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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… afternoon at two o'clock, in the Inner Court of Wards. Sir Edward Rhodes reported from the Committee, touching Captain … Colonel Jones stood up, and said, this is a business (as I am informed) that will hold two days. Your time will not … public consequence, be excluded. Major-General Disbrowe. I second this motion. It is our life and being to perfect the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… plaintiff, and Mr. John Cole, defendant. 1 Mr. Knightley. I move to have it examined de novo. It is not proper for us … Wroth. 3 They said, call him in. Major-general Packer. I am content to pass by the injury if the House so please. I … always chosen by the country laws, 19 by the good laws of Edward the Confessor. The great commanders, both by sea and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… it. A decree in Chancery will serve. Sir Richard Lucy. I am one of the tenants, and know that it is the desire of … they cannot be otherwise secure. Major-General Packer. I know that that is the only reason why the tenants desire. … things. I have been always against laws for matters ex post facto; but, in this, I am free to look back, for it is a …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… 1658–9 Saturday, February 5,1658–9. The House sat, ere I came in. Sir Arthur Haslerigge was moving that the petition … chosen by the profane rabble, and Cavaliers. Mr. Weaver. I move that a Committee be appointed to examine this … the second, loss of freedom. This was done by command of Edward II., in the first of his reign, under his let ters …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Saturday next. Colonel Fothergill stood up with purpose, I suppose, to press the tenants of Westminster's petition to … or six stood up with petitions, and could not be heard. I know hot when they shall. Colonel Bingham offered, if I would lay him five pieces to one, he would wager that the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Sir Richard Onslow, Mr. Waller. 2 Colonel Castle. I cannot but observe the great zeal of this House in private … shall be payable by the Earl of Bedford, John Russell, and Edward Russell, Esquires, his brothers, in respect of the … abated unto the said Earl, and the said John Russell, and Edward Russell." Journals. Christopher Hatton, according to …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… far from bounding, that it will rather enlarge his power. I conceive the persons that now sit in that House, do not sit … the Petition and Advice, but according to the common law. I move, therefore, to have the writ brought in. 2. It does … that they set sail from Holland since the time that the post came away, and that, there had been news brought …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Inn, at the suit of Harvey and Alston, 2 Mr. Speaker. I move for your privilege. Resolved, that Ralph Grigge, John … was going to read Gloucester Bill. Sir William Roberts. I move that you adhere to your former vote, to admit of no … 1657, was, by the mayor's command, tied to the whipping-post in the market-place, and there whipped by a beadle, and …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… at the adjournment, yesterday. This out of the Journals. I came late. It seems the ceremony of address to the other … power. You intend only that they should be, hac vice. I would have their bounds accordingly. Mr. Trevor. I would … yet agreed. The reason of the ceremony of the cap, 8 since Edward III.'s time, was because of the King's children being …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… whether Captain Lister's Report 1 should be made by Sir Edward Rhodes, now. Mr. Bampfield, Mr. Fowell, and Mr. … rise. Colonel White and Captain Baynes moved, that Sir Edward Rhodes's Report be heard. The question was put, and … many years laid upon the consideration of many men, and I believe upon those that are principally concerned in the …