A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland, Or, a Complete Register of the Hereditary Honours, Public Offices, and Persons in Office: From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, Bind 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806

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Side x - They had, anciently, for the support of their state, the third penny out of the sheriff's court, issuing out of the pleas of the shire whereof they had their title, as in ancient times there were no counts or earls but had a county or shire for his earldom.
Side 144 - At coronations, he places the crown on the king's head ' ; and, wherever the court may be, the king and queen are the proper domestic parishioners of the archbishop.
Side 331 - By stat. 21, Henry VIII., he is to attend the King's person ; to manage the debates in Council ; to propose matters from the King at the Council ; and to report to the King the resolutions thereupon. The Treasury.
Side 454 - Britain, from time to time to nominate, constitute and appoint, during his or their pleasure, such members of the Privy Council (of whom the two principal secretaries of state and the chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being...
Side 153 - Wells, in 10ИЯ ; and from this, disputes arose between the monks of Bath and the canons of Wells, about the election of a bishop; but they were...
Side 231 - Kome eight saints and one cardinal ; and to the English nation one lord chief justice, five lord chancellors, three lord treasurers, one principal secretary of state, one chancellor to the university of Oxford, and two masters of the rolls.
Side x - E iris but had a county or shire for his Earldom : Afterwards, the number of Earls increasing, they took their title from some eminent town or village, or even from their own seat or park ; and some from illustrious families, as Salisbury, Peterborough, Stamford, Paulet, Cholmondeley, Ferrers, Waldegrave, Stanhope, Ashburnham, vfe.
Side 354 - May, 1630, there was a decree made, in a session of sewers, held at Boston, by Robert Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Edward Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, John...
Side x - His coronation robes are of crimson velvet lined with taffeta, and has four guards of ermine on the right side, and three on the left, set at equal distances, with gold lace above each guard, and tied up to the left shoulder by a white...
Side ix - III. before this dignity was introduced into England, when his eldest son, commonly called the Black Prince, was created Duke of Cornwall. The only ceremony at his investiture, was girding him with the sword.; When John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III. was created Duke of Lancaster, by the same Monarch, he had investiture, not only by the -King's girding him with the sword, but by putting on him a cap of fur, under a coronet of gold set with precious stones. In the twenty-first year of King Richard...

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