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kingdom; the Lords here assembled take
cognizance of treasons and high crimes
committed by their Peers, and others; try
all who are impeached by the Commons;
and acquit or condemn without taking an
oath, only laying the right hand upon their
breasts, and saying Guilty, or Not guilty up-
on my honour. They receive appeals from
all other courts, and even sometimes re-
verse the decrees of Chancery: and from
this highest tribunal lies no appeal.
All the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
have the peculiar privilege of appointing
proxies to vote in their stead, when from
sickness or any other cause, they cannot
conveniently appear: but such as would
make proxies are obliged, at the begin-
ning of every Parliament, to enter them
in person.
The Lords give their suffrages or votes,
beginning at the puisne, or lowest Baron,
and then proceeding in a regular series,
every one answering apart, Content, or
Not content. If the affirmatives and ne-
gatives are equal, it passes in the negative,
the Speaker not being allowed a voice,
unless he be a Peer of the realm. Cham-
berlain's Present State. See House of
COMMONS.
LORINERS, or Bitt-makers, appear to have
been an ancient company, though they
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were not incorporated by letters patent
till the tenth of Queen Anne, in the year
1712, by the name of The Master, War-
dens, Assistants, and Commonalty of Lori-
ners, London. They are governed by a
Master, two Wardens, and twenty-four
Assistants, with a livery of sixty-nine
members.
They have a small but convenient hall,
adjoining to London Wall, at the end of
Basinghall street.
LOTHBURY, extends from Cateaton street
to Throgmorton street. This street, which
Mr. Stow says was anciently called Lath-
bery and Loadbery, he imagines took its
name from its being chiefly possessed by
founders, who cast candlesticks, chasing
dishes, &c. which they afterwards turned
with the foot to make them smooth and
bright; a making a loathsome noise in
the opinion of the passengers who were
unused to it, the street was thence called
Loathbury: but it more probably took its
name from these things being turned by
the lath, as they evidently were, even
from his description; and that Lathbery
was afterwards corrupted to Loathbury.
LOVE court, 1. George alley, Shoe lane.
2. Gravel lane. 3. Love lane, Mutton
lane. 4. Old Horselydown. 5. Petti-
coat lane. 6. St. Olave street.
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