The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688. 5 vols. [in 9. The plates are dated 1797 to 1806].1812 |
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... levied , the King had no reason to apprehend that a farther exertion of the same authority would give any occasion of complaint . That less umbrage might be taken , he was moderate in the new rates which he established : The customs ...
... levied , the King had no reason to apprehend that a farther exertion of the same authority would give any occasion of complaint . That less umbrage might be taken , he was moderate in the new rates which he established : The customs ...
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... levied . This session was too far advanced to bring so difficult a matter to a full conclusion ; and though the parliament met again , towards the end of the year , and resumed the question , they were never able to terminate an affair ...
... levied . This session was too far advanced to bring so difficult a matter to a full conclusion ; and though the parliament met again , towards the end of the year , and resumed the question , they were never able to terminate an affair ...
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... levied upon the criminal . Murder itself , as among all the an- cient barbarous nations , was atoned for in this man- ner ; and each man , according to his rank , had a different rate or value affixed to him , which if any one were ...
... levied upon the criminal . Murder itself , as among all the an- cient barbarous nations , was atoned for in this man- ner ; and each man , according to his rank , had a different rate or value affixed to him , which if any one were ...
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... levied at pleasure " . Hence arose that common bye - word among the Irish , That they dwelt westward of the law , which dwelt beyond the river of the Barrow : Meaning the country where the English inhabit- ed , and which extended not ...
... levied at pleasure " . Hence arose that common bye - word among the Irish , That they dwelt westward of the law , which dwelt beyond the river of the Barrow : Meaning the country where the English inhabit- ed , and which extended not ...
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... levying wages for the parliament - men was not altogether discon- tinued . It was not till long after , when liberty was thoroughly established , and popular assemblies entered into every branch of public business , that the mem- bers ...
... levying wages for the parliament - men was not altogether discon- tinued . It was not till long after , when liberty was thoroughly established , and popular assemblies entered into every branch of public business , that the mem- bers ...
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Page 575 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament...
Page 537 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 34 - My Lord, Out of the love I bear to some of ysur friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as 'you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 575 - Majesty would be pleased to remove the said soldiers and mariners and that your people may not be so burdened in time to come. And that the aforesaid commissions for proceeding by martial law may be revoked and annulled. And that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 574 - ... law of the land: And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by authority of Parliament, that no man of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his land or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law...
Page 576 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever, to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death, contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 32 - Piercy was charmed with this project of Catesby; and they agreed to communicate the matter to a few more, and among the rest to Thomas Winter, whom they sent over to Flanders in quest of Fawkes, an officer in the Spanish service, with whose zeal and courage they were all thoroughly acquainted. "When they enlisted any new...
Page 574 - Parliament: and whereas no offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to be used, and punishments to be inflicted by the laws and statutes of this your realm; nevertheless of late...
Page 574 - ... divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed; and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and...
Page 253 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.