On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.

The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.

However, he would take office with a group of men who possessed little or no official experience, who had rarely felt moved to speak in the House of Commons before, and who, as a group, remained hostile to Disraeli on a personal level, his assault on the Corn Laws notwithstanding.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

This Measure again was approved by large majorities in both the Convocations and the Church Assembly ; but a Resolution directing that it should be presented to His Majesty was defeated in the House of Commons on June 14, 1928 by forty-six votes.

In his speech to the House of Commons on the Inquiry, British Prime Minister David Cameron stated: " These are shocking conclusions to read and shocking words to have to say.

Coat of arms of the Earl Attlee | Earls Attlee He retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.

The Commons on 12 October 1659, cashiered General John Lambert and other officers, and installed Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.

* Images of the Civilian Conservation Corps on the Oregon State University Archives Flickr Commons page.

* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

In his maiden speech in the House of Commons Dewar railed against proposed increase on potato tax.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

After voting on all of the articles has taken place, and if the Lords find the defendant guilty, the Commons may move for judgment ; the Lords may not declare the punishment until the Commons have so moved.

This development was " strongly supported " by the House of Commons Justice Committee in its March 2010 report on the Crown Dependencies.

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

After Major had to back down on this issue Tony Marlow called openly in the House of Commons for his resignation.

Major retired from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election, made public on the Breakfast show with David Frost.

On 21 April, in the Commons the Bill went virtually unopposed ( 204 in favour, 59 opposed, and 250 abstained ), the Lords acquiesced, and Charles, fearing for the safety of his family, signed on 10 May.

On Tuesday, 4 January 1642, the King entered the House of Commons to seize the five members and took the speaker's chair.

The first such petition was presented in the House of Commons on 4 December 1837 ( from Montrose ).

However, stamps from Henry Archer's perforation trials had been issued the last few months of 1850, then during the 1851 parliamentary session of 1851, at the House of Commons, and finally in 1853 / 54 after the government paid Mr. Archer £ 4, 000 for his machine and the patent.

Winchester is currently represented in the House of Commons through the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency by Steve Brine of the Conservatives who in the General Election of 2010 beat Martin Tod, the Liberal Democrat candidate, by 3048 votes ( a margin of 5. 4 %).

It was defeated in a Commons vote by a margin of 4: 1.

On 4 February 1661, he was restored to his judgeship, though he died soon afterwards at his apartments in Doctors ' Commons, London, on 1 March 1661.

Leopold's surrender was also decried by Winston Churchill: in the House of Commons on 4 June 1940 he said:

He was a vocal critic of the government's actions in the Suez Crisis, noticeably delivering high profile speeches in Trafalgar Square on 4 November 1956 at a protest rally, and devastating the government's actions and arguments in the House of Commons on 5 December 1956.

On 4 January 1642, Charles went to the House of Commons to arrest Pym and four other members for their alleged treason.

As the unprecedented prospect of a military confrontation between the King and Parliament grew, on 4 July 1642 Parliament voted to create a Committee of Safety consisting of ten Members of the House of Commons and five peers, of which Essex was one alongside the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Holland and Viscount Saye and Sele.

On 4 August 1876, Chamberlain made his maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on elementary schools.

During 1813, a House of Commons Committee recommended excluding foreign-grown corn until the price of corn grown domestically increased to 80 shillings (£ 4 ) ( 2010 equivalent: £ 202. 25 ) per quarter ( 1 quarter = 480 lb / 218. 8 kg ).

This new House's extensive jurisdiction and authority was immediately questioned by the Commons, and Cromwell responded by dissolving the Parliament on 4 February 1658.

A notable filibuster took place in the Northern Ireland House of Commons in 1936 when Tommy Henderson ( Independent Unionist MP for Shankill ) spoke for nine and a half hours ( ending just before 4 am ) on the Appropriation Bill.

After the committee stages the Bill of Attainder passed both the Houses of Lords and Commons and was engrossed on 4 December 1660.

* Section 3. 4: " Interpreting the crime problem " from Free OpenLearn LearningSpace Unit DD100_1 Online Open Education Resource Creative Commons by-nc-sa Licensed ( originally written for the Open University Course, DD100, 2000 )

The House of Commons had 52 members, of which 48 were for territorial seats and four were for graduates of Queen's University, Belfast ( until 1969, when the four university seats were replaced by an additional 4 territorial seats ).

Irene Ward continues to hold the records for the oldest woman to be re-elected to the House of Commons ( 75 years, 3 months ), the longest span of service for a woman MP ( 42 years, 4 months ), and the oldest ever woman MP ( at 79 years, 0 months ).

The law relating to resignation is now codified and consolidated in section 4 of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975:

On 4 January 1649, the Commons passed an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice to try Charles I for high treason in the name of the people of England.

After Laud's execution, Prynne was charged by the House of Commons ( 4 March 1645 ) to produce an account of the trial ; other controversies prevented him from finishing the book.

* Speech on the Government's Unemployment Proposals in the House of Commons 4 November 1929.

After the Labour Party suffered major defeats in local elections on 4 May 2006, losing 317 seats in balloting for 176 councils, Tony Blair acted the following day with a major reshuffle of his ministers during which he moved Straw from Foreign Secretary to Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal.

On March 4, 2009, a bill to increase the enforcement capabilities of Environment Canada was introduced into the House of Commons.

On 4 April 1938, during a heated House of Commons debate in which he had been criticising the government's foreign policy, he slapped the face of the Conservative MP Commander Robert Tatton Bower after Bower told him to " go back to Poland ".