The Historical Register: Containing ... Relation of All Transactions ... with a Chronological Diary of Events ... that Happen'd from ... July, 1714, to ... January 1716; Being the First Seventeen Months of the Reign of King George ... [Intended as an Addition to the Historical Registers Already Published], Volume 1Sun Fire-Office, 1724 |
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Page 77 - We have thought fit, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Page vi - Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established ; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them. That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament.
Page xii - An Act for the further limitation of the crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject And that all papists and persons marrying papists shall be excluded from and for ever incapable to inherit possess or enjoy the imperial crown of Great Britain and the dominions thereunto belonging...
Page v - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 80 - That no preacher whatsoever, in his sermon or lecture, do presume to deliver any other doctrine concerning the blessed Trinity, than what is contained in the holy scriptures, and is agreeable to the three creeds and the thirty-nine articles of religion.
Page 260 - Treafury, tho' the prefent Treafurer was rail'd at and malign'd ; which he cliofe to bear patiently, rather than own the true Reafon, that there was no Money to do it with, which would have ruin'd all at once.
Page 4 - Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim, that the high and mighty Prince, George Prince of Wales, is now, by the death of our...
Page 87 - ... on the Lord's day ; and likewise that they take effectual care to prevent all persons keeping taverns...
Page 142 - And the next day they further refolved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefty, that he would be...
Page xii - That the Succession to the Monarchy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and of the Dominions thereunto belonging, after Her most Sacred Majesty, and in default of Issue of her Majesty, be, remain, and continue to the most excellent Princess Sophia, Electoress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of her Body being Protestants, upon whom the Crown of England is settled...