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Página 79 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 16 - Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest, by the pool of bottomless deficiency, fishing for a budget?
Página 49 - This sum was applied in defraying the expenses of the royal household and of the privy purse, the maintenance and repairs of the royal palaces, the salaries of the lord chancellor, the judges, the great officers of state, and the ambassadors at foreign courts ; and out of it were also; paid the incomes of the members of the royal family, the secret service money, pensions, and a long list of other claims. The interest of the national debt, however, was never defrayed...
Página 29 - Ireland respectively, and also the small branches of the hereditary revenue, and the produce of the hereditary casual revenues arising from any droits of admiralty or droits of the Crown, . . . and from the surplus revenues of Gibraltar, or any other possession of her Majesty...
Página 22 - Scotland ; wherefore he now commands his postmaster of England for foreign parts to settle a running post or two, to run night and day between Edinburgh and London, to go thither and come back again in six days ; and to take with them all such letters as shall be directed to any post-town in or near that road.
Página 25 - Fifteen couple of hounds, going to the king of the Romans with a free pass.
Página 28 - Queen has granted to her an annual allowance of 385,000?. ' for the support of Her Majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Página 7 - But, from its first original to the present time, its very name has been odious to the people of England.
Página 22 - A second piece of paper, however small, or any iuclosnre, constituted a double letter. A single sheet above an ounce was charged with fourfold postage. After a fourfold charge, the additional charges advanced by weight. In Scotland, letters, when conveyed by mail-coaches only, were subject to an additional halfpenny. Letters passing between Great Britain and Ireland were subject to the rates of postage charged in Great Britain, besides packet rates, and Menai, Conway Bridge, or Milford rates.
Página 7 - Excise duties were introduced into England by the long Parliament in 1643 ; being then laid on the makers and venders of ale, beer, cider, and perry. The royalists soon after followed the example of the republicans; both sides declaring that the excise should be continued no longer than the termination of the war. But it was found too productive a source of revenue to be again relinquished; and when the nation...

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