Worcester Dr. John Fell Lord Bishop of Oxford Dr. Thomas Lamplugh Lord Bishop of Exeter Dr. William Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Dr. William Gulston Lord Bishop of Bristol Dr. William Beaw Lord Bishop of Llandaff The COMMONS Bedfordshire 4. William Lord Russell Sir Humphrey Monoux Bar. Town of Bedford Pawlet St. John Esq Sir William Franklin Kt. Berks 9. William Barker Esq Richard Southbey Esq * Borough of New-Windsor Richard Winwood Esq Samuel Starkey Esq Borough of Reading John Blagrave Esq Nathan Knight Esq Borough of Wallingford William Lenthall Esq * Scorie Barker Esq Borough of Abbington Sir John Stonehouse Bar. Bucks 14. Thomas Wharton Esq John Hampden Esq Town of Buckingham Sir Richard Temple Kt. of the Bath and Bar. * Edward Lord Latimer Borough of Chipping Wiccomb Sir John Borlase Bar. Thomas Lewes Esq Borough of Aylisbury Sir Thomas Lee Bar. Sir Richard Ingoldesby Kt. of the Bath Borough of Agmondesham Sir Roger Hill Kt. Sir William Drake Kt. Borough of Wendover Richard Hampden Esq Edward Backwell Esq Borough of Great Marlow John Borlace Esq Sir Humphrey Winch Bar. Cambridge 6. Sir Levinus Bennet Bar. * Sir Robert Cotton Kt. * Vniversity of Cambridge Sir Thomas Exton Kt. Sir William Temple Bar. * Town of Cambridge William Lord Allington Sir Thomas Chicheley Kt. Chester 4. Henry Booth Esq Sir Robert Cotton Kt. Bar. * City of Chester William Williams Esq Sir Thomas Grosvenor Bar. Cornwall 44. Francis Robarts Esq Sir Richard Edgcomb Kt. of the Bath Borough of Dunhivid alias Lanceston Sir John Coryton Bar. Sir Hugh Pyper Kt. * Borough of Leskard Sir Jonathan Trelawny Bar. John Buller Esq Borough of Lestwithiel Sir John Carew Bar. Walter Kendal Esq Borough of Truro William Boscawen Esq Edward Boscawen Esq Borough of Bodmin Hendar Robarts Esq Nicholas Glyn Esq Borough of Helston Sir Viel Vivian Bar. Sydney Godolphin Esq Borough of Saltash Sir John Davie Bar. * William Jennings Esq * Borough of Gamelford Robert Russel Esq Sir James Smith Kt. Borough of Port-Pigham alias Westow John Trelawny of Trelawney Esq John Trelawney of Westmin Esq Borough of Crampound Nicholas Herle Esq * John Tanner Esq Borough of Eastlow Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bar. Henry Seymour of Langley Esq Borough of Penryn Charles Smith Esq * Sir Nicholas Slanning Kt. of the Bath and Bar. * Borough of Tregony Hugh Boscawen Esq Charles Trevannian Esq Borough of Bossiney Charles Bodvile Roberts Esq Narcissus Luttrel of Grays-Inn Esq * Borough of St. Ives Edw. Noseworthy Senior Esq Edw. Noseworth Junior Esq Borough of Foway Jonathan Rashlegh Esq John Trefry Esq Borough of St. Germans Daniel Elliot Esq Richard Elliot Esq Borough of St. Michael Sir John S. Aubin Bar. Walter Vincent Esq Borough of Newport William Coryton Esq Ambrose Manaton Esq Borough of St. Mawes Sir Joseph Tredenham Kt. Henry Seymour Jun. Esq Borough of Killinton Richard Carew Esq * William Trevisa Esq * Cumberland 6. Edward Lord Morpheth Sir John Lowther City of Carlile Sir Philip Howard Kt. Sir Christopher Musgrave Kt. Borough of Cockermouth Sir Richard Grahme Bar. Orlando Gee Esq Derby 4. William Lord Cavendish William Sacheverell Esq Town of Derby Anchitel Gray Esq George Vernon Esq Devonshire 26. Sir William Courtenay Bar. Sam. Rolle Esq City of Exeter William Glyde Esq Malachy Pine Esq Borough of Totnes Sir Edward Seymour Bar. Edward Seymour Esq Borough of Plymouth Sir John Maynard Kt. His Majesty's Serjeant at Law John Spark Esq Town of Okehampton Sir Arthur Harris Bar. Josias Calmady Esq Borough of Barnstable John Basset Esq Richard Lee Esq Borough of Plympton George Treby Esq John Polexfen Merchant * Borough of Honiton Sir Walter Young Bar. Sir Thomas Putt Bar. Borough of Tavistock Edward Russel Esq Sir Francis Drake Bar. Borough of Ashburton Thomas Reynell Esq Richard Duke Junior Esq * Borough of Clifton Dartmouth and Hardness John Upton Esq Edward Yard Esq * Borough of Beralston Sir John Trevor Kt. Sir William Bastard Kt. Borough of Tiverton Samuel Foot Esq Sir Henry Ford Kt. Dorsetshire 20. Thomas Strangeways Esq Thomas Freke Esq Town of Pool Henry Trenchard Esq Thomes Chafin Esq Borough of Dorchester Sir Francis Hollis Kt. and Bar. Nicholas Gould Merchant Borough of Lyme-Regis Henry Henley Esq Thomas Moore Esq * Borough of Weymouth Sir John Coventry Kt. of the Bath Sir John Morton Kt. and Bar. * Melcom-Regis Thomas Brown Esq Michael Harvey Esq Borough of Bridport Sir Robert Henley Bar. * William Bragge Esq * Borough of Shafton alias Shaftsbury Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. * Thomas Bennett Esq Borough of Wareham Thomas Erle Esq George Savage Esq Borough of Corf-Castle Nathaniel Bond Esq * Sir Nathan Naper Kt. and Bar. Durham 4. William Bowes Esq * Tho. Fetherston Hough Esq * City of Durham Sir Richard Lloyd * William Blakeston Esq * Essex 8. Henry Mildmay Esq John Lemot Honywood Esq * Borough of Colchester Sir Harbottle Grimston Bar. Sir Walter Clarges Bar. Borough of Malden Sir William Wiseman Kt. and Bar. Sir Thomas Darcy Bar. * Borough of Harwich Sir Philip Parker Bar. * Sir Thomas Mydalton Kt. Gloucestershire 8. Sir Ralph Dutton Bar. Sir John Guise Bar. City of Gloucester Evan Seys Serjeant at Law by one Indenture Sir Charles Berkley * by one Indenture Evan Seys Serjeant at Law by another Indenture William Cooke Esq by another Indenture Borough of Cirencester Sir Robert Atkins Junior Kt. Henry Powle Esq Borough of Tukesbury Sir Hen. Capel Kt. of the Bath Sir Francis Russel Bar. Herefordshire 8. John Viscount Scudamore Sir Edw. Harley Kt. of the Bath City of Hereford Bridstock Hartford Esq Paul Foley Esq Borough of Lempster John Dutton Colt Esq Thomas Coningesby Esq Borough of Webley John Birch Esq John Booth Esq * Hertfordshire 6. Sir Jonathan Keat Bar. * Sir Charles Caesar Bar. Borough of St. Albans Thomas Pope Blount Esq Samuel Grimston Esq * Borough of Hertford Sir Thomas Bide Kt. Sir William Cooper Bar. * Huntingtonshire 4. Sir Thomas Proby Bar. * Silus Titus Esq Borough of Huntington Sidney Wortley alias Montague Esq Lyonel Walden Esq * Kent 10. Sir Vere Fane Kt. of the Bath Edward Dering Esq City of Canterbury Sir Thomas Hardress Kt. His Majesty's Serjeant at Law * Edward Hales Esq City of Rochester Sir John Banks Bar. Francis Barrel Serj. at Law * Borough of Maidston Sir John Tufton Kt. and Bar. Thomas Fane Esq * Borough of Quinborough Sir Edward Hales Bar. William Glanvil Esq Lancaster 14. Charles Lord Brandon Sir Charles Houghton* Borough of Lancaster Richard Kirkby Esq William Spencer Esq * Borough or Town of Preston in Amounderness Sir John Otway Kt. Edward Rigby Serjeant at Law Borough of Newton Sir John Chicheley Kt. Andrew Fountain Esq Borough of Wigorn. Charles Earl of Ancram Banks Esq * Borough of Clithero Sir Ralph Ast on Bar. Sir Tho. Stringer Serj. at Law Borough of Leverpool Ruishee Wentworth Esq John Dubois Merchant Leicester 4. Bennet Lord Sherrard Sir John Hartop Bar. Town of Leicester John Grey Esq Sir Henry Beaumont Kt. Lincoln 12. George Lord Viscount Castleton Sir Robert
Baronet Borough of Harwich Sir Philip Parker Baronet Sir Thomas Mydalton Knight GLOUCESTERSHIRE 8. Sir Ralph Dutton Baronet Sir John Guise Baronet City of Gloucester Charles Lord Durseley * Charles Somerset Lord Herbert Borough of Cirencester Sir Robert Atkins Jun. Knight Henry Powle Esq Borough of Tukesbury Sir Henry Capel Knight of the Bath Sir Francis Russel Baronet HEREFORDSHIRE 8. John Viscount Scudamore Sir Edward Harley Knight of the Bath City of Hereford Paul Foley Esq * Henry Aubrey Esq Borough of Lempster John Dutton Colt Esq Thomas Conings by Esq Borough of Webley John Birch Esq John Booth Esq HERTFORDSHIRE 6 Sir Charles Caesar Knight * William Hales Esq Borough of St. Albans Sir Thomas Pope Blount Baronet Samuel Grimston Esq Borough of Hertford Sir Thomas Bide Knight Sir William Couper Baronet HUNTINGTONSHIRE 4 Sir Thomas Proby Baronet Silas Titus Esq Borough of Huntington Sidey Wortley alias Mountague Esq Lionel Walden Esq KENT 10. Sir Vere Fane Knight of the Bath Edward Dering Esq City of Canterbury * Lewis Watson Esq * Vincent Denn Esq City of Rochester Sir John Banks Baronet * Sir Francis Clerk Knight Borough of Maidstone Sir John Tufton Knight and Baronet Thomas Fane Esq Borough of Quinborough William Glonvil Esq * Gerard Gore Esq LANCASTER 14. Charles Lord Brandon Sir Charles Houghton Barronet Borough of Lancaster Richard Kirkby Esq William Spencer jun. Esq Borough or Town of Preston in Amounderness Sir Robert Carr Knight and Baronet Sir Gervas Elwes Baronet Borough of Newton Sir John Chicheley Knight Andrew Fountain Esq Borough of Wigon * Richard Lord Colchester Charles Earl of Ancram Borough of Clithero Sir Thomas Stringer Knight * Henry Marsden Esq Borough of Leverpool Ruishee Wentworth Esq John Duobois Merchant LEICESTER 4. Bennet Lord Sherrard Sir John Hartop Baronet Town of Leicester John Gray Esq Sir Henry Beaumont Knight LINCOLN 12 George Lord Viscount Castleton Sir Robert Carr Knight and Baronet City of Lincoln * Sir Thomas Hussey Knight Sir Thomas Meers Knight Borough of Beston Sir Anthony Irby Knight Sir William York Knight Borough of Great Grimsby William Broxolme Esq George Pelham Esq Town of Stamford Sir Richard Cust Baronet VVilliam Hyde Esq Borough of Grantham Sir VVilliam Ellis Baronet Sir John Newton Baronet MIDDLESEX 8. Sir VVilliam Robarts Knight * Nicholas Raynton Esq City of VVestminster Sir VVilliam Poultney Knight Sir VVilliam VValler Knight London Sir Robert Clayton Knight Alderman Thomas Pilkington Esq Alderman Sir Thomas Player Knight VVilliam Love Esq MONMOUTH 3. Sir Trevor VVelliams Baronet Sir Edward Morgon Knight Borough of Monmouth John Arnold Esq NORFOLK 12. Sir John Hobart Baronet Sir Peter Gleen Baronet City of Norwich William Lord Paston Augustin Briggs Esq Town of Lyn-Regis * Sir Henry Hobart Knight Simon Taylor Esq Town of Great Yarmouth * Sir James Johnson Knight George England Esq Borough of Thetford Sir Joseph Williamson Knight William Harbord Esq Borough of Castlerising Sir Robert Howard Knight James Hoste Esq NORTHAMPTON 9. John Parkhurst Esq Miles Fleetwod Esq City of Peterborough * William Lord Fitz-Williams Francis St. John Esq Town of Northampton Ralph Montague Esq Sir William Langham Knight Town of Brackley Sir Richard VVenham Baronet * VVilliam Lisle Esq Borough of Higham-Ferries Sir Rice Rud Baronet NORTHUMBERLAND 8. Sir John Fenwick Baronet Sir Ralph Dalaval Baronet Town of Newcastle upon Tine Sir Ralph Carr Knight Sir Nathaniel Johnson Knight Borough of Morpeth Sir George Downing Knight and Baronet Daniel Collingwood Esq Town of Berwick upon Tweed Ralph Grey Esq John Rushworth Esq NOTTINGHAM 8. Sir Scroop How Knight John White Esq Town of Nottingham Robert Pierrepoint Esq Richard Slater Esq Borough of East-Retford Sir Edward Nevile Knight and Baronet Sir William Hickman Baronet Town of Newark upon Trent Sir Robert Markham Baronet Sir Richard Rothwel Baronet OXON 9. Thomas Hord Esq * Sir Philip Harcourt Knight University of Oxon. Sir Lionel Jenkins Knight Charles Perrot Dr. of Laws City of Oxon. William Wright Esq Broom Whorhood Esq Borough of New-woodstock * Henry Barty Esq Nicholas Baynton Esq Borough of Banbury Sir John Holman Baronet RUTLAND 2. Philip Sherrard Esq * Edward Fawkener Esq SALOP 12. Richard Newport Esq William Levison Gower Esq Town of Salop. Sir Richard Corbet Baronet Edward Kinnaston Esq Borough of Burges alias Bridgnorth Sir William Whitmore Baronet Sir Thomas VVhitmore Knight of the Bath Borough of Ludlow Francis Charleton Esq * Charles Baldwyn Esq Borough of Great VVenlock John VVoolriche Esq VVilliam Forrester Esq Town of Bishops Castle Sir Richard Mason Knight * Richard More Esq SOMERSET 18. Sir VVilliam Portman Baronet George Speke Esq City of Bristol * Sir Richard Hart Knight * Thomas Earle Esq City of Bath * Maurice Viscount Fitzharding * Sir VVilliam Basset Knight City of Wells William Coward Esq John Hall Esq Borough of Taunton Edmund Prideaux Esq John Trenchard Esq Borough of Bridgwater Sir Haswel Tynt Baronet * Sir John Mallet Knight Borough of Minehead Francis Lutterel Esq Thomas Palmer Esq Borough of Ilcester * Sir John St. Barb. * Thomas Hoddy jun. Esq Borough of Milburn-Port John Hunt Esq Henry Bull Esq SOUTHAMPTON 6. * Charles Earl of Wiltshire Sir Francis Rolle Knight City of Winchester James Lord Annesly Sir John Cloberry Knight Town of Southampton Sir Charles Wingham Knight Sir Benjamin Newland Knight Town of Portsmouth George Legg Esq Richard Norton Esq Borough of Yarmouth * Sir Thomas Littleton Baronet Lemuel Kingdon Esq Borough of Petersfield Sir John Norton Baronet Leonard Bilson Esq Borough of Newport alias Medona Sir Robert Dillington Baronet John Leigh Esq Borough of Stockbridge * Essex Stroud Esq Oliver St. Johns Esq Boroagh of Newton Daniel Finch Esq Sir John Holmes Knight Borough of Christ-Church Sir Thomas Clarges Knight George Fulford Esq Borough of Whitchurch Richard Ayleffe Esq Henry Wallop Esq Borough of Limington Henry Dawley Esq John Burrard Esq Town of Andover * Charles West Esq * John Collins Esq STAFFORDSHIRE 10. Sir Walter Baggot Baronet Sir John Bower Baronet City of Lichfield Daniel Finch Esq Michael Biddulph Esq Borough of Stafford Sir Thomas Armstrong Kt. * Edwyn Skrymsher Esq Borough of Newcastle under Line Sir Thomas Bellot Bar. William Leveston Gower Esq Borough of Tamworth Sir Thomas Thynne Bar. by one Indent * Sir John Swynfen Esq by one Indent John Swynfen Esq by another Indenture * John Turton Esq by another Indenture SUffOLK 16. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir William Spring Bar. Borough of Ipswich John Wright Esq Sir John Barker Bar. Borough of Dunwich Sir Robert Kemp Bar. Sir Philip Skippon Knight Borough of Orford Sir John Duke Bar. * Thomas Glemham Esq Borough of Alborough John Bence Esq John Corrance Esq Borough of Sudbury Sir Gervase Elwes Bar. Garvasa Elwes Esq Borough of Eye * Sir Robert Reve Bar. * Sir Charles Gaudey Knight Bar. Borough of St Edmondsbury Sir Thomas Harvey Knight Themas Jermyn Esq SURREY 14. Arthur Onslow Esq George Evelyn of Wotton Esq Borough of Southwark Sir Richard How
Carr Kt. and Bar. City of Lincoln Sir Thomas Meers Kt. Henry Mounson Esq Borough of Boston Sir Anthony Irby Kt. Sir William York Kt. Borough of Great Grimsby William Broxholme Esq George Pelham Esq Town of Stamford Sir Richard Cust Bar. William Hyde Esq Borough of Grantham Sir William Ellis Bar. Sir John Newton Bar. Middlesex 8. Sir William Roberts Bar. Sir Robert Atkins Bar. City of Westminster Sir William Poultney Kt. Sir William Waller Kt. London Sir Robert Clayton Kt. Sir Thomas Player Kt. William Love Esq Thomas Pilkinton Esq Monmouth 3. Sir Trevor Williams Bar. William Morgan Esq Borough of Monmouth John Arnold Esq Norfolk 12. Sir John Hobert Bar. Sir Peter Gleen * City of Norwich William Lord Paston Augustin Briggs Esq Town of Lyn-Regis John Turner Esq Simon Taylor Esq Town of Great Yarmouth Richard Huntington Esq George England Esq * Borough of Thetford Sir Joseph Williamson Kt. William Harbord Esq Borough of Castlerising Sir Robert Howard Kt. James Hoste Esq Northampton 9. John Parkhurst Esq Miles Fleetwood Esq * City of Peterborough Francis St. John Esq Charles Orme Esq * Town of Northampton Ralph Montague Esq Sir William Langham Kt. * Town of Brackley Richard Wenman Esq * Sir Will. Egerton Kt. of the Bath* Borough of Higham Ferrers Sir Rice Rudd Bar. Northumberland 8. Sir John Fenwick Bar. Sir Ralph Delaval Bar. Town of Newcastle upon Tine Sir William Blacket Bar. Sir Ralph Carr Kt. * Borough of Morpeth Sir George Downing Kt. Bar. Daniel Collingwood Esq * Town of Berwick upon Tweed Ralph Grey Esq John Rushworth Esq Nottingham 8. Sir Scroop How Kt. John White Esq Town of Nottingham Robert Pierrepoint Esq Richard Slater Esq Borough of Eastretford Sir William Hickman Bar. Sir Edward Nevile Kt. Bar. Town of Newark upon Trent Sir Robert Markham Kt. Sir Richard Rothwell* Oxon 9. Sir John Cope Bar. Thomas Hoard Esq * Vniversity of Oxon. Sir Leoline Jenkins* Dr. Charles Perrot* City of Oxon. Broom Whorwood Esq William Wright Esq Borough of New-Woodstock Sir Littleton Osbaldeston Bar. Nicholas Baynton Esq Borough of Banbury Sir John Holman Bar. Rutland 2. Sir Abel Barker* Philip Sherrard Esq Salop 12. Richard Newport Esq Sir Vincent Corbet Bar. Town of Salop. Sir Richard Corbet Bar. Edward Kinaston Esq Borough of Bruges alias Bridgenorth Sir William Whitmore Bar. Sir Tho. Whitmore Kt. of the Bath Borough of Ludlow Francis Charleton Esq Thomas Walcot Esq Borough of Great Wenlock William Forrester Esq John Woolryche Esq * Town of Bishops-Castle Edward Waring Esq Richard Schriven Esq * Somerset 18. Sir William Portman Bar. and Kt. of the Bath George Speke Esq * City of Bristol Sir Robert Cann Kt. Bar. Sir John Knight Kt. City of Wells John Hall Esq William Coward Esq Recorder Borough of Taunton John Trenchard Esq Edmund Prideaux Esq Borough of Bridgewater Sir Haswell Tynt Bar. Ralph Stawell Esq * Borough of Minehead Francis Lutterell Esq Thomas Palmer Gent. * Borough of Ilester William Strode Esq â—ohn Speke Esq Borough of Milbornport â—â—hn Hunt Esq â—enry Bull Esq Southampton 26. Wâ—lliam Lord Russel Sir Francis Rolle Kt. * City of Winchester Jamâ—s Lord Annesley Sir John Clobery Kt. Town of Southampton Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Châ—rles Wyndham Kt. * Town of Portsmouth George Legg Esq Richard Norton Esq Borough of Yarmouth Sir Richard Mason Kt. Thomas Windham Esq * Borough of Peterfield Sir John Norton Bar. Leonard Bilson Esq Borough of Newport alias Medona Sir Robert Dillington Bar. John Leigh Esq * Borough of Stockbridge William Strode Esq Henry Whitehead Esq Borough of Newton Sir John Holmes Kt. Lemuel Kingdon Esq Borough of Christ Church Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. George Fulford Esq * Borough of Whitchurch Henry Wallop Esq Richard Ayliffe Esq Borough of Limmington John Button Esq John Burrard Esq Town of Andover Sir Robert Henley Kt. * Francis Powlett Esq Staffordshire 10. Sir Walter Bagott Bar. Sir John Bowyer Bar. City of Litchfield Daniel Finch Esq * Michael Biddulph Esq Borough of Stafford Sir Thomas Wilbraham Bar. * Sir Thomas Armstrong Kt. Borough of Newcastle under Line Sir Thomas Bellot Bar. William Leviston Gower Esq Borough of Tamworth Thomas Thynne Esq Sir Andrew Hacket Kt. * Suffolk 16. â—ir William Spring Bar. * â—ir Samuel Bernadiston Bar. Borough of Ipswich Sâ—â— John Barker Kt. and Bar. Jon Wright Esq Borough of Dunwich Sir Robert Kemp Bar. Sir â—hilip Skippon Kt. Borough of Orford Sir John Duke Bar. Henry Parker Esq * Borough of Asbborough John Bâ—nce Esq * John Corrance Esq * Borough of Sudbury Sir Gervase Elwes Bar. Gervase Elwes Esq Borough of Eye Charles Fox Esq * George Walch Esq * Borough of S. Edmondsbury Sir Thomas Harvey Kt. Thomas Jermyn Esq Surrey 14. Arthur Onslow Esq George Evelyn of Wotton Esq Borough of Southwark Sir Richard How Kt. Peter Rich Esq Borough of Blechingly George Evelyn of Nutfield Esq John Morris Esq * Borough of Ryegate Roger James Esq Dean Goodwyn Esq Borough of Guilford Morgan Randyl of Chilworth Esq * Richard Onslow of West-Clandon Eâ—q Borough of Gatton Sir Nicolas Carew Kt. Thomas Turgis Esq Borough of Haslemere Francis Dorington Esq Denzil Onslow Esq Sussex 20. Sir John Pelham Bar. Sir Nicholas Pelham Kt. * City of Chichester Richard Farrington Esq * John Braman Esq Borough of Horseham Anthony Eversfield Esq John Michell Esq Borough of Midhurst John Lewkener Esq John Alford Esq Borough of Lewes Richard Bridger Esq Thomas Pelham Esq Borough of New Shoreham John Cheale Senior Esq John Hales Esq Borough of Bramber Henry Sidney Esq Henry Goreing Esq Borough of Steyning Sir John Fagg Bar. Philip Gill Esq Borough of East-Grimstead Goodwyn Wharton Esq * William Jephson Esq * Borough of Arundel William Garway Esq James Butler Esq Warwickshire 6. Sir Edward Boughton Bar. Robert Burdet Esq City of Coventry Richard Hopkins Esq John Stratford Esq * Borough of Warwick Thomas Lucy Esq Richard Booth Esq Westmorland 4. Alan Bellingham Christopher Phillipson Esq * Borough of Apulby Anthony Lowther Esq Richard Tufton Esq Wiltshire 34. Sir Walter St. John Bar. * Thomas Thynne Esq City of New Sarum Sir Thomas Mompesson Kt. Alexander Thistlethwaite Esq Borough of Wilton Thomas Herbert Esq Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath * Borough of Downton Sir Joseph Ash Bar. Maurice Bockland Esq Borough of Hindon Sir Richard Grobham How Kt. Bar. Richard How Esq Borough of Westbury William Trenchard Esq Edward Norton Esq Borough of Hersbury William Ash Esq Edward Ash Esq Borough of Calne Sir George Hungerford Kt. Lionel Ducket Esq * Borough of the Devizes Sir Giles Hungerford Kt. * John Eyles Esq * Borough of Chiphenham Sir Edw. Hungerford Kt. of the Bath * Samuel Ash Esq * Borough of Malmsbury Sir William Escourt Bar. Sir James Long Bar. Borough of Cricklade Edmund Webb Esq William Lentham Esq Borough of Great Bedwin William Finch Esq * Francis Stonehouse Esq Borough of Lugdersale Thomas Neal Esq John Garrard
Esq Borough of Old Sarum Henry Lord Colerain* Sir Eliab Harvey Borough of Wooton Basset Henry St. John Esq * Laurence Hyde Esq Borough of Marleborough Thomas Lord Bruce * Thomas Bennet Esq Worcestershire 9. Samuel Sandys Esq Thomas Foley Esq City of Worcester Sir Francis Winnington Kt. Thomas Street one of His Majesty's Serjeants at Law Borough of Droitwich Henry Coventry Esq Principal Secretary of State Samuel Sandys Junior Esq Borough of Evesham Sir James Rushout Bar. Henry Parker Esq Borough of Bewdley Philip Foley Esq York 30. Charles Lord Clifford Henry Lord Fairfax City of York Sir Henry Thompson Kt. Sir John Hewly Kt. Town of Kingston upon Hull Sir Michael Warton Kt. * William Gee Esq * Borough of Knaesborough Sir Thomas Slingsby Bar. William Stockdale Esq Borough of Scarsborough William Thompson Esq Francis Thompson Esq Borough of Rippon Richard Stern Esq Christopher Wandesford Esq Borough of Richmond Thomas Craddock Esq Humphry Wharton Esq Borough of Heydon Sir Hugh Bethell Kt. Henry Guy Esq Borough of Corfe Boroughbrig Sir Thomas Mauliverer Bar. Sir John Brook Kt. * Borough of Malton William Palmes Esq Sir Watkinson Payler Bar. Borough of Thirske Nicholas Sanderson Esq Sir William Franklan Kt. Borough of Aldborough Sir Brian Stappleton Bar. Sir Godfrey Copley Bar. Borough of Beverly Sir John Hotham Bar. Michael Warton Esq Borough of North-Allerton Sir Gilbert Gerrard Bar. Sir Henry Calverly Kt. Borough of Pontefract Sir John Dawney Kt. Sir Patience Ward Kt. BARONS Of the CIN QUE-PORTS 16. Port of Hastings Sir Robert Parker Bar. John Ashsburnham Esq Town of Winchelsea Creswel Draper Esq Thomas Austin Esq Town of Rye Sir John Dorrell Kt. Thomas Frewen Esq Port of New Rumney Sir Charles Sedley Bar. Paul Barrett Esq Port of Hythe Sir Edward Dering Bar. Edward Hales Esq * Port of Dover William Stokes Esq Thomas Papillon Esq Port of Sandwich John Thurban Esq Sir James Oxenden Kt. Bar. Port of Seaford Sir William Thomas Bar. Herbert Stapley Esq WALES 24. ANGLESEY II. Richard Bulkeley Esq Town of Bewmorris Henry Bulkeley Esq BRECON II. Richard Williams Esq Town of Brecon John Jefferys Esq CARDIGAN II. Edward Vaughan of Trouscoad Esq Town of Cardigan Hector Phillips Esq CARMARTHEN II. John Lord Vaughan Kt. of the Bath Town of Carmarthen Altham Vaughan Esq CARNARVAN II. Thomas Bulkley of Dinas Esq Town of Carnarvon Thomas Mostin of Glotheth Esq DENBY II. Sir Thomas Mydelton Bar. Town of Denbigh Sir John Salisbury Bar. FLINT II. Mutton Davis Esq Town of Flint Roger Whitley Esq GLAMORGAN II. Bussy Mansel Esq Town of Cardiffe Sir Robert Thomas Bar. MERIONETH I. Sir John Wynne Kt. Bar. PEMBROOK III. Sir Hugh Own Bar. Town of Haverford West Thomas Owen Esq Town of Pembrook Arther Owen Esq MONTGOMERY II. Edward Vaughan Esq Town of Montgomery Matthew Price Esq RADNOR II. Rowland Guynne Esq Town of Radnor Griffith Jones Esq The COMMONS in all 513. Historical Collections OR THE CONTINUATION Of the PROCEEDINGS Of the PARLIAMENT Begun and Dissolved AT OXFORD LONDON Printed in the Year 1681. Historical Collections OR THE CONTINUATION Of the PROCEEDINGS Of the PARLIAMENT Begun and Dissolved AT OXFORD Fame BEing fully satisfied with the accompt which you gave me of the Proceedings of the last Parliament at Westminster I took my flight into the Country thinking to have open'd my Pacquet But when I came there I could hardly find any Body at home all People were so busied with the New Elections and taken up with future expectations that they little minded what was past Thereupon I resolv'd to stay a while before I expos'd my self to those whose thoughts I found were bent another way Upon these considerations I followed the Croud to Oxford But I had hardly trimmed my Weather beaten Wings before the Parliament was dissolved there too So then I thought it my best way to come up to London again and find out my Old Friend Truth and then to take my Progresses with a compleat and perfect Relation Now therefore I desire thee to favour me with an Accompt of the main Transactions in this same short Parliament at Oxford Truth That 's soon done Fame 'T is so and therefore the trouble being the less I am the more bold to desire it in hopes that by keeping Thee company I may convince the World of the ill Opinion it has of me of being a Lyar. Truth Falshood in things of this Nature is of a dangerous importance and therfore I will tell the Relation barely without Welt or Guard and do thou be sure to make no Additions thy self Fame I shall be very punctual in observing thy Instructions Truth Know then that the Parliament being appointed to meet upon the 21st of March 1681. And the time of Sessions approaching the King upon the Twelf of March removed to Windsor Upon the Fourteenth he removed to Oxford and in his way was met upon the Borders of the County by the High Sheriff with his Attendants and at Whateby by the Lord Norris Lord Lieutenant of the County with such an appearance of the Gentry that hardly any were found missing but such as were known to be hindred by Sickness or other lawful Impediment By whom together with the Two Troops of the County Militia his Majesty was conducted to the East-Gate of the City where he was received by the Mayor and the rest of the City Magistrates and the Recorder Serjeant Cook welcom'd in a set Speech and after the usual Presents made by the Maior and among the rest of the Mace which was return'd the Mayor then carrying the Mace before his Majesty with the rest of the Brethen attended his Majesty to Christ-Church-Gate After that the King passing to his Appartment in the Colledge was received by the Bishop with a Latin Speech upon his Knes attended by the Canons and the next Morning was attended by the Vice-Chancellour the Doctors Professors Proctors and University Orator The Vice-Chancellor laid the Beadle's Staves at the Kings Feet and then the Orator addressed himself in Latin to the King and in English to the Queen the Vice-Chancellor Orator and Doctors kneeling all the while Fame These Ceremonies do not happen every day and therefore you have obliged me with the Relation Truth Upon the 21st of March the parliament met according to Summons at Oxford in the Convocation House at what time his Majesty went to the House of Lords which State in the Geometry-School and being seated in his Throne with his Royal Robes and the usual Solemnities declar'd himself in a Gratious Speech to Both Houses to the Effect as followes That the unwarrantable Proceedings of the last House of Commons were the reason of his parting with them for that he who would never use Arbitrary Government himself would not suffer it in others That whoever calmly consider'd the Assurances he had renewed to that last Parliament and what he had recommended to them his Forreign Alliances the Examination of the Plot and the Preservation of Tangier and reflect upon their
Windsor Thomas Lord Cromwel Ralph Lord Eure. Philip Lord Wharton Tho Lord Willoughby of Parham William Lord Pagett Charles Lord North Grey of Rolleston James Lord Chandos Robert Lord Hunsdon James Lord Norreys Digby Lord Gerrard under Age. Christopher Lord Tenham Fulk Lord Brook Edward Lord Mountague of Boughton Ford Lord Grey of Wark John Lord Lovelace John Lord Paulet William Lord Maynard John Lord Coventry William Lord Howard of Escrick Charles Lord Mohun under Age. Henry Lord Herbert of Cherbury Thomas Lord Leigh Christopher Lord Hatton Richard Lord Byron Richard Lord Vaughan Francis Lord Carrington William Lord Widdrington Edward Lord Ward Thomas Lord Culpeper Jacob Lord Astley Charles Lord Lucas Edward Lord Rockingham Robert Sutton Lord Lexington under Age Charles Henry Lord Wooton Marmaduke Lord Langdale Charles Lord Berklay of Stratton under Age. Francis Lord Holles Charles Lord Cornwallis George Lord Delamere Horatio Lord Townsend Thomas Lord Crew John Lord Frescheville Richard Lord Arundel of Trevise James Lord Butler of Moor-park under Age. Hugh Lord Clifford under Age. Richard Lord Butler of Weston Edward Noel Lord Titchfield Archbishops and Bishops Dr William Sancroft Lord ArchBishop of Canterbury Dr Richard Stern L. Archhishop of York Dr Henry Compton Lord Bishop of London Dr. Nathaniel Crew Lord Bishop of Durham Dr George Morley Lord Bishop of Winchester Dr. Herbert Crofts Lord Bishop of Hereford Dr. Seth Ward Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Edward Rainbow Lord Bishop of Carlisle Dr. John Dolben Lord Bishop of Rochester Dr. Anthony Sparrow Lord Bishop of Norwich Dr. Peter Gunning Lord Bishop of Ely Dr. Thomas Wood Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry Dr. Peter Mew Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells Dr. John Pierson Lord Bishop of Chester Dr. Humphry Lloyd Lord Bishop of Bangor Dr. William Lloyd Lord Bishop of Peterborough Dr. Guy Carlton Lord Bishop of Chichester Dr. Thomas Barlow Lord Bishop of Lincoln Dr. James Fleetwood Lord Bishop of Worcester Dr. John Fell Lord Bishop of Oxford Dr. Thomas Lamplough Lord Bishop of Exeter Dr. William Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Dr. William Gulston Lord Bishop of Bristol Dr. William Beaw Lord Bishop of Llandâ—ff Dr. William Lloyd Lord Bishop of St. Asaph Note that the LORDS under Age are not Call'd by the King 's WRIT And Papists are excluded by Law The COMMONS BEDFORDSHIRE 4. William Lord Russel Sir Humphrey Monnox Baronet Town of Bedford Pawlet St. John Esquire Sir William Franklin Knight BARKS 9. William Barker Esquire Richard Southby Esq Borough of Reading John Blagrave Esq Nathan Knight Esq Borough of Wallingford Scory Barker Esq * Taverner Harris Esq Borough of Abington Sir John Stonehouse BUCKS 14. Thomas Wharton Esq Richard Hambden Esq Town of Buckingham Sir Richard Temple Kinght of the Bath and Baronet * Sir Ralph Varney Knight and Baronet Borough of Chipping-Wiccomb Sir John Borlase Baronet Thomas Lewis Esq Borough of Aylsbury Sir Thomas Lee Baronet Sir Richard Ingoldesby Knight of the Bath Borough of Agmondesham Sir William Drake Knight * William Cheyney Esq Borough of Wendover John Hambden Esq Edward Backwel Esq Borough of Great Marlow John Borlase Esq * Thomas Hobby Esq CAMBRIDGE 6 Sir Levinus Benet Baronet Sir Robert Cotton Knight University of Cambridge Sir Thomas Exton Knight * Robert Bradey Dr. of Physick Town of Cambridge William Lord Allington Sir Thomas Chicheley Knight CHESTER 4. Henry Booth Esq Sir Robery Cotton Knight Bar. City of Chester William Williams Speaker Roger Whitley Esq CORNWAL 44. Francis Roberts Esq Sir Richard Edgcomb Knight of the Bath Borough of Danhivid alias Lanceston Sir Hugh Piper Knight William Harbord Esq Borough of Leskard Sir Jonathan Trelawney Baronet John Buller Esq Borough of Lestwithiel Sir John Carew Baronet Walter Kendal Esq Borough of Truro Edward Boscawen Esq * Henry Ashhurst Esq Borough of Bodwin Hender Roberts Esq Nicholas Glynn Esq Borough of Helston * Charles Godolphin Esq Sidney Godolphin Esq Borough of Saltash Bernard Greenvil Esq Sir John Davie Baronet Borough of Camelford Robert Russel Esq Sir James Smith Knight Borough of Port-pigham alias Westlow John Trelawney of Westm Esq * Jonathan Trelawney of Coldrunoch Borough of Crampound John Tanner Esq Nicholas Herle Esq Borough of Eastlow Sir Jonathan Trelawney Baronet * John Kendal Esq Borough of Penryn Sir Nicholas Slanning Knight of the Bath and Baronet Charles Smith Esq Borough of Tregony Hugh Boscawen Esq Charles Trevannian Esq Borough of Bossiney Charles Bodvile Roberts Esq * Sir Peter Coryton Baronet Borough of St. Ives Edward Noseworthy junior Esq * James Prade jun. Esq Borough of Foway Jonathan Rashleigh Esq John Trefry Esq Boroagh of St. Germans Daniel Elliot Esq Richard Elliot Esq Borough of St. Michael * Sir William Russel Knight * Henry Vincent Esq Borough of Newport * William Morris Esq Ambrose Manaton Esq Borough of St. Mawes Sir Joseph Tredenham Knight Henry Seymour jun. Esq Borough of Killinton William Coriton Esq Richard Carew Esq CUMBERLAND 6. * Sir George Fletcher Baronet Sir John Lowther Baronet City of Carlisle Edward Lord Morpeth Sir Christopher Musgrave Knight Borough of Cockermouth Sir Richard Grahme Baronet Orlando Gee Esq DERBY 4 William Lord Cavendish William Sacheveril Esq Town of Derby Anchitel Gray Esq George Vernon Esp DEâ—ONSHIRE 26. Sir William Courtenay Baronel Samuel Rolle Esq City of Exeter * Sir Thomas Carew Knight * Thomas Walker Esq Borough of Totnes * John Kelland Esq * Charles Kelland Esq Borough of Plymouth Sir John Maynard Knight Sir William Jones Knight Town of Okehampton Sir Arthur Harris Baronet * Sir George Cary Knight Borough of Barnstable John Basset Esq Richard Lee Esq Borough of Plympton Sir George Treby Knight John Pollexfen Merchant Borough of Honiton Sir Walter Young Baronet Sir Thomas Putt Baronet Borough of Tavistock Edward Russel Esq Sir Francis Drake Baronet Borough of Ashburton Thomas Reynel Esq * William Stawel Esq Borough of Clifton Dartmouth and Hardnes Edward Yard Esq John Vpton Esq Borough of Beralston * Sir Duncomb Colchester Knight * John Elwell Merchant Borough of Tiverton Samuel Foot Esq Sir Henry Ford Knight DORSETshIRE 20 Thomas Freke Esq Thomas Strangeways Esq Town of Pool Thomas Chafin Esq Henry Trenchard Esq Borough of Dorchester James Gould Esq Nathaniel Bond Esq Borough of Lime Regis Henry Henly Esq Thomas Moor Esq Borough of Weymouth Sir John Coventry Kt. of Bath Michael Harvey Esq Melcomb-Regis Sir John Morton Baronet * Henry Henning Esq Borough of Bridport William Brag Esq * John Michel Esq Borough of Shafton alias Shaftsbury Sir Matthew Andrews Knight Thomas Bennâ—t Esq Borough of Wareham Thomas Erle Esq George Savage Esq Borough of Corfe-Castle Sir Nath. Naper Knight and Baronet * Richard Fowns Esq DURHAM 4. William Bowes Esq Thomas Fetherstone Hough Esq City of Durham Sir Richard Lloyd Knight * Samuel Tempest ESSEX 8. Henry Mildmay Esq John Lemot Honywood Esq Borough of Colchester Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet * Samuel Reynolds Esq Borough of Malden Sir William Wiseman Kt. and Baronet Sir Thomas Darcy
Knight Peter Rich Esq Borough of Bletchingly * Sir William Gulston Kt. George Evelyn of Nutfield Esq Borough of Ryegate * Ralph Freeman Esq Dean Goodwin Esq Borough of Guilford Richard Onslow Esq Morgan Randyl Esq Borough of Gatton Sir Nicholas Carew Kt. Thonas Turgis Esq Borough of Haslemeere * Sir William More Bar. George Woodroffe Esq SUSSEX 20. Sir William Thomas Bar. Sir John Fagg Bar. City of Chichester John Braman Esq Richard Farrington Esq Burough of Horseham * John Machell Esq John Michell Esq Burough of Midhurst * William Montague Esq * John Cook Esq Burough of Lewis Thomas Pelham Esq Richard Bridger Esq Burough of New Shoreham * Robert Fagg Esq John Hales Esq Burough of Bramber * Peirey Goring Esq Henry Goring Esq Burough of Steyning Sir John Fagg Bar. * Sir James Morton Knight Burough of East-Grinstead * Sir Cyril Wych Kt. Henry Powel Esq Burough of Arundel William Garway Esq James Butler Esq WARWICKSHIRE 6. * Sir Richard Newdigate Bar. * Thomas Mariot Esq City of Coventry Richard Hopkins Esq John Stratford Esq Burough of Warwick Thomas Lucy Esq * Thomas Coventry Esq WESTMORELAND 4. * Sir John Lowther of Lowther Bar. Allan Bellingham Esq Burough of Apulby * Sacvil Tufton Esq * Sir John Bland Bar. WILTSHIRE 24. Sir Walter St. John Bar. Thomas Thyne Esq City of New Sarum * John Windham Esq Alexander Thistlewait Esq Burough of Wilton Thomas Herbert Esq Sir John Nicolas Kt. of the Bath Burough of Downton Sir Joseph Ash Bar. Maurice Bockland Esq Burough of Hindon Sir Richard Grobham How Kt. and Bar. * John Thynne Esq Burough of Westbury William Trenchard Esq * John Ash Esq Burough of Hetsbury William Ash Esq Edward Ash Esq Burough of Calne Sir George Hungerford Knight * Walter Norbon Esq Borough of Devizes * Sir Walter Earneley Bar. * George Johnson Esq Borough of Chipengham Sir Edward Hungerford Kt. of the Bath Sir George Speke Bar. Borough of Malmesbury Sir William Escourt Bar. Sir James Long Bar. Borough of Cricklade William Lenthal Esq Edmund Webb Esq Borough of Great Bedwyn * Sir John Earnly Kt. * John Wildman Esq Borough of Ludgersale Thomas Neal Esq by one Indenture John Garrard Esq by one Indenture * Sir John Talbot K. by another Indenture * John Smith Esq by another Indenture Borough of Old Sarum Sir Eliab Harvey Kt. Sir Thomas Mompesson Kt. Borough of Wotton Basset Henry St. John Esq * John Pleydal Esq Borough of Marleborough Thomas Lord Bruce Thomas Bennet Esq WORCESTERSHIRE 9. Thomas Foley Esq * Bridges Nanfan Esq City of Worcester Sir Frances Winington Kt. * Henry Herbert Esq Borough of Droitwich Henry Coventry Esq Samuel Sandys senior Esq Borough of Evesham Sir James Rushout Bar. * Edward Rudge Esq Borough of Bewdly Philip Foley Esq YORK 30. Charles Lord Clifford Henry Lord Fairfax City of York Sir Henry Thompson Kt. Sir John Hewly Kt. Town of Kingston upon Hull Sir Michael Warton Kt. William Gee Esq Borough of Knaesborough Sir Thomas Slingsby Bar. William Stockdale Esq Borough of Scarborough William Thompson Esq Francis Thompson Esq Borough of Rippon Richard Stern Esq Christopher Wandesford Esq Borough of Richmond * John Darcy Esq Humphrey Wharton Esq Borough of Heydon Henry Guy Esq William Boynton Esq Borough of Boroughbrigg Sir Thoms Mauliverer Bar. Sir John Brook Bar. Borough of Malton William Palmes Esq Sir Watkinson Payler Bar. Borough of Thirske Sir William Franckland Kt. * Sir William Ascough Kt. Borough of Aldborough Sir Godfrey Copley Bar. * Sir John Reresby Bar. Borough of Beverly Sir John Hotham Bar. Michael Wharton Esq Borough of Northallerton Sir Gilbert Gerrard Bar. Sir Henry Calverly Kt. Borough of Pontefract Sir John Dawny Viscount Down Sir Patience Ward Kt. BARONS Of the CINQUE-PORTS 16. Port of Hastings Sir Robert Barker Bar. * Thomas Mun Esq Town of Winchelsea * Sir Stephen Leonard Kt. Cresheld Draper Esq Town of Rye Sir John Dorrel Kt. Thomas Frewen Esq Port of New Rumney Sir Charles Sedley Bar. Paul Barret Esq Port of Hythe Sir Edward Deering Bar. Edward Hales Esq Port of Dover William Stokes Esq Thomas Papillon Esq Port of Sandwich Sir James Oxinden Kt and Bar. John Thurhane Esq Port of Seaford * Edward Montague Esq * Edward Selwyn Esq WALES 24. Â ANGLESEY 2. Richard Bulkeley Esq Town of Bewmorris Henry Bulkeley Esq BRECON 2. Richard Williams Esq Town of Brecon John Jefferies Esq CARDIGAN 2. Edward Vaughan Esq Town of Cardigan Hector Philips Esq CARMARTHEN 2. John Lord Vaughan Kt. of the Bath Town of Carmarthen Altham Vaughan Esq CARNARVAN 2. Sir Thomas Bulkly Knight and Baronet Town of Carnarvan Thomas Mostyn Esq DENBIGH 2. Sir John Trevor Knight Town of Denbigh Sir John Salisbury Baronet FLINT 2. * Sir John Hanmer Knight Bar. Town of Flint * Thomas Whitley Esq GLAMORGAN 2. * Sir Edward Mansel Bar. Town of Cardiffe Bussy Mansel Esq MERIONITH 1. * Sir Robert Owen Knight PEMBROOK 3. * William Wogan Esq Town of Haverford-West * Thomas Howard Esq Town of Pembrook Arthur Owen Esq MONTGOMERY 2 Edward Vaughan Esq Town of Montgomery Matthew Price Esq RADNOR 2. Sir Rowland Gwynne Knight Town of Radnor * Sir John Morgan Baronet The COMMONS in all 513. New Members Returned 110. THE CONTENTS A. ADdress of the Lords Pag. 11. Address of the Commons Pag. 16.155 For preservation of his Majesties Person and Government Pag. 23. Concerning Sir Gorge Jeffereys Pag. 47. Address in Answer to the Message about Tangier Pag. 66. Address of the Commons for Dissenters Ansel a Witness Arnold John Esq a Witness Pag. 107. Atturney General Examined Pag. 61. B. Beckley Earle a Witness Pag. 104. Bill of Association Pag. 154. Bill of Exclusion at London 32. at Oxford 244. Rejected Pag. 447. Bill for repeal of the 35 of Eliz. not tendred and questioned Pag. 238. Mr. Bourk's Information Pag. 38. Lord Brook a Witness Pag. 110. C. Sir Robert Can questioned Pag. 19. Is released Pag. 32. Carew Henry a Fryer Pag. 155. Mr. Comin's Information Pag. 41. Commons demand judgment against L. Staf. Pag. 121. D. Date a Witness Pag. 111. Dangerfield His Narrative ibid. Pag. 12. Kings Declaration Pag. 246. Dissenters Pag. 61 6â— Mr. Dugdal his Narrative Pag. 48. E. Elections considered Pag. 11. F. Fast Pag. 62. Feria his Narrative Pag. 23. Lord Ferrers a Witness Pag. 110. Fitzharris Examination read Pag. 239. Ordered to be impeached ibid. Floyd Sir Philip a Witness Pag. 104. Furnis a Witness Pag. 99.106 G. Leveston Gowre a Witness Pag. 111. Grand Juryes Examined Pag. 61. Their discharging Voted illegal H. The Earl of Hallifax his removal desired Pag. 52. Hausel a Witness Pag. 100. Ben. Harris Petitions the House Pag. 54. Mr. Herbert sent for Pag. 57. Hobby Mr. a Witness Pag. 108. Holt a Witness Pag. 103. Sir Tho. Holt an Obstructer of Petitioning Pag. 57. Mrs. Howard Pag. 98. I. Mr. Jennison his Information Pag. 30. Irish Evidence Pag. 55. Grand Jury call'd into the House Pag. 61. K. Kings Message concerning Tangier Pag. 48. King goes to Oxford Pag. 231. Received by the Major and Bishop Pag. 232. His Speech to the Parliament at Oxford Pag. 233. L. Leigh a Witness Pag. 99.106 Lists of Papists names order'd to be returned throughout England Pag. 151. Lo. debate what judgement to give upon Lo. St. Pag. 121. Lydcot a Witness Pag. 107. M. Macnamars Information Pag. 40. Marchioness of Winchester Pag. 98. Mr. Mathews a Witness Pag. 108. Maurice's Examination Pag. 241. Morrel a Witness Pag. 103. N. Norris complaint reported p. 147. His Imprisonment judged illegal Pag. 151. Lo. C. J. North. order'd to be impeached Pag. 62. O. Obstructers of Petitioning sent for Pag. 54.57 P. Papers Printed by Mr. Treby Pag. 58. Parliament met 3. at Oxford Pag. 232. Peyton Sir Robert Pag. 15.151 Plessington Lord Bellasis Steward Pag. 104. Polteney Sir William a Witness Pag. 106. Preparatians for Stafford's Tryal Pag. 42. Proclamation for Discoverers against Petitio Pag. 16. Considered Pag. 48. Protestation of the Lords Pag. 245. R. Resolves of the House concerning Petitioning Pag. 17. Concerning the Plot. Pag. 25.27 Concerning the Duke of York Pag. 27.28.31 Resolves touching Popery Pag. 153. Robinson a Witness Pag. 103. S. Sawyers a Witness Pag. 100. Lord C. J. Scrogs 165.174 His Answer P. 238. Mr. Scudamore a Witness Pag. 108. Mr. Seymor impeached Pag. 59.63.154 Mr. Seys a Witness Pag. 108. Serjeant's Examination Pag. 241. Speaker chosen Pag. 6. Speech Kings Pag. 4.152 Speech Speakâ—rs 6.8 at Oxford Pag. 235 236. Staf. Tryal begun 70. His Plea upon the Statu 93. His Exceptions astainst the Witn. 93. c. He desires to call more Witn. 110. he insists upon points of Law 111. His objections answered 114. He Petitions 115. found Guilty 117. what he said after for himself 121. Senten'd 124. brought to the Scaffold 131. His Speech 132. c. Executed Pag. 146. Lord High Stewards Speech Pag. 123. Mr. Staples an obstructer Pag. 57. T. Mr. Thompson a Minister Pag. 158. c. Dr. Tongue recommended to his Majesty Pag. 20. Mr. Treby's Letters commanded to be Printed Pag. 58. V. Votes ordered to be Printed Pag. 23. Votes concerning Fitzharris Pag. 243. W. Sir William Waller a Parliament-man for Westminster Pag. 52. Baron Weston accus'd Pag. 173. Sir Fra. Withens ordered to attend the House Pag. 19. Expelled the House Pag. 52. Writs for Executing Lord Stafford Pag. 125. c. Y. Sir Rob. Yeomans questioned 19. discharged Pag. 46. Z. Zeal's Information 55. Pardon'd Pag. 59. FINIS
The Tryall of William Howard L d. Viscount Stafford in Westminster hall His Execution on Tower hill A. L d. high Steward B. B. The Peers in y r. Robes C. C. The Commons D The Iudges E. The Prisoner F. The K s. Box. G. The Managers of â— Tryall H. The Evidence HISTORICAL Collections OR A Brief Account of the most Remarkable Transactions of the Two Last PARLIAMENTS Consisting of I. The Speeches Votes Accusations Addresses and Articles of Impeachment c. II. The Bills of Association Exclusion and Repeal of 35 Eliz. c. III. The several Informations Messages Narratives Orders Petitions Protestation of the Lords and Resolves of both Houses c. IV. The Tryal and Sentence of William Howard Lord Viscount Stafford in Westminster Hall his Speech and Execution on the Scaffold at Tower Hill with many other memorable passages and proceedings of the two last Parliaments held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford V. A perfect List of each Parliament VI. His Majesty's Declaration shewing the Causes and Reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments The Second Edition London Printed for Simon Neale at the Three Pidgeons in Bedford street over against the New Exchange Strand 1682. TO THE READER MEthod and Order are the chiefest Helps and Assistances of Memory And therefore the ensuing sheets being only a bare and brief Collection of the most memorable and Important Passages which occurred in the two last Parliaments held at Westminster and Oxford we have observ'd that method and connexion in the series of Affairs which is most acceptable to the Memory by separating the perfect from the imperfect Matter that the Reader may read with more delight the carriage of things and make his own observations To which end we have made no Comments or Reflections of our own to shew either favour or affection partiality or byassed humor contracting what might seem tedious and cutting off the superfluities of a Diurnal way of writing They that have not been so careful to preserve the loose Sheets of the dayly Occurrencies or have not had the opportunity to buy all the Narratives concerning the Popish Plot may here find the substance of all together and by the help of the Index at the latter end have recourse to what ever they shall have occasion to bring to mind within the short compass of those few Months So that we doubt not but the benefit of the design will far exceed the price of the Volume Some omissions there may be but by those that have view'd these Sheets 't is not believed that there are any of any great Moment Whatever they are 't is hoped the Reader will pardon small defects and judg charitably of the work it self considering the Variety and the nicer nature of the several Subjects For as for the Truth of the matter there is no question of it there being no where any deviating from Authentick Hands and Approbation HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OR TRANSACTIONS OF THE LATE PARLIAMENT IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FAME and TRVTH Fame WHile the last Parliament sate I was so tir'd with carrying News to and fro from the City to the Country then back to the City again day and night night and day that upon the Dissolution of the Session I resolved to retire altogether into the Country to recruit my self and refresh the wearied Pinions of my Wings Truth 'T is a happiness I can seldom enjoy for I still find my self so much abus'd and scandaliz'd by Rumour and False Report that daily affront me where-ever I come that I hate to come near a Market-Town as I hate to tell a lye Fame That 's the business which I come now to thee about to seek a Remedy how to avoid this Inconvenience for the future Truth And hast thou found out the way dost think Fame Yes For though the Parliament last Session took a most Excellent way to give a daily accompt of their Proceedings yet by reason of the many interferings of private with publick business people are confounded in their Memories and forget the Coherence of the main Transactions while they endeavour to separate the more from the less important Truth I must confess indeed that Order and Method are the main Assistances of Memory Fame Therefore I say that if Thou wouldst but assist me in this Business and recollecting thy just Memory wouldst but give me an Exact easie and methodical Relation of the Proceedings of the late Session without Animadversions or Flourishes but plainly and impartially I believe it would be very much both for thy advantage and mine too Truth That I shall most willingly do not only for my own but the advantage of all those that as I am perswaded read with more delight a successive and cohering then a disorder'd and interrupted Story Fame Thereby will Fame be beholding to Truth for the Truth which she reports and Truth be no less beholding to Fame for reporting the Verity of Things Truth Where then wouldst thou have me begin Fame Just where the Parliament it self began For that in the procedure of Affairs is just like a full Stop and a Break in Writing Truth The Parliament then as is well known assembled at the usual Places at Westminster upon Tuesday the 21. of October in the year 1680. So soon as they were met a Message was sent from his Majesty to the House of Commons by Sir Edward Carteret Usher of the Black Rod commanding the Members to attend him in the House of Peers Whither the Commons accordingly repairing his Majesty was pleas'd to declare himself to the effect as follows That the several Prorogations he had made had been advantageous to the Neighbouring States and useful to Himself as having employ'd that time in makng and perfecting an Alliance with the Crown of Spain suitable to what he had before with the United Provinces That he had all the reason in the world to believe that what was so much desir'd by former Parliaments must needs be acceptable to them Which as they were the best Measures that could be taken for the safety of England and repose of Christendom so they could not but attain their ends if our home-Divisions did not render our Friendship less considerable abroad That for prevention thereof he gave them all Assurances that nothing should be wanting on his part to give them the fullest Satisfaction their hearts could wish for the security of the Protestant Religion which he resolved to maintain against all Conspiracies of our Enemies and to concur with them in any propos'd Remedies that might consist with preserving the Crown in its Due and Legal Course of Descent To which purpose he recommended to them the speedy Examination of the Plot and that the Lords in the Tower might be brought to their speedy Tryals Then he laid before them the matter of Tangier and the Expences he had been at to relieve and maintain that place upon which he desired their Advice and Assistance But that which he valued
should be committed to a Committee of the whole House Secondly which was done Nemine Contradicente That the exclusion in the said Bill should not extend any further then the Person of the Duke of York only After which the House adjourned till Munday the Eighth of November the most remarkable passages of which day were first a Conference with the Peers manag'd by the Lord Privy Seal at what time his Lordship did deliver to Mr. Hampden and the rest of the Members severall Examinations in writing relating to the Popish Plot acquainting them farther That all other Papers of the same Concern in the Custody of their Clerk should be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Commons upon his giving a Receipt for the same The Second was the Release of Sir Robert Can from his imprisonment upon his petition and acknowledgement of his offence And The third was the Resolving of the whole House into a Grand Committee to proceed in the Bill of Exclusion which was done so effectually that after severall Clauses added and Amendments made the Bill was orderd to be engross'd Fame Was that Bill never to be seen Truth Yes I have seen it my self in severall Coffee-Houses And therefore to save thy longing I will here briefly recite the Heads of it Fame That 's as much as I desire for the rest is but matter of Form Truth That whereas the D. of Y. was notoriously known to have been perverted from the Protestant to the Popish Religion whereby not only great encouragement has been given to the Popish party to carry on a devilish Conspiracy for the destruction of his Majesties Person and Government but that if the D. should succeed to the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom nothing would be more manifest than a total Change of Religion Be it therefore Enacted That the said I. D. of Y. be made for ever uncapable to Inherit the Imperial Crown of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland c. And that if the said D. of Y. shall at any time hereafter challenge or attempt to possess or enjoy or take upon him to exercise any Authority or Iurisdiction within the said Kingdoms c. That he shall be deem'd Guilty of High Treason and suffer accordingly And that all Persans that shall assist him in such Challenge or Attempt or shall themselves attempt or endeavour to put or bring him into the Possession of the Regal Power or by Preaching or Writing maintain that he hath any Right or Title to the same shall be deem'd Guilty of High Treason and suffer accordingly And that the said D. of York after the Fifth of November 1680 shall not return into any of the Kingdoms aforesaid or if he doe he shall be adjudg'd Guilty of High Treason That being so Guilty of the Treasons aforesaid neither the Duke or any other Person shall be capable of the benefit of any Pardon otherwise then by Act of Parliament wherein in they shall be particularly nam'd All Magistrates Officers and other Subjects are also empowered to apprehend the said D. or any other Persons offending in any of these Premises The Act to extend no farther than the Person of the D. Lastly The Act to be given in Charge at all Assizes and Sessions of the Peace and to be openly read in all Cathedrals and Parish Churches c. upon the Twenty-fifth of December and Easterday during the life of the Duke The next day being Tuesday the ninth of November the King sent a Message to the House in writing by Mr. Secretary Jenkins desiring the House as well for the Satisfaction of his People as of himself to expedite such Matters as were depending before them relating to Popery and the Plot and to rest assur'd that all Remedies they should tender to his Majesty conducing to those ends should be very acceptable to him Provided they were such as might consist with preserving the Succession of the Crown in its due and Legal Course of Descent Then Mr. Turberville being called in gave in his Information first by word of Mouth and when he had done delivered the same in writing The effect whereof in short was That he living in the Family of the E. of Powis grew very intimately acquainted with William Morgan Confessour to the said Earl and his Family being a Jesuite and Rector over all the Jesuits in those parts and that he had often heard the said Morgan tell the said Earl and his Lady that the Kingdom was in a high Fever and that nothing but bloodletting could restore it to health That Father Cudworth Guardian of the Fryers at Doway had told him that this King should not last long That in the year 1675 he was introduc'd into the acquaintance of the Lord Viscount Stafford at Paris to whom he had great freedom and liberty of access Who at length after many solemn promises of exacted secresie told him in direct Terms That he might make himself and the Nation happy by taking away the Life of the King who was a Heretick and a Rebel to God Lastly That he was present at Mass with the Lord Powis in Vere-Street where the E. of Castlemaine said Mass in his Priestly habit Wednesday the tenth of November little past of Consequence more then that the Peers sent down to the House of Commons for their Concurrence to an Act which they had pass'd for freeing the City of London and his Majesties Court and Parts adjacent from Popish Inhabitants and providing against other dangers which might arise from Papists Then taking into Consideration the short Message sent them the day before by his Majesty and delivered by Mr. Secretary Jenkins they made two Resolves That a Committee should be appoynted to draw up an Address to his Majesty in Answer to his speech And in the second place That they would proceed in the Prosecution of the Lords in the Tower and forthwith begin with the Lord Viscount Stafford Fame I have heard say that several Addresses were made to his Majesty for the Pardons and Maintenance of the several Witnesses that had given in their Informations Truth 'T is very certain and 't was no more than what you might have related almost upon supposition So that it will be enough to say for the effects shewed it to be real That all the humble Addresses in that nature were answered Besides that it is our business to pass over Things of lesser moment as lightly as we can And thus from the tenth we come to Thursday the Eleventh of November taken up for the most part with rectifying Elections till Sir William Jones reporting That the address in answere to his Majesties last Message was ready having read it in his place delivered it to the Clerks Table after which it was againe read by the whole House and agreed upon Which being done and the engross'd Bill of Exclusion this day read a third time the Resolution of the House was That the Bill should Pass and that the Title should be An
Act for securing the Protestant Religion by disabling James D. of York to inherit the Imperiall Crowns of England and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and the Lord Russel was order'd to carry it up to the Lords for their Concurrence Friday the Twelfth of November some time was spent in reading the Engrossed Bill sent up on the Wednesday before from the Lords for freeing the City and Court c. from Popish Inhabitants c. Of which and of others no farther proceeded in it is enough to speak of their transmitment from one House to another as being such as dy'd among the rest in the Birth After this and some Amendments made of the Returns for the Burrough of Haslemere in Surrey Mr. Bourk Mr. Macnamarr and Eustace Comine being severally called in gave their several Accompts of some proceedings relating to the Popish Plot in Ireland Of their Informations I shall briefly recite the Heads in their Order That of Mr. Bourk was briefly thus That being by the Kindness of one Major Butler admitted to the knowledg of the Earl of Tyrone and by that means frequently keeping his Lordship Company in his pastimes both at home and abroad he observ'd that the said Earl and the Major would be allway extrolling the French King and praying for his Prosperitie That he farther observed a Continual resort of Papists and Suspitious Persons to the said Earls House That being one Morning private with his Lordship his Lordship told him That he had intelligence out of France that the French were very Powerful and that Parlez Francois would be plentifully heard in Ireland ere long That in farther discourse his Lordship drew out of his Pocket a great Quantitie of Papers rol'd up and delivered him to subscribe his name in one of them and that upon a sudden Glance he could read the names of some that he knew to be persons ill affected to his Majesty and his Government That upon his refusal to Subscribe his Lordship calld him Cowar'd and drew his Sword half out of his Scabbard to have kill'd him but was prevented by the unexpected coming in of another Gentleman That from that time forward his Lordship us'd several means to Ruine him and threw him into Waterford Gaol From whence he wrote five Letters to the Lord Lieutenant of his hard Vsage and what he had to say as to the Conspiracy but could have no Answer That being got out of Waterford Gaol he gave in his Informations against the said Earl at Dublin where though his Lordship were bound over to answer the Informant at Waterford Assizes yet such was his power over the Judges and the Jury that he easily got himself acquitted So that finding Ireland then too hot for him the Informant was forc'd to retire into England to make his Appeale The heads of Macnamar's Information were these That one William Bradley Esq a Justice of the Peace in the County of waterford having first made him take an Oath of Secrecie gave him to understand that the Earle of Tyrone had received a Commission from the French King to be a Colonel of Horse in the County of Waterford and that the said Bradley was to be his Lieutenant Col. and therefore desir'd him to provide himselfe of Horse and Arms and get as many as he could trust promising him a Captains Place That after Bradley had unfolded to him the aforesaid Treason he met with the E. of Tyrone who ask'd him privately whether Bradley had said any thing to him who answering he had the E. bid him be very private and then shewed him a List of several that were to be Superiour Officers in several Counties of Ireland which he took special notice of as knowing several of the Persons That the said E. at the same time told him that he had a Commission from the French King under his Hand and Seal to be a Col. of Horse in the County of Waterford and that there was hardly a County in Ireland where Persons were not appointed by the French King for the same purpose with other discourse of the same Nature The Substance of Eustace Comins Information was this That living with one Keadagh Magher his Relation in Karignisurie in the County of Tipperary Treasurer for the Confederates in Ireland he was privy to the Payment of several Considerable Sums to several Considerable Persons upon the accompt of the Plot by the directions of Plunket titular Primate of Ireland Bremand Titular Archbishop of Cashel and Powes Deane of Waterford who had the disposal of the said Money That there was a meeting of the Irish Clergy with the Titular Primate at John Walshe's House who was Lawyer for the D. of Ormond in the County of Tipperary where they agreed to give every Judge that would goe the Circuite and befriend them upon Occasion 200 l. a piece That the Sum of 200 l. was secur'd to Sir John Davis upon the same accompt he being then a Judge at Clonmel of which he was an Eye Witness Lastly after the recital of many other Circumstances of his being pursu'd and imprison'd by Sir John Davis and several other Justices of the Peace Contrary to their duty for his discovery he affirmed that the Papists had Barbarously Murther'd the said Keadagh Magher their Treasurer when they found that he detested their design and was turned Protestant The House having heard these Informations order'd that an Address should be made to his Majesty for their several Pardons and that his Majesty would be pleas'd to take them into his care and protection After this a Message was sent to the Lords to acquaint them with the Resolution of the House to proceed to the Tryal of the Lords in the Tower and that they intended to begin with William Viscount Stafford and therefore desired their Lordships to appoint a day as also that the Lords in the Tower might be confin'd and kept from a Correspondence one with another as Persons Impeached and Committed for high Treason ought to be To which the Lords return'd for answer That as to that part of the Message relating to Confinement and Correspondence they had already given Order therein as the House had desired and for the latter for appointing a day for the Tryal they did appoint Tuesday come fortnight Thereupon they order'd a farther Address to be made to his Majesty That all Papers Writings Examinations and Evidences relating to the Popish Plot which had been deliver'd to the Clerks of the Council or the Secretaries since the dissolution of the last Parliament should be transmitted to the House and order'd that Serjeant Maynard Mr. George Pelham and Mr. Paul Foly should be added to the Committee appointed to prepare Evidence against the Lords in the Tower They likewise order'd That another Address should be made to his Majesty That he would be pleased to give orders for Issuing out a Sum of Money to defray the Charges of Summoning the Witnesses and other Expences incident to the
the Nobility and the Commons of England having taken their several and distinct places in Court And the Prisoner being brought to the Bar the Lord High Steward spake to him to this Effect That the Commons of England had impeached him of High Treason for which he was then to he Try'd that he was not try'd upon the Indictment found by the Grand-Jury but prosecuted by the Loud complaints of the Commons and to be try'd upon the presentment of the Grand Inquest of the whole Nation That he was to be therefore Judg'd by the whole Body of the House of Peers where the ballance would be exactly kept And that therefore if his zeal had engag'd him in such deep and black designes as he was charg'd with he must expect to reap what he had sown Admonishing him lastly to hear with patience what should be said against him The Charge being then read the substance of the Impeachment was I. That there had been a Traiterous Plot and Conspiracy both in England and other Places to alter and subvert the Ancient Government and true Religion established in the Land which Plot was carried and contrived by Persons of several Qualities and Degrees II. That for the accomplishing of the said wicked and traiterous design he had agreed and conspir'd with others to imprison depose and murther the King and to Subject the Kingdom to the Pope and his Government To restore the Abbys Monasteries c. so long agoe Suppressed for their Idolatry and Superstition And by that means to destroy his Majesty Extirpate the Protestant Religion and overthrow the Rights and Properties of his Majesties Subjects III. That he with the rest of the Traytors had held several Meetings and Consultations where it was contriv'd and design'd by what means and what Instruments should be us'd to murther his Majesty That it was there resolv'd to Effect the same by Poisoning Shooting Stabbing and that at the same places rewards were offered to several Persons to execute the same IV. That he with the rest had Consulted to raise Men Money Armes and Ammunition and had Corresponded with the Pope his Cardinals and Nuntio 's and with other Forein Ministers for the raising and obtaining of Men Money c. for the raising of War within the Kingdom and invading the same with Forein Forces V. That he with the rest had procured and delivered out several Instruments and Commissions made and granted by the Pope and other unlawful Authortities for the raising and disposing Men Money c. and particularly for him the said Lord Viscount Stafford to be paymaster of the Army VI. That to hinder the discovery af the said Plot and to secure themselves from Justice He with the rest had caused Oathes of Secresie to be administred to the Confederates and the Priests to give them absolutions for their encouragement aforesaid to conceal the Conspiracy VII That he with the rest had contriv'd to lay the Imputation of their crimes upon the Protestants aforesaid To this his Lordships Plea was That he was not Guilty and for his Tryal put himself upon his Peers In the opening of this Impeachment Mr Serjeant Maynard beginning told the Lords that the Charge was General and Particular General the Subversion of the Nation Murther of the King and suppression of the Protestant Religion which General was charg'd in Particular upon the Prisoner in regard that in a general design as this was wherein so many were concern'd the Act of One is the Act of All and the Act of All is the Act of every One But his part being only to open the General Conspiracy he made out the Universal Hatred of the Papists against the Protestants by their continual Practcies of Murthers Massacrees and Treasons in Spain France England and other parts of Europe and their Doctrine of the Legality of deposing and Killing Heretick Kings Then bringing his Arguments home he called to mind the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey The Tampering with Bedlow to corrupt and lessen his Testimony and Their Charging Oates with Infamous Crimes by falshood and Subornation to invalidate his Testimony The particular Evidence was open'd by Sir Francis Winington Shewing first The extraordinary advantages the Papists had to enter upon the Conspiracy The creeping of Papists at the bottom and others that drove on their Interest into his Majesties Councils The easiness of some Men to favour the Papists new projects set on foot for a Reconciliation between the two Religions by distingushing the Church from the Court of Rome Papists of Loyal and disloyal Principles Which gave them great Encouragement to see how freely the Pen was drawn in their favour The Kings Commands of putting the Laws in Execution frustrated by the Publick Ministers of their faction and the severity of those Laws turned upon the Protestant dissenters Lastly their great hopes of a Popish Successor As for the proof of the Plot in general he Cited the Attainders of Coleman and Langhorn and several Priests and Jesuites The Attainders of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey's Murther and the Conviction of the Assassinator of Mr. Arnold And in short the Convictions not only of Treasons and Murthers but of almost all other Villianies whatsoever To this he added that proof would be made of the discourses of the Preists and Jesuits abroad of the great alteration that would be in England e're long And that the King was a Heretick and might be destroyed which Doctrine was dispersed by the industry of several in England As to particulars against the Prisoner he urg'd that proof would be made of his being at a Consult at the Lord Aston's House at Tyxal for the Killing the King That he offered 500 l. out of his own purse for carrying on the Plot and particularly that part of Killing the King That the Prisoner himself had tempted one of the Witnesses to Kill the King with several other Circumstances tending to that and the General design Then Mr. Treby proceeded to call the witnesses to shew the Universal Conspiracy The first was Mr. Smith whose Education had given him great Opportunities of knowing the inside of the Papists Affairs He testified That upon his first arrival in France he came acquainted with Abbot-Montague Gascoyn and several other Priests and Jesuites who promis'd him preferment both among them and in England if he would turn Catholick for that they did not doubt but that the Popish Religion would come into England very soon as not questioning a Toleration first by which they should bring it in without Noise And Secondly because their party was very Strong in England and in a few years would be able to bring it in right or wrong That Cardinal Grimaldi whom he met by Accident in Provence told him he had great Assurances the Popish Religion would prevail in England and that there was but one that obstructed it who though a good natur'd Person yet they could not so far prevaile upon him but that they must be forc'd to take him out
they return'd and the Judges according to Directions deliver'd their Opinions in order That if there were several Overt Acts which were Evidences of the same Treason if there were one Witness to prove one Overt Act at one time and another Witness to prove another Overt Act at another time both the Acts being Evidences of the same Treason they were two sufficient Witnesses of the same Treason and would maintain an Indictment or an Impeachment of Treason To the First it was answered That as to the hiring of the Witnesses to swear it could be no point of Law till the Fact be prov'd that His Majesties Grace and Bounty to his Witnesses was no Objection to their Testimony when every private person allows his Witnesses a Maintenance without prejudice to his Cause Neither would he tax the House of Commons who were the Prosecutors as his Lordship had prov'd to their Advantage against himself After this the House adjourn'd and appointed the Prisoner to be brought up again on Monday by Ten of the Clock The Sixth Day being Monday December 6. The Prisoner being again brought to to the Bar a Petition was read which he had presented to the House of Peers That whereas he had something to offer to their Lordships to clear himself he therefore besought their Lordships that he might offer some Things to their Lordships Consideration When he came to be heard they were only the same Objections somewhat varied which he offer'd the day before viz. Whether an Impeachment were to be prosecuted in Parliament without an Indictment Whether words did amount to an Overt Act and whether two Witnesses in several places did amount to a Legal Testimony Upon which being ask'd by the High Steward whether he had any thing more to say He went on again with new Repetitions That he had not been prov'd a Papist that he hop'd he had clear'd his Innocency by making appear the Perjury of the Witnesses Then as if he had intended to make a kind of a Discovery he told a long Story That he believ'd that ever since the Reformation the Papists had had several wicked Plots and Designs as Babington's and the Earl of Westmerland's Plot in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Lord Grey's Lord Cobham's and Lord Brooks's in the Reign of King James That he did believe that Coleman's endeavouring by Money out of France to keep off Parliaments was that which he could not justifie by Law and he did believe by the same Letters that some Consultations had been had for a Toleration and that if he had known as much then as he did since he might have prevented many things Then he fell again to his points of Law and a third Repetition of his former Objections against the Witnesses and at last concluded with an Application to the Lords courting their Consideration of his Innocence and giving them to understand the great Confidence he had of their Justice and Impartiality Being ask'd again whether he had done He would fain have prevail'd again for his Council to have been heard upon the points of Law before-mentioned But the Managers of the Tryal replied That there was nothing that deserv'd an Answer that there had been nothing offer'd new but what had been over-rul'd already unless it were a point of Law that arose upon matter of Fact not prov'd That the last day all had been said by his Lordship that he had to say and therefore to begin the matter again was a thing not to be admitted After which the Court adjourn'd The Seventh Day being Tuesday December 7. The Lords took their Places in Court at what time the Lord High Steward attended by Garter Principal King at Arms the Usher of the Black Rod collected the Verdicts of the Lords beginning with the Youngest Baron the Prisoner being absent The Names of the Lords that found the Prisoner Guilty LOrd Crew Lord Cornwallis Lord Rockingham Lord Astley Lord Leigh Lord Herbert of Cherbury Lord Howard of Escriek Lord Maynard Lord Lovelace Lord Grey of Wark Lord Brook Lord Chandois Lord North and Grey Lord Paget Lord Wharton Lord Eure Lord Cromwell Lord Conyers Lord Viscount Newport Lord Viscount Falconberge Earl of Conway Earl of Macclesfield Earl of Sussex Earl of Guilford Earl of Shaftsbury Earl of Burlington Earl of Carlisle Earl of Essex Earl of Scaresdale Earl of Sunderland Earl of Winchelsea Earl of Stamford Earl Rivers Earl of Mulgrave Earl of Barkshire Earl of Manchester Earl of Westmerland Earl of Clare Earl of Bristoll Earl of Northampton Earl of Leicester Earl of Bridgewater Earl of Salisbury Earl of Suffolk Earl of Bedford Earl of Huntington Earl of Kent Earl of Oxford Duke of Monmouth Duke of Albemarle Duke of Buckingham Lord Privy Seal Lord President Lord High Steward Duke of Cumberland The Names of the Lords that found the Prisoner Not Guilty LOrd Butler of Weston Lord Arundel of Trerice Lord Hollis Lord Wootton Lord Lucas Lord Ward Lord Byron Lord Hatton Lord Drincourt Lord Norreys Lord Windsore Lord Ferrers Lord Morley Lord Mowbray Earl of Berkley Earl of Hallifax Earl of Feversham Earl of Alisbury Earl of Craven Earl of Bath Earl of Clarendon Earl of St. Albans Earl of Thanet Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Carnarvan Earl of Peterborough Earl of Denbigh Earl of Rutland Lord Chamberlain Marquess of Worcester Duke of Newcastle Being thus found Guilty by the Surplusage of twenty four Voices the Prisoner was brought to the Bar and ask'd what he had more to say for himself why Sentence of Death should not be pronounced against him according to the Law To which he made Answer for respite of Judgment That he never saw any Tryal where the Party try'd did not hold up his Hand which he never was ask'd to do 2. That though he had been try'd by the Act of 25 Ed. 3. yet there being nothing more in that Act than what was included in the Act of the 13 th of this King he humbly conceiv'd that by that Act and the last Proviso in it a Peer that is found Guilty of the Crimes therein mentioned was only to lose his Seat in Parliament and that was to be all his punishment Which being all he had to say the Court adjourn'd into the Lords House at what time the Commons with their Speaker went to the Bar of the Lords and there in the Name of the Commons of England demanded Judgment against the Prisoner Whereupon the Lords took it into Consideration what Judgment was to be given Some Debate there was upon the Matter but at length the Judges being demanded gave in their Opinions That there was no other Judgment for Treason appointed by Law but to be Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd The Attorney General also declared That any other Judgment would be prejudicial to his Majesty and be a Question in the Inferiour Courts as to his Attainder of High Treason Whereupon it was order'd by the Lords that the ordinary Judgment by the Law appointed in Cases of High
Treason should be pronounced upon the Prisoner Which being concluded the Lords return'd to the Court and the Lord High Steward attended by all the Officers before-mention'd upon their Knees directed his Speech to the Prisoner to this Effect That what his Lordship had said in Arrest of Judgment was found to be of no Moment at all it being no Essential part of any Tryal neither was there any Record made of it when it was done That as for the Proviso's of the 13 th Year of this King their Lordships found that they were in no sort applicable to his Lordships Case the proceedings against him not being grounded upon that Statute That no Man would have thought that a Person of his Quality so nobly descended so considerable in Estate so eminent a Sufferer in the late Times so interested in the Preservation of the Government so obliged to the Moderation of it and so personally and particularly oblig'd to the King and his Royal Father should ever have enter'd into a Conspiracy to contrive the Murther of the King Ruin of the State and Subversion of Religion and yet his Impeachment amounted to no less and the Lords have found him Guilty That as the Plot in general had been most manifest so his Lordships Part in it had been too plain Three things therefore he recommended to his Lordship's Consideration That he was now fallen into the very Pit that he was digging for others That he would think a little better than he had done what kind of Religion it was that had brought him to the Destruction that was like to befall him Lastly That he would consider that true Repentance is never too late That there were some that thought it a Mortal Sin to confess that Crime in Publick for which they had been absolv'd in Private but that God forbid his Lordship should be found among the number of those poor mistaken Souls Then assuring him that their Lordships would not cease to pray that the End of his Life might be Christian and Pious He concluded That it was then the last time he was to call him My Lord for that his next words would attaint him And having so said he pronounced the Sentence of the Court which was That he was to be Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd The Day for Execution being appointed to be the 29 th of the same Month two Writs were issued out under the Great Seal of England the first to the Lieutenant of the Tower in Form following CAROLUS Secundus Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor ’ c. Locumtenenti Turris nostrae London ' salutem Cum Will ' Vicecomes Stafford per Communes Regni nostri Angliae in Parliamento assemblat ' de altâ proditione necnon diversis aliis criminibus offensis per ipsum perpetrat ’ commissis impetit ’ fuit ac superinde per Dominos Temporales in praesenti Parliamento nostro convent ' triat ' convict ' debita juris forma attinct ’ fuit morti adjudicat ’ existit Cujus quidem Judicii Executio adhuc restat facienda Cumque praedictus Vicecomes Stafford in Turri nostra London sub custodiâ tuâ deâ—ent ’ existit Praecipimus tibi per praesentes firmiter injungendo mandamus quòd in super vicesimum nonum diem instantis mensis Decembris inter horas nonam undecimam ante Meridiem ejusdem dici ipsum Vicecomitem Stafford usque locum usualem extra Portam Turris praedictâ— ducas ac ipsum Vicecomitibus Civitatis nostrae London Middlesex adtunc ibidem deliberes Quibus quidem Vicecomitibus nos per aliud Breve eis inde direct ’ praecepimus praedictum Vicecomitem Stafford adtunc ibidem recipere ut fiat Executio Judicii praedicti modo formâ prout dictis Vicecomitibus London Middlesex per aliud Breve nostrum praedictum praecepimus Et hoc nullatenus omittas sub periculo incumbente aliquo Judicio Lege Ordinatione seu Mandato praeantea habit ’ fact ’ ordinat ’ seu dat ’ in contrarium non obstante Teste meipso apud Westm decimo octavo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo secundo BARKER Englished thus CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Lieutenant of Our Tower of London Greeting Whereas William Viscount Stafford has been impeach'd by the Commons of our Kingdom of England in Parliament Assembled of High Treason and several other Crimes and Offences by him perpetrated and committed and thereupon by our Lords Temporal in our present Parliament conven'd has been tried and convicted and in due Form of Law was attainted and adjudg'd to die Of which Judgment Execution yet remains to be done And whereas the said Viscount Stafford is detain'd in your Custody in our Tower of London We charge and by these presents firmly enjoyning command you That in and upon the twenty ninth day of this Instant December between the hours of Nine and Eleven before Noon of the same Day you conduct the said Viscount Stafford to the Usual Place without the Gate of the Tower aforesaid and him then and there deliver to the Sheriffs of our City of London and Middlesex To which Sheriffs We by another Writ to them directed have given Command the aforesaid Viscount Stafford then and there to receive that Execution of the aforesaid Judgment may be done in Manner and Form as we have given Command by our other Writ to the said Sheriffs of London and Middlesex And of this you are not to fail upon peril thereon to ensue Any Judgment Law Ordinance or Command before had made ordain'd or given to the contrary notwithstanding Witness Our Selves at Westminster the 18 th Day of December in the 32 d. Year of Our Reign The Second Writ was directed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex in Form following CAROLUS Secundus Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Vic ’ London Vic ’ Middlesex salutem Cum Will ’ Vicecomes Stafford per Communes Regni nostri Angliae in Parliamento assemblat ’ de altâ proditione necnon diversis aliis criminibus offensis per ipsum perpetrat ’ commissis ’ impetit ’ fuit Ac superinde per Dominos Temporales in praesenti Parliamento nostro convent ’ triat ’ convict ’ debitâ juris formâ attinct ’ fuit morti adjudicat ’ existit Cujus quidem judicii Executio adhuc restat facienda praecipimus vobis per praesentes firmiter injungendo mandamus quòd in super vicesimum nonum diem hujus instantis Decembris inter horas nonam undecimam ante meridiem ejusdem diei dictum Vicecomitem Stafford extra Portam Turris nostrae London vobis tunc ibidem deliberandum prout per aliud Breve Locumtenenti Turris nostrae London directum praecepimus in custodiam vestram
adtunc ibidem recipiatis ipsum sic in custodia vestra existentem statim usque usualem Locum super le Tower-hill ductatis Ac Caput ipsius Willi. Vicecomitis Stafford adtunc ibidem amputari ac à Corpore suo omnino separari faciatis aliquo Judicio Lege Ordinatione seu Mandato preantea habit ’ fact ’ ordinat ’ seu dat ’ in contrarium non obstante Et hoc sub periculo incumbente nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westm decimo octavo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo secundo BARKER Englished thus CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Sheriffs of London and Sheriffs of Middlesex Greeting Whereas William Viscount Stafford has been Impeached by the Commons of our Kingdom of England in Parliament Assembled of High Treason and other Crimes and Offences by him perpetrated and committed And thereupon by the Lords Temporal in our present Parliament conven'd was try'd convicted and in due Form of Law attainted and is adjudg'd to die of which Judgment Execution yet remains to be done We charge and by these Presents firmly conjoyning command you That in and upon the 29 th Day of this Instant December between the hours of Nine and Eleven before Noon of the same Day that the said Viscount Stafford without the Gate of our Tower of London then and there to be to you deliver'd as by another Writ to the Lieutenant of our Tower of London directed we have given Command you then and there receive into your Custody and him so being in your Custody that you presently conduct to the usual place upon Tower-hill and cause the Head of him William Viscount Stafford then and there to be chop'd off and altogether separated from his Body any Judgment Law Ordinance or Command before had made ordain'd or given to the contrary notwithstanding And of this upon penalty thereof to ensue you are not to fail Witness our selves at Westminster the 18 th day of December in the 32 d. year of our Reign Upon Wednesday the 29 th of December about Ten of the Clock in the Morning the Sheriffs received the Prisoner from the Lieutenant of the Tower and conducted him to the Scaffold Upon which the Prisoner being come after a short pause produc'd a Paper out of his Pocket which contain'd the following Speech which he read with his Hat off and gave several Copies thereof Signed with his own Hand to Sheriff Cornish and other Gentlemen about him THE SPEECH OF WILLIAM HOWARD Late Lord Viscount Stafford Vpon the Scaffold on Tower-Hill immediately before his Execution Wednesday Decemb. 29. 1680. BY the permission of Almighty God I am this day brought hither to suffer Death as if I were guilty of High Treason I do most truly in the presence of the Eternal Omnipotent and All-knowing GOD protest upon my Salvation That I am as Innocent as it is possible for any man to be so much as in a Thought of the Crimes laid to my Charge I acknowledge it to be a particular Grace and Favour of the Holy Trinity to have given me this long Time to prepare my self for Eternity I have not made so good use of that Grace as I ought to have done partly by my not having recollected my self as I might have done and partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several dayes been forbid to see me but in the presence of one of my Warders This hath been a great Trouble and Distraction unto me but I hope God of his Infinite Mercy will pardon my Defects and accept of my good Intentions Since my long Imprisonment I have considered often what could be the Original Cause of my being thus accused since I knew my self not culpable so much as in a Thought and I cannot believe it to be upon any other Account than my being of the Church of Rome I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it teacheth nothing but the Right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to the Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant to the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected that the Church holds That Sovereign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope may by heir Subjects be Deposed and Murdered as to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a matter of Faith in the Catholick Faith that such Doctrine is diabolical horrid and detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations and as such from my Heart I renounce and abominate it As for the Doctrine of deposing Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as Able and Learned as they have writ against it But it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare That 't is my true and real Judgment That the same Doctrine of deposing Kings is contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom injurious to Sovereign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of his Majesties Subjects impious and damnable I believe and profess that there is one God one Saviour one Holy Catholick Church of which through the Mercy Grace and Goodness of God I die a Member To my great and unspeakable Grief I have offended God in many things by many great Offences but I give him most humble thanks not in any of those Crimes of which I was accused All the Members of either House having liberty to propose in the House what they think fit for the Good of the Kingdom accordingly I proposed what I thought fit the House is judge of the fitness or unfitness of it and I think I never said any thing that was unfitting there or contrary to the Law and use of Parliaments for certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have some way punished me So t am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations Pardons to Murder Rebell Lye Forswear and commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the Presence of God I never learned believed or practised any such things but the contrary and I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me if I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon discovery save my Life I having so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me and so am guilty