The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time ... Illustrated with a Great Variety of Historical and Explanatory Notes ... with a Large Appendix ...R. Chandler, 1742 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addrefs affure againſt Aiſlabie alfo anfwer'd Anno Anſwer becauſe Bill Britain call'd carry'd Claufe Confequence Confideration Conftitution Craggs Crown Debate thereon Defigns defire Earl of Oxford effectually Endeavours Eſtabliſhment Expence faid fame farther feconded fecure fent feveral fhall fhould fince firft firſt fome fuch fufficient fupport Government greateſt himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe of Commons Hungerford Impeachment Intereft Jekyll juft Juftice King King's Speech Kingdom laft late Lechmere Liberties Lord Chancellor Lords and Gentlemen Majefty Majefty's Meaſures Meffage Member ment Minifters moſt Motion mov'd muft muſt Nation neceffary Neceffity Number Occafion occafion'd order'd pafs'd Parliament Peace Perfon pleas'd Power prefent Prince Proteftant publick Credit Pulteney Purpoſe Queſtion Reaſon Rebellion Refolution refolv'd reprefented Robert Walpole Seffion ſeveral ſhall Shippen Sir Gilbert Heathcote Sir Jofeph Jekyll Sir John Cope Sir William Wyndham South-Sea Company Speaker ſpoke Stanhope thefe themſelves thereupon theſe thofe thoſe Treaties uſe whole Houſe Wiſdom
Popular passages
Page xxi - him to report to the Houfe ; which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Table, where the fame was twice read : And a Motion being made, that the Bill be recommitted, there arofe a Debate that lafted near three
Page 343 - of an extraordinary Supply, mov'd, ' That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, that he will be pleafed to make fuch an Addition to the Number of Seamen already voted, and to concert fuch other Meafures, as his Majefty
Page 104 - into a Committee of the whole Houfe, to take into Confideration the feveral Papers relating to the Charge of Tranfportation of the Dutch Troops, to and from Great Britain ; and likewife the Papers relating to the Contingencies and Extraordinaries, for Services perform'd in North Britain
Page 337 - the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, beg Leave to return your Majefty our moft humble Thanks for your great Goodnefs, in communicating to us the Treaties of Peace and Commerce concluded between the Emperor and the King of Spain, and the Defenfive Alliance between your Majefty, the moft Chriftian King, and the King of
Page 46 - with Power to continue for ever, they have given up their Political Power to 'the Legiflative and cannot refume it : But if they have fet Limits to the Duration of their Legiflative, and
Page 48 - Members to ferve for the Commons in Parliament, is a • high Infringement of the Liberties and Privileges of the ' Commons of Great Britain,
Page 226 - Opportunity, which this general Tranquility gives us, of extending our Commerce, upon which the Riches and Grandeur of this Nation chiefly depend. It is very obvious, that nothing would more conduce to the obtaining fo
Page 361 - would beft conduce to the Security of the Trade and Navigation of this Kingdom, and to the Prefervation of the Peace of Europe ; And to aflure his Majefty, That this Houfe, placing an entire Confidence in his Majefty's Goodnefs and Regard for the true Intereft of his People, will ftand by and fupport his Majefty, in all fuch
Page 343 - But that they could never know how that Money had been laid out ; and therefore he mov'd, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he would be gracioufly pleafed to
Page 174 - behind the Temple of Virtue, to denote that there was no coming to the former, without going through the other : But that if this Bill pafs'd into a Law, one