The Unreformed House of Commons: Parliamentary Representation Before 1832, Volume 2University Press, 1903 |
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1st Rep administration agitation bill bishops borough owners Buckinghamshire burgesses candidates Castlereagh Correspondence Catholic Committee Charlemont commissioners constitution controverted elections Convention of Royal Cornwallis Correspondence corporation county elections Crown debate Dublin Duke Dundas Earl Edinburgh eighteenth century enacted England English boroughs estates favour forty-shilling freeholders franchise freeman boroughs freemen Government Hist House of Commons House of Lords hundred interest Ireland Irish boroughs Irish House Irish Municipal Commission Irish Parliament Islay James Journals land Lecky legislation letter Lord Lieutenant members of Parliament ment oath Official List Papists Parl Parlia Parliament of Scotland Parliamentary reform passed patrons peers persons petition Pitt potwalloper pounds Poynings Privy Council Protestant qualification reign representation representative system Revolution Roman Catholics royal burghs Rutland Scotch burghs Scotch Parliaments Scotland seats session sheriff shires Speaker tion towns Union usage vote voters wrote Youghal
Popular passages
Page 235 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 221 - Virtual representation is that in which there is a communion of interests, and a sympathy in feelings and desires between those who act in the name of any description of people, and the people in whose name they act, though the trustees are not actually chosen by them. This is virtual representation. Such a representation I think to be, in many cases, even better than the actual.
Page 265 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, for the purpose of substituting a Catholic establishment in its stead; and...
Page 276 - I have it in particular command from his Majesty, to recommend it to you to apply yourselves to the consideration of such measures as may be most likely to strengthen and cement a general union of sentiment among all classes and descriptions of his Majesty's subjects in support of the established constitution ; with this view, his Majesty trusts that the situation of his Majesty'* Catholic subjects will engage your serious attention, and, in the consideration of this subject, he relies on the wisdom...
Page 57 - Neither is it worn by any member of the House of Commons, or of the House of Lords, upon ordinary occasions.
Page 527 - I shall live to get out of this most cursed of all situations, and most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! If I did not hope to get out of this country, I should most earnestly pray for immediate death.
Page 444 - It is with the utmost concern I must acquaint your Lordship that although so many gentlemen expressed their concern that the subject had been introduced, the sense of the House against the obligation of any statutes of the Parliament of Great Britain within this kingdom is represented to me to have been almost unanimous.
Page 545 - History of England from the Accession of George III. to the Conclusion of Peace in 1783
Page 263 - The right of voting in counties only for Protestant members of Parliament ; in such a manner, however, as that a Roman Catholic freeholder should not vote, unless he either rented, and cultivated a farm of twenty pounds per annum, in addition to his forty shillings freehold ; or else possessed a freehold to the amount of twenty pounds a-year.