Assertion: nobility's member | /r/CapableOf | form the dietsupper house
Facets:
value: thenceforward
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: This costumary practise was confirmed by legislation in 1608, when the Diet passed an act prescribing that the monarchs were to send a personal invitation to the members of the upper nobility (i.e., to the "true barons" and to the nobles authorized by the kings to use hereditary titles) when convoking the Diet; thenceforward, the prelates and the members of the upper nobility formed the Diets' Upper House.