The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second: (Designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume's History)T. Cadell ... ; and R. Baldwin, 1785 |
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Page 367 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons...
Page 367 - Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents, shall be capable to be of the Privy Council or a member of either House of Parliament or to enjoy any office or place of trust either civil or military or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the Crown to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.
Page 399 - An act for the further security of his Majesty's person and the succession of the crown in the Protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors...
Page 344 - ... this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed...
Page 415 - Europe, and obstruct the freedom of navigation and commerce; with having offered an unpardonable insult to the queen and her throne, by taking upon him to declare the pretended prince of Wales king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page 197 - ... screened by a majority. Mr. Harley, one of the commissioners for taking and stating the public accounts, delivered a report, which contained a charge of peculation against lord Falkland. Rainsford, receiver of the rights and perquisites of the navy, confessed that he had received and paid more money than that which was charged in the accounts : and, in particular, that he had paid four thousand pounds to lord Falkland, by his majesty's order.
Page 12 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them? King or queen, All this I promise to do.
Page 367 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be made quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them : That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament : IV.
Page 156 - The prospect of affairs in Piedmont was favourable for the allies ; but the court of France had brought the pope to an accommodation, and began to tamper with the duke of Savoy. M. Chanlais was sent to Turin, with advantageous proposals, which, however, the duke would not accept, because he thought himself entitled to better terms...