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. 1845 Excerpt: ...to them the judgment of the house. (Journals, ii. 171. Rush worth, part iii. vol. i. p. 283. Nalson, ii. 272.) After this amusing bye-play, the house resumed the business from which it had wandered, and passed a resolution vindicating the justice and honour of colonel Goring, (Journals, ii. 172, ) and declaring that he ...
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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. 1845 Excerpt: ...to them the judgment of the house. (Journals, ii. 171. Rush worth, part iii. vol. i. p. 283. Nalson, ii. 272.) After this amusing bye-play, the house resumed the business from which it had wandered, and passed a resolution vindicating the justice and honour of colonel Goring, (Journals, ii. 172, ) and declaring that he deserved well of the commonwealth and of the house. On the day following they further supported his reputation by expelling lord Digby, his accuser, from the house, (Nalson, ii. 275, ) and a month afterwards his lordship's speech upon the bill of attainder was directed to be burnt by the hangman, and the house agreed to pray the king to forbear to confer upon him any honourable employment. (Journ. ii. 209.) The vote came too late, for Charles, with his usual indiscretion, had made a favourite of this vain and now unpopular person, and had called him up to the house of peers by a writ dated the day before the vote for his expulsion from the commons. It was by his advice that the sovereign afterwards went personally to the house of commons to seize the five members. Sir William Widdrington and Mr. Price were discharged after six days' imprisonment. (Ibid. 175.) WEDNESDAY, 9TH JUNE, 1641. THE ARMY PLOT. Hollis reported from my lord Essex. Saves lord Northumberland told him, Harry Percy had confessed the takinge the oath, and that others tooke it also, and expects a farther relation of the businesses Hollis and Hampden were directed to return the thanks of tho house to the earls of Northumberland and Essex for this communication, (Journ. ii. 172, ) the purport of which is not entered on tho journal. The "farther relation" occurs afterwards at p. 94. 32nd sheet. THURSDAY, 10TH JUNE 1641. BRINGING IN PLATE TO BE COINED. The house having take...
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