...Settlement, passed in 1700, provided "that so soon as the House of Hanover shall come to the throne, no person who has an office or place of profit under...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons."' This clause was repeated five years later, before the House of Hanover had come to (he throne....

...inserted in the Act of Settlement, a clause providing that after the Hanoverians succeeded to the throne 'no person who has an office or place of profit under...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons'. In reality, however, the seeming triumph of 1701 was much more a party victory than a country...

...tenements, or hereditaments from the Crown to himself or to any other or others in trust for him. (6) That no person who has an office or place of profit...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons. (7) That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges' commissions be...

...whom are members of the Commons House of Parliament, this being contrary to Magna Charta, which says, 'That no person who has an office, or place of profit under the King, or who receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.'...

...would have been increased if the following provision of the Act of Settlement had come into effect: "That no person who has an office or place of profit...pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a ra."r-i1?er of the House of Commons." In fact, this clause was abrogated in 1707 by 6 Anne c 7 For...

...side, of the question' (Cobbctt, xi. 143; also pp. pg, 370). " 1 170 1 1 I2&I $ Wil. Ill, c. 2, s. y 'That no person who has an office or place of profit...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons.') The Opposition argued that this provision of the act, which was commonly evaded, was never...

...or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him. That no...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons. That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, judges commissions be made...

...back the growth of parties, the Act of Settlement once more addressed the issue of placemen, declaring that 'no person who has an office or place of profit...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons. Placemen had first attracted hostility during the reign of Charles II. During William's reign...

...appointed, from interference by the Crown.160 With regard to the House of Commons the Act provided that 'no person who has an office or place of profit...be capable of serving as a member of the House of Commons'. This provision would have secured a complete separation of personnel between Commons and...