ed a committee r s were concertec. ful reported the eer Led by them. Est pochins, at Desa fore, to remove all ambiguities, it was resolved to send some lords to desire his majesty would be pleased to come in person, presently, and give the royal assent to the bill. Upon this information the king came down immediately to the house, and having sent for the commons, the bill was delivered to their Speaker, who presented it to his majesty, and the royal assent was given to it. At the same time the king signified, "That lest, in his Answer, this day, to both houses concerning the Third Head, there should be any mistake upon the word Slander; his majesty declared, that he did not mean it of either house of parliament, or any member thereof." 881] PARL. HIST. 17 CHARLES I. 1641.-Resolutions against the Court of the North. [882 Address of both Houses on the Manifesto re- | this commission, if they were separated. Therelating to the Palatinate.] A committee of lords having waited on the king to know his pleasure, when both houses should attend him with their address on the Manifesto, the king appointed 5 that afternoon for this purpose: accordingly, at that hour, both houses went up to the Banqueting-Room Whitehall; when the Speaker of the house of lords delivered himself to the king in these words:"Your majesty, in your royal person, was pleased to recommend the manifesto, touching the Palatinate, to be read in full parliament, and to be advised of by both houses. Both houses have since seriously considered of it, and have comfort en states: 24manded me to present their humble advice unto your sacred majesty, which is expressed stand that the in the Declaration, that hath passed the votes h were imported as of both the houses, and which I am commanded ase to 31. 1. to read unto your majesty." Then he read the Resolution of the house of commons*on the Articles of Mar 7th of July, and the lords concurrence with it y to law. Coon the 10th, after which he said, "I am likewise commanded to present the humble desires Fout it. Astora of both houses of parliament, that your majesty would be pleased to recommend this Manifesto, unto the parliament of Scotland, to have the concurrence of that kingdom." Cive, that there are prince, they su P they desire ti as none may be gr ing the remeral y from court, they > particulars, but y g that which car ceive they have to an explorat they mean thu I have most poser live, as well pees ? may be disa the Pope's Nas preparing a hi ips lord aeterans but the state Starts, the c husons as both at the me As taken forts out of the ire at the k om have such s stores as i for the rate of they can get his majesty, Tast I taken out f 2 restored to the f any armis, outd n to furnish thes Fried up to the > his majes ndage, and eth con merchand ich was read 3 t imeston To which the king returned the following Answer: "We take very thankfully the concurrent advices of both the houses of parliament, in so great and pious a work, declared in these Votes and Resolutions, which you have read unto us. We will also take care to recommend this Manifesto, unto the parliament of Scotland, to have the concurrence of that kingdom, which we doubt not but they will periori." Resolutions of the Lords against the Court of the North.] July 13. The lords took into consideration the court of the lord president at York, and to give Judgment therein; for a free debate whereof the house was put into a committee, and the votes of the house of commons about it were read. After debate, the lords came to the following Resolutions. 1. "That the commission and instructions, whereby the president and council of the North exercise a jurisdiction, are illegal, both in creation and execution. 2. That the commi-sion and jurisdiction is unprofitable to his majesty. 3. That the commission and jursidiction is inconvenient and grievous to his majesty's subjects of those parts. 4. That the house doth join with the house of commons, in beseeching his majesty that the present commission and instructions may be revoked, and no more such granted for the future. Lastly, It was declared, That seeing the commission and instructions of the Court of York are illegal in the creation and execution, that the former judges in the said court, who have given judgment, and proceeded as they thought in their consciences, upon true and legal grounds, shall not be liable to punishment for the time past, unless it be for corruption; and also that all judgments and decrees in that court shall not be liable to question, but in case of injustice; and that none in that case shall be barred of their appeal. And if it appear that there is a necessity, for the ease of that country, to have a court, this house will advise with the house of commons how one may be established, by law, for that purpose."-A committee of lords were appointed to draw up some heads for a conference with the commons on the aforesaid particulars; that so the persons that were judges, and the acts of that Court, might have a saving for them. The Speaker was also ordered to press the king for an Answer to the Third of the Ten Propositions, concerning the Removal of Counsellors, to which he said, "My answer is, That I know of none; the which, methinks, should both satisfy and be believed; I having granted, hitherto, all that hath been demanded by parliament: nor do I expect that any should be so unadvised, as, by slander, or any other ways, to deter any that I trust in my public affairs, from giving me free counsel; especially since freedom of speech is always demanded, never refused, to parliaments." Both houses being returned, the lords sent a message to the cominons, to desire a conference on his majesty's Answer to the Third of the Ten Propositions, as lately delivered. The Royal Assent given to the Tonnage Bill.] About the same time another message came up to the lords by sir Henry Vane, jun. to desire that the bill for Tonnage and Poundage might be delivered unto them, to be brought up and presented by their Speaker, in regard it was a free gift of the commons of England; with the commission under the great seal aunexed. But the lords taking this message into consideration, and perusing the commission, found, by the tenor of it, that the said bill The officers, who had been employed in the court of Star-Chamber, having petitioned the lords for some relief, the house did conceive no fitter relief for these poor officers, the king's servants, than to remit them to the king's mercy, That he would be graciously pleased to allow somewhat proportionable to their losses, out of such fines as may accrue to bim in the high court of parliament. The Commons order the lord Digby's Speech fore, appointed a committee to consider about the printing and publishing a Speech made by the lord Digby, on the bill of attainder against the earl of Strafford (p. 749), and this day a report of it being made by sir John Evelyn, it was resolved "That sir Lewis Dives and John Moore as also Thomas Parslow, printer of the said speech, are delinquents, in printing and publishing thereof; and that this book, thus printed, deserves the brand of this house." After which they made the following orders. "Whereas, on the 21st of April last past, there was a speech spoken, in the house of commons, at the passing the bill of attainder against Thomas earl of Strafford, by the lord Digby, then a member of the said house; the which speech contained in it matters untrue and scandalous, as they have reference to the proceedings of the committees of both houses, and to the evidence of the witnesses produced in that cause: and whereas the said speech was published by the lord Digby, after the bill of attainder was passed by vote in this house, and after great offence had been taken to the speech, and the same questioned in the house; to the scandal of the proceedings of this house, and to those of his majesty and both houses of parliament: it was therefore ordered, that the said books should be publickly burnt, part of them in the New Palace-Yard, Westminster, others in Cheapside, London, and the rest in Smithfield, by the hauds of the common hangman. And the sheriffs of London and Middlesex were to take care to see this order executed." Then it was farther resolved, "That this house shall move the lords to join in a petition to his majesty, that he will be pleased to forbear to confer any honour or employment upon the person of the lord Digby, who has deserved so ill of the parliament $99 Petition to the King against the Qu ing abroad.] July 14. A message was from the commons to the lords to desire rence, presently, by committees of bot concerning the Queen's intended Journ Spa in Germany. This conference bei it produced a Petition from both house was presented to the king the day fo and was in these words. "Your majesty's most loyal subj lords and cominons, taking notice of tention of the queen's majesty to pass the sea, whereby the kingdom will prived of the comfort of her majesty's p have thought good to express their hun ties and affection for your majesty, an royal person of the queen, in some co tions which they do now present unto they conceive very important to the this kingdom, and the safety and conto of her majesty; whose honour and ha shall always have a chief place in their tion and desires: which considerations an following; 1. There is great cause t lest the papists have some design upon jesty's journey, because the house hath b formed that divers of them have sold o lands to a good value, and used other m get ready noney. 2. It is observed the of them have been very diligent in ga great quantities of gold. 3. It is inform more than an ordinary number of Papi gone beyond sea already, and those better sort. 4. The great number of I fugitives now beyond the seas, who, b late designs and practices, are known full of malice to the state, and will, no seck all opportunities of access to her. ty; and as much as they can, labour to into her such evil counsels as may troul peace of the kingdom; whereof, at this there is more danger, because the affairs kingdom are not yet fully settled; and disbanding the army, all parts are li abound with soldiers, and such others be apt to be provoked to tumults, and tions, especially in the time of the king sence in Scotland. 5. That the house of In lord Digby's Apology (printed in January, 1641, by Thomas Walkley) he gives the following account of the printing and publishing this speech: "I did not find only that it was unfaithfully reported, and uncharitably interpreted, but was informed, that copies went abroad of it so falsly and maliciously collected, as made the whole speech a justification of my lord of Strafford's innocence; and without the least censure, either on the s sir Lewis Dives having heard of such a copy itself or the author: that the printing, in the house of a citizen of good quality, where of such a speech should rise to so high: he heard me mentioned as a person fit to have ture, as to make me for ever incapable of his name fixed upon posts, that I might be honour or employment in the common-w torn in picces by the people; upon that rea- I profess could hardly have fallen within son earnestly desired me to give him a true reason or fears to suspect: and yet 3 m copy of what I had said in that argument, after the fact committed; after the printi which I did; and he forthwith gave direction an hundred specches more by other men; for the printing it, without any privity of mine; my having several times sued and pressed yet, if I had consented to it, and directed it, I hearing, whilst I was of the house of profess I should little have imagined, that (atmons; after, by his majesty's favour, I had a time when there was such an universal li- 6 or 7 weeks a member of the house of cence taken to print every thing, of how great after all this no less a judgment, as far as irreverence soever, either to church or state, vote of the house of commons could contri with (impunity) a speech made in the house to it, passed upon me, unheard, over of commons, a speech so narrowly and severely above the shame of having the speech i sifted and examined there, and yet ler pass burnt by the hand of the hangman." p going coral, Kane against the Query 14. A iDessage 9 CONG leads to a Cttees of be surtended bar The conrence a from both houses to he King the day $85] PARL. HISTORY, 17 CHARLES I. 1611.-Speech against the Bishop of Ely. [S8G the kingdom wachievous attempts, to the trouble of the public Lot her majesty's B express the bat your majesty, and queen, in some OSH how present unts important to the e safety and con se honour and Diet place in thears ry divent in peace. 6. That, as it will be a great disho-citizens, and burgesses now assembled for the nour to the state, if her majesty should not be commons in parliament, to deliver to your attended and furnished suitably to her quality; lordships these Articles against Matthew Wren, so it will be a very heavy burden, in this time D.D. late bishop of Norwich, and now bishop of great necessity, and occasions of other pub- of Ely; may it please your lordships to hear fic charges, if she shall be provided in so royal them read. [Here the Articles, given before a manner as shall be fit for her majesty, and at p. 861, were read.] My lords, these artithe honour of the king and kingdom. 7. That cles are dipped in those colours in which this because we understand, by sir Theodore May-bishop rendered himself to the diocese of Nor b considerations aerne, that the chief cause of her majesty's sick-wich: they need no gloss nor varnish. In them ness and distempers proceed from some dis- you may behold the spirit and disposition of content of her mind, the house of commons this bishop; hear the groans and cries of the have thought good to declare, That if any people; see a shepherd scattering (I had almost thing within the power of parliament may said devouring) his own flock. He that was give her majesty contentment, they are so ten-desired to paint Hercules, thought he had done enough, when he had made a resemblance of the lion's skin, which he was wont to carry about him as a trophy of his honour. I will not say, in these, you will find a resemblance of the lion's skin. I am sure you will find the reseinblance of the skins, (that is to say, the tattered and ruined fortunes) of poor innocent lambs, who have extremely suffered by the violence of this bishop. In 1635, this man was created hishop of Norwich. He is no sooner there, but he marcheth furiously. In the creation of the world, light was one of the first productions. The first visible action of this bishop, after his creation into this see, was to put out many burning and shining lights; to suspend divers able, learned, and conscientious is great cause of access to her a ty can, labour is as may we whereof, at cause the af sly settled; ad all parts an ad such as, mend to your majesty's princely wisdom; be- ministers. He, that should have been the gold to tumeits, an time of the k That the hoese ether on the s at the pro rise to so htt ver incapatie the commo ve falico w : and vet 3 after the pr by other ed and presse the boase & 's favour. Fi the bouse ment, as is could c nheard. seeching your majesty, that, by your allowance The Queen's Answer.] July 16. Six lords & Histue in Orie en snuffer of these lights, became the extin guisher; and, when these are taken away, where shall poor men light their candles?-My lords, this was not all: he puts out lights, and sets up firebrands in their places; suspends painful ministers, and sets up idle, factious and superstitious priests (to use their own favourite word) in their places; yet it is the fortune of these men, at this time, like rivers in the ocean, to be buried in the extreme activity of their diocesan. He made a scourge, not of small cords, but of new injunctions and numerous articles, tied about with a strong twist of a most dangerous oath; and with this he whips, not buyers and sellers, but the faithful dispensers of the word, out of their churches, out of their estates, out of their dear country, This Noah (if I may so call him without offence) as soon as he entered into the ark of this diocese, time of peace; nay, by these, he p His ne he sends, nay, forces doves to fly out of this ark; and when they return unto him with olive branches in their mouths of peaceable and humble submission, he will not receive then into this ark again; unless, like ravens, they would feed upon the carrion of his new inventions, they must not have any footing there. He stands as a flaining sword, to keep such out of his diocese.-My lords, unless he had done this, he could never have hoped to have brought that great work, he undoubtedly aimed at, to any perfection. Whilst the Palladium of Troy stood, that city was impregnable. The Greeks had no sooner stolen that away, but they instantly won the city: so then he first put out the candles, then was the opportunity to shuffle in his works of darkness: he first beats off the watchmen and seers; then was likely to follow that which the impiety of some was pleased to stile, The piety of the times.' This being done, he then begins to dress out God's worship, according to his own fancy. This he expresseth in injunctions and directions, the Minervas of his own brain. We find them stiled, Regales injunctiones domini episcopi;' a stile too sacred to baptize his brats withall: I shall be bold to call them Tyrannicas injunctiones domini episcopi.'-Stories afford not a more barbarous cruelty, than to join a dead and a living body together; the one is miserably killed with the stench of the other. This bishop, who, like Aaron, should have stood between the living and dead, hath joined to lively ordinances many dead and venomous ceremonies; which have no other life than what they received from the breath of his injunctions; and these are pressed upon the Væ mihi si non prædicavero,' into consciences; even these must be observed, as si prædicaverint.' He was so far fi moral laws. An arbitrary government in the practice of St. Paul, the great preache church is more dangerous, more grievous than Gentiles, who, we read, preached till m that in the state: this is exercised upon men's that there must be no sermons in the afte consciences, the most tender parts; and is the but there may be, nay there must be, very pinnacle of tyranny, and of all others the and pastimes then. And, as if he ha inost intolerable. That blow, which will hard-in fear of the inarticulate language o ly be felt by the arm, will put out the eye, which might foretell a sermon, he cann My lords, in the time of Richard I. one of this dure the noise of a sermon in the toll of man's predecessors, a valiant bishop, went In a word: he adorned churches, at the into the Holy War: This bishop hath raised a of others; and spoiled pulpits, which ou war at home in his own diocese; a war not have been the greatest part of his own c against Saracens, Barbarians, Turks, or Infi--My lords, you have now presented to dels, but against good and well disposed peo- lordships a brother, nay, one whose plac ple. I know not what stile to give this war: gaged him to be a father of the clergy; y without doubt, my lords, this was no Holy War. who, like Joseph's brethren, hath take The weapons used in this war were 28 Injunc- coats from Joseph; nay they were forced tions, 139 Articles, containing 879 Questions. from him as Joseph from his mistress, or cl The soldiers were chancellors, cominissaries, must taste of his forbidden waters; but, in officials, commissioners, rural deans, &c. Him-going away, he rent their skirts, nay their self commanded in chief. The ways of assault and killing were by ex-communications, suspensions, deprivations.-I stop here. Mille inodis morimur mortales.' The magazine, wherein all these were originally hatched and lodged, was the superstitious and inalicious breast of this bishop. His diocese was the stage where the direful tragedies of this war were acted, by the space of two years and upwards. Thus did he trouble Israel, in the garments and livelihood from them. He taken the lock from many Sampsons, and what he could to put out their eyes, an wake them grind in the mill of his perni and dangerous innovations. He should, Moses, have led his flock. Moses led children of Israel through the Red Sea; man drives part of his flock over the sea, went not himself. Like Nimrod, he hath vaded the laws and liberties of the subject hath been as great a robber as ever was presented to your lordships: he hath robbed the king of his subjects, the greatest glory of kings; a kingdom of trade, of its tradesmen, the supporters of it. He that deprives the king of one subject, you know his punishment; and what shall be the punishment of him who hath robbed the king of so many subjects?In the 16th of Hen. 3. we find a tenant in dower punished in action of waste, because she had destroyed two rich villains, and made them beggars. I appeal to your lordships, what is his offence who hath committed so much wilful waste and spoil, beggared hundreds, not villains, but freeborn subjects. He robbed souls of that sweet Manna, which is Pabulum Animarum, the Word of God.-My lords, I have not yet recounted all his robberies: he hath robbed God of part of his day, making part of that, a day of sports: he hath robbed the subjects of their undubitable birthright, the laws of the kingdom. The citizens of Norwich must pay tythes for the rents of houses; there is no law in England, nor custom in Norwich for it: nay, and that they may be sure to be robbed of justice too, the suit for these tythes must be in his own consistory, from whence there must be no appeal, no prohibition. The true patrons of churches; they are robbed of their presentations; others, who had none or small pretence of right, are admitted upon this unhallowed maxim, That if he should institute those who had right, the pretender was without remedy. By this he inverted a fundamental law of this nation, to invest remediless rights in unjust possessors.-My lords, I cannot tell you all, but you can measure a lion by the paw. I am commanded to lay this great malefactor at your doors; one who hath been a great oppugn er of the life and liberty of religion; and who set a brand of infamy (to use his own words) upon Ipswich education. In sum: one who is a compleat mirror of innovation, superstition, and oppression. He is now in the share of those Articles, which were the works of his own hands. The rod of Moses, at a distance, was a serpent; it was a rod again when it was taken into his hand: This bishop was a serpent, a devouring serpent, in the diocese of Norwich; your lordships peradventure will, by handling of him, make him a rod again; or, if not, I doubt not but your lordships will chastise him with such rods as his crimes shall deserve. My lords, I am commanded by the house of commons to desire your lordships, that this bishop may be required to make Answers to these Articles; and that there may be such proceedings against him, as the course and justice of parliament doth admit.' The Commons present to the Lords 5 additional Propositions. A priest of the Venetian Ambassador's having been seized and imprisoned for being an Englishman born, it occasioned a representation to the king about it, who referred it to parliament. This brought on a conference between the two houses, at which time the commons presented to the lords five Heads to be added to the other ten formerly mentioned; with a desire that their lordships would join with them to move his majesty therein, viz. That the house of commons doth desire, 1. “That no foreign ambassador whatsoever may shelter or harbour any Popish Priests or Jesuits, that are natives of the king's dominions, under pretence of being their servants, or otherwise. 2. That care may be taken concerning several commissions granted for the levying of men in Ireland, to the number of 14,000, as they are informed, and all of them Papists, in order to be transported, as is conceived, to princes not well affected to this kingdom; and that Popish commanders may not have such power, by commissions, as is, of late, granted to them. 3. Also that no Papist, hereafter, may have the keeping of any castle, fort, chace, forest, park, or walk, within England or Wales; and that such as are in possession may be put out, according to law. 4. That the king may be moved to let the house of commons have such gunpowder out of his stores as may be spared, and they will pay after the rate of 10d a pound for it, as soon as they can get money. 5. To move the king that the arms, which have been taken from the several counties, may be restored to them; and if his majesty can spare any arms out of his sores, they will buy them." The lords, taking these five Propositions into consideration, ordered, To join with the house of commons, humbly to move his majesty, that he would be pleased to assent to them. A committee was appointed for that purpose, and the king readily consented to them all. The Queen's Message signifying that she has put off her Journey.] July 21. This day the Queen sent another message to both houses, concerning her majesty's going abroad, which was in these words:"When the parliament did, the other day, express their affection to wc, by taking into consideration the Journey which I had resolved on for the recovery of my health; and represented a desire of my stay; with a tender care of removing all occasions of my indisposition; I could not then give a positive answer, such as I desired, for their satisfaction, because I knew not if my health would give way to it; but, since that time, I have resolved to venture my health, and, for complying with their desires, not to go, since my presence here will be acceptable unto them, and that they conceive it will be for the good of the kingdom; for I desire nothing more than to let them see, that I shall, in all things, be ready to gratify them, and to serve the state, though, as I then said, with the hazard of my life." In return for this message, the house of commons instantly went upon a bill they had had a long time before them, about settling the Queen's Jointure. Afterwards both houses, agreed, at a conference, to return thanks to her majesty; which was delivered by the earl of Essex, in these words :-" Both houses of |