 I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long and faithful services ; but I should not have given him these lands if I had imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned. I will therefore recall the grant, and find...  Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 3781912Full view - About this book
 | Bernard Burke - 1869 - 434 pages
...III. to put a stop to the passing that grant. The King answered thus : — " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...therefore recall the grant, and find some other way of shewing my favour to him." And soon after His Majesty conferred on Bentinck the royal house of Theobalds,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 954 pages
...a kindness for my lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by loving and faithful services ; hut I should not have given him these lands, if I had...some other way of showing my favour to him." On the 24th of February, the king went to the House of Peers, and told the assembled Lords and Commons, that... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 1038 pages
...he has deserved of me by loving and faithful services ; but I should not have given him these hinds, if I had imagined the House of Commons could have...some other way of showing my favour to him." On the 24th of February, the king went to the House of Peers, and told the assembled Lords and Commons, that... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pages
...kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long and faithful services; but I had not imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned:...find some other way of showing my favour to him." And he forthwith made a fresh grant to the Earl of Portland of the manors of Grantham, Druchlow, Pevensey,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1246 pages
...Portland, which he has deserved of me by loving and faithful services, but I should not have given him the lands, if I had imagined the House of Commons could...find some other way of showing my favour to him." It was well that a constitutional king should learn a lesson which had never been taught to the Stuarts,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...these lands if I had imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned. I will therefore recaj the grant, and find some other way of showing my favour to him." The Lords Rescinding a Committal by the Commons. — 25<Л Jan., 1697-98. — Charles Duncombe, Esq.,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 pages
...these lands if I had imagined the House of Commons could have been concerned. I will therefore recal the grant, and find some other way of showing my favour to him." The Lords Rescinding a Committal by the Commons. — 25th Jan., 1697-98. — Charles Duncombe, Esq.,... | |
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1894 - 574 pages
...the grant might be recalled. William replied, " I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he hath deserved of me, by long and faithful services ; but...find some other way of showing my favour to him." The pressure of taxation still continued. While the country gentleman was forced to curtail the comforts... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 404 pages
...returned the following characteristic answer to their address : " GENTLEMEN : — I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...find some other way of showing my favour to him." Favourites are naturally objects of national jealousy, and the magnificent grants conferred by a Whig... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 402 pages
...returned the following characteristic answer to their address : " GENTLEMEN : — I have a kindness for my Lord Portland, which he has deserved of me by long...find some other way of showing my favour to him." Favourites are naturally objects of national jealousy, and the magnificent grants conferred by a Whig... | |
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