 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 pages
...it will here be most properly appended to nn account which firs gives to it all its significance), 'I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...here; and I humbly beg your Majesty's pardon that I can not give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.' Words conceived... | |
 | Christopher Hill - History - 1982 - 308 pages
...But in 1642, when Charles I came to arrest five members of Parliament, Speaker Lenthall said to him, 'I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am.' So the revolution was completed by which the Speaker ceased to be the King's servant and became the... | |
 | David M. Olson - Law - 1994 - 206 pages
...know whether several members, whom he was going to arrest, were present: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House doth direct me, whose servant I am." Bailey 1971, 62 The very name, "Speaker," illustrates the tortured... | |
 | Robert Unwin - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 124 pages
...that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return ... The Speaker: May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me. 1 Look at Source A. The Churchman shown in the pulpit is named in the cartoon. Who is he? What is he... | |
 | Andy Williams - Political Science - 1998 - 260 pages
...an agent of the monarch. This link was not broken until 1642 when Speaker Lenthall told Charles I: 'I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in...is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.' Since the mid-nineteenth century the Speaker has been seen as a neutral figure. Elected by MPs, the... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...members were. The Speaker, William Lenthall, knelt respectlully and replied. May it please Your Mafesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, but as this House is pleased to direct me, whose servant 1 am heiv. The king realized he had been outwitted.... | |
 | Nigel Kelly, Jane Shuter, Rosemary Rees - History - 1998 - 100 pages
...to send them to me as soon as they return. The Speaker refused to be bullied by the King, saying / have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, except as the House is pleased to direct me. Charles was furious especially as Parliament now knew... | |
 | Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1998 - 166 pages
...to send them to me as soon as they return. The Speaker refused to be bullied by the King, saying / have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, except as the House is pleased to direct me. Charles was furious especially as Parliament now knew... | |
 | Nigel Kelly, Jane Shuter, Rosemary Rees - Great Britain - 1998 - 296 pages
...to send them to me as soon as they return. The Speaker refused to be bullied by the King, saying / have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place, except as the House is pleased to direct me. Charles was furious especially as Parliament now knew... | |
 | Antonia Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 796 pages
...Members, gave the momentous reply, a mixture of reverence and defiance: "May it pleasure your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in...House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here . . ,"23 Thus the King departed from the House of Commons and then from London itself, never to return... | |
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