for discovering the conferences of the house, after examination, was expelled, and committed to the... | |
| Asia - 1826 - 842 pages
...the honour to submit. Subsequently to thi», the hon. director ira» called to give evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, of which he was a member, on the subject of the n Hairs of the Nabob of Oude, and there made a statement, between which, and... | |
| Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...appointed keeper of the Tower Records, with a handsome salary ; was brought on his knees to the bar of the House of Commons, of which he was a member, and then enlarged, on his promise of good behaviour in future — a promise which he rigidly fulfilled.... | |
| Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 582 pages
...quite well." These hopes were continually deferred, and the examination of the royal physicians before a committee of the House of Commons, (of which he was a member,) was the only public business which engaged him before Christmas ; yet he was fully occupied. West Indian... | |
| Mortimer O'Sullivan - 1840 - 788 pages
...intolerant doctrines. He declined the invitatibn. He was offered the opportunity of confuting Mr. M'Ghee in a Committee of the House of Commons, of which he was a leading member, and in which his party was the stronger. He declined. He heard,' while on that Committee,... | |
| John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1852 - 468 pages
...who complained of them by letter to the House of Lords. On inquiry, however, it turned out that Vane had communicated them already to the Speaker, to a...(to me it is) that Spaine and ffrance will instantly conclude a peace: and that ffrance makes great preparations to ioyne with the Scotts (when the breach... | |
| John Evelyn - 1852 - 460 pages
...God should suffer you to destroy the King : the miseryes which will ineuitably follow are soe plains in view, that it is more then necessary some speedy...(to me it is) that Spaine and ffrance will instantly conclude a peace : and that ffrauce makes great preparations to ioyne with the Scotts (when the breach... | |
| John Evelyn - 1854 - 642 pages
...who complained of them by letter to the House of Lords. On inquiry, however, it turned out that Vane had communicated them already to the Speaker, to a...necessary some speedy expedient be found for their preueution. Is it not cleere to you (to me it is) that Spaiue and ffrance will instantly conclude a... | |
| John Adams - United States - 1856 - 716 pages
...among those Assistants of whom he could give no account. His name frequently occurs in the records of the House of Commons, of which he was a member, and particularly in the course of their struggle with Cromwell, in 1656. He was knighted by Charles the... | |
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