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Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons,Maija Jansson No preview available - 1988 |
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11 April 12 Jacobi ALFORD ANONYMOUS DIARY answer Attorney bill read bills of grace Bishop Chancellor Committed committee concerning conference Cornwall debate debts desired divers Dudley Digges Edward Hoby election Exchequer Francis Goodwin FULLER Hakewill HOSKINS House of Commons Ibid impose impositions JEROME HORSEY KENNETH SPENCER King King's L.la last parliament letter London Lords Lower House Main Papers Majesty Majesty's matter merchants moved Parliament 1610 patent petition Petyt Proceedings in Parliament punishment question returned Robert Mansell sent Serjeant session sheriff Sir Dudley Digges Sir Edward Hoby Sir Edward Montagu SIR EDWIN SANDYS Sir Francis Sir George SIR H Sir Henry Sir Herbert Croft SIR JAMES PERROTT SIR JEROME HORSEY SIR JOHN SAMMES Sir John Savile SIR ROBERT PHELIPS Sir Roger Owen Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Parry SIR WILLIAM STRODE SIR WILLIAM WALTER speak Speaker speech subsidies undertaking Upper House WILLIAM STRODE writ
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Page xviii - What cause we your poor Commons have to watch over our privileges is manifest in itself to all men. The prerogatives of princes may easily and do daily grow; the privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand. They may be by good providence and care preserved, but being once lost are not recovered but with much disquiet.
Page xxxiii - Fifthly, that there is not the highest standing court in this land that ought to enter into competency either for dignity or authority with this high court of parliament, which with your Majesty's royal assent gives laws to other courts, but from other courts receives neither laws nor orders.
Page xx - It was a maxim he had often heard when he was a young man, from old and experienced members, that nothing tended more to throw power into the hands of Administration and those who acted with the majority in the House of Commons...
Page 45 - Grace offered to the houses, was " an act giving authority to certain Commissioners to review the state of penal laws, to the end that such as are obsolete and snaring may be repealed, and such as are fit to continue and concern one matter may be reduced respectively into one clear form of law.
Page 187 - The Master and four Wardens of the Fraternity of the Art or Mystery of Haberdashers in the city of London.
Page xx - Commons, than a neglect of, or departure from, the rules of proceeding: that these forms, as instituted by ' our ancestors, operated as a check and control ' on the actions of the majority, and that they ' were in many instances, a shelter and protection ' to the minority, against the attempts of power.
Page 87 - An Act against such persons as shall " unreverently speak against the Sacrament of the Body " and Blood of Christ, commonly called, The Sacrament
Page 251 - Let him do all this, and Sir Henry Neville is ready to answer for it, that " in a month, or five weeks this point of supplying the King and of his retribution will be easily determined, if it be proposed betimes and followed close afterwards...
Page 161 - In practice, a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (in the case of a scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled and vacated. The most common application of this writ is as a process to revive a judgment...
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