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Page 12 - An Act restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same ;
Page 62 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 240 - V, Letter from George Fleetwood to his Father, giving an account of the Battle of Lutzen, and the Death of Gustavus Adolphus.
Page 64 - Now that you have all things according to your wishes, and that I am so far engaged that you think there is no retreat, now you begin to set the dice, and make your own game. But I pray you be not deceived ; it is not a parliamentary way, nor is it a way to deal with a king.
Page iii - OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE WHAT PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO PRIVATE FAMILIES AND INSTITUTIONS ARE EXTANT WHICH WOULD BE OF UTILITY IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF HISTORY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, SCIENCE AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Date. 1870 (Reprinted 1874.) 1871 1872 (Reprinted 1895.) 1873 FIUST REPORT, WITH APPENDIX Contents : — ENGLAND. House of Lords ; Cambridge Colleges ; Abingdon and other Corporations, &c. SCOTLAND. Advocates' Library, Glasgow Corporation, &c.
Page iii - Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter; Knight of Our Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle; Knight...
Page ix - TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY...
Page 8 - An Act to Retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience...
Page 15 - The Master and four Wardens of the Fraternity of the Art or Mystery of Haberdashers in the city of London.
Page 287 - My judgment in poetry hath, you know, been once already censured, by very good wits, for commending Gondibert ; but yet they have not, I think, disabled my testimony. For, what authority is there in wit ? A jester may have it ; a man in drink may have it, and be fluent over night, and wise and dry in the morning.
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| Title | Report 1- Report 1-, Royal commission on historical manuscripts |
| Author | Royal commission on historical manuscripts |
| Published | 1872 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Sep 11, 2007 |
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