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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… of Christendom. The French and Dutch are at war by sea and land; the Spaniards revolting in Italy. Your intention will … Twenty ships in a day is very fair. If we are well used on land, we cannot fail at sea. Babel had not ceased building, … be thought, to make all these preparations to sail over land, and fall on the back of Hungary, and batter the walls …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Lastly, such as do register, &c. and have no land, are to pay fifty two shillings per ann.. out of their personal estates, and if they have land, one shilling a Sunday, &c. 1 [Debate.] Mr Sacheverell.] …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… for him to build ships in the great occasion he has for land-armies, this must be against us But neither twenty, nor … the effects of the sea maintained the sea, but not the land. But if it must be so now, 400,000 l. is enough in …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… real, and not imaginary. He can think of no other than a Land Tax. For this money is for the defence of our land. We sit here not in our own rights, but as trustees for … providing capital ships. He proposes that we give it by Land Tax, at the rate of 35000 l. per month, for eighteen …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… a continuance, and so be nailed upon us and our posterlty. Land tax goes hard, but when we give it, it breaks off in … the purpose of "a Revenue." Now we have given money upon land, for building of ships; never done before. Though for … Excise was given, there was twelve pence in the pound upon land, and that debt was never lessened, and no more ships …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… us to give grains to preponderate. Visibly, there is no land power to oppose France, but the House of Austria. France … no longer to go along with the French; in Holland their land was drowned, and their cities taken, and one Vote of … what he knows. One that came forth from Calais saw 700 men land there to recruit regiments in France. Sir Charles …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… begins to spread itself into almost all the corners of the land." These Commitments are some of the causes of that … and that Commitments may be according to the Law of the Land." Mr Garroway.] He is for an expedient to keep us safe … was declared, "That Law of Parliament was the Law of the Land." Withers's Crime was pen, ink, and paper; and therefore …