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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the Committee for Recusants, viz. Mr. Godfrey and Colonel Briscoe. The Speaker left the chair, for the Grand Committee …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… expedient. All that is lawful, is not expedient. Colonel Briscoe. I conceive there is danger on both hands; botty as …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… 16 and should be twenty-eight or thirty. Colonel Briscoe. I move not to alter the proportions now; for you …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… bring him to; but to take his life I cannot agree. Colonel Briscoe. The distinction of blasphemies offered to you, may …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… you would do nothing suddenly nor unadvisedly. Colonel Briscoe. I shall premise two things. 1. That government is …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… made on Saturday last. The order was read. Colonel Briscoe moved, that this business being in order to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… question, to throw it out, but there it sticks. Colonel Briscoe told me, that Mr. Godfrey and others thought that the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… several officers. Colonel Okey instanced in one Colonel (Briscoe) who told him that commissions were provided for him …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… which are also dangerous, as well as Quakers. Mr. Briscoe. I have no petition from the county 4 for which I … I was a while at the Leg, with Major-General Howard, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Fenwick, Captain Lilburn, Lord Eure, and other …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… them. I know no reproach that it deserves. Colonel Briscoe. I am at present against this programme; but not for …