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The Clerk continued,--
"
Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery."
The Clerk bowed to Lord Pembroke. Lord Pembroke touched his hat.
The Clerk resumed,--
"John Holles, Duke of Newcastle."
The Duke of Newcastle nodded.
The Clerk of the Crown resumed his seat.
The Clerk of the Parliaments arose. His under-clerk, who had been on his
knees behind him, got up also. Both turned their faces to the throne,
and their backs to the Commons.
There were five bills on the cushion. These five bills, voted by the
Commons and agreed to by the Lords, awaited the royal sanction.
The Clerk of the Parliaments read the first bill.
It was a bill passed by the Commons, charging the country with the costs
of the improvements made by the Queen to her residence at Hampton Court,
amounting to a million sterling.
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