Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . Kings speechshould afterwards be made use of, either for, or against, anyproposition that might be made, or any question that mightarise in the House. His motive for this proposal was soonexplained by the part which he took in the debates that fol-lowed (Maty, I, p. 137). The removal of the Duke of Boltonand Lord Cobham from their respective regiments, after thedefeat of the Excise scheme, had occasioned much badfeeling among the military ; and the Duke of
Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . Kings speechshould afterwards be made use of, either for, or against, anyproposition that might be made, or any question that mightarise in the House. His motive for this proposal was soonexplained by the part which he took in the debates that fol-lowed (Maty, I, p. 137). The removal of the Duke of Boltonand Lord Cobham from their respective regiments, after thedefeat of the Excise scheme, had occasioned much badfeeling among the military ; and the Duke of Marlboroughmoved in the House of Lords a resolution calculated torestrain, in future, capricious exercise of the royal preroga-tive on purely personal grounds, by a Bill providing thatall officers above the rank of colonel should not be deprivedof their commissions otherwise than by the judgment of aCourt Martial, or in consequence of an address from eitherHouse of Parliament. Several peers spoke in support ofthe motion, but none more strongly than Lord Chesterfield, ^ Letter of 5 October, 1733. {Marck??iont Papers, vol. II, p. 2.).
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