The Several Proceedings and Resolutions of the House of Peers, in Relation to the Lords Impeached or Charged (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1701 edition. Excerpt: ...Impeachments your Lord/hips Compliaictice with. now depending, And therefore, their sizid._I'rop'ositio_n, instead. of s as the Lords conceive ) tbe Com'-your Lordshipssi Answer, to their mons had no occasion to hegin any hle_/Z7ge_ of the _Fourth Inflantwzi Dispute on that head 5 sotheir which they Teflerday received.' In Lordships are careful to decline which Answer of your Lordships, entring' into a Controverjze, which thoughnzanj/ matters of great Exseenis to them to he of no use at siception are contained, a suitahle present. Reply Whereunto would inevitably The Lords thinlc themshlves oh-destroy all good Correspondence heIiged to al/ert their undoubted tween the Two Houses, yet. the Right' to appoint a Day for the Commons, from an earnefl desire Tryal of any Impeachment depend-inviolahly to preserve the same, as ing before them, they flee good well as give the most convincing Cause for it, without any previous proof of their Alodeiyztion, and to Signification from the Commons of shew their Readiness to bring, the their heing ready to proceed, which Impeached Lords tosoeedyYu/iice, Right is warranted hy many Pre-at prefi-nt insiflctonly on their Procedents, as well as Conjhnant to pofltion, for a Connnittee of hoth. Yuflice and Reasim; And their Houses to 'S6l'fl6 and Adjufl the Lord/hips, according to the Ex-necessary Preliminaries to the Try-ample of ' their Anceflors, will al-als, particularly, . Whether the ways use that Right, with a re-Inzpeached Lords shall appear on gard to the equal and impartial their Tryals at your Lordships Adminifiration of Justice, and with Bar, as Criminals _? Whether hea due Care to prevent unreasona-ing under /Iccufiztions of the fame ble Delays.-Crimes, they are to sit as Judges This...