The new House of Commons: members signing the Roll of Parliament, 1880. MPs in the Palace of Westminster in London. '...the ceremony of taking the oath of allegiance to the Queen and signing the roll was begun by the Speaker...One by one - the new members instructed by the Clerk - they thereafter passed down on the Ministerial side of the Treasury table, and subscribed their names in the book'. (Note mace in foreground.) From "Illustrated London News", 1880.
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