Excerpt from The House of Lords: Its History, Rights and Uses, With a Short Summary of the Past Actions of Some of Our Old NobilityThe reader will notice that in some portions the subject has been dealt with in an abrupt and fragmentary manner intentionally so - simply from a desire to confine this work to a definite size, and also that the ideas herein expressed might be followed up and enlarged by the reader himself. They are merely intended as hooks on which he may hang his own ideas, and carry out the suggested-thoughts.Much important matter, chie¿y of an illustrative charac ter, has necessarily been suppressed, but the facts adduced may be relied on for accuracy, and that I conceive to be the most important part of a book of this kind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.