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2-12 Feralam MS. ; Relation of Proceedings in Parliament imprisoned for his share in the events of the day. In this uncertainty, the manu- script of Lord Verulam offers us what may almost be termed a new version of these incidents, and one which I venture to think is more likely to be true than any other which I have seen. To print the whole manuscript is out of the question, although it would be invaluable to an editor of a new edition of the Parliamentary History; but that portion which relates to the sitting of the second of March is short, and will bear printing as it stands. Report of Proceedings of the House of Common* on the 2nd March, 1G28-9, from rerulam MS. No. 36, p. 89. " Monday 2"" Marcij. "Upon Monday the second of March, as soone as praicrs were ended, the Speaker went into the chaire, and delivered the Kinges command for the adiorne- inent of the How so untill Tewsday scvcnight following, being the tenth of March. " The Howse made him answere, that it was not the office of a Speaker to deliver any such command unto them, but for the adiornemcnt of the Howse it did properly belong unto themselves, and, after they had uttered some thinges they thought fitt to be spoken of, they would sattistie the King. " The Speaker tould them, he had an exprcssc command from his Maiestie that as soone as he had delivered his message he should rise, and upon that left the ehaire, but was by force drawne to it againe by Mr. Densill Holies, sonn to the Earle of Clare, Mr. Valentine, and others : and Mr. Holiis, not- withstanding the endeavour of Sir Thomas Edmonds, Sir Humfry May, and other privic Councellcrs to free the Speaker from the chaire, swore, 'God's wounds !' he should sitt still until they pleased to rise. " Here Sir John Elliott began n in a rhctoricall oration to enveigh against the Lord Treasorer and the Bishop of Winchester, saying he could prove the Lord Treasorer to be a great instrument in the inovation of Religion, and in vat ion of the liberties of the bowse ; and offered a remonstrance to the howse, wherein he said he could prove him to be the great cnimie of the Common- wealth, saying that he had traced him in all his actions, and withall that if ever it were his fortune to meete againe in this honorable assemblie, he protested (as he was a gentleman) that where he nowe left he would there beginn againe ; and further said, ' God knowes I nowe speake with all dutie to the King. It