Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 140
... Parliament as it was now beginning to be called the enduring embodiment of the ancient English custom that a King should take counsel of his chief men and have ' deep speech ' with them . Parliament was a French word for such deep ...
... Parliament as it was now beginning to be called the enduring embodiment of the ancient English custom that a King should take counsel of his chief men and have ' deep speech ' with them . Parliament was a French word for such deep ...
Page 233
... Parliament were being excluded while others who had no right there were being admitted . ' Lord King , ' Warenne is reported to have said , after the manner of his famous grandfather of quo warranto fame , ' how goes this Parliament ...
... Parliament were being excluded while others who had no right there were being admitted . ' Lord King , ' Warenne is reported to have said , after the manner of his famous grandfather of quo warranto fame , ' how goes this Parliament ...
Page 350
... Parliament was not , like lower courts , bound by legal rules of precedent and procedure , and was subject to no other law and custom but its own . Having thus proclaimed the untrammelled legal sovereignty of Parliament , they proceeded ...
... Parliament was not , like lower courts , bound by legal rules of precedent and procedure , and was subject to no other law and custom but its own . Having thus proclaimed the untrammelled legal sovereignty of Parliament , they proceeded ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races I | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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