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In the nineteenth of the late king, the judges determined, that the adjournment by the king kept the parliament in statu quo until the next sitting, but that then no committees were to meet; but if the adjournment be by the house then the committees and other matters do continue. Parl. Hist, vol v. p. 466. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 660. Whitlocke, p. 12. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 661, 681. Parl.
The differences between the sects were before sufficiently great; nor was it necessary to widen them further by these inventions. * Rush. vol. ii. p. 223. Rush. vol. ii. p. 220, 221, etc. * Dugdale, p. 2. Rush, vol. ii. p. 193, 459. Whitlocke, p. 16, 17. Franklyn, p. 431*. v Rush. vol. ii. p. 191, 192. May, p. 2.
The English parliament was at that time fallen into great distress by the progress of the royal arms; and they gladly sent to Edinburgh commissioners, with ample powers to treat of a nearer union and confederacy with the Scottish nation. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 406. Whitlocke, p. 73. Rush. vol. vi. p. 466. Clarendon, vol. iii. p.300
The parliament had sent orders to forbear all hostilities, and had expected the same from the king; though no stipulations to that purpose had been mentioned by their commissioners. While the principal armies on both sides were kept in inaction by the winter season, the king and parliament were employed in real preparations for war, and in seeming advances towards peace. * Whitlocke, p. 62.
This terrible court, when assembled, having first declared that they found no distempers in the army, but many grievances under which it labored, immediately voted the offers of the parliament unsatisfactory. * Rush. vol. vii p. 485. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 43. Rusk. vol. vii p. 497, 505. Whitlocke, p. 250. * Rush. vol. vii. p. 487.
And as, by God's grace, I forgive all the world, with a calmness and meekness of infinite contentment to my dislodging soul, so, sir, to you I can resign the life of this world with all imaginable cheerfulness, in the just acknowledgment of your exceeding favors." * Whitlocke, p. 44. Franklyn, p. 896. See note F, at the end of the volume.
The judges who had given their vote against Hambden in the trial of ship money, were accused before the peers, and obliged to find surety for their appearance. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 176. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 176. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 177. Whitlocke, p. 39. v Nalson, vol. i. p. 673.
Thus perished this generous spirit, not less beloved for his modesty and humanity, than esteemed for his courage and military conduct. * Whitlocke. By these multiplied successes of the army, they had subdued all their enemies; and none remained but the helpless king and parliament to oppose their violent measures.
It was a superstitious remark of the royalists, that he was killed on St. Chad's day by a shot from St. Chad's cathedral, which pierced that very eye by which he hoped to see the ruin of all cathedrals. Dugdale, p. 118. Clarendon, etc. * Whitlocke, p. 66. Rush. vol. vi. p. 152. Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 151. * Rush. vol. vi. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 262.
* 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.
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