The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons from the Restoration to the Present Time: Containing the Most Remarkable Motions, Speeches, Resolves, Reports and Conferences to be Met with in that Interval : as Also the Most Exact Estimates of the Charge of Government, State of the Public Revenue, the Rise and Growth of the National Debt, Expence of the War, Proceedings on Ways and Means, Speeches and Messages from the Throne, Addresses, and Remonstrances, Also the Numbers Pro and Con Upon Every Division &c., Many of which Curious Particulars Were Never Before Printed : Collected from the Best Authorities, Compared with the Journals of the House, and Illustrated with a Great Variety of Historical and Explanatory Notes : Together with a Large Appendix Containing Exact Lists of Every Parliament, the Names of the Speakers, Their Several Posts Under the Government, and Other Valuable, Supplemental Pieces, Volume 6Richard Chandler, and sold at the Ship without Temple-Bar, and at York and Scarborough, 1742 - Great Britain |
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... last motion was agreed to . This and the three following Days being spent in taking the oaths , & c . On the 5th the * lord Harcourt , lord high Chancellor , and the reft of the Lords Juftices , came to the House of Lords , and the ...
... last motion was agreed to . This and the three following Days being spent in taking the oaths , & c . On the 5th the * lord Harcourt , lord high Chancellor , and the reft of the Lords Juftices , came to the House of Lords , and the ...
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... Lord Onflow . ** Since made Auditor of the Plantation Accounts , Foint Secretary to the Treasury , & c . now Cofferer to the Houfhold , and Ambassador to the States General , C. 1714 . 300,000 1. granted in the last feffion of ( 4 )
... Lord Onflow . ** Since made Auditor of the Plantation Accounts , Foint Secretary to the Treasury , & c . now Cofferer to the Houfhold , and Ambassador to the States General , C. 1714 . 300,000 1. granted in the last feffion of ( 4 )
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... last feffion of Parliament to her late Anno 1. Geo . I. Majefty , towards satisfying the debt due on account to the Land - Forces . And another clause to enable and require the lord high Treafurer , & c . to iffue out of any money ...
... last feffion of Parliament to her late Anno 1. Geo . I. Majefty , towards satisfying the debt due on account to the Land - Forces . And another clause to enable and require the lord high Treafurer , & c . to iffue out of any money ...
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... last feffion for the fervice of this year . You may be " affur'd , that the unanimity , the chearfulness , and the dif " patch , with which you have proceeded in granting these 66 64 aids , Anno 1. Geo . I. 1714 . The King's An- ( 7 )
... last feffion for the fervice of this year . You may be " affur'd , that the unanimity , the chearfulness , and the dif " patch , with which you have proceeded in granting these 66 64 aids , Anno 1. Geo . I. 1714 . The King's An- ( 7 )
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... last preceding years ; and concluded with a motion for an Address of Thanks to the King , conform- able to the several heads of his Majefty's Speech . He was feconded by the lord Hinchinbroke , * member for Hunting- don ; and none but ...
... last preceding years ; and concluded with a motion for an Address of Thanks to the King , conform- able to the several heads of his Majefty's Speech . He was feconded by the lord Hinchinbroke , * member for Hunting- don ; and none but ...
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