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• A memorial sent from London By the Late Earl Stanhope : to the Abbot Vertot at Paris. Containing the following questions, relating to the constitution of the Roman Senate, (viz.) I. What was the ordinary regular method of admission into the senate, in the Four or Five first Ages of the Commonwealth? II. Why the Senate consisting then of none but Patricians, we read of some Patricians that were Senators, while others were only Private Men, and did not partake of that Dignity? And whether this Distinction came by Succession and Primogeniture: Or whether the Choice of the Candidates lay wholly in the Consuls, and afterwards in the Censors? III. For what Reason, after the Second Punic War, a Director was named on Purpose to fill up the Vacancies in the Senate; from whence one might infer, that the Romans had no common and regular Way of supplying those Vacancies, since they had recourse to the extradinary Power of a Dictator? With the Abbot Vertot's answer
  by: Stanhope, James Stanhope
  Published: (1721)
• A true copy of the political queries : Relating to the constitution Of The Roman senate: sent by the late Right Honourable James Earl Stanhope, &c. to the Abbot de Vertot, in the year M.DCC.XIX. To which is subjoined, the Abbot's solution of the said queries. Made English from the Paris edition. By Mr. Roussillon
  by: Stanhope, James Stanhope
  Published: (1721)
• Part of the Abbot de Vertot's dissertation upon the origine of the Salick laws : and, The question, Whether it be precisely in pursuance of Article LXII. Paragraph VI. That the Daughters of the Kings of France are excluded from the Succession to the Crown, examined. In four parts. The last containing a full Demonstration of King Edward's Right to the Crown of France, both by the degl'Intronari Salick Law, and by Precedents. By Peter Rival, One of His Majesty's Chaplains of the French Chapel at St. James's. Done into English from the French, by a Gentleman. Do not believe too easily. (law of the Academy [illegible] at Sienna.)
  by: Rival, Pierre
  Published: (1722)
• Examen d'une partie de la dissertation de M. l'abbé de Vertot : qui a pour tître; sur l'origine des loix, saliques, & si c'est precisement en vertu de l'article LXII paragraphe 6, que les filles des rois de France sont exclue͏̈s de la succession à la couronne. En quatre parties, par Pierre Rival Chapelain du Roy, dans la Chapelle Francoise au Palais de St. James. Ne point croire legerement. Loi de L'Academie Degl'intronati de Sienne
  by: Rival, Pierre
  Published: (1722)
• An apology for some of Mr. Hooke's Observations concerning the Roman senate : With an index to the Observations. By Mr. Bowyer. To which are prefixed, some hints towards a life of Mr. Hooke
  by: Bowyer, William
  Published: (1782)