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See also:PAYMENT OF MEMBERS . From See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time proposals have been made to reintroduce in the See also:English See also:parliamentary See also:system a practice which is almost universally adopted in other countries, that of paying a See also:state See also:salary to members of the legislative See also:body. In the earlier See also:history of the English See also:parliament the payment of commoners or representatives of the See also:people was for See also:long the practice. They had first been summoned to the See also:great See also:council of the See also:realm in 1265 in the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. The shires and boroughs they representedpaid them for their services, and reimbursed the expenses they were put to in journeying to and from the See also:place of See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting. In 1322, by a See also:statute of See also:Edward II., the salary of a See also:knight was fixed at 4s. a See also:day, and that of a See also:citizen or burgher at 2s. a day. These payments could be enforced by writs issued after the See also:dissolution of each parliament, and there are many instances of the issue of such writs down to the reign of Henry VIII.; while the last known instance is that of one See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King, who in 1681 obtained
a See also:writ for his salary against the See also:corporation of See also:Harwich. The practice of the payment of members of parliament gradually See also:fell into desuetude, and in the second parliament of See also:Charles II. strong disapproval was expressed of the practice. Its See also:gradual See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment was due first to the difficulty of securing representatives in the See also:early parliaments. Men of business were unwilling to detach themselves from their affairs, as travel was slow and dangerous; in addition to the perils of the See also:journey there was the almost certain knowledge that a safe return from parliament would be followed by the See also:ill will of the member's neighbours, for every meeting of parliament was but a See also:device on the See also:part of the See also:sovereign for inflicting some new See also:form of See also:taxation, and a refusal to See also:vote such taxation was but to incur the royal displeasure. The towns themselves were equally disinclined to See also:bear the See also:burden of their member's See also:maintenance, and some even went so far as to obtain their disfranchisement. In the second place, the growing See also:influence of parliament in the 16th See also:century brought about a revulsion of feeling as to parliamentary services, and the increase in the number of candidates led first to bargaining on their part in the shape of undertaking to accept reduced See also:wages and expenses, and, finally, to forego all. A step further was reached when the See also:constituency bargained as to what it should receive from its representative, resulting in wholesale See also:bribery, which required legislation to end it (see CORRUPT PRACTICES).
In See also:England, the See also:House of See also:Commons has on various occasions carried resolutions in favour of the principle, more especially on the 24th of See also:March 1893 (by 276 votes to 229), and on the 22nd of March 1895 (by 176 to 158). On these occasions the resolutions simply specified an " adequate See also:allowance "; but on the 7th of March 1906 a See also:resolution was carried (by 348 votes to 110) in favour of an allowance " at the See also:rate of £300 per annum."
Appended are the salaries paid to legislators in various countries in 1910.
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