The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the Restoration in 1660, to the Present Time ... With an Account of the Promotions of the Several Peers, and the State of the Peerage in Every Reign: Connected with the Transactions of the Commons, and History of the Times, And Illustrated with Historical Notes and Observations. Together with the Debates in the Parliament of Scotland Relating to the Union. To Each Volume are Added Proper Indexes ...

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Pagina 118 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Pagina 118 - Therefore for the better securing of the dependency of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain, May it please your most excellent Majesty that it may be declared, and be it declared . . . That the same kingdom of Ireland hath been, is, and of right ought to be subordinate unto and dependent upon the imperial Crown of Great Britain...
Pagina 159 - Month, refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to confider of...
Pagina 119 - ... kingdom; and that all proceedings before the said house of lords, upon any such judgment, sentence, or decree, are, and are hereby declared to be, utterly null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Pagina 112 - Britain, with right to sit in parliament. 10. That whenever those lords now sitting in parliament, whose sons have been called by writ, shall die; then it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to create a peer to supply the number so lessened.
Pagina 270 - ... it; he then faid he had a verbal order, but refufed to fay from whom ; the petitioner told him, if it were verbal only, it did not appear to him, and he would not be fearched...
Pagina 12 - If ministers of state, acting by the immediate commands of their sovereign, are afterwards to be made accountable for their proceedings, it may one day or other be the...
Pagina 85 - Opinion, to have been inferted therein, in like Manner as the Articles and Orders for regulating and governing the Navy were enacted in the thirteenth Year of King Charles the...
Pagina 270 - ... fhewed his warrant, which the petitioner demanded five or fix times to no purpofe; he then ordered the two warders attending him to come to the petitioner and do their duty, and one of them laid hands upon him, and began to ufe violence ; and though the petitioner knocked and called often for his fervants, colonel Williamfon faid they mould not, 'nor were they permitted to come near...

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