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Notwithstanding this strict inhibition, the zeal of one Damport moved him to present a bill to the commons for remedying spiritual grievances, and for restraining the tyranny of the ecclesiastical commission, which were certainly great: but when Mr. * See note CC, at the end of the volume. See note DD, at the end of the volume. * D'Ewes, p. 438. Strype's Life of Whitgift, p. 280.
May's "History of the Long Parliament" is fairly accurate and impartial; but the basis of any real account of it must be found in its own proceedings as they have been preserved in the notes of Sir Ralph Verney and Sir Simonds D'Ewes. The last remain unpublished; but Mr. Forster has drawn much from them in his two works, "The Grand Remonstrance" and "The Arrest of the Five Members."
* D'Ewes, p. 375. D'Ewes, p. 379. * D'Ewes, p. 402, 403. The parliament, in obedience to her commands, took the affair again under consideration; but could find no other possible expedient.
It will be curious also to observe the faint dawn of the spirit of liberty among the English, the jealousy with which that spirit was repressed by the sovereign, the imperious conduct which was maintained in opposition to it, and the ease with which it was subdued by this arbitrary princess. * Camden, p. 441, from Cajetanus's Life of Pius V. Camden, p. 428. * D'Ewes, p. 141. D'Ewes, p. 185.
He added, that all matters not treasonable, or which implied not "too much" derogation of the imperial crown, might, without offence, be introduced into parliament; where every question that concerned the community must be considered, and where even the right of the crown itself must finally be determined. * D'Ewes, p. 175. D'Ewes, p. 175. * D'Ewes, p. 175, 176.
It has ever since been understood, that the choice of the speaker lies in the house; but that the king retains the power of rejecting any person disagreeable to him. D'Ewes's Journal, p. 97. In the parliament 1592, 1593, the speaker, who was Sir Edward Coke, advances a like position. D'Ewes, p. 459; Townshend, p. 35.
The splendor of a court was during this age a great part of the public charge; and as Elizabeth was a single woman, and expensive in no kind of magnificence, except clothes, this circumstance enabled her to perform great things by her narrow revenue. * Rymer, tom. xvi. p. 141. D'Ewes, p. 151,457,525,629. Bacon, vol. iv. p. 363. D'Ewes, p. 473.
Hearne has published the following extract from a manuscript work of Sir Simon D'Ewes, who was no mean man in the parliamentary party. "On Thursday, the 30th and last day of this instant June, 1625, I went to Whitehall, purposely to see the queen, which I did fully all the time she sat at dinner.
"Nelson. "2nd October 1702." Thus, it was entirely owing to Wanley that the D'Ewes collection, purchased for 6000 pounds, was secured by Sir Robert Harley, and it formed the basis of what is now one of our greatest national collections of manuscripts. The acquisition of this celebrated library was the determining point in Wanley's career and in that of the Harleian library itself.
* D'Ewes, p. 127, 128. D'Ewes, p. 128. * Camden, p. 400. D'Ewes, p. 128. "But do you think," added she, "that I am unmindful of your future security, or will be negligent in settling the succession? That is the chief object of my concern; as I know myself to be liable to mortality. Or do you apprehend that I meant to encroach on your liberties?
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