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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… in 1678 June (17th-28th) Monday, June 17. Mr Powle reports the Charge of the Navy, Ordnance, and Fortifications. Debate. Mr Pepys.] … therefore he should open his Heart freely to them: That a Peace was ready to be determined; at least as to Spain and …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Debates in 1678 June (1st-6th) Saturday, June 1. The Lord Chancellor's Speech was read. [Debate.] Mr Powle.] I … Lord Chancellor had taken the advice himself he gives us, of " State super vias antiquas 1." The Speech spoken by the … crime, for had our offers and advices been followed, the Peace had never been made; for which advice we had the sharp …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Friday, June 7. Mr Secretary Coventry delivered to the House the following Message from his Majesty: "Charles R. "His Majesty, in his Speech to both Houses, on the 23d of May last, told you, "That, if he were able, he would keep … unwarrantable prosecution to conviction of Popery, at the Sessions at the Old Bailey. Mr Williams.] Dismembering a …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Debates in 1678 March (14th-15th) Thursday, March 14. [On the State of the Nation.] Sir Gilbert Gerrard.] The King has had … is yet a Question, Whether you will address the King for Peace or War. The Question proposed is, That the Committee …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Recusants. Sir Thomas Lee.] I met with some people in the Hall, who put this List into my hands. It seems, it is a List of those sort of people convicted as Romish Recusants. Mr … have no tryal per pares, only a single Justice of the Peace, &c. and Magna Charta says, "no man shall be tried but …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… March (1st-12th) Friday, March 1. In a Grand Committee. On the Poll-Bill. Mr Mallet.] I would have Serjeants that come … double, in the Poll, to them that have read. The Posy of their Ring is, " Ex gratia regis, non operibus legis." And … a War has been without Prohibition of Commodities, and in Peace a Prohibition, &c. 'tis improper for either. If it be …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Debates in 1678 May (23rd-27th) THE DEBATES IN THE House of Commons, From the Year 1667 to … Houses to this effect: "That there was great appearance of Peace abroad, but, notwithstanding that, he thought it …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Tuesday, May 28. Mr Secretary Coventry delivered to the House the King's Answer to yesterday's Vote, as follows: "CHARLES R. "His Majesty having perused the Vote of this House of the 27th of May, hath thought fit to return … but does also [verily] believe will end in a general Peace: Yet since that is not certain, his Majesty does by no …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Debates in 1678 May (2nd-3rd) Thursday, May 2. [Debate on the Treaties resumed.] Mr Powle.] This matter will not bear a palliative cure. It is plain, that Holland is jealous of us on one side, and Spain on the other. We are told that … tendency to accept of what is offered. If they make this Peace, or any thing like it now, they must fall wholly into …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Debates in 1678 May (4th-6th) Saturday, May 4. Debate on the Treaties resumed. Mr Secretary Williamson.] I told you yesterday "that the matter of the Alliances rested in what the Dutch Ambassadors would … under 100,000 men? And can we sit safe thus? Whatever Peace we have, it will be infinitely worse than a WarThen I …