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A letter from a travelling tutor, to a noble young lord, with whom he travelled. Containing, good advice to the independent electors of Great-Britain; and a practicable scheme, by which the people may, at every future election, provide for themselves, without the aid of Parliament, what is tantamount both to a pension-bill, and an exceptionless place-bill.
Travelling tutor.
Date
M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]
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To the worth and independent freemen of the city of Rochester, [sic]
Observator.
Date
1790]
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The danger of mercenary Parliaments: with a preface, shewing the infinite mischiefs of long and pack'd Parliaments. By the editor of the Earl of Shaftesbury's letters to Lord Molesworth.
Toland, John, 1670-1722.
Date
1722
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A true and exact list of the Lords spiritual and temporal; Knights and Commissioners of Shires, Citizens and Burgesses of the Present Parliament of Great Britain; With the Alterations that have happen'd by Deaths, Double Elections, Double Returns, and Undue Elections, &c. since their Meeting: together with their houses, lodgings, and usual places of abode, In and About the Cities of London and Westminster. During the sitting of Parliament. The like never before Publish'd To which is added, an alphabetical list of the names of the members of the House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament.
Date
[1729]
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A companion to The royal kalendar, for the year 1779: Being a list of all the changes in administration, From the Accession of the present King In October, 1760, To the present Time. To which is prefixed, A List of the late and present House of Commons, shewing The Changes made in the Members of Parliament, by the General Election in October, 1774; With the Names of the Candidates where the Elections were contested, the Numbers polled, and the Decisions since made by the Select Committees. Also the Dates when each City and Borough first sent Representatives to Parliament, the Right of Election in each Place, and the supposed Number of Voters.
Date
1779
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A companion to The royal kalendar, for the year 1789: Being a List of all the Changes in Administration, From the Accession of the present King, In October, 1760, To the present Time. To which is prefixed, A List of the Members of the two last and present Parliaments, Shewing the Changes made in the House of Commons, by the General Elections in 1780 and 1784; With the Names of the Candidates where the Elections were contested, the Numbers polled, and the Decisions since made by the Select Committees. Also the Dates when each City and Borough first sent Representatives to Parliament, the Right of Election in each Place, and the supposed Number of Voters. A summary Account of the Duties of the Great Officers of State; a Table of the Duration of the several Parliaments from Henry Vii. to the present Time; a List of those Places which formerly sent Members to Parliament, and now do not; a List of the Deaths of the principal Ministers during the present Reign. And a complete Index of Names.
Date
[1789]
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The responsibilities and work of the Office of Public Service and Science : minutes of evidence, Wednesday 13 January 1993 ... / Treasury and Civil service Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Treasury and Civil Service Committee
Date
1993
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To the loyal and religious hearts in Parliament, and some few effects of the union, proposed between Scotland and England. Except God prevent will fall out. ...
Date
1706]
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The expediency of a revolution considered: in which the advantages held out to the people are examined and refuted.
Date
1793
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Jus parliamentarium: or, the antient power, jurisdiction, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the most high court of Parliament. In two parts. Part I. I. Concerning Annual Parliaments, called for redressing such Things as required Amendment, and finally determining such Cases where the Law failed, and the Judges differed in their Opinions. II. Several Authorities to prove that in any difficult Cases arising in Westminster-Hall the Judges adjourned such Causes propter difficultatem usque ad Parliamentum. III. Several curious Precedents, proving that an Award in Parliament was in so high a Regard in the Law, that it could not be altered or changed by any Interpretation of the Judges. IV. Where any Doubts arose amongst Lawyers, what the Common Law was in Cases of great Importance, that they were by the antient Course and Practice not settled by the Judges only, but by the Law-Making Power of the Kingdom. V. Where former Statutes have seemed dark and dubious, and, by the Subtilty of learned Lawyers, made liable to different Constructions, the Parliament wisely provided explanatory Acts to guide and direct the Judges, and did not leave it in their Power to interpret Laws contrary to the Design of the Makers thereof. VI. Several Statutes of Jeofsailes and Amendments were antiently made as the Parliament saw Cause, to enable and authorise the Judges to amend several Defects in Records and Process of Law, &c. which could not be done before by their Judiciary Power. Vii. The Original of Non Obstantes, and how they came first into the Courts of Justice; and that the Judges did not imagine in former Times, that they could invest such a Prerogative in the Crown as that the King might suspend general Statutes, and dispense with Acts of Parliament. Also the Proceedings against Michael de la Poole, Earl of Suffolk. Viii. A summary Account of the Impeachments of several Judges and Serjeants in misinterpreting the Law, and the Judgments against them as Traitors to their King and Kingdom. IX. An Apology for the House of Commons, made in the first Parliament of King James II. touching Privileges, with Notes thereon. Part II. A Short History or Seties of the Invasions upon the Privileges of Parliaments, as to the Freedom of Speech for the Redress of Grievances. First, Begun in the Reign of Richard II. Secondly, Revived by Queen Elizabeth. Thirdly, Continued and Improved in the Reign of King James I. And, Fourthly, Compleated in that of King Charles I. by the bold Resolutions of the Judges of the King's-Bench, which was one main and principal Cause of those direful Calamities which afterwards fell both upon King and Kingdom. With may other Curious Particulars By William Petyt, Esq; late of the Inner-Temple, and Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London.
Petyt, William, 1636-1707.
Date
MDCCXLI. [1741]
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