An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal, of the Boroughs of Great Britain;: To which is Prefixed, an Original Sketch of Constitutional Rights, from the Earliest Period Until the Present Time ... In Two Volumes Octavo, Volum 3G. Riley ... and sold, 1792 |
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An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal, of the ..., Volum 3 Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1792 |
An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal, of the ..., Volum 3 Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1792 |
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Side 139 - House; that the committee had considered the'same accordingly, and had come to several resolutions, which they had directed him to report to the House; and he read the report in his place, and afterwards delivered it in at the table, where, the same was read ; ' and the resolutions of the committee are as followeth; viz.
Side 99 - That it is a high infringement upon the liberties and privileges of the Commons of Great Britain, for any Lord of .Parliament, or any Lord- lieutenant of any county, to concern themselves in the elections of members to serve for the Commons in Parliament.
Side 138 - Afhley is duly elected a Burgefs to ferve in this prefent Parliament for the faid, borough of Dorchefter. The Houfe adjourned. Friday, i$tb AprU. Mr. Thomas Mailer, from the Select Committee, wh...
Side 144 - Fleet, or to have or exercife any authority relating thereto, might be read; which being done, the Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, on the bill. In this Committee, it being propofed to call certain perfons, named in the bill, and incapacitated by it, to prove the allegations it contained, (f°r
Side 167 - Many Roman coins of different emperors have been found in the neighbourhood of the Devizes, together with pots and other earthen veflels, fuppofed to be Roman.
Side 54 - Royal favour, nor were they at nrft extorted by violence from the hand of power : they are the birthright of Englifhmen, their beft inheritance, which, without the complicated crimes of treafon to their country, and injuftice to their pofterity, they cannot alienate or refign : they form that triple cord of ftrength, which alone can be relied on to hold, in times of tempett, the veflel of the ftate.
Side 11 - Id. ; and about a month after the passing of this patent, Southwark was made one of the city wards, named Bridge Ward Without, in consideration of the city's paying to the crown an additional sum of 500 marks ; upon which the number of aldermen was increased from twentyfive to twenty-six, a new one being chosen to govern that borough. Hence Southwark has ever...
Side 28 - Haslemere, whether the same pay rent to the lord of the »aid borough and manor or not, exclusive of any lands or tenements, which are, or have been, parcel of the...
Side 142 - Members to ferve in Parliament; and for the preventing Bribery and Corruption in the election of Members to ferve in Parliament, for the Borough of Hindon, in the county of Wilts, be now read.
Side 129 - ... received the facrament of the lord's fupper according to the rites of the church of England...