Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce.

  • Verney, Ralph, Sir, 1613-1696.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parliment, and the priviledges therof, [or the preservation of the same,]3 are acording to their duty, and the late protestation, and the lawes of the kingdom, and, that if any person shall arrest or trouble them for soe doing, [he] is declared an enimy of the comon wealth. MOUNDAY, 10th JANUARY, 1641. AT GROSSERS HALL, LONDON. Resolved uppon question. That the publishing of severall articles5, purporting a forme [of] a charg of hygh treason against the lord Kimbolton and the five gentlemen, by sir William Kille- grew, sir [William Fleming, and others] c, was a [high] c breach of the priviledges of parliment, a greate scandall to the king and his goverment, a seditious act maliciously tending to the subvertion of the peace of the kingdom, and an injury and dishonour to the said members, there being noe legall charge or accusation against them. That the priviledg of parliment, and liberties of the subject, soe broken, cannot bee fully vindecated unlesse the king will dis¬ cover who advised him to seall upp the trunks, and apprehend those members, and to come in his person to the parliment, [and to send a serjeant to demand the members,]d the publishing the said articles and printed paper, qucere, that such persons may have exemplary punishment. THE SEAMENS PROPOSITION. [“ At this time divers mariners and seamen came to the committee, and, with a petition signed by a thousand hands, tendred their service to guard the committee by water to Westminster, which was accepted.” (Rushworth, part iii. vol. i. p. 483.) After the per¬ formance of this service “divers” of them were called in and thanked by the house. (Journ. ii. 370.)] a The words within brackets are doubtful, and the following word is “and” in the MS. b The seven articles delivered in to the house of lords in writing by the attorney general by the king’s command, on the 3rd Jan. 1641-2. See them in Rushworth, part iii. vol. i. p. 473. Nalson, ii. 811. Pari. Hist. ii. 1005. c Blank in the MS. d Placed within brackets in the MS.