59,147,150,212note1Cholmondeley,279note4;family of,62note1Churchill, Lord Randolph, saying of,quoted,16note3;at the Treasury,98;attack on Bradlaugh,148;on the King's speech,155;speeches of,220;his nightly letter to the Queen,286note1Cicero,204,216Cinque Ports, the Lord Warden of,90;fine inflicted on the,184Clandon,132note1Clarendon, Hyde, Earl of, impeachment,53,82;mentioned,85;offices held,107;speeches of,231note2,277,278Clarendon, Lord,95note1Clarke, Mrs.,67Clavis Regni,104Clergymen, election of,56Clerk of the House, his duties,139-142Clerk of the Parliaments,246and note3Clifford, Lord,6Clifford, Sir Augustus,154Clock Tower, the,188,231"Closure" rule, the,171,172;first application,187,188Clothworkers' Company,132Cobbett, William,68,133,138,139,214,282-284;"Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates,"284;"Weekly Political Register," the,284Cobden, sayingsquoted,134,209Cochrane, Lord, expelled,188Cockburn, "Life of Jeffrey,"quoted,197Cockpit, the, Whitehall,84,154and note2Coercion Act,176Coke, Sir Edward,49,104,121,133,143,158,159,163,164,197Commercial Distress, debate on,204Commission, Parliament opened by,135,136Committees,81;the Committee of State,82;the Committee of Council,84;Select Committees,159and note1,230;origin of system,230;Committees of the whole House,231;Committees of Public Petitions,238Commons, House of, Journals,3;first mention,3;political ascendancy,4;under Cromwell,7,8;the Royal presence in,8,9;Constitution in 1815 ... ,11;the Party system established,14;the method of "tacking,"30;doctrines concerning money bills,30,31;relations with the Lords,31-33;resolutions for the reform of the House of Lords,34and notes,38;separated from the Lords,39,40;the Reformed Parliament,41,42;increase in size,42;the first Labour Candidates,42;life of a modern legislator,43;payment of members,44-47;advantages of the position,47-49;the members' duties,49-51;advantages of membership,52;qualification for election,52-54;disqualifications,53-57;exclusion of infants,53,54;peers elected to,55note2;vacating a seat,58;establishment in St Stephen's Chapel,66-67;the present House,74;the mace,74,75;members' comforts,75-78;Bellamy's old kitchen,76-80;the Kitchen Committee,78;Commoners in the Cabinet,85;the scene in the House, summer, 1893 ... ,130-31;the opening of Parliament by Commission,135-137;retention of seats,137-139;the Clerk of the House,139,140;arrival of Black Rod,140,141;election of the Speaker,141-143;called to the Bar of the Lords,140,141,153-155;second arrival of Black Rod,143;taking the Oath,145-147;introduction of a new member,151,152;balloting for places at the bar of the Lords,154and note1;rules of debate,160-172;hours of sitting,228;summoned to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent,247;divisions,248-251;the Press Gallery,284,285Commonwealth, Parliament under the,7,8Commune Concilium, the,2Compton, Spencer,seeWilmington, LordConferences,246"Coningsby,"18Coningsby, Lord,23,24Consort, Prince,156Contempt of Parliament,176,177,183Copyright Bill, (1839),169;(1842),204Corn duties,88Corn Importation Bill,29and note1Corn Laws abolition, bill for,29Cornwall, Speaker,129Cornwallis, Lord,95note1Corporation Act,27note1,55Correction, House of,180Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act,43note2Cory, family of, descent,37Council of the Chiefs,2Councils, early,81;Great Council of Peers, 1840 ... ,82"Counting out,"234,235Country Party, the,13Court Cullies,7Court Party, the,13Courtney, of, "Characteristics,"quoted,91note2Covenanters, the,13Coventry,60,190Cowper, William, afterwards Lord Chancellor,214,215Cranworth, Lord,26Crimean War,209"Crisis," the,188Croker,250note1;on the relations between the two Houses,32;"Papers,"quoted,49note2Cromwell, Oliver, the famous "bauble,"7,74;his opinion of Scotland,9note3;and corruption,12;on the House of Lords,19;and the Lords Spiritual,23;death warrant of Charles I.,70;and Parliament,122Cromwell, Richard,236Crowle, attorney,178Crown, power of the4-6;curtailed,8,9"Cullies,"7Cumberland, Duke of,92Curia Regis, the, constitution,20,81;separated from Parliament,22Curran, a retort of,209note2Curzon, Lord, of Kedleston,26note1Cust, Sir John, death 1770 ... ,127Customs, corruption in the,12Danby, fall of,82Daniel,27note1Debate, rules of,158Deceased Wife's Sister Bill,251Delany, Mrs., "Autobiography,"46Demosthenes,216,220Denison, Speaker,122note1,128,129,134,141Deportment, Parliamentary,189-202Derby Day,227Derby, Lord,29,91note1,97,101note,194note3Dering, Sir Edward, punishment,180Desborough,59Devonshire, Duchess of,270Devonshire, Duke of,86note3,92D'Ewes, Sir Symonds,185,285;his note-taking,276,277Diary, Woodfall's,283,284Dickens,cited,77,79Digby, Lord, speech,277Dilke, Sir Charles,196Dinners, ministerial,155Disraeli, use of the term "Tory,"14;and the Lords,38,33;sayings of,quoted,43,59,74,94;premiership,91,94;cabinet,99;a pun on,101note1;Queen's speeches,155;unparliamentary language,164;and O'Connell,195,196;and lawyers,210;speeches,212,213,220;description of Peel, 1846 ... ,253note2;on "whips,"254;and Biggar,265Divisions, in the Commons,248-51;in the Lords,251note1,253Divorce Bill, the,169Donegal, Lady,51note1Doorkeepers, remuneration of,261Dorchester, Lord,192Downing, Sir George,87Downing Street,87Dress, Parliamentary,189-202Drury Lane,186Drybutter,69Dryden, "Shadwell,"128;quoted,227Dublin University,17note1Duelling, Parliamentary,200,201Dundas,seeMelville, LordDunning,9Dunraven, Lord, bill for reforming the House of Lords,36Durham, Bishop of,174Durham, enfranchisement of,39and note1Earldormen,2Earl Marshal, duties,151Edgeworth, Maria, "Life and Letters,"quoted,271,272Edinburgh,191"Edinburgh Review,"115Education Bill of 1902 ... ,172Edward I., reign of,4,27,64,66;and the Earl de Warrene,21;Chancellors,107;Parliaments,252,268note2Edward II.,27,60Edward III., reign of,3,39,57,64,120note1,156;Parliaments of,44,268note2;restoration of St. Stephen's,66Edward VI.,3;enfranchisement of rotten boroughs,40Edward VII., (Prince of Wales)227;incident in the Stranger's gallery,264,265;lying-in-state,63Edward the Confessor,60Eldon, Lord, Chancellor,104note1,155,198;on Thurlow,111;character of,113-15;his "Anecdote Book,"114note2;salary,117;letter to Dr. Fisher,117note2;decisions of,183Eleanor, Queen,105and note1Elections, cost of,43and note2Elibank, Lord,178Eliot, Sir John,7,75,189Elizabeth, Queen, Parliaments,22,53,81,82,190,236,249;reign of,23note1,25,62note1;creation of rotten boroughs,40;and Holland,70;Chancellors of,105-6;visit to Westminster,144;Speakers,145;the sergeant-at-arms,181note2;monopolies,197;Parliamentary Committees,230;bills quashed,248Ellenborough, Lord,85;sayings of,quoted,103note2Ellesmere, Lord, on the office of the Lord Chancellor,quoted,103note1Elsyng,3note2,139and note3;"Parliaments of England,"quoted,142Ely, Abbot, of,104Emerson,quoted,17English Railway Committee,230,231Epsom,227Equity, Court of,107Erle, Sir Walter,180and note2Erskine, James,seeGrange, Lord"Espying Strangers,"264,265,283Essex, Earl of,6;trial,63Ethelred, Chancellors of,104Evans, Colonel,250Evans, Sir George de Lacy,139and note1"Examiner," the,278Exchange, the,175Exchequer Court,147Exclusion Bill, 1679 ... ,13Executive, the,81Falkland, Lord, saying of,quoted,53Farnham, Lord,24note2Fawkes, Guy,135,136Fazakerley,97Female Suffrage,265Fenian scares, 1885 ... ,263Ferguson of Pitfour,50Ferrars, arrest of,174Finance Bill of 1909 ... ,172,207Finch, Lord, speech of,213,214Finch, Speaker,122,197Fines, Parliamentary,183-185Fire of London,62"First Commoner,"132First Statute of Westminster,2Fisher, Dr., of the Charter House,117note2Fitzwilliam, Lord,85Fleet, the,174Flood, corruption by,10;on Pitt,217Floyd, punishment of,179Foreign Office,87,240Forster,quoted,91Foster, John Leslie, Sheil's essay on,78-80Fox, Charles James, Burke's quarrel with,16,17;Lord North's dismissal,97;saying of,quoted,113;the Peace of Paris,193;scene in the House,197,198;duel,200-201;eloquence,206;his speeches,216,217,223,224;mentioned,43,49,54,76,187note1Fox, Sir Stephen,7note1"Franking," the privilege of,46,47French Fleet, visit to London,64French Revolution, the,33note1Fuller,194;insults the Chair,233Gardiner, Dr., "History,"cited,4Gardiner, Sir Alan,211Garibaldi,239note1Garter-King-at-Arms, duties,151Garter, Order of the,136Gascony,117Gatton, rotten borough of,10,268Gemot of Wessex,