The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England;: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, ...

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Printed; and sold by Thomas Osborne, ... and William Sandby, 1751

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Página 166 - I will be : when salt has lost its savour, fit it is to be cast on that unsavoury place, the dunghill. But, sir, let us deal with them as God hath dealt with us : God, before he made man, made the world, a handsome place for him to dwell in ; so let us provide them some convenient livings, and then punish them in God's name; but till then, scandalous livings cannot but have scandalous ministers.
Página 161 - I shall be shorter; and as to that which concerns the impoverishing of the King no other arguments will I use than such as all men grant. The exchequer, you know, is empty, and the reputation thereof gone; the ancient lands are sold; the jewels pawned; the plate engaged; the debts still great; almost all charges, both ordinary and extraordinary, borne up by projects!
Página 487 - It could never be hoped, that more sober and dispassionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the king upon?
Página 158 - France, that the kingdom, being at peace within itself, might be a bulwark to keep back the power of Spain by land. Next, to preserve an amity and league between that state and us, that so we might come in aid of the Low Countries and by that means receive their ships, and help them by sea.
Página 149 - Charter and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the laws established in this your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of parliament...
Página 118 - to speak to this question, for I know not what it is. All our petition is for the laws of England; and this power seems to be another distinct power from the power of the law. I know how to add ' sovereign
Página 147 - Council and in other places; and others of them have been therefore imprisoned, confined, and sundry other ways molested and disquieted, and divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your...
Página 160 - Cadiz, then, in that first expedition we made, when we arrived and found a conquest ready — the Spanish ships, I mean, fit for the satisfaction of a voyage, and of which some of the...
Página 119 - I know that prerogative is part of the law ; but sovereign power is no parliamentary word. In my opinion it weakens •magna charta, and all the statutes; for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power...
Página 123 - We humbly present this petition to your majesty, not only with a care of preserving our own liberties, but with due regard to leave entire that sovereign power wherewith your majesty is trusted for the protection, safety, and happiness of your people...

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