OBESITY WHICH SAVED ENGLAND’S LIBERTY.
The mode in which that bulwark of our 'constitution, the Habeas Corpus Act, became law, is very remarkable. So grave an historian as Bishop Burnet relates that it was carried by an “odd artifice.” Lord Grey and Norris were named to be tellers. Lord Norris being a man subject to vapours,, was not at all times attentive to what be was doing; so, a very fat lord coming in, Lord Grey counted him for ten, as a jest at first, but seeing that Lord Norris had not observed it, he went on with his misreckoniug of ten ; so it wias reported to the House, and declared that they who were for the Bill were in the majority.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9162, 4 June 1908, Page 2
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122OBESITY WHICH SAVED ENGLAND’S LIBERTY. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9162, 4 June 1908, Page 2
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