Parliament

LED dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament dated 3 January 1642.

She then went to Oxford, where Parliament was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

She printed a whole series of appeals to the High Court of Parliament , and a whole series of welcomes and warnings about the imminent Second Coming of Christ. Having published in 1645 a tract...

In this she claimed for herself the Papal power to excommunicate, and proposed a new day called Moonday to replace Sunday (the sabbath), which Parliament proposed to abolish.

DSCS 's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester , was born on 1 December 1595, and became the Earl of Leicester on his father's death in 1626. During his...

After several failed attempts, BD was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. When the Corn Laws were repealed, on 26 June 1846, he voiced outspoken criticism of Tory Prime...

Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz, became the first woman elected to the British Parliament ; but, following Sinn Féin policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster.

On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...

FPC 's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament in May.

The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875.

KC may have been one of the Leveller women who petitioned Parliament for the release of John Lilburne ; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition.

The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion, suggests Chidley. So does the logic of the central argument: that the Supream authority in this Nation, the Commons assembled in...

This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament , exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or...

MC published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament ; it was apparently her last new publication.

This poem both expressed and helped further to fuel the indignation felt by the educated public over the revelation of children's working conditions in the Reports to Parliament of the Children's Employment Commission . (One...