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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… for poor Wales. The sermons at this period were very long, especially on public occasions. Thus Dr. Barrow …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… that I must not give ill examples by troubling you with a long speech. I never knew much said in long speeches. I never loved them. I desire that you would … the blessings of my Father's government; a mercy, after so long a civil war, and in the midst of so great division which …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… no new thing for a Parliament to print their Resolves: The Long Parliament did it in matters of the highest nature; as … direction, yet they might have an eye to it. Sir Lislebone Long. This is a business, indeed, of great weight. It is … to a Committee, (consisting of all the gentlemen of the long robe, and sixty-eight others) to peruse the same, and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… being of such weight and consequence, the judges and long-robe men might be sent for to attend; and the serjeant … good laws, as any that have been done by us. All that the Long Parliament did is as contrary to the laws, upon this … done by us, is as far from the rule. It reflects upon the Long Parliament by the bock-hand. To any thing done for the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… the old Peers. They have consented to such a Bill in the Long Parliament. 42 I know not why it may not as well be … use nor place for such arguments. We expect law from the Long Robe, and not fear of the long sword. We came up free, and I hope we shall go down …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… were authors and advisers, in keeping out the members by a long sword, 3 may be called to an account, that hereafter it … hinted by one of our prophets, 5 that we must live long in a little time; and we know not how long we may sit. It may be questioned whether we shall sit a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… you are to bound these persons. I desire that any of the Long Robe would answer that objection. Therefore I would have … that Mr. White's argument 4 be answered by some of the Long Robe. He desires to be satisfied in that point. Mr. … upon him. Mr. Bayles. You see the inconveniency of a long parenthesis; we have forgot the sense that went before, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… was about continuing the Ordinance. Lord Lambert made a long speech on the behalf of the creditors of those persons … the Rolls. There are other ways for marriages; one in the Long Parliament, which certainly was of equal authority with … you may recall yours. The precedent is ordinary. In the Long Parliament, the Tellers were mistaken in their report, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… pur debates and votes go which way they would, it is the long sword must carry it. Mr. Trevor. It is not improper to … the encroachments of this kind, in a declaration of that Long Parliament. I cannot but remember what was charged upon … by plain things and low things. It was this that led your Long Parliament; the Providence of God, that virtue and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Monday after Michaelmas, according to usual course. Not long after, upon the noise of a Parliament, some debate …