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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… I shall not trouble you with a long speech. The history of the past times is very sad. I hope we shall now … people's expense) is a too appropriate motto of almost all history. Hence, it has been well expressed, as a result of … of the Common Bench, and member in that Parliament for the County of Gloucester. Though he had declined to acknowledge …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… moved that there might be commissioners appointed in every county, in this Bill, to the end things may be better … 4th, 1641–2. See supra, p. 291. In which he sat for the County of Surrey. See supra, p. 82. See supra, p. 305. In …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… on a gibbet, and over it, 'this I shall be.'" See "The History of the Colony of Massachuset's Bay." (1765) i. 3. …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Pyrennees. See vol. iii. p. 294, note; Lord Clarendon's History, p. 689. Supra, p. 9. Ibid. p. 74. See vol. i. p. 49, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Ricroft answer it. Resolved, that the under sheriff of the County of Middlesex be sent for in safe custody, by the … resolution of the House. Resolved, that the Sheriff of the county of Middlesex, do bring in Thomas Boulron, his bailiff, … but since from 35 to 41. Money is so scarce that in the county where I live, you shall go through a parish worth two …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… capacity taken prisoner at Leicester, by King Charles. History, i. 697. According to Whitlock (p. 107), in 1644, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… naturally goes with the legislature. Every sheriff and county has it. Our ancestors never disputed it. The negative … much from what it was before. A deputy-lieutenant in the county, or a captain, were rather things of honour than … address that has not lives and fortunes in it." See "The History of Addresses. By one very near akin to the Author of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… all their members who were monopolists or projectors." History (1769), ii. 389. "Jan. 21. 1640–1. The Commons …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… were the victims. But it ill suited the purpose of his History, (whose solemn pretensions to religious veracity … neglect, ridicule, and fiction, under the specious name of history, have combined to disparage, were satisfied to … affections systems of civil tyranny," 25 and whose history had known no government but the royal, to which they …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of this; it is apparent to such as have looked upon the history of Britain, and from Basingstochius, 8 and some other … became Christians. There is yet some memory of him in the county of Northumberland, 10 where he fought his last battle … the use of travellers." History, pp. 130, 134. Of which county the Speaker was now a representative. Referring, …