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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... speech , as Lord Keeper , to parliament , in 1572 , at opening the session : - Is it not , trow you , a monstrous disguising , to have ajustice maintainer , to have him that should by his oath and duty set forth justice and right ...
... speech , as Lord Keeper , to parliament , in 1572 , at opening the session : - Is it not , trow you , a monstrous disguising , to have ajustice maintainer , to have him that should by his oath and duty set forth justice and right ...
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... speech was to this purpose : Inclosure of grounds brings depopulation , which brings - 1st , Idleness ; 2dly , Decay of tillage ; 3dly , Subversion of houses , and decay of charity , and charges to the poor ; 4thly , Impoverishing the ...
... speech was to this purpose : Inclosure of grounds brings depopulation , which brings - 1st , Idleness ; 2dly , Decay of tillage ; 3dly , Subversion of houses , and decay of charity , and charges to the poor ; 4thly , Impoverishing the ...
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... attached of treason for his speech against the deposing of Richard ( see Ful . as to the cause of Henry's persecution of the Lollards , p . 155 ) . + Burnet , Hist . of Ref . vol.i. p . 45 . CHAP . I. * of it , that it might.
... attached of treason for his speech against the deposing of Richard ( see Ful . as to the cause of Henry's persecution of the Lollards , p . 155 ) . + Burnet , Hist . of Ref . vol.i. p . 45 . CHAP . I. * of it , that it might.
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... speech which he has preserved in his Me- morials ( p . 431 ) . As his object was , however , by that speech , to dissuade the long parliament from rendering lawyers ineligible , it is possible that the error was a voluntary one . He ...
... speech which he has preserved in his Me- morials ( p . 431 ) . As his object was , however , by that speech , to dissuade the long parliament from rendering lawyers ineligible , it is possible that the error was a voluntary one . He ...
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... speech by Fisher , Bishop of Rochester , in Nov. 1529 , and fully establishes the statement in the text : - ' MY HONOURED LORDS , ' This is the place where your glo- rious and noble progenitors have fra- ternised the kingdom from ...
... speech by Fisher , Bishop of Rochester , in Nov. 1529 , and fully establishes the statement in the text : - ' MY HONOURED LORDS , ' This is the place where your glo- rious and noble progenitors have fra- ternised the kingdom from ...
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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...