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"THOMAS HOLLIS, the eccentric republican wrote these lines characteristic enough of such republicans,

"I freely declare it, I am for Old Noll, Though his government did a tyrant resemble,

He made England great and her enemies tremble.".

Memoirs of T. HOLLIS, p. 289.

WHITELOCKE'S History of the Parliament of England, and of some resemblances to the Jewish and other councils. MSS. were given by Hollis to the British Mu

seum.

"THEY magnified the New Invention of Calvin at Geneva calling it the Pattern in the Mount.'"-NALSON, Xxxvii.

"A man having but forty shillings a year freehold, hath as great a voice in the election as any; and yet this man is never a subsidy-man, and therefore no way concerned in the election for his own particular: and when the statute was made, forty shillings it was then twenty pound in value now. And it were a great quiet to the state if it were reduced to that; and then gentlemen would be looked upon, and it would save the ministers a great deal of pains, in preaching from their own churches."

NALSON, vol. 1, pp. 279-80. "A paper sent to the Secretary of State by Mr. Nevil of Cressing Temple, the unsuccessful candidate, whose life was threatened. 'It was said among the people that if Nevil had the day, they would tear the gentleman to pieces.""

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-(1640) says, we know as well what the honest king does in his bedchamber, as that papist wench that lies by his side, who is the only animator on of the best sort of men that are against us. For to say honestly, as God bade, there are divers commanders or brave men of that whorish religion; but woe be to them and their posterity, for the close-fisted chiel will forget them as he doth poor Reuen (Ruthen, Governor of Ed. Castle) who is like to die of a flux with sour drink if God give the victory to

his own. For the lords, we had a trial of them last year; they have been most of them gotten with Luneys (?) and Jockeys (Jacobuses?) save three or four which we fear

will be too honest and too ceremonious to a

king which hath not a heart to reward the. brave but will spend thousands upon a mask or brave organs."-NALSON, vol. 1, p. 509, i. e. 409—the book being more inaccurately paged than any I remember to have

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17th Nov. 1640. "CORNELIUS BURGESS preached before the House of Commons on Jer. 1. 5. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come and let us join ourselves unto the Lord in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.'

"You cannot,' said he,' be ignorant of the many murmurs, and more than whisperings of some desperate and devilish conceptions, suspected to be now in the womb of the Jesuitical faction; therefore it becomes you above all others to be first in a covenant. 2ndly, that till they did this, there could not be such a full enjoying of God as otherwise there might be, and we might have much more of God even in this life than now we have, if we could be persuaded to such a covenant with him. 3rdly, Consider that whatever work God calls you to, you will never buckle thoroughly to it, till you have entered into covenant with him. 4thly, As if he were resolved to verify that of the poet, Flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo, he draws arguments for covenanting from wicked men and devils, For, says he, wicked men stick not at a covenant with death and hell. Nay, 5thly, Consider that the devil himself will have a covenant from all his vassals that expect any extraordinary matters from him. There is not a witch that hath the devil at her back, but she must seal a covenant with him, sometimes with her blood." -NALSON, vol. 1, p. 532.

STEPHEN MARSHAL preached on the same day to the same purpose, and they had each a piece of plate bestowed upon them by order of the House out of the Charity money which was gathered from the members at the Communion upon Sunday, 29th. -Ibid. p. 533.

April, 1641." SIR THOMAS ASTON petitioned the House of Lords setting forth that one Henry Walker and some other stationers had printed and dispersed a counterfeit petition as in the name of the county

Palatine of Chester against episcopacy and the liturgy, as anti-christian and unlawful. This was not welcome to those lords who favoured the faction; and therefore offence was taken at some unfit and indiscreet words in Sir T. Aston's petition, for which he received a reprehension from the House. However, Walker and the others were likewise sent for, and received also a gentle rebuke for their offence,-a slender punishment for so notorious a piece of forgery."— NALSON, Vol. 1, p. 795.

"THE petitions were framed generally by Dr. Burgess' his junto in London pro re natâ, and transmitted to their correspondents, who by persuasions and threatenings, and all the methods imaginable procured hands to them."—Ibid. p. 799.

1644.

"A HAPPY thing it were," says Richard Boothby, "both for them (the Madagascar-men) and this kingdom, if that project had or should go forward, which a gentleman of Huntingdonshire, bred a merchant, in love told me; which he heard from others, or rather as I understand it, from Bishop Moreton's own mouth; that if the bishops of England, lately dismissed from voting in Parliament, and tyrannizing in temporal authority, should still continue in disrespect with the king and Parliament, they, or most part of them, would go and plant a colony in Madagascar, and endeavour to reduce those ignorant souls to christianity."-HARLEIAN Collection of Voyages, &c. vol. 2, p. 635.

"TEL qui n'avoit qu'une disposition mediocre à devenir fanatique le devient jusqu' à l'exces par l'émotion que lui causent les idées de la guerre; et comme les esprits sont alors dans l'inquietude, ils croient plus aisement tout ce qu'ils entendent dire de prodigieux."-BAYLE, Pensées sur la Comète, vol. 2, p. 320.

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"THOMAS HOLLIS, the eccentric republican wrote these lines characteristic enough of such republicans,

"I freely declare it, I am for Old Noll, Though his government did a tyrant resemble,

He made England great and her enemies tremble."

Memoirs of T. HOLLIS, p. 289.

WHITELOCKE'S History of the Parliament of England, and of some resemblances to the Jewish and other councils. MSS. were given by Hollis to the British Mu

seum.

"THEY magnified the New Invention of Calvin at Geneva calling it' the Pattern in the Mount." "-NALSON, xxxvii.

"A man having but forty shillings a year freehold, hath as great a voice in the election as any; and yet this man is never a subsidy-man, and therefore no way concerned in the election for his own particular: and when the statute was made, forty shillings it was then twenty pound in value now. And it were a great quiet to the state if it were reduced to that; and then gentlemen would be looked upon, and it would save the ministers a great deal of pains, in preaching from their own churches."

NALSON, Vol. 1, pp. 279-80. "A paper sent to the Secretary of State by Mr. Nevil of Cressing Temple, the unsuccessful candidate, whose life was threatened. 'It was said among the people that if Nevil had the day, they would tear the gentleman to pieces.""

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1639. "In many places the elections were managed with much popular heat and tumult by the countenance of those English nobility and gentry of the Scottish faction. At the County election for Essex, for instance the Earl of Warwick made good use of his lord lieutenancy, in sending letters out to the captains of the Train-bands, who having power to charge the people with arms, durst not offend, which brought many of his side.'-Those ministers who gave their voices for my Lord of Warwick, as Mr. Marshal and others, preached often out of their own parishes before the election.' 'Our corporation of Essex consisting most of Puritans, and having had their voices in electing their own burgesses, and then to come to elect knights, is more than the greatest lord of England hath in their boroughs; the multiplicity of the people are mean-conditioned, and most factious,

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—(1640) says, we know as well what the honest king does in his bedchamber, as that papist wench that lies by his side, who is the only animator on of the best sort of men that are against us. For to say honestly, as God bade, there are divers commanders or brave men of that whorish religion; but woe be to them and their posterity, for the close-fisted chiel will forget them as he doth poor Reuen (Ruthen, Governor of Ed. Castle) who is like to die of a flux with sour drink if God give the victory to

his own. For the lords, we had a trial of them last year; they have been most of them gotten with Luneys (?) and Jockeys (Jacobuses ?) save three or four which we fear

will be too honest and too ceremonious to a

king which hath not a heart to reward the. brave but will spend thousands upon a mask or brave organs."-NALSON, vol. 1, p. 509, i. e. 409—the book being more inaccurately paged than any I remember to have

seen.

CARTE-RUSHWORTH.

"EDWARD, the black Lord Herbert" (of Cherbury? sic opinor,) "upon hearing the Scots' demands of £40,000 per month, advised the king not to accede to it, but to fortify York against them. 'Reason of state,' he said, 'having admitted fortification of our most inland towns against weapons used in former times, it may as well admit fortification against the weapons used in these times. But he mistook the spirit of

the times when he added that towns have been observed always averse to wars and tumults, as subsisting by the peaceable ways. of trade and traffic; insomuch that when either great persons for their private interests, or the commons for their grievances, have taken arms, townsmen have been noted ever to continue in their accustomed loyalty and devotion.""-RUSHWORTH, Vol 2, pt. 2, p. 1293.

He had forgotten Ghent, Constantinople, Rome. Large towns where is a populace, will always be hot-beds of sedition.

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"WHEN Sir J. Hotham was that day made governor of Hull, with orders 'not to deliver it up, or the magazine, or any part thereof, without the King's authority signified by the Lords and Commons in Parliament,' to hasten this order down to Hull, John Hotham his son was ordered to go immediately with the same, and he, then standing up in the gallery of the House of Commons, thus expressed himself, Mr. Speaker; fall back, fall edge, I will go down and perform your commands.""-Ibid. vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 496.

3 April, 1642.

"DEPOSITIONS were made before the House of Commons, that one Edward Sandeford, a taylor of the City of London, had called the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Warwick and the parliament traitors, curst the parliament and wished the Earl of Warwick's heart in his boots, and King Pym and Sir John Hotham both hanged. They sent for him to the bar of the house, and the sentence pronounced upon him by the Speaker was that he should be fined to our sovereign lord the King 100 marks, stand on the pillory in Cheapside and Westminster; be whipped from thence at a cart's tail, the first day to the Fleet, the second day to Bridewell, and there be kept

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to work during his life.'”—Ibid. vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 559.

"THE likeness of the standard was much of the fashion of the City streamers used at the Lord Mayor's show, having about twenty supporters, and was carried after the same way. On the top of it hangs a flag, the King's arms quartered, with a hand pointing to the crown, which stands above with this motto, 'Give Cæsar his due.'

"Sir Thomas Brooks, Sir Arthur Hopton, Sir Francis Wortley, and Sir Robert Dadington were the four chief knights baronets appointed to bear it."-Ibid. p. 784.

“THE partizans of the Commonwealth were no losers by their disloyalty. But the ruinous effects of this contest to the one party and not to the other, are to be accounted for, not merely from the vindictive spirit of the parliament, and the easy nature of Charles II. equally disinclined to reward and to punish, but from the sour and parsimonious temper of the Puritans, and the extravagant jollity and license of the Royalists."-WHITAKER'S Craven, p. 35.

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Ar Gisburne Park a picture of Cromwell, by Sir Peter Lely. "This," says DR. WHITAKER, "gives a truer, that is a worse idea, of the man, than any portrait of him which I have seen. It is said to have been taken by his own order, with all the warts and protuberances which disfigured his countenance. On the canvass is painted the word Now, which probably alludes to his peremptory mandate for the immediate execution of the King. This was brought from Calton Hall, and seems to have been his own present to Lambert."-Ibid.

"Ir was a tradition at Broughton Hall (in Craven), that a son of the family was shot on the lawn; and that the village had been so compleatly pillaged of common