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one for restoring Corporations weaken'd & destroy'd | one for restoring Corporations weaken'd & destroy'd | ||
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gone hand in hand with the Revolution, but | gone hand in hand with the Revolution, but | ||
times were chang'd & the measure, that | times were chang'd & the measure, that | ||
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notwithstanding, the King came to the House again the 21st. & prorogu'd the Parliament to the 23d; By this piece of Ministerial craft, all proceedings on the Bills left in Suspence at the last Sitting were stop'd, among which was the very important one for restoring Corporations weaken'd & destroy'd by the foreign:Latin Quo warrantos, /foreign a Bill that ought to have gone hand in hand with the Revolution, but times were chang'd & the measure, that threw inevitably the weight of the Representative into the Scale of the Whigs could not at present suit the intentions of the Court.
The House had bound themselves by resolutions of July the 8th. to proceed upon the Bills depending, among which were two relating to the Revenue, one a Review of the Poll Bill, & the other an additional Tax on Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate
