While the Exclusion crisis was at its height, Charles II circumvented this plan to deprive the Duke of York of his hereditary title by repeatedly proroguing and dissolving Parliament so that the bill could not be brought to a final vote.
His Majesty's Speech uponProroguing the Session of the Legislature of 1856.
Messages from His Majesty to the House of Nobles and House of Representatives, Proroguing the Extraordinary Session.
His Majesty's Speech Proroguing the Legislature of 1859.
Here, among other newes, I bought the King's speech at proroguing the House the other day, wherein are some words which cannot but import some prospect of a peace, which God send us!
Sydney had the satisfaction of proroguing and lecturing the House, but they had the satisfaction soon after of seeing him recalled through their influence in England, and a more congenial Viceroy in the person of Lord Capel sent over.
Here all the discourse is, that now the King is of opinion to have the Parliament called, notwithstanding his late resolutions for proroguing them; so unstable are his councils and those about him.
They were reading all the bills over that are to pass to-morrow at the House, before the King's going out of towne and proroguing the House.
To the Wardrobe, reading of the King's and Chancellor's late speeches at the proroguing of the Houses of Parliament.
The king anticipated the delivery of this remonstrance by proroguing the parliament.
The object of it is to take away from Governors of the Territories the power of proroguing or dissolving their Legislatures.
They were reading all the bills over that are to pass to-morrow at the House, before the King's going out of town and proroguing the House.
My wife went up to the dining room to my Lady Paulina, and I staid below talking with Mr. Moore in the parley, reading of the King's and Chancellor's late speeches at the proroguing of the Houses of Parliament.
Military exigencies now engrossed all thoughts, and the king's speech, in proroguing parliament on July 31, foreshadowed a new coalition, for which the murder of the Duke of Enghien had paved the way.
Thereupon the king abandoned his intention of proroguing parliament by commission, and came down in person to do so on the 20th when he delivered a speech clearly indicating legislation on reform as the work of the next session.
The power of adjourning and proroguing the General Assembly, is a power in trust, to be exercised for the good of the province; this House have a right to judge for themselves, whether it was thus exercised.
The Proroguing Of Parliament, The Visit To Guildhall; And The Coronation.
The definition must, if possible, be prevented byproroguing the Council, and, failing that, the difficulties must be evaded by an ambiguous formula.
They made a last attempt, immediately before going, to move the Pope at least not to hurry on the affair but to grant some respite by proroguing the Council.
The Pope's reported answer to those who spoke to him of the sufferings of the Bishops and their danger of death, and the consequent need for proroguing the Council, is passing from mouth to mouth.
He writes, or makes somebody write, "The Holy Father is full of strength and confidence, and has no intention of proroguing the Council, as his enemies say.
The king contented himself with proroguing them to a very long term.
The House of Commons has never made war upon the Lords, because the wives of the Lords wear coronets, or because the Queen performs the ceremony of opening and proroguing parliament in the House of Lords.
This is on the occasion of the Queen's opening and proroguing parliament.
In proroguing parliament the king expressed his hearty approbation of it, auguring the augmentation of the public revenues, a unity of the interests of his most distant possessions, and an increase of commerce, as its natural results.
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