 | Homersham Cox - Constitutional law - 1863 - 860 pages
...ever was, the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England ; and both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same." And this right of the Crown has never since been disputed. Closely connected with this right is the... | |
 | Charles Mathew Clode - History - 1869 - 668 pages
...the undoubted right of His Majesty and his royal predecessors, Kings and Queens of England ; and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same, nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any war, offensive or defensive, against His Majesty, his heirs... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 848 pages
...Restoration, to the abandonment of all the army except a kind of body-guard or household brigade of 6000 men, sanctioned by the parliament. In the 13th year...mortification, that this statute did not in effect gire them so much real military command as they had wished and intended — because the Commons, by... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Great Britain - 1871 - 138 pages
...the undoubted right of His Majesty and his royal predecessors, Kings and Queens of England ; and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same ; nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any war, offensive or defensive, against His Majesty, his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 616 pages
...strength is, and by the laws of England ever was, the undoubted right of His Majesty,' &c., ' and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot, nor ought, to pretend to the same,' &c. It may be nrgt-d that Parliament did command the army in the wars against Charles I., which is... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...strength is, and by the laws of England ever was, the undoubted right of His Majesty,' &c., 'and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot, nor ought, to pretend to the same,' &c. It may be urged that Parliament did command the army in the wars against Charles I., which is very... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...strength is, and by the laws of England ever was, the undoubted right of His Majesty,' &c., ' and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot, nor ought, to pretend to the same,' &c. It may be urged that Parliament did command the army in the wars against Charles I., which is very... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...undoubted right of his majesty, and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England ; and that both or either of the houses of parliament cannot, nor ought to, pretend to the same." This statute of Charles II. obviously extends not only to fleets and armies, but also to forts and... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...supreme power, government, command, and disposition of the militia, and of all forces by sea and by land, and of all forts and places of strength, is...parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same. But the profuscncss of Charles and the folly of James prevented them employing this instrument. BRI... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 852 pages
...command, and disposition of the militia, and of all forcea by sea and land, and of all forts and placea of strength, is the undoubted right of his majesty...cannot nor ought to pretend to the same.' Both Charles IL and James II. found, however, to their mortification, that this statute did not in effect give them... | |
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... the sole supreme government, command and disposition of the militia and of all forces by sea and land and of all forts and places of strength is and by the laws of England ever was the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings... 
