Petition of Right, 197 Petitions, 237-239 Petyt, _cited_, 2 Phillips, 158 Piers of Langtoft, 105 _note^1_ Pillory, use of the, 179-80 Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham, _see_ Chatham; reason of his success, 92; reply to Moreton, 92, 93; attack on Murray, 93; and the Admiralty, 93; personality, 93, 94; style, 217; Dr. Johnson and, 280 Pitt, William, reformative measures of, 12, 13; saying of, _quoted_, 41; premiership, 54, 85, 96; death, 77; and Addington, 124; hard drinking, 193, 194; on Bolingbroke, 203; and Lord Mahon, 221; _mentioned_, 70, 133, 253 Place, Francis, 14 Plague, the, 60 Plimsoll, 164 Plunket, 80, 158, 204, 219 Plunket, Lord, Chancellor of Ireland, 101 _note^1_ Poaching, punishment for, 177 Police, Metropolitan, duties, 181, 182 Ponsonby, George, 200 Pope, on government, _quoted_, 19; the "Dunciad," 179 _note^2_ Porritt, _cited_, 257 Porson, 217 Portland, Duke of, 46; notes on forming a ministry, 95 _note^1_ Praed, poet, his advice to the Chair, 129 Praise God Barebones, 7, 8 Precedence, the question of, 27 "Premier," the word, 89 Prevention of Crimes (Ireland) Act, 227 Press, the, freedom of, 3; Parliament and, 275-287 Pride, Colonel, 181 Prime Minister, his position to-day, 88-89; the title, 89; qualities of successful Prime Ministers, 90-95; choosing a ministry, 95-96; appointing Ministers, 96-98; offices filled by the Prime Minster, 98 _note^2_; the number of ministers, 98-100; delivery of the seals, 100 Printing, laws regulating, 278 Prior, Matthew, 2 Priory Church, Blackfriars, 67 "Privilege," 4th January, 1642 ... , 8 Privileges, Parliamentary, 173-188 Privy Council, the, 22, 81, 82, 84; the Judicial Committee, 110; members, 138 Procedure, Standing Orders, 159; Gladstone's proposed alteration, 171, 172 Property qualification, 4 Protectionists, 204 "Protections," sale of, 175 Protestants, 13 Proxies, 252 Pryme, "Recollections," 13 _note^2_ Prynne, "Brief Register," _quoted_, 3 _and note^1_, 185 Public Bills, 231 Pugin, Augustus Welby, 73 _note^1_ Pulteney, 18, 256 Punishments, Parliamentary, 173-188 Puns, 100, 101, 101 _note^1_ Putney, 77 Pym, 8, 237 Quakers and the oath, 147 Queensberry, Kitty, Duchess of, 270 Questions, 239-241 Quorum, 234, 235 "Radical," the term, 14 Raikes, 42 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 249 "Rapparees," 13 _note^3_ Rasch, Sir Carne, 168 Reading, 60 Records, lack of early, 3 Redistribution Bill of 1883 and 1885 ... , 43 _note^2_ Reform Act of 1832 ... , 4, 10, 33 _note^2_, 38, 41, 116, 123, 148 _note^1_, 165, 168, 227, 253; Brougham's speech, 194 Reform Acts of 1867, 1884 ... , 42, 256 Reform, Parliamentary, 1831 ... , 29 Remonstrance of 1682 ... , 82