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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… in the Report, as to that part. Sir Thomas Wroth made a long story to excuse the Inns of Court from paying this tax. … Universities. It will pull up the laws by the roots. The long-robe men may do you good service. They are good … part of the Report may not be agreed with. He fetched a long preamble from the Conqueror, and talked of the boughs of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Our rivals will be, inevitably, our masters. They not long since would have sent us white paper to write what we … in 1644, aged 64, was M. P. for Oxford University, in the Long Parliament. His colleague was John Selden: but their …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… morning at 8 o'clock. In the Duchy Chamber, we were a long time expecting a Committee for ministers' maintenance, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… to show the spirit of rigid nationality, which now, and long after, prevailed in Parliament. "That, if any native of … the purpose of administering oaths. These were considered, long before the appearance of the Quakers, as inconsistent, … Dict. (1784) viii. 254. According to an Ordinance of the Long Parliament, December 11, 1649. It was in these words—" I …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… imposed upon them, and on them to this day. Now, if the Long Parliament, and all powers since, have the care of us … and preserved your interest, designed by the famous Long Parliament, obtained by blood, fought for by prayer … retinue with some scorn and derision, by reason of their long rude beards, quas, more patrio, grandes habebantet …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… let us not lay it, till we have necessity. We have laid long enough under a land-tax. We must sell our lands to the … supplies, but as for the present occasion, and so long as the Parliament shall think fit. Mr. Fowell. It should … had had such an army, we had had another family, and the Long Parliament had never done what they did. This is my …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Resolved, that this Bill be engrossed. Sir Lislebone Long. Sir Thomas Viner, 4 and several other citizens are … Mr. Solicitor General. This Corporation was settled in the Long Parliament; but none but freemen's children can be … Bill be recommitted, and that all the gentlemen of the long robe may be added. Per Mr. Pedley. Resolved, that the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… are members of this House, and all the gentlemen of the long robe, members of this House, and the rest of the members …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of Parliament. Mr. Neville. I doubt this will lead into a long debate. The militia hath been in several hands according … that you will send a fleet to the Sound. The Dutch have a long time declared their resolution. The more public, I … stated. The grounds 16 were manifestly held out to the Long Parliament. When Henry V. 17 engaged in the war with …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… in the first concoction, scarce remediable. 2. To put this long controverted point out of question, the negative voice. … stated nor determined. It will be hard to prove that the Long Parliament ever denied the King the negative voice. As … our own faithfulness must come to no test ? It has been no long parenthesis. 11 I had rather have an oath made here than …