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... commons confifted of about 140 ; which amounted not to above half of the other house of commons . So extremely light had government hitherto lain upon the people , that the very name of excife was unknown to them ; and , among other ...
... commons confifted of about 140 ; which amounted not to above half of the other house of commons . So extremely light had government hitherto lain upon the people , that the very name of excife was unknown to them ; and , among other ...
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... commons of parliament affembled at Westminster : But as he alfo mentioned , in the letter , the lords and commons of parliament af- fembled at Oxford , and declared that his fcope and intention was to make provifion that all the mem ...
... commons of parliament affembled at Westminster : But as he alfo mentioned , in the letter , the lords and commons of parliament af- fembled at Oxford , and declared that his fcope and intention was to make provifion that all the mem ...
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... commons had fent up to the peers an impeachment of high treafon against her ; becaufe , in his utmoft diftreffes , fhe had af- fifted her husband with arms and ammunition , which fhe had bought in Holland " . And had fhe fallen into ...
... commons had fent up to the peers an impeachment of high treafon against her ; becaufe , in his utmoft diftreffes , fhe had af- fifted her husband with arms and ammunition , which fhe had bought in Holland " . And had fhe fallen into ...
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... commons , that , if ever God appeared to them , it was in the ordinances of yefterday : That , as he was credibly informed by many , who had been prefent in different congregations , the fame la- mentations and difcourfes , which the ...
... commons , that , if ever God appeared to them , it was in the ordinances of yefterday : That , as he was credibly informed by many , who had been prefent in different congregations , the fame la- mentations and difcourfes , which the ...
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... once to reject it ; yet poffeffed fo little authority , that they durft not perfevere in oppofing the refo- Whitlocke , p . 114 , 115. Rush , vol . vii . p . 6 . lution LVII . 1644 . CHAP . lution of the commons CHARLES I. 27.
... once to reject it ; yet poffeffed fo little authority , that they durft not perfevere in oppofing the refo- Whitlocke , p . 114 , 115. Rush , vol . vii . p . 6 . lution LVII . 1644 . CHAP . lution of the commons CHARLES I. 27.
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