The History of the Principal Transactions of the Irish Parliament, from the Year 1634 to 1666: Containing Proceedings of the Lords and Commons, ... By the Right Hon. Lord Mountmorres. In Two Volumes. ...

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Página 120 - Alfo, during the time of the parliament, he ought to fequefter himfelf from dealing or intermeddling in any public or private affairs, and dedicate and bend himfelf wholly to ferve his office and function.
Página 114 - Upon the lower row, 1586. on both fides thefpeaker, fit fuch perfonages . as be of the king's privy counfel, or of his chief officers; but as for any other, none claimeth nor can claim any place, but fitteth as he cometh, faving that on the right hand of the fpeaker, next beneath the faid counfels, the Londoners and the citizens of York do fit, and fo in order...
Página 148 - Every bill, which is brought into the houfe, muft be read three feveral times, and upon three feveral days. And a bill, which upon any reading is committed and returned again, ought to have its three readings, unlefs the committees have not altered the bill in any fubftance or form, but only in certain words. Alfo, when any bill upon any reading is altogether by one confent...
Página 137 - Lords devise, make, or establish any law ; the reasons are these : when Parliaments were first begun and ordained, there were no Prelates or Barons of the Parliament, and the Temporal Lords were very few or none, and then the King and his Commons did make a full Parliament, which authority was never hitherto abridged.
Página 58 - Lords where they went through the same stages ; and then the Lord Lieutenant gave the royal assent in the same form which is observed in Great Britain. In all these stages in England and Ireland, it is to be remembered that any Bill was liable to be rejected, amended...
Página 138 - ... commons of their lawful proceedings in parliament. The lords and commons, in time paft, did fit all in one houfe ; but, for the avoiding of confufion, they be now divided into two feveral houfes ; and yet, neverthelefs, they are of like and equal authority, every perfon of either of the faid houfes being named and counted a peer of the realm, (for the time of the parliament,) that is to fay, equal ; for par is equal. And therefore the opinion, cenfure, and judgment of a mean burgefs, is of as...

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