The Leigh Peerage: Being a Full and Complete History of the Claim of George Leigh, Esq. to the Dormant Title of Baron Leigh, of Stoneley, in the County of Warwick: Comprising a Report of the Evidence Taken Before the Lords' Committee for Privileges, with Notes, Analytical and Explanatory: and Certain Additional Evidence, Forming the Ultimatum to this Very Mysterious Case ...H. K. Causton, 1832 |
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... in the mean time subscribe myself , with all sentiments due to your rank and virtues , LONDON , THE EDITOR . June , 1832 . PREFACE . THE interest which the investigation of the Leigh Since that period you have obtained a notoriety which ...
... in the mean time subscribe myself , with all sentiments due to your rank and virtues , LONDON , THE EDITOR . June , 1832 . PREFACE . THE interest which the investigation of the Leigh Since that period you have obtained a notoriety which ...
Page iii
... interest which the investigation of the Leigh claim of Peerage before the Lords ' Committee for Privileges has excited , and a total inability to comply with the consequent numerous applications for copies of the case and evidence ...
... interest which the investigation of the Leigh claim of Peerage before the Lords ' Committee for Privileges has excited , and a total inability to comply with the consequent numerous applications for copies of the case and evidence ...
Page vii
... interest in the committee as to have been entirely passed over , although it must appear so necessary to the interest of society , and to the honor and dignity of the high tribunal under whose direction the inves- tigation proceeded ...
... interest in the committee as to have been entirely passed over , although it must appear so necessary to the interest of society , and to the honor and dignity of the high tribunal under whose direction the inves- tigation proceeded ...
Page viii
... interest would , in many instances , have induced them to palliate . It is upon this ground we take our stand ; and whether the monument was " conveyed into the wine cellar at Stoneley Abbey " — " buried in the church yard " —stolen for ...
... interest would , in many instances , have induced them to palliate . It is upon this ground we take our stand ; and whether the monument was " conveyed into the wine cellar at Stoneley Abbey " — " buried in the church yard " —stolen for ...
Page viii
... interest amongst them . It is not now a question whether the decision upon the late enquiry was or was not founded upon correct data - or whether justice was or was not accidentally administered by the hasty and undigested vote which ...
... interest amongst them . It is not now a question whether the decision upon the late enquiry was or was not founded upon correct data - or whether justice was or was not accidentally administered by the hasty and undigested vote which ...
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Page 36 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named testator, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page 21 - Princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange...
Page 19 - Good repute and well known for his knowledge piety and morality be employed by the said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs of such survivor or their or his assigns...
Page 19 - New-Jersey, upon trust and confidence that they, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and...
Page 34 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, and at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Page vi - Claudian's order to place his statue in their temple, Philo places in harvest, Josephus in seed-time ; both contemporary writers. No reader is led by this inconsistency to doubt, whether such an embassy was sent, or whether such an order was given. Our own history supplies examples of the same kind. In the account of the Marquis of Argyle's death, in the reign of Charles the Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction.
Page xli - ... upon and for such trusts, intents and purposes, and with, under and subject to such powers, provisoes and declarations, as...
Page 28 - Barwick and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life, in augmentation of her jointure ; and from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them, the said J.
Page vi - Second, we have a very remarkable contradiction. Lord Clarendon relates that he was condemned to be hanged, which was performed the same day ; on the contrary, Burnet, Woodrow, Heath, Echard, concur In stating that he was beheaded; and that he was condemned upon the Saturday, and executed upon the Monday...
Page v - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth undercircumstantial variety.