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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… is essential to the liberties of the Commons to petition, and for us to receive them; he has got hands to the Petition. … your Councils. He may probably speak out of his compass in trade, having no knowledge in it but what he has learned here … round England; ease the Custom-house, and you will support trade; set the ports free. [ March 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Friday, February 14. Mr Powle reports the Petition and Address to the King upon the above vote, as follows: … "Most gracious Sovereign, We your Majesty's most loyal and faithful subjects, the Commons assembled in Parliament, … great reasons were given for the matter of it, as the war, trade, &c. as far as might be for the safety of Religion; but …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… the thing may not be of so great importance as the King and you make it. The Petition of Right was not so pressed. In … Sir William Coventry.] Thinks what is moved now moderate and reasonable; though against the first motion. Should it go … Queen Elizabeth's time, had no rebellion in it, and good trade; but when the Papists once got into office there …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… February 5. [The Speaker elect having been presented to, and approved by, his Majesty, the King in his Speech, which … that the King allows the French Churches, for good of trade, as at Venice the Greek Churches. Shall the King dispense for trade, and not for peace? Because he is an Englishman, must …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Sir John Bramstone.] No man can tell who has taken it, and who has not, the Registers being lost. Sir Thomas Meres.] … wherein the Irish have free power to enter into all trade, which gives them intercourse with foreign nationsIf … the vent of their cattle hither is taken from them; their trade is lostThe Declaration, about the Irish coming into …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… by this Bill, that every Gentleman shall set up what trade he pleases when he comes overIt is said, that Papists … upon, at the beginning of the war, to invite the Dutch; and should this Bill be thrown out, you will discourage them … much to the advantage of your cloth and other manufactures trade." Sir George Downing.] Most of our manufactures came …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Highness with the Princess 1 of Modena be not consummated; and [that] he may not be married to any person but of the … whole worldBy falling out with Spain, we spoil the best Trade we haveHe has kept one hundred men at work upon the … against your growing rich, but, since the Act of Navigation, we have grown upon them, not they upon us; they …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… the passages in the Dutch letter relating to the Fishing and the Money; for by it they purchase all the King's … our safety to such as we knowNo town will be proper for trade, and no considerable Merchant will be, where there is a … and apprentices in his shop, that would keep up the trade of arbitrary government there"The Counsellors now look …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… but what is a ground to vote Lord Arlington innocent, and moves it. Sir Nicholas Carew.] Some Gentlemen are so … serve the King very well, and others understood not their trade till they had learned it abroad; and some young … Governor of Jamaica, and did his duty there; he improved trade ten times more considerably than it was before, as will …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Complains of disorders in the Newark Election, and has a Petition from the Freemen there, and proper to be … Likes not a tax nine years hence. Moves, that hearing that trade comes hither, and that houses stand empty in the city … freedom; and it is their own fault that they have driven trade out of London into this end of the town, and filled the …