Page images
PDF
EPUB

CLE

Cleves and Juliers, Duchy of, disputed
succession in, ii. 93; resolution of James
to intervene in, 96; capture of Juliers in,
100; renewal of the dispute in, 262; at-
tempt to settle the dispute in, 307
Clifton, Richard, sermons preached at Bab-
worth by, iv. 147; is deprived of his rec-
tory, 148; becomes pastor of the Scrooby
congregation, 149; refuses to leave Am-
sterdam, 151

Clontarf, Coote sent to punish wreckers
at, x. 114; is burnt by Coote, 115
Cloth, manufacture of, attempt to prevent
Dutch rivalry with, ii. 385
Clotworthy, Sir John, recounts the grie-
vances of Ireland, ix. 231; repeats a
story which he had heard from Sir Robert
King, 234; tel's the House that Suckling
was to raise three regiments of foot and
a troop of horse, 351; is a member of the
committee for investigating the Army
Plot, 358

Coal-shippers, monopoly granted to the
corporation of, viii. 283

Coat-and-conduct money, attack on in the
Short Parliament, ix. 112; enforcement
of the payment of, 130; unpopularity of,
140; refusal of the City to pay, 154;
prosecution of the Lord Mayor and
sheriffs for neglect in the collection of,
169

Cobham, Lord, 1597-1604, d. 1619 (Henry
Brooke), suspicions of his connection
with Watson's plot, i. 116; his intrigues
with Aremberg, 119; writes to the com-
missioners for the examination of Ra-
leigh, 134; writes a letter to Raleigh,
135; is convicted of treason, 18; is re-
prieved and sent to the Tower, 139;
death of, iii. 154

Cockaine, Alderman William, attempts to
exclude the Dutch from the cloth manu-
facture, ii. 386

Coinage, debasement of the Irish, i. 365;
proposal to debase the English, rejected
by Charles, vi. 138; project to debase,
in order to provide means for war with
Scotland, ix. 171; plans for carrying out
the debasement of, 174

Coke, Clement, assists his father in an
attack on Oatlands, ii. 92; declares it
to be better to die by an enemy than
to suffer at home, vi. 76; explains his
words, 79; declares Weston to be an
enemy of the commonwealth, vii. 73
Coke, Frances, Sir John Villiers offers
marriage to, iii. 87; signs a contract of
marriage with the Earl of Oxford, and
is sent to Oatlands, 90; is carried off
by her father, 92; marriage of, 98. See
Purbeck, Lady

Coke, Sir Edward (Attorney-General 1594,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
1606, Chief Justice of the King's Bench
1613 1616, d. 1633), his conduct at Ra-
leigh's trial, i. 123; opposes the Bill for
free trade, 190; appears against the
Gunpowder Plotters, 258; finds a treatise

COK

on Equivocation in Tresham's cham-
bers, 267; his speech at Garnet's trial,
277; prosecutes Northumberland, 283;
becomes Justice of the Common Pleas,
299; is in favour of the naturalisation of
the Post-nati, 334; his conduct on the
Bench, ii. 35; leads the attack on Ban-
croft's Articuli Cleri, 36; has an alter
cation with the King, 38; his opinion on
Fuller's case, 40; provokes James, 41;
is said to have instigated the attack on
Cowell's Interpreter, 66; declares that
the King cannot create an offence by
proclamation, 104; disputes with Abbot
on the question of prohibitions, 122; ob-
jects to the procedure in the case of
Legate and Wightman, 129; Bacon ad-
vises the appointment as Chief Justice
of the King's Bench of, 207; becomes
Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a
Privy Councillor, 208; persuades the
judges not to give an opinion to the
Lords on the question of impositions,
241; objects to the demand for a Benevo
lence being issued under the Great Seal,
261; argues in favour of the legality of
the Benevolence, 266; resists the separate
consultation of the judges, 277; gives his
opinion in Peacham's case, 278; argues
against the deputation from the Irish
Catholics, 297; his opinion on Owen's
case, 304; is directed to inquire into the
murder of Overbury, 332; asks that per-
sons of higher rank may be associated
with him, 334; presides at Weston's
trial, 338; states his belief that Prince
Henry had been poisoned, 345; is eager
to discover the negotiation between
Somerset and Sarmiento, 346; his opinion
on the preparation for a Parliament, 365;
view taken of the constitutional position
of the judges by, iii. 1; brings the Bench
into collision with the Crown, 5; is for-
bidden by James to give judgment on
the writ de rege inconsulto till he has
spoken to him, 9; complains of the in-
terference of Chancery, 10; instigates
the preferment of indictments of præ-
munire, 11; is angry with the grand
jury which returns an ignoramus, 12; is
ordered not to proceed with the case of
commendams till he has spoken with the
King, 14; writes a letter in the names of
the judges refusing to obey the com-
mand, 15; protests against the command,
17; asserts his independence, 19; is sus
pended, 23; is called on to revise his
reports, and dismissed, 25; his behaviour
after his disgrace, 84; quarrels with his
wife, ib.; consents to the marriage of his
daughter to Sir John Villiers, 88; in-
forms the King of his consent, 89; carries
off his daughter from Oatlands, 92; is
Summoned before the Council, ib.; is
favourably received by the King, 95;
is restored to the Council table, 98; is
disappointed at not receiving higher
promotion, 99; is appointed a commis

COK

sioner to examine Raleigh, 141; becomes
a Commissioner of the Treasury, 189;
wishes to impose a larger fine on Suffolk,
210; acknowledges the legality of the
patent for inns, iv. 4; political principles
of, 40; effect on the Commons of his
attack upon the monopolies, 41; asks
the Commons to punish Michell, 42;
brings in a report against Mompesson,
43; acknowledges that the House has
no jurisdiction, 44; brings in a Bill
against monopolies, 54; objects to the
King's proposed tribunal for the trial
of Bacon, 69; complains of Bacon as
a corrupt judge, 78; declares that the
House of Commons is a court of record,
122; supports the jurisdiction of the
Commons over Floyd, 123; repeats the
prayer for the Royal family, 130; is irri-
tated by the affair of Lepton and Gold-
smith, 240; makes a violent attack on
Spain, 241; proposes that the Commons
shall set down their privileges in writing,
260; is sent to the Tower, 267; is
liberated, 350; proposal to send him to
Ireland, v. 182; deciares that Bucking-
ham has deserved well of his country,
188; declares that England was never
so prosperous as when she was at war
with Spain, 194; explains to the Com-
mons the value of the subsidies proposed,
200; carries up the impeachment of
Middlesex, 230; is content that there
shall be no committee of grievances in
the first Parliament of Charles, 342;
argues that Montague's writings can be
properly considered by the Commons,
362; asks for an account of the subsidies
of the last Parliament, 397; wishes that
nothing may be printed without the
approval of Convocation, 399; declares
that the Commons ought not to discuss
doctrine, 400; comments on the embar-
rassments of the Treasury, 411; sug-
gests a Benevolence, 427; is made
sheriff to prevent his appearance in
Parliament, vi. 33; is of opinion that the
rights of the subject must be vindicated,
231; brings in a Bill against prolonged
detention in prison, 232; wishes sub-
sidies to be granted with a declaration
of the illegality of the forced loan,
237 states that when the King is
spoken of as imprisoning anyone, it is
meant that his command is signified by
the judges, 240; quotes the language of
Festus to Agrippa, 241; is temporarily
disconcerted by Shilton's quotation
from Anderson's reports, 243; declares
the quotation from Anderson to be
apocryphal, 244; adduces the evidence
of a copy in Anderson's own hand, 245;
proposes a petition against military
outrages, 253; asks that the dates for the
payment of the subsidies may be fixed,
255: criticises the Lords' propositions
on imprisonment, 261; supports the
Bill of Liberties, 265; wishes the King

COK

to ratify the Bill to be presented to him
in the form of a promise, 269; replies to
Sir J. Coke's proposal that the King
shall be petitioned, 273; proposes a
Petition of Right, 274; asserts that the
phrase 'sovereign power' is rot known
to the law, 281; cannot speak for
weeping, 304; names Buckingham as
the cause of all their miseries, 305;
death of, vii. 359; seizure of the papers
of, 360

Coke, Sir John, is a leading member of
the Navy Commission, iii. 203; orders
Pennington to abstain from meddling in
the French civil wars, v. 329; is selected
by Buckingham to be his mouthpiece
in the House of Commons, 370; lays
an estimate before the House, and asks
for an additional grant, 371; fails to
persuade the House, 372; writes to
Pennington that he will not have to fight
against the French Protestants, 378;
orders Pennington not to give up his
ships to the French, 379; approves of
the protest of Pennington's captains,
382; recommends that Pennington shall
spin out time, 383; gives a full explana-
tion of the King's military and naval
expenditure, 405; protests against Eliot's
attack on the Commissioners of the
Navy, 414; becomes Secretary of State,
vi. 9; urges on the sale of French prize
goods, 42; suggests an early grant of
supply, 60; again urges the Commons
to take supply into consideration, 80;
Buckingham is angry with, 201; acknow-
ledges that the law had been broken,
237; alleges the discovery of a party of
Jesuits at Clerkenwell as a reason why
the Commons should vote supply, 239:
persuades the House to allow supply to
be discussed in a Grand Committee, ib. ;
argues in favour of attacking the enemy,
246; announces to Charles that five
subsidies have been voted in committee,
and reports Buckingham's sayings to
the Commons, 252; supports Sir E.
Coke's proposal for fixing the dates of
the payment of the subsidies, 255:
informs the Commons that it has been
noticed that they are press ng on power
itself, 255; informs the House that,
whatever law is made, it will be his
duty as a Privy Councillor to commit
without showing cause, 267; denies
that the laws had been violated, 269;
asks that the King's answer to the Re-
monstrance may be debated in the
House, 272; objects to Pym's language,
273 asks the Commons to petition
against a repetition of the forced loan,
ib.; goes to Portsmouth to hurry on
reinforcements for Denbigh, 293; in-
forms Buckingham of the slowness with
which the fleet for the relief of Rochelle
is being fitted out, 344; proposes to
bring in a Bill for granting tonnage and
poundage, vii. 34; protests against the

COK

Commons considering the report of the
committee on religion, 37; declares the
King's resolution to protect the Custom
House officers, 64; writes to forbid
Charles Lewis to go to the Palatinate,
351; reads to the Council an exposition
of the dangers of the kingdom, and calls
on Charles to recover the sovereignty of
the seas, 357; becomes a Commissioner
of the Treasury, 379; urges on Lindsey
the necessity of supporting the King's
claim to the sovereignty of the seas,
385; his speech at the introduction into
Oxford of the Caroline statutes, viii.
147; votes against war with Scotland,
350; is threatened with dismissal, ix.
85; ceases to be Secretary, 87; exposes
the Queen's misrepresentation about the
marriage treaty, 88

Colchester, Official's court of the arch-
deaconry of, ix. 80

Coldstream, the Scottish army crosses the
Tweed at, ix. 189

College of Physicians, the, reports on the
causes of the plague, viii. 289
Coloma, Don Carlos, succeeds Gondomar

as Spanish ambassador in England, iv.
335 asks that Spanish ships may be
sheltered in English ports, 376; is pre-
sent when James swears to the public
articles of the marriage treaty, v. 68;
ssents to the agreement of Salisbury,
99; presents a plan for the pacification
of Germany, 131; accepts James's de-
claration that he can grant no further
concessions to the Catholics, 100; slips
a paper into James's hand, 207; protests
against the levy of soldiers in aid of the
Dutch, 244; begs that three Dunkirk
privateers in the Downs may receive the
benefit of neutrality, 245; obtains per-
mission for Rubens to visit England,
vii. 102; is named ambassador to Eng-
land, 105; is received at Whitehall, 170;
swears to the treaty of Madrid, 176;
takes leave of Charles, 177; Massinger's
allusions to, 201

Colvill, William, is entrusted with letters
from the Covenanters to foreign princes,
ix. 91; is sent to France with a second
letter, 92

Commendams, case of, iii. 13
Commerce, movement in favour of break-
ing up the companies engaged in, i.
188; Act for throwing open,
with
France, Spain, and Portugal, 348;
interference with the course of, between
England and Holland, ii. 385; stoppage
of, after the dissolution of 1629, vii. 82
Commissions of array, issued for the army
against Scotland, ix. 162; issued for an
army against the Parliamentary Militia,
x. 202; order given to put in execution,

[blocks in formation]

COM

Committee of defence, the, is ordered to
direct the attention of the Lords to the
state of the fortresses, and to consider
the command of the trained bands, x.
2; recommends the appointment of an
authority to put the kingdom in a state
of defence, 3

Committee of Eight. See Committee of the
Privy Council for Scottish affairs
Committee of Estates, the, appointed by
the Scottish Parliament, ix. 152; decides
that half its members shall accompany
Leslie's army, 182; examines Montrose,
396; imprisons Montrose and his con.
federates, 397
Committee of Safety, the, is composed of
Lords and Commoners, x. 209
Committee of the Privy Council for foreign
affairs, appointment of, v. 323; proposed
admission of Scots to, ix. 91

Committee of the Privy Council for Scot-
tish affairs, divided state of opinion in,
viii. 350; recommends Charles to select
a force of 30,000 from the trained bands,
383 is consulted on the war with Scot-
land after the dissolution of the Short
Parliament, ix. 120

Committee of the Privy Council for
Spanish affairs is consulted on the mar
riage treaty, iii. 58; listens to Buck-
ingham's account of his proceedings in
Spain, v. 143; questions about the
treaties proposed to, 176; refuses to
vote for war, 177; gives a temporising
answer, 179; recommends the imprison-
ment of Loudoun and Dunfermline, ix.
74; after hearing Traquair's report, dis-
cusses the mode of coercing Scotland,
75; debate on the mode of carrying on
war with Scotland in, 120
Common Council, the. See London, City
of

Common Prayer, the Book of, supporters
and assailants of, ix. 274; proposal to
make alterations in, and counter-propo-
sal of Culpepper to punish those who
vilify, x. 14

Commons, the House of, its increased
powers under Henry VIII., i. 6; asks
for further changes in the Church, 31;
opposes Elizabeth on the subject of
Church reform, 32: composition of,
160; official members elected to, 163:
debates on Sherley's case of privilege in,
167; on Goodwin's case, ib.; on pur-
veyance and wardship, 171; on the
Court of Wards, 174; on the union with
Scotland, 176; objects to the title of
King of Great Britain, 177; is dissatis-
fied with the Hampton Court settle-
ment, 178; its ecclesiastical policy, 179;
apology of, 180; omits to grant sub-
sidies, 186; opposes the monopoly of
the trading companies, 188; passes a
Bill for opening trade, 189; is scolded by
the King at the prorogation, 190; causes
of the misunderstanding between the
King and, 193; rejects a proposal for

COM

inflicting extraordinary punishment on
the Gunpowder Plotters, 286; questions
the right of Convocation to legislate,
291; grants a supply, 297, 298; draws
up a petition of grievances, 299; dis-
cusses the proposed commercial union
with Scotland, 329; considers the ques-
tion of naturalisation, 331; agrees to
pass Bills for the abolition of hostile
laws and extradition of criminals, 337;
insists on freedom for all persons to trade
with France, Spain, and Portugal, 348;
case of the Trial' brought before, 349;
forwards to the Lords the complaints of
the merchants trading with Spain, 351;
Salisbury seeks to influence elections
to, ii. 63; takes into consideration the
support of the Crown, 64; listens to
Salisbury's demands, 65; condemns
Cowell's Interpreter, 66; demands the
commutation of feudal tenures, 68;
proposes to enter into the Great Con
tract, 69; is forbidden by the King to
question his right to impositions, 70;
receives permission to discuss the impo-
sitions, 72; petition against recusants
from, 73; debate on impositions in, 75;
is almost unanimous against the King's
claim to impositions, 81; draws up a
petition of grievances, and grants a sub-
sidy, 82; agrees to the Great Contract,
83; is dissatisfied with the King's
answer to its grievances, 85; breaks off
the Great Contract, 107; refuses to
grant supply till the rumours about
Undertakers have been inquired into,
236; receives the communion at St.
Margaret's, and takes up the Bill on
Impositions, 237; inquires into monopo-
lies, ib.; gives up the inquiry about the
Undertakers, and discusses the imposi-
tions, 238; asks for a conference on
impositions, 241; is indignant at Bishop
Neile's attack, 243; is not contented
with Neile's excuse, 246; review of the
conduct of, in the Addled Parliament,
248; imprisonment of members of, 249;
does not revive the quarrel about impo-
sitions in 1621, iv. 27; Protestant feel-
ing of, 28; objects to receive the com-
munion in Westminster Abbey, 30;
receives the report of the Council of
War, 31; grants two subsidies, 32;
complains of Gondomar's permission to
export ordnance, 33; expels Shepherd,
34; is displeased with James's refusal
to persecute the Catholics, 34; foreign
policy of, 35 inquiry into the mono-
polies, 39; violent proceedings against
Michell in, 42; attack on Mompesson in,
43; its jurisdiction questioned, ib.; de-
mands inquiry into the conduct of the
referees, 48; brings charges against the
referees, 50; sends charges against
Mompesson to the Lords, 54; orders
Phelips to lay before the Peers the
evidence against Bacon, 66; resists
James's proposal for a new tribunal to

COM

inquire into Bacon's case, 71; sends up
the Wharton case to the Lords, 78; is
summoned to the Lords' bar to hear
the sentence on Bacon, 103; hears th
Lords' sentence on Michell, 108; charge
Sir J. Bennett with corruption, it.; re-
fuses to grant a further supply, and
condemns the patent for alehouses,
110; abandons the charges against the
referees, 111; violent language directed
against Floyd in, 120; sentences Floyd,
121; its jurisdiction over Floyd ques-
tioned by the King, ib.; refers Floyd's
case to the King, 123; votes certain
patents to be grievances, and passes a
Monopoly Bill, 125; is ordered to
adjourn, 126; dissatisfaction in, 127;
Perrot's motion for a declaration about
the Palatinate in, 128; makes a declara-
tion for the defence of the Palatinate,
129; adjournment of, 130; reassembles,
232; its attention called to the imprison-
ment of Sandys, 233: considers a de-
mand for money for the defence of the
Palatinate, 234; resolves to vote supply,
241; draws up a petition on religion,
246; is ordered by the King not 10
meddle with his son's marriage, 250;
prepares an explanatory petition, 251;
sends a deputation to the King, 252;
James's attack on the privileges of, 254;
debate on the King's answer in, 255;
precedents on liberty of speech in, 256;
is unanimous in defence of its privileges,
257; protestation on behalf of the privi
leges of, 261: last sitting of, in the ses
sion of 1621, 264; character of the elec-
tions to, in 1621, v. 181; 1efers Eliot's
motion on liberty of speech to a com-
mittee, 188; exculpates Buckingham, ib.;
debate on the Spanish treaties in, 189;
popularity of a war with Spain, and un-
popularity of a war in Germany in, 191;
draws up a petition for war with Spain,
192; discusses the King's speech on a war
in Germany, 194; votes an address calling
for war with Spain, 196; is dissatisfied
with James's answer, 197; disapproves
of a French marriage and of a Conti-
nental war, 199; votes three subsidies and
three fifteenths, 200; conditional nature
of the grant made by, 202; refuses to
inquire into the insults offered to the
Spanish Embassy, 203; sends to the
Lords a petition against recusants, 222;
is satisfied with James's answer to the
petition against recusants, 226; im-
peaches Midd'esex, 230; agrees to a
modification of the Monopoly Bill, 233;
presents its grievances to James, 234;
is dissatisfied at the close of the session
of 1624. 235; growth of the influence of,
ib.; full attendance in, at the opening of
the session of 1625, 337; is asked for
supplies by Charles, on the ground that
it has brought him into war, 338; rejects
Mallory's motion for an adjournment,
341; goes into committee on religion,

COM

342 prepares a petition on religion, re-
questing the enforcement of the law
against the Catholics, and a conciliatory
treatment of the silenced ministers, 344;
the grant of one subsidy and one fif-
teenth proposed in, 345; two subsidies
voted by, 347; its want of confidence in
Charles, ib.; considers Wentworth's dis-
puted election, 349; refers Montague's
New Gag for an old Goose to Abbot,
353 ; inquires what steps Abbot has taken,
354 refers the New Gag and Appello
Cæsarem to a committee, 55; report of
its committee on Montague's books, 360;
commits Montague to custody, 364; de-
bate on tonnage and poundage in, ib;
passes a Bill granting tonnage and pound-
age for one year, 365; estimate of ex-
penditure laid by Coke before, 371; de-
clines to grant an additional supply, 372;
is adjourned to Oxford, 373; re-assembles
at Oxford, 397; prepares a petition against
the grant of pardons to Catholic priests,
399; discusses Montague's case, ib. ; ques-
tion of ministerial responsibility raised
in, 400; is summoned before the King in
Christchurch Hall, 403; is puzzled by
the confused way in which the Kings
demands are made, 406; the King's
ministers inefficiently represented in, 407;
Whistler's suggestion to consult the Lords
on the proposed supply allowed to drop
in, ib.; debate on foreign policy in, b.;
is summoned to Christchurch Hall to
hear a communication from Bucking-
ham, 418; discusses the King's demand of
an immediate supply, 423; hears of the
delivery of Pennington's ships to the
French, 428; complaints of neglect to
stop piracy, ib.; adopts a protestation
of loyalty, 431; last proceedings of, in
the first Parliament of Charles, 432; its
want of confidence in Buckingham justi-
fied, 433; conservatism of, 434; pro-
nounces against Montague, vi. 65; wishes
to learn the advice given by the Council
of War, 73: persists in requiring an
answer, 74; difficulties of its position,
76; directs the King's Counsel to bring
in a tonnage and poundage Bill, 77; loyal
declaration of, 78; adopts Eliot's pro-
posal to pass a resolution for the grant of
subsidies, but not to convert it into a
Bill, 81; informed by Coventry that they
have liberty of counsel, not of control,
82; is told by Charles that Parliaments
are to continue or not, according to their
fruits, 83; resolves to draw up a remon-
strance, ib.; determines to go on with the
Remonstrance in spite of Buckingham's
vindication of his conduct, 84; presents
the Remonstrance to Charles, 85; orders
a committee to consider the causes of evil,
ib.; votes the charges against Bucking.
ham upon common fame, 86; impeaches
Buckingham, 98; demands the imprison-
ment of Buckingham, 108; refuses to pro-
ceed with business till Eliot and Digges

COM

are liberated, 109: prepares a petition
in vindication of its privileges, 110; is
informed that Digges is released, and
that Eliot is imprisoned on account
of actions done out of the House, 112;
suspends its sittings, 113; is informed
that Eliot is liberated, ib.; clears Eliot,
114; declares tonnage and poundage il-
legal without consent of Parliament, 115;
demands an account of Buckingham's
election as Chancellor of the University
of Cambridge, but is ordered by the
King to desist from further inquiry, 116;
draws up a Remonstrance, 118; question
of responsibility raised by its demand to
the King to remove Buckingham from
his presence, 119; end of the sittings of,
121; resolution of the leaders of, not to
proceed against Buckingham in 1628, 230;
Coke's Bill against prolonged detention
in prison brought into, 232; debate on a
proposal to grant supply in, 233; refuses
to vote supply in consequence of the dis-
covery of a party of Jesuits at Clerken
well, 239; goes into a Grand Committee on
Supply, 240; want of support for the King
in, ib.; passes a resolution against taxa-
tion without a Parliamentary grant, 241;
enters on a debate on the King's claim to
imprison without showing cause, ib. ; dis-
cussion on the genuineness of a copy of
Anderson's reports in, 244; resolutions
on imprisonment adopted by, 245; debate
on the grant of supply in, 246; passes
resolutions on confinement and billet-
ing, 247; postpones the consideration of
military grievances for that of civil ones,
250; passes in committee a resolution
for five subsidies, ib.; Bill for securing
the liberties of the subject proposed by
Wentworth in, 251; debate on military
outrages in, 253; sits, by the King's orders,
on Good Friday, 254; debate on martial
law in, ib.; asks the Peers to hear them
before deciding on the resolutions on the
liberties of the subject, 256; again refuses
to discuss supply, 257; is informed by
the Lord Keeper that Charles expects
it to be content with his promise to ob
serve the law, 263; resolves that a Bill
founded on its resolutions shall be
brought in, 264; debate in, on the Bill
of Liberties, 265; is informed by Sir J.
Coke that, whatever law might be made,
it would be the duty of a Privy Coun-
cillor to commit without showing cause,
267; directs the preparation of a Remon-
strance, 269; orders the presentation of
the Remonstrance, 270; end of Went-
worth's leadership of, ib.; discusses the
King's offer to confirm Magra Carta and
six other statutes, 272; orders a Petition
of Right to be prepared, and the resolu-
tions for five subsidies to be reported,
275; sends up the Pet tion to the Lords,
276; refuses to accept the King's offer to
declare the cause as soon as convenient,
277; rejects the Lords' clause in amend

« PreviousContinue »