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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… and especially consider of the city of London, who have a long time laid under the burthen of an excessive charge. Mr. … I have seen one alteration in forty-nine, and another long before that, and it is fit there should be a proportion. … But if you go by that rule it will be as broad as long; for there 120,000 l. upon England, besides the fee farm …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Mr. Knightley. I am sorry to hear a gentleman that, sat so long in this House for England, should now be serving for a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… that, to vindicate the justice of this House and of the Long Parliament, he have all the liberty, by protection, or … 1659. As to Massey, if my last be come to you, you have long before this spoken to him. "I do the more long to hear that Massey hath been with you, because I have …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… dishonour Christ in this blasphemous manner. We have been long looking for peace. This Parliament and all Parliaments, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… (He stated the debate, which he interrupted with a long discourse, touching the orders of the House.) If there … the people's rights in with it. In the beginning of the Long Parliament there were two Armies. We had passed an Act … hopes. I never had confidence to serve you, since the Long Parliament. We ought now to take care that we suffer not …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the ancient renown of this place restored, which hath so long lain buried in the grave made by the ignorance and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… things be read; the Declaration in 51, the act of the Long Parliament, and the Act of Union. They are all before … shall not speak to the Declaration, nor to the act of the Long Parliament, 7 nor to the treaty about the union. I shall … I find those gentlemen sometimes cry up things done by the Long Parliament, when they make for their turn, and again …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… and that is my humble motion. Major-General Kelsey made a long repetition of the former debates. The gentleman was … he might speak. Colonel Shapcot. I shall not trouble you long. I hope it is agreed upon, on all hands, that by the old …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the qualifications of the members. In the beginning of the Long Parliament we turned out all monopolists. It is not fit … here by Providence, I desire to know your sense about the Long Parliament, whether it be still of force, … of the Parliament at Oxford; 2 because I said I was of the Long Parliament." It seems, it was Sir Arthur Haslerigge …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… for you, or otherwise, that some other person of the long robe may be appointed, for the present, to sit in that … a speaker pro tempore. I would have you chuse some of the long robe for the present, that our business may not be at a … you, as that Bill for the Scotch Union, which has laid a long time on your hands, 1 and other bills, will the better …