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Rushworth, vol. i. p. 654. Parl. Hist. vol. viii. p. 301. v Rushworth, vol. i. p. 653. v* Rushworth, vol. i. p. 659. v Parl. Hist. vol. viii. p. 326. Sir John Elliot framed a remonstrance against levying tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, and offered it to the clerk to read. It was refused. He read it himself. The whole house was in an uproar.
The train of the latter was numerous and splendid; and the Spaniards, it is said, were extremely surprised when they beheld the blooming countenances and graceful appearance of the English, whom their bigotry, inflamed by the priests, had represented as so many monsters and infernal demons. Vol. i. p. 81. Parl. Hist. vol. v. p. 98, 99, 100. * See note UU, at the end of the volume.
The sum, by their account, amounted to near two millions: for they had received little regular pay since they had entered England. And though the contributions which they had levied, as well as the price of their living at free quarters, must be deducted, yet still the sum which they insisted on was very considerable. * Rush, vol. vii. p. 326. Parl. Hist. vol. xv. p. 236
Political Justice, ii. 520. Ibid. ii. 528. First published in 1795, after the first edition, as Godwin remarks, of the Political Justice. Ami des hommes, p. 26. See the curious debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 1318-1365. The editor, W. Morgan, accuses Pitt of adopting Price's plans without due acknowledgment and afterwards spoiling them. Essay on Population, p. 18.
See Acts Parl. 1st, James VI, 1567. Thus the hand of GOD was remarkably seen, and his powerful arm evidently revealed, in delivering this nation both from Pagan darkness and Popish idolatry, the memory whereof ought not to be lost, but thankfully acknowledged, to the honor of GOD'S great name, by all such as favor the dust of Zion, for her sake, and long to see her breaches, now wide as the sea, repaired.
Jones, an excellent officer, formerly a lawyer, had sallied out with the reënforcement newly arrived; and attacking the party employed in repairing the fort, he totally routed them, pursued the advantage, and fell in with the army, which had neglected Ormond's orders. * Parl. Hist. vol. xix. p. 165.
The prince himself, mastering for a while his habits of indolence and dissipation, appeared eager to redeem his pledge; but the more prudent of his advisers conjured him not to risk his life on general assurances of support; and the marquess of Ormond, with the most chivalrous loyalty, offered to ascertain on the spot the real objects and resources of his adherents. Parl. hastened to London.
He even encouraged schemes for abolishing the order of bishops, and selling the dean and chapter lands, in order to defray the expenses of a Spanish war. * Parl. Hist. vol. vi. p. 75. Franklyn, p. 98. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 128. Parl. Hist. vol. vi. p. 103. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 6. Franklyn, p. 94, 95. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 129, 130.
The Erastianism in these acts seems screwed up yet a little higher, by Act 7th, Sess. 5th, Parl. 1st, 1695; where, after appointing a new day to such ministers as had not formerly obeyed, it is ordained: "With certification that such of the said ministers as shall not come in between and said day, are hereby, and by the force of this present act, ipso facto, deprived of their respective kirks and stipends, and the same declared vacant, without any further sentence."
A little after writs were issued for summoning this parliament, a commission had been granted to Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper, the earl of Marlborough, treasurer, the earl of Manchester, president of the council, the earl of Worcester, privy seal, the duke of Buckingham, high admiral, and all the considerable officers of the crown; in the whole, thirty-three. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 614. Parl.
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