 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1834 - 418 pagina’s
...throne vacant, took the initiative in filling it. They voted by a majority of sixty-five to forty-five, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared king and queen of England and all the dominions thereunto belonging, and framed and voted a new oath of allegiance. These... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pagina’s
...abdicated, a term for which their lordships proposed to substitute the word deserted. On the vote " that the prince and princess of Orange should be declared king and queen," Mr Somers was named a member of the committee appointed to report generally on such things as were... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton - 1836 - 578 pagina’s
...it was first resolved, that the abdication of James had rendered the throne vacant; and, eventually, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared " King and Queen" of the British dominions. Accordingly, on the 13th of February, after the Lords and Commons had presented... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1836 - 626 pagina’s
...it was first resolved, that the abdication of James had rendered the throne vacant; and, eventually, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared " King and Queen" of the British dominions. Accordingly, on the 13th of February, after the Lords and Commons had presented... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pagina’s
...abdicated, a term for which their lordships proposed to substitute the word deserted. On the vote " that the prince and princess of Orange should be declared king and queen," Mr Somers was named a member of the committee appointed to report generally on such things as were... | |
 | William Russell - 1837 - 680 pagina’s
...affairs *. This threat, though not supposed to be altogether sincere, had its weight. Both houses voted, that the prince and princess of Orange should be declared king and queen of England; and a bill was brought in for that purpose. In this bill, or act of settlement, it was ordained,... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 pagina’s
...But here their triumphs ended; they could not get the word "abdicated" carried; nor, the next day, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared king and queen, which was lost by five, forty-seven to fifty-two ; nor, " that the throne was vacant:" lost by eleven... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 664 pagina’s
...as it had been sent up to them ; and then, by a majority of sixty-two to forty-seven, they resolved that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared King and Queen of England and all the dominions thereunto belonging. This vote, passed on the 6th of February, was sent... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1841 - 282 pagina’s
...there may be numbers who are captivated by words as well as be reason. Another vote having passed, " that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared king and queen," the convention applied themselves to the con* Hardwicke State Papers, vol. ii. p. 401. Appendix to... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pagina’s
...a lengthened debate in both houses, it was agreed, on a motion of Lord Danby in the House of Lords, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared King and Queen. The numbers, on this occasion, were sixty-five to forty-five. Six days afterwards, the same vote was... | |
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resolved, without a division, that the Prince and Princess of Orange should be declared king and queen of 
