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Triennial Act 1640
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VII.Peers and Commons to be assembled by virtue of this Act may respectively choose their Speaker.
Such Speakers to enjoy all the accustomed Powers and Privileges.
And bee it further enacted and declared by authority of this present Parliament that the Peers to be assembled att any Parliament by vertue of this Act shall and may from time to time att any time during such theire assembly in Parliament choose and declare such person to bee Speaker for the said Peers as they shall thinke fitt And likewise that the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses to bee assembled att any Parliament by vertue of this Act shall and may from time to time at any time during such theire assembly in Parliament choose and declare one of themselves to bee Speaker for the said Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Co[m]mons assembled in the said Parliament as they shall thinke fitt which said Speakers and every of them aswell for the said Peers as for the said House of Commons respectively shall by vertue of this Act be perfect and compleat Speakers for the said Houses respectively and shall have as full and large power jurisdiction and priviledges to all intents and purposes as any Speaker or Speakers of either of the said houses respectively [X1herefore] have had or enjoyed.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: heretofore O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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