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. 1882 Excerpt: ...Parliamentary Major-Generals; with Philip Nye, who helped Sir Henry Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant;' with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of ...
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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. 1882 Excerpt: ...Parliamentary Major-Generals; with Philip Nye, who helped Sir Henry Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant;' with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of courting the suit which might ruin them or emancipate England; with John Venn, who, at the head of six thousand citizens, beset the House of Lords during the trial of Lord Strafford, and whom, with three other Londoners, King Charles, after the battle of Edgehill, excluded from bis offer of pardon; with Owen Rowe, the "firebrand of the city"; with Thomas Andrews, the Lord Mayor who proclaimed the abolition of royalty. Sir John Young, named second in the original grant from the Council for New England, as well as in the charter from King Charles, sat in Cromwell's second and third Parliaments. Others of the Company, as Vane and Adams, incurred the Protector's displeasure by too uncomplying principles. Six or seven were members of the High Court of Justice for the king's trial, on which occasion they gave a divided vote. Four were members of the Committee of Religion, the most important committee of Parliament; and one, the Counsellor John White, was its Chairman.2 1 History of the Revolt of the American Colonies, I. 58. 1 Rnshworth, Historical Collections, s In the third volume of Archseo V. 466, 467.--Clarendon, History of logia Americana (xlrii. el scq.) the tbe Rebellion, II. 233, 292. learned Secretary of the American A question has been raised, whether the Company had a right, and was legally competent, to convey the charter across the ocean, and execute on a foreign soil the powRiphtoftho ers conferred by it. Certain it is t...
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