 | John Millar - 1818 - 516 pages
..." be a great wound to the gravity and liberty " of the house." The speaker replied, " that " there be many precedents in the late " queen's time, where...infringe our privileges by any message; but " that his desire is, we should enjoy them with " all freedom*" It should seem that henceforward no monarch of... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 648 pages
...motion was made for a committee " to search for precedents of ancient as well as later times, that do concern any messages from the sovereign magistrate, king or queen of this realm, touching petitions offered to the house of commons." The king now interposed by a second message, that,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 686 pages
...divers kinds. A motion was then made for the appointment of a committee to search for precedents that " do concern any messages from the sovereign magistrate, king or queen, of this realm, touching petitions offered to the House of Commons." But here James sent down a second message, telling... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1850 - 750 pages
...A motion was made for a committee " to search for precedents of ancient as well as later times that do concern any messages from the sovereign magistrate, king or queen of this realm, touching petitions offered to the house of commons." The king now interposed by a second message, that,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 690 pages
...A motion was made for a committee " to search for precedents of ancient as well as later times that do concern any messages from the sovereign magistrate, king or queen of this realm, touching petitions offered to the house of commons." The king now interposed by a second message, that,... | |
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... replied that there were many precedents in the late queen's time, where she had restrained the house from meddling in politics of divers kinds. This, as a matter of fact, was too notorious to be denied. A motion was made for a committee " to search... 