...act, like its predecessor, was founded on the ancient statutes,1 and it asserted that " frequent and new parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and people." It enacted that " thenceforth a parliament should be held once in three years at the least...

...laws and statutes of this Kingdom, frequent Parliaments ought to be held; and whereas frequent and new Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the King and people, we, your Majesties' most loyal and obedient subjects, the Lords, &c. &c., do most humbly beseech...

...founded on the ancient Statutes of Edward the Third, already quoted. The Act declared , that frequent and new Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the King and people.' Sir Thomas Erskine May, in referring to the subject of Annual Sessions of Parliament, says...

...ancient laws and statutes of the kingdom frequent Parliaments ought to be held ; and whereas frequent and new Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and people, we, &c." The Act provides that from henceforth "a Parliament should be held once in three years...

...asserted that by the ancient laws and statutes of the kingdom, frequent Parliaments ought to be held ; and that frequent new Parliaments tend very much to...the happy union and good agreement of the King and his people. Under the bill, it was possible for the existing Parliament to be prolonged twelve months....

...sat eighteen years. The Triennial Act was passed in 1694. Its preamble declares " that frequent and new parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of King and people." The Septennial Act, one of the earliest measures of the first parliament of George...

...statutes of this kingdom by which annual Parliaments were confirmed, and declares that frequent and new Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and people; that by tbe 1st of George I, the Parliament then chosen for three years (by acquiescence of...

...statutes of this kingdom by which annual Parliaments were confirmed, and declares that frequent and uew Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and people; that by the 1st of George I, the Parliament then chosen for three years (by acquiescence of...

...kingdom by which annual Parliaments were confirmed, and declares that frequent and new Parliament« tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the king and people; that by UK' 1st of (Jeorge I, the Parliament then chosen for three years (by acqniesceiice...

...of the subjects of this Kingdom to have] frequent and new Parliaments [and the having thereof tends] tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the King and people ; We, your Majesties' most loyal and obedient subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and...