 | Great Britain - 1809 - 540 pages
...hare not been suffered to Jill offices of trust, and of emolument, civil and military f 1 ask, whether no person who has an office or place of profit under the king, or receives a pension from the crown, is tapablc of serving as a member of the House of Commons f I shall "be told, that thjs latter part... | |
 | Great Britain - 1809 - 536 pages
...The second act; passed in the twelfth year oC the reign of WILLIAM III. contains this clause : " That no person, who has. " an office, or place of profit, under the " king, or receives a pension from th« " crown, shall be capable of serving as a " member of the House of Commons." This clause was,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 540 pages
...which Act only his Majesty's family were raised to the throne of this kingdom, it is declared, ' That no person who has an Office or ' Place of Profit under the King, or re' ceives a Pension from the Crown, shall ' be capable of serving as a Member of ' the House of Commons."... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 516 pages
...lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him : That no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons : That, after the limitation shall take effect, judges' commissions... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 522 pages
...lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him : That no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons : That, after the limitation shall take effect, judges' commissions... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 522 pages
...lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himself, or to any others in trust for him: That no person who has an office or place of profit under...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as member of the house of commons : That, after the limitation shall take effect, judges' commissions... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 700 pages
...the principle of this decree. For, in the Act ot Setilemenl, before-mentioned, it is provided, thnt " No person, who has an "office, or place of profit,...receives a pension from the Crown, "shall be capable of scrcing at a Member " tfthc House of Commons." (See Act 12 and 13 William III. Chap. 2.) It is true,... | |
 | John Cartwright - Elections - 1810 - 118 pages
...people are best maintained by" • — By what * 12 and 13 Will. III. cap. 2. which declares " that no person who has an " office or place of profit under...receives a pension from the crown, " shall be capable uf serving as a member of the House of Commons," think you, reader ? By real representatives ? By the... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
..." person, who has an office or place of profit " under tlte king, or receives a pension from " tlie Crown, shall be capable of serving as a, " member of the House of Commons," Now, this provision having been introduced into such an Act of Parliament, an act the most important, perhaps,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1810 - 538 pages
...the throne of these realms; and, amongst these conditions there is this: " That no "person, who hat an office or place of profit " under the king, or receives a pension front " tite Crown, shall bt^apable of serving as a " member of the House of Commons." Now, this provision... | |
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That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons. 
