 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
..." That John Wilkes, Esq., having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament." Wilkes was again elected, but the House of Commons declared the seat vacant and ordered a new election.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 492 pages
...16th of February re-elected for Middlesex. On the I7th the House voted Wilkes, as an expelled member "incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament." His debts were paid by a Society of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, who made the extinction of... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1898 - 714 pages
...that, and then Wilkes " having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament." 4 Despite that attempt at disqualification, Wilkes was again elected, and after his election had been... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1892 - 658 pages
...89, " That Mr. Wilkes, having been in this session of Parliament expelled .the House, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament." The election was declared void, and a new writ issued. Wilkes was again re-elected without opposition,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...resolution: "That John Wilkes, Ksq., having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament." Wilkes was again elected, but the House of Commons declared the seat vacant and ordered a new election.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...resolved that Mr. Wilkes "having been, iu this session of Parliament, expelled th House, was and is incapable of being elected a member, to serve in this present Parliament." The election was accordingly declared void, and a new writ issued. 2 There were precedents for this... | |
 | Sir John Quick - Constitutional history - 1901 - 1088 pages
...17th February, 'that, having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house, lie was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament.' The election was declared void: but Mr. Wilkes was again elected, and his election was once more declared... | |
 | Sir John Quick, Sir Robert Garran, Australia - Australia - 1901 - 1056 pages
...17th February, 'that, having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament.' The election was declared void: but Mr. Wilkes was again elected, and his election was once more declared... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Eighteenth century - 1902 - 616 pages
..."That John Wilkes, Esq., having been in this session of parliament expelled this House, was and is incapable of being elected a Member to serve in this present parliament." On the i6th of March Wilkes was a third time elected without opposition, and the House of Commons,... | |
 | Portland, Dukes of. Library (Welbeck Abbey), Sandford Arthur Strong - Autographs - 1903 - 412 pages
...Feb. 1769), that John Wilkes, who had been returned for Middlesex by an immense majority, ' was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament.' 1. That, the Capacity to be chosen a Representative of the Commons in Parliament, being, under known... | |
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that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament. 
