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The Commons send up their bills by forty members, who present the bill with three low bows.

The Lords send their bills to the Commons by a mere clerk.

In case of disagreement, the two Houses confer in the Painted Chamber, the Peers seated and covered, the Commons standing and bareheaded.
"Peers go to parliament in their coaches in file; the Commons do not.
Some peers go to Westminster in open four-wheeled chariots.

The use of these and of coaches emblazoned with coats of arms and coronets is allowed only to peers, and forms a portion of their dignity.
"Barons have the same rank as bishops.

To be a baron peer of England, it is necessary to be in possession of a tenure from the king _per Baroniam integram_, by full barony.


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