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Elijah, skiff, light crumpled throwaway, sailed eastward by flanks of ships and trawlers, amid an archipelago of corks, beyond new Wapping street past Benson's ferry, and by the threemasted schooner Rosevean from Bridgwater with bricks. Almidano Artifoni walked past Holles street, past Sewell's yard.
and, in particular, that eleven of its members, comprising Holles, Glyn, Stapleton, Clotworthy, and Waller, the chief leaders of the Presbyterian party, and members of the committee at Derby House, should be excluded, till they had been tried by due course of law for the offence of endeavouring to commit the army with the parliament.
In one company, eight score strong, twenty-six had volunteered to go with their Captain; in another the Captain could not get a single man to join him. Parliament was taken aback by this ill success; but Holles and his party were undaunted.
That the King would accept the Propositions one by one, without criticism or demur, as fast as they could be tabled, was the desire, above all, of Holles, Glynn, and the other Presbyterian Commissioners. To their surprise, even to their horror, Charles had never been more captious or guarded in his highest kingliness than he was now found in the depths of his doubled ruin.
Two curious pictures there done by an Irish boy, or man, of the name of Grogan, of Cork: one of these is an Irish wake; there is a great deal of original humour and invention in it, of the Wilkie, or, better still, of the Hogarth style. But all this time you would be glad to know whether I am likely to have a house over my head or not? it cannot be decided till Tuesday 8, or 12, Holles Street.
In such circumstances it could serve no useful purpose. It was interpreted as an artifice to cover the king's intrigues with the Presbyterians, instead of a demonstration of his good will to the army. To return to the city, Holles and his colleagues had resumed the ascendancy during the secession of the Independents.
There is an old, fat portrait of Gervoyse Holles, in a buff-coat, a coarse, hoggish, yet manly man. The painter is unknown; but I honor him, and Gervoyse Holles too, for one was willing to be truly rendered, and the other dared to do it.
* She was Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only daughter of John, fourth Earl of Clare, created Duke of Newcastle. There still remained the precious manuscripts, and it had been the wish of Lord Oxford that books so carefully collected might not be dispersed. In accordance with this wish, Lady Oxford sold them to the nation in 1753 for the inconsiderable sum of 10,000 pounds.
"Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery." The Clerk bowed to Lord Pembroke. Lord Pembroke touched his hat. The Clerk resumed, "John Holles, Duke of Newcastle." The Duke of Newcastle nodded. The Clerk of the Crown resumed his seat. The Clerk of the Parliaments arose. His under-clerk, who had been on his knees behind him, got up also.
Under the name of "Humble Proposals and Desires," this paper reminded the House of their former votes for expelling and disabling Denzil Holles, General Massey, and the rest of the Presbyterian Eleven impeached by the Army in 1647, and demanded that these members, irregularly and scandalously re-admitted to their places, should be again excluded and held to trial.
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