A History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by John Hill Burton and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Reign of Queen Anne, Vol. 2 of 3 They read that "all the forms usual to the beginning of a new Parliament were observed. The queen came to the House of Peers, and the Commons being sent for, they were directed by the Lord Chancellor to return to their House and choose a Speaker, and present him that day se'night. They unanimously made choice of Mr Smith, their former Speaker, and then adjourned to the thirtieth of the same month." The Lords adjourned to the same day, after thirteen of the sixteen peers assigned to "that part of Great Britain called Scotland" had been admitted to their places by virtue of their respective writs, each being introduced by two English peers of the same rank. Thus it was tacitly assumed that the English organisation and forms would rule the new Legislature of the two nations. It could not be otherwise; and fortunately the question of giving Scots institutions a share in the new legislative action was never seriously opened, because it must have been the suggestion of an impossibility, to be met by the doctrine that the admission of any institutions or practices peculiar to the Estates of Scotland would have materially damaged the Parliament of Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.