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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… and a master of his horse, and his Lady and child to wear black patches; which, methought was strange, but he is become …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… officers. We were presently called in by the Usher of the Black Rod; and the Lords came to the bar after the same …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… and It was resolved accordingly. 9 Mr. Speaker. The Black Rod is at the door, and has somewhat to say to you. He … upon the table. Mr. Willoughby, being come in with the black rod, came to the middle of the room, and said, "Mr. … Tower, and the other two, in regard of their age, to the Black Rod." Memorials (1732), p. 53. One of these prelates, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… to take notice of it; so that, when the Usher of the Black Rod, who attended the other House, came to let the … give the House an account of what the Gentleman of the Black Rod had said to him. "The Assembly, being under this …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… obliging itself to supply the Spanish West Indies with black slaves, for the term of thirty years." During this … furnish, as cattle, (for nothing human is attributed to "black slaves" through the whole treaty,) "one hundred and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… I saw there March 21,1771. He is in his own hair, and in a black gown, and rather a well-looking open-countenanced man. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… strangers; the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Comptroller, and Black Rod and Heralds, cleared the room; save only for some … his Highness was speaking in the other House, and that the Black Rod went for them, but they came not. Mr. Scobell 4 …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… You do not say that they should have an usher of the black rod, and the like. You say that that in all things …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… they should be dissolved. About eleven, the Usher of the Black Rod came for them, and the King, applying himself …