 | Tobias George Smollett - 1793 - 424 pages
...tenements, or hereditaments from the crown to himfelf , or to any others in truft for him. That no perfon who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a penfion from the crown , fhall be capable of ferving as member of the Houfe of Commons: That afrer... | |
 | 1806 - 540 pages
...accepting any grants from the crown of lands or hereditaments. It was also cnccted, " That no per" son who has an office or place of profit " under the king, or receives a pension from " the crbu-n, shall be capable of serving as " a member of the House of Commons ;" that judges shall only... | |
 | 1807 - 522 pages
...securing the Rights and Liber. *' ties of the Subject,'' — it was wisely and honcftly thus enacted — " That no person, who has an "' office or place of profit...from the Crown, shall be capable of ** serving as a Member of the House of Commons." — But Mr. Whitbread, it seems, never heard of this provision —... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1809 - 646 pages
...which act, his Majesty's family was raised to the throne of thit kingdom, and which expressly states, " That no person who has an office, or place of profit...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons :" — A radical reform in the representation of the commons house... | |
 | William Hamilton Reid - 1809 - 228 pages
...Brunswick on the throne of these realms, it was asserted and recognised as the constitutional principle, that no person who " has an office or place of profit...pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons." V. That it appears by a Report laid on the table of the House of... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...whoever reads cannot judge amiss. By the act of settlement it was enacted, " that jio person, who hath an office, or place of profit under the king, or receives...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons." — • This wholesome/ clause was afterwards repealed. — Now,... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 164 pages
...whoever reads cannot judge amiss. By the act of settlement it was enacted, " that no person, who hath an office, or place of profit under the king, or receives...pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons."— This wholesome clause was afterwards repealed.—Now, as the... | |
 | Sir Francis Burdett, Francis Burdett - 1809 - 34 pages
...Realms, it was asserted, anj recognized as the Constitutional principle, that no person who " has au office or place of profit under the King, or receives...pension from the. crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons." 6. That it appears, by a Report laid on the Table of the House of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1809 - 536 pages
...formal. 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,... | |
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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. 
