The petition was considered by the committee of privileges in 1770-1.

The motion asked the committee of privileges and elections for investigation.

I don't think even the most jealous Committee of Privileges could do anything with such a sentence, but its meaning is clear enough.

The proceedings against him were revived, a committee of privileges deciding on 23 March 1679 that the dissolution of Parliament did not abate the impeachment.

From 1702 to 1705 Bromley was the Chairman of the Committee of Privileges and Elections of the House of Commons.

Throughout his two terms, Flournoy served on the committees of Privileges and Elections, Federal Relations, Immigration and Agriculture, and Public Printing.

Other procedures Each of the Houses has charge of its own privileges and has a Committee of Privileges to consider alleged breaches of privilege and make recommendations.

The Standards and Privileges Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons was established in 1995 to replace the earlier Committee of Privileges.

In 1695, he stood alongside his nephew Sir Richard to become a knight of the shire for Surrey, narrowly eking out a victory over Edward Harvey (which Harvey unsuccessfully appealed to the committee of privileges).

Lord Chesterfield, when Walpole's fall seemed probable, wrote, with evident allusion to Earle, that 'the court generally proposes some servile and shameless tool of theirs to be chairman of the committee of privileges and elections.

In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges, presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition, and he was not re-elected in 1656, although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting.

In 1947, in the course of an investigation by the parliamentary Committee of Privileges into claims that Labour members had given information to journalists about confidential meetings of the Labour Party in return for payment, Walkden admitted revealing information to the Evening News.

He was one of sixteen lawyers asked by the Privy Council in 1588 to prepare bills on judicial reform and to consider the revision of existing statutes; in 1589 he was appointed to the committee of privileges and to some ten others, including one concerning pluralities and non-residence.