A Constitutional History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration: with an Introd., Tracing the Progress of Society and of the Constitution from the Feudal Times to the Opening of the History, and Including a Particular Examination of Mr. Hume's Statements Relative to the Character of the English Government, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1866 - Constitutional history |
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... Crown ; but we discover no traces of this , either in the journals of parliament , and other authentic sources , or in the laws which the Lower House passed , or the taxes it imposed . It was indeed Cotton's Short View of the Long Reign ...
... Crown ; but we discover no traces of this , either in the journals of parliament , and other authentic sources , or in the laws which the Lower House passed , or the taxes it imposed . It was indeed Cotton's Short View of the Long Reign ...
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... crown by descent was allowed to be best founded . The marriage was humiliating to him , as it implied the defectiveness of his own title , and consequently made him a king by courtesy rather than by right ; but as it united , in the ...
... crown by descent was allowed to be best founded . The marriage was humiliating to him , as it implied the defectiveness of his own title , and consequently made him a king by courtesy rather than by right ; but as it united , in the ...
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... Crown , throw all their influence into its scale , that it might reduce the still formidable power of the great aris- tocracy , and raise their own respectability , by depressing those above them . The Star - Chamber was the most ...
... Crown , throw all their influence into its scale , that it might reduce the still formidable power of the great aris- tocracy , and raise their own respectability , by depressing those above them . The Star - Chamber was the most ...
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... Crown . The kingdom was at this time threatened with war by the Scots and Welch at home , and by the French , Flemings , and Britains from abroad ; and though , at a parliament which had been held this very year at Westminster , so ...
... Crown . The kingdom was at this time threatened with war by the Scots and Welch at home , and by the French , Flemings , and Britains from abroad ; and though , at a parliament which had been held this very year at Westminster , so ...
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... Crown . A great altercation immediately ensued with the spiritualty ; and the primate , in defence of the church , answered , that the clergy were unjustly ac- cused of not supporting the Throne , for that they were more liberal in ...
... Crown . A great altercation immediately ensued with the spiritualty ; and the primate , in defence of the church , answered , that the clergy were unjustly ac- cused of not supporting the Throne , for that they were more liberal in ...
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Page 143 - ... general councils, or any of them ; or by any other general council, wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of canonical scripture, or such as shall hereafter be declared to be heresy by the high court of parliament, with the assent of the clergy in convocation.
Page 344 - The duke was indeed a very extraordinary person; and never any man, in any age, nor, I believe, in any country or nation, rose, in so short a time, to so much greatness of honour, fame and fortune, upon no other advantage or recommendation than of the beauty and gracefulness and becomingness of his person.
Page 121 - , it is enacted that no man shall be attached by any accusation nor forejudged of life or limb, nor his lands, tenements, goods nor chattels seized into the King's hands against the form of the Great Charter and the law of the land...