Cumberland and Westmorland M. P.'s from the Restoration to the Reform Bill of 1867, (1660-1867.) |
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afterwards Aglionby appears Baronet Barony BART Bentinck Blamire Blue party borough brother Brougham candidate Carlisle Castle Castle Colonel constituencies contest Corporation County of Cumberland Crown Cumberland and Westmorland Curwen Dacre Dalston daughter death died Duke of Portland Earl of Carlisle Earl of Lonsdale election estates favour Ferguson Fleming freeholders Freemen friends grant Greystoke heiress honour influence Kendal King Lamplugh land Lord Lieutenant Lord Morpeth M.P. for Appleby M.P. for Carlisle M.P. for Cockermouth Manor married Mayor Morpeth nominated occasion Parliament Parliamentary Peerage Pennington petition Philip Howard Philip Musgrave political poll Reform Bill represented resigned returned Richard seat Senhouse Sheriff Sir George Sir Henry Fletcher Sir James Graham Sir James Lowther Sir John Lowther Sir Philip Musgrave Sir Wilfred Lawson Sir William speech succeeded supported Thomas took Tory Tufton Viscount Viscount Lowther vote Ward Westmorland Wharton Whig Whitehaven Wilfred Lawson Williamson Wyndham Yellow
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Page 133 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our County of Kent, in free and common soccage...
Page 25 - And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepared Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Page 65 - He nevertheless succeeded in passing several ameliorative measures which later culminated in the Land Purchase Act of 1904. Succeeding William Henry Smith as first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in...
Page 425 - Commons have given the fullest and clearest proof of their zeal and affection for your majesty ; — for in a time of public distress, full of difficulty and danger, their constituents labouring under burthens almost too heavy to be borne, your faithful Commons postponed all other business, and with as much...
Page 18 - WHEREAS John Stanley of Dalegarth, in the county of Cumberland, Esquire, hath subscribed to his Composition, and paid and secured his Fine, according to the direction of Parliament : These are to require you to permit and suffer him and his servants quietly to pass into Dalegarth above-said, with their horses and swords, and to forbear to molest or trouble him or any of his Family there...
Page 10 - The inmates slept with arms at their sides. Huge stones and boiling water were in readiness to crush and scald the plunderer who might venture to assail the little garrison. No traveller ventured into that country without making his will. The judges on circuit, with the whole body of barristers, attorneys, clerks, and serving men, rode on horseback, from Newcastle to Carlisle, armed and escorted by a strong guard under the command of the sheriffs.
Page 22 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 34 - A SEASONABLE ARGUMENT TO PERSUADE ALL THE GRAND JURIES IN ENGLAND TO PETITION FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT, OR A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL LABOURERS IN THE GREAT DESIGN OF POPERY AND ARBITRARY POWER, WHO HAVE BETRAYED THEIR COUNTRY...
Page 167 - The Noble Lord who spoke last, "after extending his right leg a full yard before his left, "rolling his flaming eyes , and moving his ponderous frame, "has at length opened his mouth!"** But Mr.
Page 173 - I can now inform you that I have seen Sir James Lowther, who has repeated to me the offer he had before made, and in the handsomest manner. Judging from my father's principles, he concludes that mine would be agreeable to his own, and on that ground — to me of all others the most agreeable — to bring me in. No kind of condition was mentioned, but that if ever our lines of conduct should become opposite, I should give him an opportunity of choosing another person.