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A25950 Articles of treason exhibitted in Parliament against Edward, Earl of Clarendon 1667 (1667) Wing A3878; ESTC R225657 1,733 1

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ARTICLES OF TREASON Exhibitted in PARLIAMENT Against EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON Mr. Seymor's Speech to the House of LORDS My Lords THe Commons Assembled in Parliament having received Information of divers Treasonable Practises and Designes of a great Peer of this House Edward Earl of Clarendon Commanded me to Accuse the said Edward Earl of Clarendon of Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanors And I do here in their Names and in the Names of the Commons of England accuse Edward Earl of Clarendon of Treason and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors I am further commanded by the House of Commons to desire your Lordships That the Earl of Clarendon may forth-with be Sequestred from Parliament and be committed to safe Custody They further command me to acquaint your Lordships That they will in convenient time Exhibite the Articles of the Charge against him Novemb. 14. 1667. The Vote of the House of Lords Resolved c. That the Lords have not Complyed with the Desires of the House of Commons concerning the Commitment of the Earl of Clarendon and Sequestring him from Parliament Because the House of Commons have only Accused him of Treason in general and have not assigned or specified any particular Treason I. THat the Earl of Clarendon hath designed a standing Army to be Raised and to Govern the Kingdom thereby Advised the King to Dissolve the present Parliament so lay aside all thoughts of Parliament for the future to Govern by Military Power and to maintain the same by Free-Quarter and Contribution II. That he hath in hearing of many of his Majesties Subjects falsly and seditiously said The King was in his Heart a Papist Popishly affected or words to that effect III. That he hath received great sums of Money for passing the Canary Pattent and other illegal Pattents and granted several Injunctions to stop proceedings at Law against them and other illegal Pattents formerly granted IV. That he hath advised and procured divers of his Majesties Subjects to be Imprisoned against Law in remote Islands Garrisons and other Places thereby to prevent them from the benefit of the Law and to introduce presidents for Imprisoning of other of his Majesties Subjects in like manner V. That he hath corruptly sold several Offices contrary to Law VI. That he hath procured his Majesties Customes to be Farmed at under Rates knowing the same and great pretended Debts to be paid by his Majesty to the payment whereof his Majesty was not in strictness bound And hath received great sums of Money for procuring the same VII That he hath received great sums of Money from the Company of Vintners or some of them or their Agents for exhausting the Prices of Wine and for freeing them from the payment of legal Penalties which they had incurred VIII That he hath in short time gained to himself a far greater Estate then can be imagined to be lawfully gained in so short a time And contrary to his Oath hath procured several Grants under the Great Seal from his Majesty to himself and Relations of several of his Majesties Lands Hereditaments and Leases to the dis-profit of his Majesty IX That he introduced an Arbitrary Government in his Majesties Forreign Plantations and hath caused such as Complained thereof before his Majesty and Council to be long Imprisoned for so doing X. That he did reject and frustrate a Proposal and Undertaking approved by his Majesty for the Preservation of Mevis and St. Christophers and Reducing the French Plantations to his Majesties obedience after the Commissions were drawn for that purpose which was the occasion of such great Losses and Damages in those parts XI That he advised and effected the Sale of Dunkirk to the French King being part of his Majesties Dominions together with the Ammunition Artillery and all sorts of Stores there and for no greater value then the said Ammunition Artillery and Stores were worth XII That the said Earle did unduly cause his Majesties Letters Pattents under the Great Seal of England to one Dr. Cronither to be altered and the Inrolement thereof to be unduly razed XIII That he hath in an Arbitrary way examined and drawn into question divers of his Majesties Subjects concerning their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Properties determined thereof at the Council-Table and stopped proceedings at Law and threatned some that pleaded the Statute of 17 Car. 1. XIV That he had caused Quo Warranto's to be issued out against most of the Corporations of England by Act of Parliament to the intent he might receive great sums of Money from them for Renewing their Charters which when they complyed withal he caused the said Quo Warranto's to be discharged and prosecution thereon to cease XV. That he procured the Bills of Settlement for Ireland and received great sums of Money for the same in a most corrupt and unlawful manner XVI That he hath Deluded and Betrayed his Majesty and the Nation in all Forreign Treaties and Negotiations relating to the late War XVII That he was a principal Author of that fatal Counsel of Dividing the Fleet about June 1666.