This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...of Strafford, and it is even said that the charge of high treason against the Earl would have been abandoned but for the close reason ing and polished bitterness of Digby's invectives. However, during the trial he commenced a secret treaty with the royal party, and gave to the King a most important original paper which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...of Strafford, and it is even said that the charge of high treason against the Earl would have been abandoned but for the close reason ing and polished bitterness of Digby's invectives. However, during the trial he commenced a secret treaty with the royal party, and gave to the King a most important original paper which he had taken from the documents to be used against Strafford. He, in common with the rest of the committee, denied all knowledge of the missing document; but after the battle of Naseby, June 1645, a copy of it, in Digby's own handwriting, was found by the rebels in the King's cabinet. On the third reading of the bill for Strafford's attainder, in April, 1641, Digby avowed openly, in an incomparable speech, his determination to vote against it, on the grounds of Sir Henry Vane's unjust evidence. This lost him the esteem he-had with the Commons and the faction, and he was expelled the House of Commons, June 10th, 1641; but the King had seen the storm gathering against him, and summoned him to the House of Peers by writ, so that he took his place there is Lord Digby on the very day that the N Biographia Britannica. Secretary Nicholas. Commons declared his seat in their House vacant. However, the Commons ordered, July 15th, that his speech should be burnt by the common hangman; one part in Palace Yard, Westminster, another in Cheapside, and the rest in Smithfield; and his name was posted up among the "Straffordians." Digby, however, chose to affirm that his speech had been published without his knowledge or consent, by his half-brother, Sir Lewis Dives. That year Lord Digby was designed by the King to have gone Ambassador into France as soon as Lord Leicester returned, but the Parliament disabled him from...
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