Abbott, Speaker, 124, 128, 133, 134, 194, 252-53

Abercrombie, 142

Aberdeen, Lord, 86, 239

Abjuration, Oath of, 146, 147

Adam, duel, 200, 201

Addington, 96 note¹, 124, 133, 134, 234, 258

Addison, his first speech, 212 and note²;
cited, 269;
the "Spectator," 269;
"The Whig Examiner," 278

Address, the, debate on, 157

Adelaide, Queen, 247

Adelphi, the, 148

Admiralty, Pitt and the, 93

Affirmation, 56;
the Bradlaugh incident, 147-151

Albemarle, Duke of, see Torrington, Lord

Alexander, Emperor, saying of, quoted, 32 note²

Alfred, Prince, 97

Alfred the Great, councils of, 81

Alice's coffee house, 76

Aliens Bill, 1792 ... , 148 note¹

Aliens, disabilities, 55

All-night sittings, 228

"All the Talents," 85, 133

Allegiance, Oath of, 146

Almack's, 193

Althorp, Lord, the fire at St. Stephen's, 71, 72;
punishment, 188 note¹

Alvanley, Lord, 164 and note¹;
duel, 200

American War, the, 12;
employment of Indians in, 204

Amersham market, 59 note¹

Ancaster, family of, 62 note¹

Anne, Queen, Parliaments, 9;
Parties, 14;
creation of peers, 33 note²;
Cabinets, 83, 86;
death of, 234;
bills quashed, 248;
women partisans, 269;
reporting in Parliament, 278, 279

Appeal, Court of, 110

Appeal, Lords of, 24, 25

Appellate Jurisdiction, Act of 1876 ... , 25

Apsley, Sir Allen, 192

Arcot, Nabob of, 41

Argyle, Duke of, 95 note¹

Arrest, exemption from, 174

Arthur's, 193

Arundel, Earl of, trial, 63

Ascension Day, 227

Ascot, 258

Ash Wednesday, 227

Ashby, case of, 182

Ashley, Lord, See Shaftesbury

Ashtown, Lord, 24 note²

Askew, Anne, 107 note³

Atheists and the oath, 147

Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, his reply to Lord Coningsby, 23, 24

Auditor General, 232

Audley, Thomas, Lord Keeper, 106

Aula Regis, the, 107

Aylesbury, constables of, 182


Bacon, Francis, trial, 63, 107, 108;
"Collection of Apothegms," 114 and note²;
quoted, 158;
mentioned, 106, 205

Bacon, Nathaniel, "Historical Discourses," 8

Bacon, Nicholas, 106

Bagehot, Walter, quoted, 83, 95, 114, 222 note¹

Balaam, reference to, 23, 24, 24 note¹

Baldwin, printer of "St. James's Chronicle," 178

Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 168;
opinion of a member of Parliament's position, 51;
premiership, 90

Bankrupts, election of, 55, 56

Barnes, on lawyers, quoted, 210 note³

Baronage, the, composition and antiquity of, 21, 22

Barons in Council, 4;
summoned by Henry II., 64

Barré, Colonel, 31, 94, 199

Barry, Sir Charles, design for Houses of Parliament, 72, 73, 73 note¹

Bathurst, Bragge, 258 note¹

Beckett, St. Thomas à, 104

Beefeaters, the, duties, 135, 136

Bellamy, John, 78

Bellamy's kitchen, 76-80

Bellingham, merchant, 266

"Benefit of Clergy," 173, 174

Benson, sale of "protections," 175

Bentham, Jeremy, quoted, 268

Berkeley, Grantley, 272, 273

Berkshire, Earl of, 191

Bidmead, 177

Big Ben, 73 and note²

Biggar, 164;
saying of, quoted, 50;
speeches, 207;
"spying strangers," 264, 265

Billingsgate, 164

Bills, classification, 242;
introduction of the bill, 243, 244;
1st and 2nd reading, 244;
Committee stage, 244, 245;
Report stage and 3rd reading, 245;
reception in the Lords, 246;
Royal assent, 246 and note³, 247

Birch, Colonel, 111 note¹

Bishops, attendance on the Kings, 20;
introduction to the House of Lords, 151

"Black Book" of Edward III., 3

Blackfriars, Priory Church, 67

Black Rod, duties, 75, 137, 140, 143, 151, 153, 154, 211, 212, 247;
salary, 136, 137

Blackstone, quoted, 39, 109

Bodmin, 49 note²

Bolingbroke, on the creation of peers, 33 note²;
on leaders, 92;
style, 203;
on eloquence, 214 note²

Bolton, Duke of, 84, 85

Boneham, 59

Boswell, 280;
"Dr. Johnson," 158 note¹

Bothmar, 87

Bourchier, Sir Robert, 104

Bowring, Sir John, and the Khedive, 166, 167

Boyer, "The Political State of Great Britain," 279

Bradlaugh, the affirmation incident, 147-151;
"The Impeachment of the House of Brunswick," 148;
committed to the Clock Tower, 188;
mentioned, 59

Brand, Speaker, 134, 163, 171, 187

Bribery, devices of the Stuarts, 6-9;
retaining fees to Scottish members, 9;
prices of posts, 9, 10;
prices of seats, 10-12;
corruption of the treasury, 12;
effort to destroy, 12, 13

Bright, John, Dr. Kenealy and, 152;
sayings of, 167, 168, 170, 209;
speeches, 212, 219

Bristol, Bishop of, punishment, 180, 181

Bristol, Burke's speech in, 47-49, 48 note¹

British Museum, trusteeship, 132

British Parliament, the, 2

Brodricke, Sir Allen, 192

Brougham, Lord, sayings of, quoted, 103, 265;
Chancellor, 110 note¹;
character, 113, 115;
defence of Queen Caroline, 115 and note¹;
unpopularity, 115, 116;
returning the seal, 116;
and Wellington, 116 note¹;
and the old seal, 118;
speeches, 148 note¹, 206, 209, 219;
a scene in the house, 196;
mentioned, 164, 194, 197

Bucher, quoted, 14 note¹

Buckingham, 1st Duke, 197, 252, 276;
2nd Duke, 192, 193;
Buckingham and Chandos, Duke of, 194

Buckingham Palace, 152, 286

Buckinghamshire, 59

"Bulls," 208, 209

Burdett, Sir Francis, 155 note¹

Burgesse, Dr., 236

Burghley, Lord, 106

Burke, Edmund, "Works and Correspondence," cited, 5;
his definition of Party, 15;
the quarrel with Fox, 16, 17;
on the House of Lords, 18;
an incident, 31;
speech at Bristol, 47-49, 48 note¹;
cited, 51, 159, 186, 193;
on the study of the law, 103;
sayings of, 112 note¹, 166 and note², 282;
incident of the dagger, 148 and note¹, 209;
Rolle and, 196;
on Lord North, 198;
speeches of, 204-206, 218, 223;
on Sheridan, 205;
style, 208;
fondness for debate, 260, 261;
and the Press, 282;
mentioned, 193

Burnet, Bishop, 10

Burney, Fanny, 178

Bury St. Edmunds, 60

Bute, Lord, 13 note¹;
premiership, 91

Butt, 170

Buxton, "Memoirs," 52

Buxton, Sir T. F., saying, 209

Byng, George, quoted, 33 note¹

Byron, pedigree of, 37;
quoted, 204;
on Burke, 205, 206


Cabinet Council, the, origin, 81-82;
under the Stuarts, 83;
the system of to-day, 83;
first official use of the term, 84;
members of, in 1740, 84;
members not holding office, 85;
times of meeting, 85, 86;
the Sovereign's presence, 86;
secrecy, 87;
10, Downing Street, 87, 88;
the Prime Minister's position, 89;
qualities of successful prime ministers, 90-95;
Cabinet dinners, 86 and notes;
privileges of Cabinet ministers, 138

Cairns, Lord, 118 note¹

Calais, defence of, 184

Calendar reform, 218

"Call of the House," 186

Camden Society, the, 3 note²

Campbell, Lord, Chancellor of Ireland, 101 note¹;
"Lives," quoted, 108 and note¹, 103, 123 note¹

Canada Bill, the, of 1791 ... , 16

Canning, style, 94;
sayings, quoted, 96 note¹;
and the King's Speech, 156;
attack on Brougham, 164;
duel, 200;
first speech, 212;
eloquence of, 219

Canterbury, Abbot of, 104

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 23, 82, 84

Canute, 60

Carhampton, Lord, see Luttrel, Colonel

Carleton, Sir Dudley, 190

Carlisle, Lady, 8

Carlyle, "Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell," quoted, 122 note¹;
on "Historical Collections," quoted, 277

Carnabie, Sir W., 187

Carnarvon, Lord, speech of, 193

Caroline, Queen, 115, 184

Carrington, family of, 62 note¹

Castlereagh, Lord, premiership, 91;
duel, 200

Catholic emancipation, 204;
Abbot on, 124

Catholicism, 13

Cavaliers, the, 13

Cave, bookseller, 279, 280

Cavendish, Lord, 190

Cavendish, Lord John, speech quoted, 127, 127 note¹

Cavendish, Sir Henry, reporting, 285 and note²

Cecil, Lord Robert, see Salisbury

Cecil, Robert, 138, 249

Censorship, Commons refuse to renew, 1695 ... , 278

Ceremony, Selden's saying regarding, 134 and note¹

Chair, the, deference to, 162

Chairman of Committees, 231, 232

Chairman of Ways and Means, 231, 233

Chamberlain, Austen, 52 note³

Chamberlain, Joseph, the attack on Gladstone, summer, 1893 ... , 130, 131;
opprobrious names for, 164

Chamberlain, the Lord Great, his duties at the Palace of Westminster, 62 note¹, 151

Chanceller, the Lord, origin of the office, 103, 104;
the office held by Clerics, 104;
duties, 104, 105, 109, 110;
the Chancellorship and the Lord Keepership joined, 105, 106;
famous Lord Chancellors, 107-109;
judicial position, 110;
salary, 117;
social position, 117;
perquisites, 118;
the opening of Parliament, 136, 137, 141;
approval of the Speaker-Elect, 144, 145;
taking the Oath, 146;
receiving a newly created peer, 151;
meeting the King, 152;
reading the King's Speech, 156, 157;
deputies, 232, 233

Chancery, Court of, 106, 109, 110

Chaplain, the Parliamentary, 236, 237

Chaplin, H., 258

Charles I., reign of, 6, 7;
presence in the Commons, 8;
trial, 63;
death sentence, 70;
Cabinets, 85;
Parliaments, 120, 226, 252;
Speakers, 122;
parliamentary fines, 185;
attempt to arrest the five members, 277;
relations with the Commons, 286

Charles II., restoration, 3;
Parliaments, 6, 190, 277, 278;
presence in the Lords, 9;
decoration of St. Stephen's, 69;
lying-in-State, 70;
the Privy Council, 82;
Cabinets, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89;
Chancellors, 107;
Speakers, 122, 123, 144;
the restoration, 191;
Parliamentary dress, 201

Chatham, see William Pitt;
on the Magna Charta, quoted, 21;
his reply to Walpole, 54 and note²;
speeches, 207, 219;
a protest by, 264;
mentioned, 70, 193

Chaucer, 61

Chelmsford, Lord, 101 note¹

Chelsea parish church, 108

Chester, representation, 39

Chesterfield, Lord, 115;
"Letters," 54 and note³;
on oratory, 215;
on the intelligence of the Commons, 217, 218

Chiltern Hundreds, the,