| Edward Wynne - Constitutional law - 1785 - 242 pages
...Mentioned in the fame paflage in Tully de Oratore, as the paflage above cited, page 48, Page 61. line 12. The little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the prerogative.'} Alluding to a remarkable and fa* tal faying of Lord Stafford's, taken notice of in Lord Clarendon's... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1807 - 500 pages
...made it probable, being upon the bufinefs of knighthood, which was underftood to be a legal tax) " the " little finger of the law was heavier than the loins " of the prerogative ;" that impofition for knighthood amounting to a much higher rate, than any act of the prerogative... | |
| Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1826 - 624 pages
...made it probable, being upon the business of knighthood, which was understood to be a legal tax) " the little finger of the law was heavier than the " loins of the prerogative ;" that imposition for knighthood amounting to a much higher rate, than any act of the prerogative... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 406 pages
...sum which would be exacted as a tine by the Court of Exchequer from those who refused to compound. The little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the King.2 Oct. Foulis was left to feel the weight of the loins of the King. He tried to curry favour with... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...sum which would be exacted as a fine by the Court of Exchequer from those who refused to compound. The little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the King.8 Foulis was left to feel the weight of the loins of the King. He attempted indeed to seek an... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1886 - 414 pages
...sum which would be exacted as a fine by the Court of Exchequer from those who refused to compound. The little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the King. 2 Foulis was left to feel the weight of the loins of the King. He attempted indeed to seek an... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...made it probable, being upon the business of knighthood, which was understood to be a legal tax) ' the little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the prerogative ; ' that imposition for knighthood amounting to a much higher rate than any act of the prerogative... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...made it probable, being upon the business of knighthood, which was understood to be a legal tax) ' the little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the prerogative ; ' that imposition for knighthood amounting to a much higher rate, than any act of the prerogative... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1899 - 476 pages
...sum which would be exacted as a fine by the Court of Exchequer from those who refused to compound. The little finger of the law was heavier than the loins of the King.2 Foulis was left to feel the weight of the loins of the King. He attempted indeed to seek an... | |
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