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Through the Middle Ages the House did not increase in number . At the accession of Henry VIII , they were 48 clergy and 36 laymen . Such was the state of affairs when the dissolution of the monasteries revolutionised society .
Through the Middle Ages the House did not increase in number . At the accession of Henry VIII , they were 48 clergy and 36 laymen . Such was the state of affairs when the dissolution of the monasteries revolutionised society .
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And they are not merely a Consultary Council ; important measures can be initiated in the House of Lords . Their main business , however , is still , as it was eighty and a hundred years ago , to revise the hurried legislation of the ...
And they are not merely a Consultary Council ; important measures can be initiated in the House of Lords . Their main business , however , is still , as it was eighty and a hundred years ago , to revise the hurried legislation of the ...
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Does one , then , say that this applies to the 784 members of the house ; are none of them incompetent or inexperienced ; are none of them what Mr Lloyd George called back - woodsmen ? Some of them certainly are ; but a man who is ...
Does one , then , say that this applies to the 784 members of the house ; are none of them incompetent or inexperienced ; are none of them what Mr Lloyd George called back - woodsmen ? Some of them certainly are ; but a man who is ...
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