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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 31 CHAPTER II. A.D. 1614. AraiL-JuNE. jKTAT. 54. Though the government candidates had been defeated in many places, Bacon himself had found no difficulty in obtaining a seat. He had been returned at the same time for St. Alban's, for Ipswich, and (though the fact was not known to Willis) for Cambridge University,1 to which he had been appointed standing Counsel, and had also made himself agreeable the last Christmas by contributions of venison to the college festivities.2 The election did not pass without opposition: but it appears to have been directed entirely against the second candidate; whom indeed the Vice-Chancellor pronounced to be ineligible, and refused to return; and whose return was effected at last by a proceeding which seems to have been quite out of order. Whether the opposition was really on political grounds, and what it meant, or whether it meant anything, I cannot clearly make out. What is certain is that the members elected, ?Bacon and Sir Miles Sandys,3?represented the large majority of votes. But though he obtained his seat thus easily for three several constituencies in the country, he very narrowly escaped losing it upon an objection unexpectedly taken in the House; an objection of no good omen for the King's business. He had been returned for Cambridge University on the 2nd of April; on the 5th he elected to serve for that place, and took the oaths. On the 8th, question was raised whether, being Attorney-General, he was eligible.4 Whereupon a Committee was appointed to search for precedents where any Attorney-General to any King or Queen of this realm hath been chosen and served as a member of this House.8 By an odd accident itturned out that there was no precedent exactly in point. Privy Councillors had constantly been elected and served: ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217657495 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217657494 |
| Weight | 1.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $26.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 438 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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