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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Committee of Privileges and Elections, the state of the case, concerning the election of burgesses for the borough of … in a Grand Committee, to consider of all these things. The case is new. You have not resolved to give them a legislative … the same posture that they use may be used by you; but in case of messages it cannot be practicable to use the same …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… to hear and determine. Lord Strickland. It is a hard case that we should have no law in force to try this … us. We ought to be zealous in this business as in Achan's case. 4 Mr. Highland. It would make any tremble to hear, … such a thing drawn into precedent. 1. It may be any man's case, hereafter, to be accused for an offence, and from the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… as any of the other uses. Equitas sequitur legem. The case was adjudged upon a full hearing, where— 4 gives his … the House how that there was provision made in this case. There were 200 l. per annum settled upon the heir at … years since. Here have been all parties heard in the case already. There is a short Bill in a gentleman's hand to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… needs undermine all, in conclusion. I will instance in one case. The charge of ships in dock is almost 50,000 l. per … not that it was not necessary. I cannot find that, in any case, we have been in the whole above 800,000 l. besides the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… word. I never heard of such a bill but in King James's case; which was to declare him of the undoubted line to the … score: all with confidence that we should all hold to the case as then stated. True, in the latter part; you were more … and that it has been usually done before, and that in case it could as conveniently and easily be done to others …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the rule for laws-making especially. Let us consider the case of Saul and the Gibeonites, for breaking the league with …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… stood not the Instrument in need of mending ? Was not the case hard with me, to be put upon to swear to that which was … the House of Lords, or a House so constituted) for the case of James Naylor 9 might happen to be your own case. By their judicial power they fall upon life and member, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… out that their right was in the time of Henry VI. The like case is in Windsor. The writ goes to Windsor in general, yet … Malton; and if of Old Malton, he says Old Malton. In this case the clear failure was by excluding the witnesses. The … or any Parliament, no, not in this, but in this one case. If you please, open your doors, that the five or six …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… contra; for it was a report from the Committee. The case differs, because nothing was upon the books like it. Mr. … ought to go out. Sir Walter Earle was contra. There was a case, 21 Jac., upon a report from the Committee of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… we be judged abroad whether we be adequate judges in this case of blasphemy, send him to Biddle in the Isle of Scilly. … was not a law before. They have not proceeded in that case, but by Act of Parliament. To give a judgment in point … to join with you in your legislative power. The like case was the Bishop of Rochester's cook, who, by Act of …