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Page 394 - Commissions be made Quamdiu se bene gesserint, and their salaries ascertained and established; but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may be lawful to remove them. That no pardon under the Great Seal of England be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament.
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| Title | The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Third, Volume 11 The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Third, Tobias Smollett |
| Authors | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones |
| Contributor | Chiswick Press |
| Publisher | T. Tegg, 1828 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
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