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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797

"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)"

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[87] This resolution my Lord Chief-Baron referred to and cited in his
argument upon the second question proposed to the Judges, which is
before stated.
[88] This amendment arose from an exception taken to the commission by
the committee for the Commons, which, as it then stood, did in their
opinion imply that the constituting a Lord High Steward was necessary.
Whereupon it was agreed by the whole committee of Lords and Commons,
that the commission should be recalled, and a new commission, according
to the said amendment, issue, to bear date after the order and
resolution of the 12th.--_Commons' Journal_ of the 15th of May.
[89] See, in the State Trials, the commissions in the cases of the Earl
of Oxford, Earl of Derwentwater, and others,--Lord Wintoun and Lord
Lovat.
[90] See the proceedings printed by order of the House of Lords, 4th
February, 1746.
[91] See the Journals of the Lords.
[92] 3 Geo. I. c. 19.
[93] See sect. 45 of the 3d Geo. I
[94] Lords' Journals.


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