 | William Charles Townsend - 1844 - Страниц: 492
...members, whom their speaker could not hector, he undertook to bribe. He offered, according to Burnet,1 to manage that party, provided he was furnished with...buying off men, in which hitherto the king had kept to stricter rules. " I took the liberty to complain to the king of this method ; he said he hated it as... | |
 | William III (king of Gt. Britain.) - 1848 - Страниц: 608
...• " 1690. — Sir John Trevor, the speaker of the House of Commons, was a bold and dexterous man. Being a tory in principle, he undertook to manage...off men, in which, hitherto, the King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty once to complain to the King of this method : he said, he hated... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - Страниц: 696
...him, and, if Lord Jeffreys had stuck at any thing, he was looked on as the man likeliest to have had the Great Seal : he now got himself to be chosen Speaker,...buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty," adds the Bishop, " once to complain to the King of this method... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - Страниц: 530
...him, and, if Lord Jeffreys had stuck at any thing, he was looked on as the man likeliest to have had the Great Seal: he now got himself to be chosen Speaker,...buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty," adds the Bishop, " once to complain to the King of this method;... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - Страниц: 426
...him, and, if Lord Jeffreys had stuck at any thing, he was looked on as the man likeliest to have had the Great Seal : he now got himself to be chosen Speaker,...buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty," adds the Bishop, " once to complain to the King of this method... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - Страниц: 426
...him, and, if Lord Jeffreys had stuck at any thing, lie was looked on as the man likeliest to have had the Great Seal : he now got himself to be chosen Speaker,...the practice of buying off men, in which hitherto tho King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty," adds the Bishop, " once to complain to the... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - Страниц: 434
...Speaking of Sir John Trevor, Speaker and First Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1690, Burnet says : ' Being a Tory in principle, he undertook to manage...buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty once to complain to the King of this method. He said he hated it... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - Страниц: 536
...own time. Sir John Trevor, who had been Master of the Rolls under James, " being a Tory in principle, undertook to manage that party, provided he was furnished...buying off men, in which hitherto the king had kept to stricter rules. I took the liberty once to complain to the king of this method. He said he hated it... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - Страниц: 516
...Commons they placed in the chair a violent partisan, Sir John Trevor, a man of whom Burnet says—"Being a Tory in principle, he undertook to manage that party,...such sums of money as might purchase some votes". After liberal supplies were granted, the whigs brought on their great measure, a bill for recognising... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1860 - Страниц: 648
...Walpole, and which has not yet ceased to operate. Trevor was an unscrupulous tory, and Burnet says he was " furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes." He undertook, accordingly, to manage the party in the house. The whigs were in the worst of humours,... | |
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Seal: being a Tory in principle, he undertook to manage that party, provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes ; and by him began the practice of buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules. 
