The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I. 1637-1649, Volumen2

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Longmans, Green, & Company, 1882
 

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Página 385 - endeavoured, as far as in them lay, by force and terror, to compel the Parliament to join with them in their traitorous designs, and to that end had actually raised and countenanced tumults against the King and Parliament.' Lastly, they had 'traitorously conspired to levy, and actually had levied, war upon the King.
Página 432 - answer," not for an hour. You have asked that of me in this, was never asked of a king, and with which I will not trust my wife and children." No understanding was any longer possible. The evident sincerity of both parties kept them asunder. Charles believed at the bottom of his heart that Parliament was plotting
Página 431 - Have I violated your laws ? Have I denied to pass one Bill for the ease and security of my subjects? I do not ask you what you have done for me. God so deal with me and mine, as all my thoughts and intentions are upright for the
Página 437 - supreme court of judicature in the kingdom, shall declare what the law of the land is, to have this not only questioned and controverted, but contradicted, and a command that it should not be obeyed, is a high breach of the privilege of Parliament.
Página 395 - crime, but for treason—are here, I cannot expect that this House can be in the right way that I do heartily wish it. Therefore I am come to tell you that I must have them wheresoever I find them." Then, hoping against hope that he had not come
Página 203 - any more, forgot her heavenly flight, and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on in the old road and drudging trade of outward conformity." In these words lay the central fire which warmed the hearts of all the nobler assailants of Episcopacy and the Prayer Book.
Página 177 - who had come to console him in his last hours. " Desire the Archbishop," he said, " to lend me his prayers this night, and to give me his blessing when I do go abroad to-morrow, and to be in his window, that by my last farewell I may give him thanks for this and all his former favours.
Página 72 - to the preferments of England ; and to be so absolutely, directly, and cordially Papists, that it is all that 1,500/. a year can do to keep them from confessing it." With all this, and with much more than this, Falkland could see no necessity for the abolition of Episcopacy. Let all laws be repealed which empowered
Página 178 - Parliaments in England to be the happy constitution of the kingdom and nation, and the best means under God to make the king and his people happy.' He wished that all who were present would consider ' whether the beginning of the people's happiness should be written in letters of blood.
Página 401 - extension of a doctrine as old as that on which Charles relied when he declared that there could be no privilege of Parliament in case of treason. " A subject," it had been laid down by Chief Justice Markham, " may arrest for treason. The King cannot, for if the arrest be illegal, the party has no remedy against the King.

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