3/36 was presently after turned out. And Powis succeeded him, who was a compliant young aspiring lawyer, though in himself he was no ill natured man .-- _Swift._ Sir Thomas Powis, a good dull lawyer. _Burnet,_ speaking of the power claimed for the King to dispense with the sacramental test, says:--It was an overturning the whole government, ... where one of the penalties was an incapacity, which by a maxim of law cannot be taken away even by a pardon, should at the pleasure of the prince be dispensed with: A fine was also set by the Act on offenders, but not given to the King, but to the informer, which thereby became his. |