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PARLIAMENTARY

AND

POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

No. I.

EDITED BY

CHARLES PURTON COOPER, ESQ.

CONTENTS OF NO. I.

Notice respecting this Publication.

King Charles the Second's Declaration of Liberty to tender consciences.

The authority of Parliaments and the authority of the King.

Peers present April 25, 1660, being the first day that the House of Lords sat

after its abolition by the House of Commons, February, 1648.

Preamble of the Prince of Orange's first Declaration, 10th Oct. 1688.

Declaration of the Peers who met at Guildhall, 11th Dec. 1688.

Names of the Peers who met at Guildball, 11th Dec. 1688.

Proclamation of 13th Feb. 1688-9, by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal

and Commons, together with the Lord Mayor and Citizens of London, and

others the Commons of the Realm, published and declared William and Mary,

Prince and Princess of Orange, to be King and Queen.

Lord Russell's Attainder Reversal Bill.

Extract from an Essay on the State of the English Constitution, ascribed to

Lord John Russell, published anonymously, 1820.

The King destitute of Money, 1237.

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NO. I.-continued.

Queen Elizabeth frees the State from that eating corrosive, a Debt running upon

Interest.

Of what Queen Elizabeth made greater account than of ten Subsidies.

Debate respecting the Assessment of a Tax upon Property in the Time of the

Commonwealth.

Different times that the great Question of Parliamentary Reform was brought

forward, previously to Mr. Charles Grey's motion of 1793.

Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. The three Resolutions moved

by Mr. Pitt, 7th May, 1783.

The Ladies interrupt the business of the House of Commons for two hours.

Laws of this Country described-Seventeenth Century.

What, not being comprehensible to Persons of ordinary intelligence, is a technical

System invented for the Creation of Costs.

When the Lawyer will remain quiet in his Cabinet. In defence of what the whole

body of Lawyers will rush out.

Lord Chancellor Truro.

As to a new Law, three things to be considered.

Going to Principals for Instructions and Ballotting Boxes.

Parliament of 1523. Nothing done or spoken there but that it was immediately

blown abroad in every Alehouse.

What Topic the House of Commons hears dwelt on with the most Impatience.

In what Case the Wealth of the Public will be diminished by a Tax.-Extract

from Sir William Petty's Political Arithmetic, first published in 1687.

Resolution of the House of Commons that the High Court of Chancery should be

forthwith taken away.-Reference to a Committee to consider how Chancery

Causes might be determined.

Protection in 1815.

The Popish Religion as described in a Petition and Remonstrance, 1621.

Growth of Popery, 1670.

Extract from Lord Chancellor Clarendon's Observations upon the Pope's usurped

Supremacy.

The Church and Commonwealth two Twins.

Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics.-Opinion of the Marquis of Lans.

downe, A.D. 1791.

Divorces confined to the Higher Classes by the Expense.

LATELY PUBLISHED.
UPON PARTY. By the Right Honourable Edmund BURKE,
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Edited by CHARLES PURTON COOPER,
Esq. Pickering. 1850.

CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIXES.

APPENDIX A.-Lord John Russell's Reign of Queen Anne.

Notes of a Conversation with the late John Allen, Esq., Ampthill Park, Autumn

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