A false prophet in every particular.
P.589._Burnet_, the Queen having sent a message to the Lords to adjourn, it was debated:--that the Queen could not send a message to any one House to adjourn, when the like message was not sent to both Houses: the pleasure of the Prince, in convening, dissolving, proroguing, or ordering the adjournment of Parliaments, was always directed to both Houses; but never to any one House, without the same intimation was made, at the same time, to the other .-- _Swift_.

Modern nonsense.
P.591._Burnet_.

The House of Commons, after the recess, entered on the observations of the commissioners for taking the public accounts; and began with [Sir Robert] Walpole, whom they resolved to put out of the way of disturbing them in the House .-- _Swift_.

He began early, and has been thriving _twenty-seven years_, to January 1739.
P.609._Burnet_.

A new set of addresses ran about....