 | 1903 - 664 pages
...drawn by Lord Mansfield, and Mr. Attorney • General Thurlow and Mr. SolicitorGeneral Wedderburne, and unluckily they had made all parties present at...there was a suit in the Commons, and the marriage was then declared null and void." HENRY B. WHEATLEY. The reference doubtless is to the marriage of HRH... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 636 pages
...by Lord Mansfield, Mr. Attorney- General Thwiow, and Mr. SolicitorGeneral Wedderburn, who unluckily had made all parties present at the marriage guilty...compelled to be a witness. This put an end to the matter."f The year 1794 was remarkable for the great naval victory obtained by the King's favourite... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1882 - 468 pages
...AttorneyGeneral Thurlow, and the Solicitor-General Wedderburn, who, unluckily, had made all persons present at the marriage guilty of felony. And as nobody...nobody present could be compelled to be a witness." — Thorp's Life of Eldon, i. 235. The Ministry, however, had a decided majority in both Houses, and... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...been drawn by Lord Mansfield, and Mr, Attorney General Thurlmv, and Mr. Solicitor General Wedderbume, and unluckily they had made all parties present at...in the Commons, and the marriage was there declared null and void. — Lord Chancellor Eldon's Life, by Twiss, vol. ip 234. Lola Montes (1849) to a Mr.... | |
 | George Clinch - 1892 - 350 pages
...been drawn by Lord Mansfield, and Mr. Attorney 'General Thurlow, and Mr. Solicitor'General Wedderburn, and unluckily they had made all parties present at...to the matter. Afterwards there was a suit in the House of Commons, and the marriage was there declared void." i. " ,; •',' '.-* '...:• '•?, :.:',4.::.... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell, Sir John Edward Power Wallis - 1894 - 608 pages
...could prove the marriage except a person present, there could be no prosecution, because no person present could be compelled to be a witness.' — This put an end to the mattter. Afterwards there was a suit in the Commons, and the marriage was there declared void." —... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1894 - 610 pages
...prosecution, because no person present could be compelled to be a witness.'— This put an end to the mattter. Afterwards there was a suit in the Commons, and the marriage was there declared void."—Twiss'u " Life of Lord Eldon," vol. I. p. 284. Berkeley street, the house of Lord Dunmore,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 520 pages
...by Lord Mansfield, Mr. Attorney-General Thurlow, and Mr. Solicitor-General Wedderburn, who unluckily had made all parties present at the marriage guilty...compelled to be a witness. This put an end to the matter." The year 1794 was remarkable for the great naval victory obtained by the king's favourite admiral,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 566 pages
...careless drafting of the Act. This was drawn by Mansfield, Thurlow, and Wedderburne, who had unluckily made all parties present at the marriage guilty of...compelled to be a witness. This put an end to the matter. NOTE 14. — INNS WITH GALLERIES. Page 134. A miniature book on Old English Inns has been written by... | |
 | William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton - 1911 - 352 pages
...parties present at the ceremony guilty of felony, and as nobody could prove the marriage except persons who had been present at it, there could be no prosecution,...compelled to be a witness." This put an end to the matter. — Twiss, Life of Eldon, Vol. I. p. 235.] APPENDIX III "A LIST OF THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES ALLOTTED... | |
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That it was a very difficult business to prosecute— that the Act, it was understood, had been drawn by Lord Mansfield, and Mr. Attorney • General Thurlow and Mr. SolicitorGeneral Wedderburne, and unluckily they had made all parties present at the... 
