Your brother, however, might not have exactly explained what an act of Parliament is.

King, Lords, and Commons, are all necessary to an act of Parliament." "Certainly--we all know that, my dear admiral; we poor fellows ashore here, as well as you mariners at sea.

The Hanoverian succession had all three to authorize it." "Had it a king ?" "A king! Out of dispute--or what we bachelors ought to consider as much better, it had a _queen_.

Queen Anne approved of the act, and that made it an act of Parliament.

I assure you, I learned a good deal of law in the Baron's visits to Wychecombe; and in the pleasant hours we used to chat together in his chambers!" "And who signed the act of Parliament that made Anne a queen?
or did she ascend the throne by regular succession?
Both Mary and Anne were sovereigns by acts of Parliament, and we must look back until we get the approval of a prince who took the crown by legal descent." "Come--come, Bluewater," put in Sir Gervaise, gravely; "we may persuade Sir Wycherly, in this manner, that he has a couple of furious Jacobites in company.