 | 1901 - 380 pages
...Brandon, in the peerage of Great Britain. The patents were challenged by the House of Lords, who resolved that no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great...who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the union could entitle such peer to a seat in the House. The writ of summons upon the creation was therefore... | |
 | 1905 - 568 pages
...heard the Duke by counsel. It then decided not to ask the opinion of the Judges ; and resolved off-hand that ' no patent of honour granted to any peer of...who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union can entitle such peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers.' By these resolutions,... | |
 | 1905 - 580 pages
...heard the Duke by counsel. It then decided not to ask the opinion of the Judges ; and resolved off-hand that ' no patent of honour granted to any peer of...who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union can entitle such peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers.' By these resolutions,... | |
 | Francis Beaufort Palmer - 1907 - 378 pages
...enrolment were read. After several questions proposed the following was resolved in the affirmative: " That no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great...who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union can entitle such peer to sit and vote in Parliament or to. sit upon the trial of peers." A protest... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1927 - 600 pages
...this argument prevailed — though by only a small majority, 57-52 — and it was duly resolved : ' That no patent of honour granted to any Peer of Great...who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, can entitle such Peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or act upon the trial of Peers.' 5 Although this... | |
 | James T. Boulton - 1975 - 304 pages
...Queen had created a Peer of Great Britain as the Duke of Brandon, the House of Lords declared in 1711 'that no patent of Honour, granted to any Peer of...who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, can entitle such a Peer to sit and vote in Parliament or to sit upon the trial of Peers' (Trevelyan,... | |
 | Clyve Jones, David L. Jones - 1986 - 604 pages
...even threatened the stability of the union itself, the house of lords resolved on 20 December 1711 'that no patent of honour granted to any Peer of Great...who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, can entitle such Peer to sit and vote in Parliament, or to sit upon the trial of Peers'.4 Anti-Scottish... | |
 | Geoffrey Holmes - 1986 - 402 pages
...— they were still strong enough to carry the final division by 57 votes to 52 on the resolution ' that no Patent of Honour granted to any Peer of Great...who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the Union can entitle such Peer to sit and vote in Parliament or to sit upon the Trial of Peers '.3 And not even... | |
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Britain, when the lords declared by a majority of five, that no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great Britain, who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, entitled such peer to sit and vote in parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers. 
