This house, in conjunction with the King and Commons, has the power not only of making and repealing laws; but of constituting the supreme judicature of the kingdom; the Lords here assembled take cognizance of treasons and high crimes committed by their Peers, and others; try all who are impeached by the Commons; and acquit or condemn without taking an oath, only laying the right hand upon their breasts, and saying Guilty, or Not guilty upon my honour. They receive appeals from all other courts, and even sometimes reverse the decrees of Chancery: and from this highest tribunal lies no appeal.
All the Lords Spiritual and Temporal have the peculiar privilege of appointing proxies to vote in their stead, when from sickness or any other cause, they cannot conveniently appear: but such as would make proxies are obliged, at the beginning of every Parliament, to enter them in person.
The Lords give their suffrages or votes, beginning at the puisne, or lowest Baron, and then proceeding in a regular series, every one answering apart, Content, or Not content. If the affirmatives and negatives are equal, it passes in the negative, the Speaker not being allowed a voice, unless he be a Peer of the realm. Chamberlain’s Present State. See House of Commons.
Loriners, or Bitt-makers, appear to have been an ancient company, though they were not incorporated by letters patent till the tenth of Queen Anne, in the year 1712, by the name of The Master, Wardens, Assistants, and Commonalty of Lorimers, London. They are governed by a Master, two Wardens, and twenty-four Assistants, with a livery of sixty-nine members.
They have a small but convenient hall, adjoining to London Wall, at the end of Basinghall street.
Lothbury, extends from Cateaton street to Throgmorton street. This street, which Mr. Stow says was anciently called Lathbery and Loadbery, he imagines took its name from its being chiefly possessed by founders, who cast candlesticks, chafing dishes, &c. which they afterwards turned with the foot to make them smooth and bright; and making a loathsome noise in the opinion of the passengers who were unused to it, the street was thence called Loathbury: but it more probably took its name from these things being turned by the lath, as they evidently were, even from his description; and that Lathbery was afterwards corrupted to Loathbury.
Love court, 1. George alley, Shoe lane. 2. Gravel lane. 3. Love lane, Mutton lane. 4. Old Horselydown. 5. Petticoat lane. 6. St. Olave street.
Love lane, 1. Bank side, Southwark. 2. Broad Sanctuary. 3. Old Gravel lane. 4. Rotherhith Wall. 5. Thames street. 6. Willow street, Bank side. 7. Wood street, Cheapside.
Lovel’s court, Pater noster row, so called from the family of the Lovels, who had a large house in Ivy lane, called Lovel’s Inn, which formerly belonged to the Earls of Britain. Stow.
Lovel’s rents, Gravel lane.†