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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… concerning divorces and alimony, and where it is fit to place the same. 3 Mr. Bodurda. You have had two letters from … in part discovered, and we are in pursuit of the rest. The place where that design was hatched is in Flanders, a place fit for such designs of assassination, at the Spanish …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… part, when privilege is in question it ought not to have a place. I never knew it urged at a Committee of Privileges to … law; I hope that is Scotch law, and law of nations. They place the centre of the compass upon the Petition and Advice. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… were taken by the House. "Mr. Broughton stood up in his place, and explained himself; wherewith the House rested …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… I hoped never to have heard this motion in this place, that the militia and negative voice are not in this … You will not think it fit to send him to any other place than the Tower. I have heard much of his ill … him. Mr. Hungerford. This needs no aggravation. The place is too good. You sent Sir John Stowell to the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… neither successors of the seal. I take the persons now in place to be thorough-paced. They have gone thoroughly with …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… The Committee were to wait upon his Highness at the old place, and returned as unsatisfied as before: nothing but a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… become a new man. Major-General Whalley. I am glad this place has wrought such a good work upon this man; I have …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… It is true, Mr. Scobell, by force of the patent, took his place without any debate; but he was checked for it. Colonel … to take no order in this case. Public business must take place, and if politicians meet with such an order upon your … and the branches, who gave themselves a fatal blow in this place, when they would needs make a protestation that no laws …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… It is better than one thousand days, to be pinned up in a place. I was once when I would have gone to six or seven … and houses thereupon, as he shall think fit; the said place being, at present, both dangerous and noisome to the … put, that these words,' six months,' do stand in that place, " It passed in the negative. " Resolved, that these …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Mr. Neville. The general, that is dead, 5 stood up in that place, and urged unanswerable reasons why the militia should … who shall be general. Another meeting at another place, will name you another. It behoves you to determine … by the death of the Protector; and then, consider where to place your militia. Mr. St. Nicholas, and divers more, moved …