Search
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… offered, 29 that Government would never have expected any place in this nation: but the abrupt war with Spain, and the … but for treating with sword in hand, and to do it upon the place. Upon the whole, I think it best to refer it wholly to … Dane can do without Holland. Make good conditions upon the place. Trust hot compliment. I shall not speak of the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… in the Library, Red-cross Street. The designed Bill gave place to an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons, in …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… to the tenor, of the said commission, in the usual place; and by virtue thereof our said Parliament is … to adorn a public station; such qualifications as make the place a candidate for the man, he neither possessed nor …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Mr. Hall offered another petition from tenants of the same place. For saving time, he desired both might be considered …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… The other Lords you need not fear. I would have in first place, what you mean by this Other House, else you shoot at … hard for a poor man to keep a good conscience in so high a place. A man has two hands, to take from whom will give most. … puzzled, when the wisdom of the nation is puzzled in this place. Once out of the way, we see how hard it is to get in …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… once a year sent over to the sessions, in some standing-place to remain. There was a case where, by rasing of a … that you would both consider of their message and the place from whence it comes. Major Audley moved, that you will … must wait till we return an answer; and that is no fit place in which to stay them. Mr. Harvey. We cannot allow of a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… other side was, that he might have been chosen in another place, if the Petition had come in, in time. After an hour's …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… for what they did in laying this assessment. No privileged place was to be exempted, by the act, in express terms. And … upon it, whether the city shall bear it or some other place. Otherwise it will still remain controvertible. I … the city may be freed. Mr. Attorney-General. I know no place so fit to pay it as where it was first laid. I pay both …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of the quarrel, the point will be determined, and no place left for debate. It is of greater consequence than we … that a new writ do issue for electing a member in his place. See supra, pp. 370, 375. I know not if it were any …