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Report on the Proceedings on the Claim to the Barony of L'isle, in the House of Lords. With Notes, and an Appendix Containing the Cases of
Report on the Proceedings on the Claim to the Barony of L'isle in the House of Lords With Notes and an Appendix Containing the Cases of Author:Nicholas Harris Nicolas Title: Report on the Proceedings on the Claim to the Barony of L'isle, in the House of Lords. With Notes, and an Appendix Containing the Cases of Avergavenny, Botetourt, and Berkeley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: After the resolution of the House on this claim, a Case was laid before Mr. Hart and Mr. Shadwell, two of the Counsel for the claimant, stating the proceedings before the Committee, the various documents which had been produced, and Lord Redesdale's address to the House, and concluding with the following remarks: -- " This decision, and the ground assigned for it, were a surprise, as well as a disappointment, to Sir John Shelley Sidney ; for in no previous case had it been held, or even argued, that the effect of a writ of summons and sitting, in early times, was different from the effect which decisions had given to them at a later period. The whole current of authority was, indeed, the other way. In the Botetourt Case1, which had been much referred to in the argument of this case, there was no summons later than 9th Richard II.; yet the House allowed the claim in that case; and upon what principle it is that a series of summons, extending down to the 9th Richard II., is to have the effect of conferring an hereditary dignity, but that one which happens to stop at the 5th Richard II. is not to have that effect, Lord Redesdale did not tell the Committee. The main stress of the Attorney-General's argument before the Committee was laid upon the point, that there was no sufficient proof from the Rolls of Parliament that Warine de 1'Isle ever sat in parliament. ' In order to establish a sitting,' said the Attorney-General, ' ...« less