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* Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 360. Herbert, attorney-general, appeared in the house of peers and in his majesty's name entered an accusation of high treason against Lord Kimbolton and five commoners, Hollis, Sir Arthur Hazlerig, Hambden, Pym, and Strode. * Whitlocke, p. 50. Rush. vol. v. p. 473. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 811. Franklyn, p. 906.
The collections of state-papers by Rushworth and Nalson are indispensable for this period. It is illustrated by a series of memoirs, of very different degrees of value, such as those of Whitelock, Ludlow, Sir Philip Warwick, Holles, and Major Hutchinson, as well as by works like Mrs.
* Nalson, vol. ii. p. 705. See note O, at the end of the volume. Whatever ridicule, to a philosophical mind, may be thrown on pious ceremonies, it must be confessed that, during a very religious age, no institutions can be more advantageous to the rude multitude, and tend more to mollify that fierce and gloomy spirit of devotion to which they are subject.
Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 336. * Dugdale, p. 78. Whitlocke, p. 51. Rush. vol. v. p. 466. Nalson, vol. ii. p, 794. v Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 355. When the commons employed in their remonstrance language so severe and indecent, they had not been actuated entirely by insolence and passion; their views were more solid and profound.
* Temple, p. 72, 73, 78. Dugdale, p. 73. Dugdale, p. 74. * Bush vol. v. p. 408. Nalson, vol ii. p. 565. Secret rumors likewise were heard of some approaching conspiracy; but no attention was paid to them.
* It is not improper to take notice of a mistake committed by Clarendon, much to the disadvantage of this gallant nobleman; that he offered the king, when his majesty was in Scotland, to assassinate Argyle. All the time the king was in Scotland, Montrose was confined in prison. Rush. vol. vi. p. 980. Nalson, vol ii. p. 683.
What pretensions would be advanced, how unprecedented, how unlimited, were easily imagined; and nothing less was foreseen, whatever ancient names might be preserved, than an abolition, almost total, of the monarchical government of England. The opposition, therefore, which the remonstrance met with in the house of commons was great. * Rush. vol. v. p. 438. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 694.
But though O'Conolly's discovery saved the castle from a surprise, the confession extorted from Mahone came too late to prevent the intended insurrection. O'Neale and his Confederates had already taken arms in Ulster. * Rush, vol. v. p. 399. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 520. May, book ii p. 6 Temple p 17, 18, 19, 20. Rush. vol. v p. 400. * Ten ple, p. 39, 40, 79.
Nalson, vol. ii. p. 738, 750, 751, etc. The general question, we may observe, with regard to privileges of parliament, has always been, and still continues, one of of the greatest mysteries in the English constitution; and in some respects, notwithstanding the accurate genius of that government, these privileges are at present as undetermined as were formerly the prerogatives of the crown.
The execution of the severe and bloody laws against priests was insisted on; and one Goodman, a Jesuit, who was found in prison, was condemned to a capital punishment. * Rush, vol. v. p. 160. Rush. vol. v. p. 158, 159. Nalson, vol. i. p. 739. * Rush. vol. v. p. 166. Nalson, vol. i. p. 749.
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