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... SHIP MONEY . In that great constitutional question , the levying of ship money , which the patriot John Hampden so nobly resisted , the judges were all in favour of the absolute power of the king , although their reason- ing was not a ...
... SHIP MONEY . In that great constitutional question , the levying of ship money , which the patriot John Hampden so nobly resisted , the judges were all in favour of the absolute power of the king , although their reason- ing was not a ...
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... , in which they lamented their loss ; but re- membered with peculiar satisfaction , that his lord- ship was not cut off from them by the sudden stroke of painful distemper , or the more distressing ebb of 172 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... , in which they lamented their loss ; but re- membered with peculiar satisfaction , that his lord- ship was not cut off from them by the sudden stroke of painful distemper , or the more distressing ebb of 172 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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... ship was dispatched to put into Poole , as through stress of weather . This being effected on the day of election , the commanding officer prevailed on those electors who were Sir George's enemies , to take a glass on board , previous ...
... ship was dispatched to put into Poole , as through stress of weather . This being effected on the day of election , the commanding officer prevailed on those electors who were Sir George's enemies , to take a glass on board , previous ...
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