ton

gave that dangerous counfell of bring- Laud and ing in the Irish armie into England Cotting"others were prefent, deciphered by involved. "these letters Arch. & L. Cott. whome "wee conceive Lord Arch. & L. Cott. "verie full of pernicious counfell to the

King & flanders to the Commons "house affembled in the laft Parliament. "Mr. Hotham moved to have the bill of Hotham "the Earle of Strafford's attainder read.

"Mr. Pymme would not have the bill read,

for At

tainder.

"but to goe the other way: because this is "the fafer, to fhew that wee & the Lords are Pym "reconciled & not fundred: & foe we shall against. proceed the more speedilie by demanding judgment.

"Mr. Maynard one way doth not croffe "another, but wee may goe by bill of attain"der if wee will, or by demanding judgment: Maynard "wch wee may best refolve upon when wee fee for. "the end of the triall.

"Sir Benjamin Rudier [Rudyard] fhewed "the great treafon of the Earle of Strafford, " & yet faied that one full third parte of the Rudyard "evidence was not heard, & that divers of doubtful. "the Lords who weere prefent at the open"ing thereof weere not fatisfied that it was "treafon."

So ends the first page of the facfimile. On the reverse page the debate is continued, the first two speakers being men notorious afterwards for their royalift fervices, and the third being D'Ewes himself.

for.

"Mr. Tomkins for bill of attainder to bee Tomkins read, for it is the old way.

Culpeper for.

D'Ewes

against.

Urges

on Impeach

"Sir John Culpepper not to lay bill afide: "the fafeft & the fpeedieft way to proceede by "bill: yet for the conference now.

<< way.

"I faied that I was verie gladd of the motion "for a conference. Neceffitie to complie with "L3 [Lords] for timor bonorum fpes malorum " & the diftraction now foe great in the king"dome as it threatens much hazard. First "to demand Judgment the most ancient way "in evident cafes: Bill, when men dead, or fledd, or cafés difficult. This the shorte For nothing now but to demand. judgment judgment. A bill will be long in paffing; " & all delaies incident to that as to this. "For the fumming upp, a narrative may bee "omitted or proceeded in. This the fafe "way. BPP in bill ought to have voices. "Divers faied No. But I tolde them that "I fpake not by rote or tradition but what I "knew. That I had this morning been searching in the office of the clark of the "Lordes house touching the bill of attainder "of Sir Thomas Seymour Lord Sudeley, as in paper pinned.*

ment.

Explanation asked

from old Vane.

Refufed.

"Divers moved that Mr. Treasurour might explaine himselfe, whome hee meant by "L. Cott. whether hee did not meane Lord Cottington.

"Mr. Treasurour [Vane] denied to make any other or further explanation till he had "well advized therupon, though wee sent him "to the Tower.

All that remains now of that " paper pinned," however, is the space it once occupied. The page fimply proceeds and clofes as in the text.

"Mr. Glynne fhewed reafon, why the com- Glyn "mittee named the Lord Cottington because explains. [he] had fworne hee was there.

Mr. Martin [Henry Marten] fpake to Marten "have bill of attainder read againe and to for At"proceede that way.

"Mr. Hamden anfwered him & moved

"the meffage might goe upp fpeedilie.

tainder.

"Mr. Hamden fent with the meffage about Hampden "12 of the clocke, but the Lords weere against. "rifen.

"Being returned wee fell into debate to

"vote the heads for the conference.

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Upon the first head before fett downe Vane and being read and debated, Mr. Treafurour his Son. upon fome motions, was twice drawen to "declare concerning the faied paper found by "his fonne, that hee firft moved his Matie that "hee might burne it, & foe he commanded. "him to doe it: & fecondly, that hee was not poffiblie able to speake further to it, till hee "had confidered deliberatelie of it."

quent

of Attain

Of the men who, on that 12th of April, Subfethus fupported the Attainder, Hotham was courfe of afterwards executed for betraying the truft fupporters repofed in him by the House, Tomkins was der. expelled for fimilar bad faith, and Culpeper entered into the fervice of the King. Glyn and Maynard feem not to have committed themselves on that day, but in the fubfequent debates they proved to be as eager for the Attainder as St. John himself; though Conduct both lived to take part at the Reftoration, of Glyn and Mayto their eternal infamy, in bringing to the nard. scaffold men fuch as Henry Vane, whose

Falkland:

excufed by Clarendon.

Line only crime was to have borne a share, not taken by more marked than their own, in these transactions. Of Falkland, in relation to the Attainder, it is needlels to fpeak. Such was what Clarendon calls his fharpness of tone upon this subject altogether, "fo contrary," he adds, "to his natural gentleness and temper," that his friend fays thofe who knew him but imperfectly were wont to account for it by recalling the memory of fome unkindnesses, not without a mixture of injustice, from Strafford to his father; while Clarendon himself, with the usual difingenuousness, attributes it to his having been "mifled by the authority of those "who, he believed, understood the laws perfectly." If this indeed had been the fact, it is a pity that fo accomplished a lawyer as Mr. Hyde was already become did not take the neceffary pains to enlighten fo intimate a friend, gone aftray on a matter of fuch great importance; but still more is it to be regretted that very confiderable grounds fhould exift for believing that they actually went aftray refpecting it in each other's company. For if it be alfo true, as in his hiftory he distinctly informs us, that upon no queftion had they ever had a fingle difference,t or given votes

What excufe for Mr. Hyde ?

Strafford's * Strafford had undoubtedly a great contempt for the elder contempt Falkland, his predeceffor in the Government of Ireland; and for old when the King referred to the new Lord Deputy fundry apFalkland. plications from Falkland for favours to be bestowed on relatives or connections of his own, Strafford always refolutely fet his face against them. See Letters and Dispatches, paflim.

This is repeatedly said or implied in what is remarked of Falkland throughout the hiftory, and when it occurs to the hiftorian to defcribe the difagreement between himself and Falkland on the debate of the bill for taking away the

line as

opposed to each other, until the day when, after Strafford's execution, the bill for taking Takes away the bishops' votes was firft debated, fame the inference is irrefiftible that Hyde, who Falkland. affuredly did not at any time vote against, must have voted for, the Attainder. Certainly what he fays refpecting it in his book is an entire falfification of the facts, and could only have been written under the perfuafion that the erasure from the journals of both Houses, at the Restoration, of every trace of the pro- Too much ceedings connected with it, had equally obli- faith in terated them alfo from the recollections of memories. men. He might have fhrunk from fuch confident misstatement, if any vifion of D'Ewes's Notes had presented itself, as likely ever to rife again.

fhort

confiftent

So clear and ftraightforward, on the other Pym and hand, was the courfe taken by Pym and Hampden Hampden, that even by their fubfequent throughadoption of the Attainder not a fhadow of out. inconfiftency was thrown on their previous refiftance. They refifted it, because, believing

bishops' votes, brought forward after Strafford's execution, he Hyde and expreffly notes it as memorable that there arose in this debate, Falkland's "between two persons who had never been known to differ in agree"the house," a difference of opinion (i. 412). Now nothing ment. is fo certain as that Falkland ftrenuously, by votes and fpeeches, fupported the Attainder in every stage; and it is utterly impoffible that Hyde could have made the remark juft quoted, which was written two years after his friend's death, with anything fo recent and fo marked in his memory as a difference on the Attainder must have been. The friends

fat, too, as they voted, together. "The Lord Falkland Sitting as always fat next Mr. Hyde, which was fo much taken notice well as "of, that if they came not into the Houfe together, as voting ufually they did, everybody left the place for him that was together. "abfent" (i. 413).

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