"Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it."

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"Those your wyne after thys sorte, it must be fyne, fayre & clere to the eye, it muste be fragraunte and redolent hauy…"

"Beefe is good meate for & Englyssh man so be it the beest be yonge, & that it be nat cowe flesshe. For olde befe & co…"

"Fysshe may be sode, rosted, bruled & baken euery one after theyr kynde, & vse a fasshyon of the countre, as the coke …"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"

"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament: for as in war where the king h…"

"To be short, the prince is the life, the head and the authority of all things that be done in the realm of England. A…"

"As we neared Benin City we passed several human sacrifices, live women-slaves gagged and pegged on their backs to the…"

"The unprecedented development of science and technology [has been] so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the s…"