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"Andrew Warde, "Jurat' die & anno prdicto, "Coram me, Ro Ludlowe. "The plant' replyed that he had seuerall other witnesses wch he thought would cleere the matters in question, if the court please to heare them, wch being granted, he first presented a testimony of goodwife Whitlocke of Fairfeild, vpon oath taken before Mr.
* Rushworth, vol. i. p. 217. Whitloeke, p. 5. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 306, etc., 375, etc. Journ. 25th March, 1626. * Whitlocke, p. 7. It is remarkable that the commons, though so much at a loss to find articles of charge against Buckingham, never adopted Bristol's accusation, or impeached the duke for his conduct in the Spanish treaty, the most blamable circumstance in his whole life.
The parliament, forced from their temporizing measures, and obliged to resign at once, or combat for their liberty and power, prepared themselves with vigor for defence, and determined to resist the violence of the army. * Rush. vol. viii. p. 750. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 63. Rush vol. vii. p. 646 * Whitlocke, p. 266.
Having hurled this defiance at the Commons, the Lords were powerless for more, and adjourned for a week. It was a week of rapid action and counter-defiance by the Commons. Not a few of the feebler spirits, indeed, had taken leave of absence. Whitlocke, for one, had gone into the country. The Clerk of the House, Mr. Elsyng, had feigned ill-health and resigned.
So prevalent was the opinion of witchcraft, that great numbers, accused of that crime, were burnt by sentence of the magistrates throughout all parts of Scotland. * Sir Edward Walker's Historical Discourses, p. 178. Whitlocke, p. 404, 408. * Whitlocke, p. 396, 418. The advance of the English army under Cromwell was not able to appease or soften the animosities among the parties in Scotland.
As it is frequently the case that pickpockets are detected in the act of robbing at the very moment that one of their own fraternity is being launched into eternity, at the Old Bailey; so it appears that the punishment of General Whitlocke had very little effect upon the conduct of these heroes of Cintra.
Sir Dudley Digges was about the same time created master of the rolls; Noy, attorney-general; Littleton, solicitor-general. * Whitlocke, p. 13. May, p. 20. In all ecclesiastical affairs, and even in many civil, Laud, bishop of London, had great influence over the king. This man was virtuous, if severity of manners alone, and abstinence from pleasure, could deserve that name.
Mildmay, a notorious monopolist, yet having associated himself with the ruling party, was still allowed to keep his seat. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 206. Whitlocke, p. 37. Rush. vol. v. p. 235, 359. Nalson, vol. i. p. 807. Lord Clarendon says it was entirely new; but there are instances of it in the reign of Elizabeth. D'Ewes, p. 296, 352. There are also instances in the reign of James.
But finding that he had gone too far to retreat, and that he possessed no resource in case of a rupture, he at last affixed the royal sanction to this excellent bill. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 283, 284. Whitlocke, p. 47. Rush. vol. iii. p. 1383, 1384. Rush. vol. v. p. 30.
John, Wilde, Bradshaw, Cromwell, Skippon, Pickering, Massam, Haselrig, Harrington, Vane, Jun., Danvers, Armine, Mildmay, Constable, Pennington, Wilson, Whitlocke, Martin, Ludlow, Stapleton, Hevingham, Wallop, Hutchinson, Bond, Popham, Valentine, Walton, Scott, Purefoy, Jones. The commonwealth found every thing in England composed into a seeming tranquillity by the terror of their arms.
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