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Page 19 - ... in the year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 19 - JK the sum of £ , to be levied on his [or their respective] goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors. The condition of this recognizance is that if [here insert, the name...
Page 91 - I confess myself in entire accord. He said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament, England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice.
Page 173 - CC O'Brien, Parnell and his Party 1880-90 (Oxford, 1957), 143) pledge myself that in the event of my election to parliament, I will sit, act and vote with the Irish parliamentary party and if at a meeting of the party convened upon due notice specially to consider the question, it be decided by a resolution supported by a majority of the entire parliamentary party that I have not fulfilled the above pledge, I hereby undertake forthwith to resign my seat.
Page 91 - Liberal party of this country, if we can go on giving proofs and pledges that Ireland is entitled to be granted that boon which she has never ceased to demand since the Act of Union was passed...
Page 19 - Britain, to be made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements respectively, to the use of our said lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, if he the said AB fail in the condition indorsed.
Page 183 - Report of the Royal Commission on the Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1896 (C., 8262), gave rise to the discussion on the first of these subjects.
Page 19 - ... following : The condition of this recognizance is such, that if the above bounden...
Page 90 - You might have had an opportunity — which, of course, you are not going to take — of declaring and defining your policy with regard to this great question of Ireland. The Bill might then have gone down to the House of Commons, where it would have met, no doubt, with a stout resistance. " But what would ultimately have come about, what would have happened if you and they had both insisted on the mass of your amendments ? A conference might have taken place between the two Houses which might have...