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Moft remarkable TRANSACTIONS
In PARLIAMENT,

From the earliest TIMES,

TO THE

Restoration of King CHARLES II.

COLLECTED

From the JOURNALS of both HOUSES, the RECORDs,
original MANUSCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and
TRACTS; all compared with the feveral Cotem-
porary Writers, and connected, throughout, with
the Hiftory of the Times.

By SEVERAL HANDS.

VOL. VIII.

From the Fourth Year of King Charles I. to the
Meeting of the Long Parliament, Nov. 3. 1640.

LONDON,

Printed; and fold by Thomas Ofborne, in Gray's Inn ;

AND

William Sandby, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-ftreet.

MDCCLI.

THE

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

O F

ENGLAN D.

1628.

N the 14th of April, the Lords re- An. 4. Charles I. fumed the grand Debate concerning the Liberty of the Subject; when the Judges of the King's Bench attended, according to an Order of the 8th, to give an Account of the Reasons of their Judgment, in the Cafe of the Gentlemen imprifoned by the King's Order, for refufing the Loan; which the Commons had complained of.

Hereupon the Chief Justice (a) stood up and faid, Debate in the That they were prepared to obey their Lordfhips House of Lords Command; but defired to be advifed by them, whe- of the Subject. on the Liberty ther they, being fworn upon Penalty of forfeiting Body, Lands and Goods into the King's Hands, to give an Account to him, may do this without Warrant from his Majefty.'

Hereupon the Duke of Buckingham said, 'He had acquainted the King with the Bufinefs, and, for VOL. VIII. ought

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(a) Sir Nicholas Hide, (fo appointed on the Removal of Sir Randolph Crew, for refufing to forward the Loan.)-Rushworth tells us, That he owed this Advancement to his being employed in drawing the Duke of Buckingham's Answer to the Impeachment of the Commons.

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