Index of Gardiner's History of England

Lords, House of,

• position of, at the accession of James,
• takes part, in 1604, in the controversy on Goodwin's case,
• and in the inquiry into purveyance,
• proposes to hold a conference on Sunday,
• concurs in a petition on wardship,
• blames the proposal of the Commons on the subject,
• opposes the ecclesiastical policy of the Commons,
• rejects a proposal for inflicting an extraordinary punishment on the Gun-powder Plotters,
• throws out a Bill on purveyance,
• a petition on the grievances of the merchants in Spain forwarded by the Commons to,
• Bill on impositions dropped in,
• consults the judges on the question of impositions,
• refuses to confer with the Lords on the impositions,
• acquaints the Commons with Bishop Neile's regret for his speech,
• old and new peers in,
• repudiates the answer of Bacon and Mandeville to the charges against the referees,
• its unfitness for conducting a political trial,
• evidence against Bacon laid before,
• sentences Mompesson,
• sentences Bacon,
• sentences Michell,
• receives a charge against Sir J. Bennett,
• examines Yelverton,
• sends Yelverton to the Tower,
• considers Yelverton's insult to Buckingham,
• sentences Yelverton,
• sentences Floyd,
• judicial functions of,
• dismisses the Bishop of Llandaff to the censure of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
• releases Sir John Bennett on bail,
• exculpates Buckingham,
• condemns the Spanish treaties,
• discusses James's demand of a supply,
• orders an inquiry into insults to the Spanish embassy,
• sentences Middlesex,
• allows a Bill granting tonnage and poundage for a year to drop,
• is adjourned to Oxford,
• reassembles at Oxford,
• is summoned before the King in Christchurch Hall,
• orders that no peers shall hold more than two proxies.
• asks the Commons to support the King's armaments,
• takes up Arundel's case,
• demands an account of Arundel's absence,
• acknowledges the writ sent to Bristol,
• orders that the charges against Buckingham and Bristol shall proceed together,
• Bristol defends himself before,
• debate on Bristol's claim to use counsel debated in,
• impeachment of Buckingham before,
• continues to urge the King to liberate Arundel, and refuses to imprison Buckingham,
• sends a curt message to Charles about Arundel,
• questions the accuracy of the report given to Charles of the words used by Digges,
• protest that Digges had said nothing contrary to the King's honour argued in,
• insists upon allowing counsel to Bristol,
• proposal to deprive new peers of their votes in,
• Arundel takes his place in,
• begs for a postponement of the dissolution,
• insists upon the restoration to their seats of five excluded peers,
• the Commons' resolutions on the liberties of the subject laid before,
• inclines to support the King, and consults the judges,
• legal argument on the Commons' resolutions before,
• discusses the question of the King's power of committal,
• draws up counter-propositions to the Commons' resolutions,
• spirit in which the propositions were adopted by,
• report on the Petition of Right by a committee of,
• attempts to modify the clause of the petition relating to imprisonment,
• an additional clause added to the petition by,
• hesitates to proceed with the new clause after its rejection by the Commons,
• sends the clause again to the Commons with an explanation,
• is forced to abandon the clause,
• asks the Commons to join in a protestation to satisfy the King,
• adopts a declaration that its members had no intention of lessening the power which they were bound by the oath of supremacy to defend, and accepts the Petition of Right,
• directs the Lord Keeper to acquaint the King that its feeling is against a dissolution,
• asks for a better answer to the Petition of Right,
• gives sentence upon Manwaring,
• suggestion that Catholic peers need not take the oath of allegiance in,
• refuses to adjourn on account of the sitting of Convocation,
• questions Manwaring's appointment to a bishopric,
• unpopularity of the bishops in,
• obliges Bishop Hall to beg pardon of Saye,
• the King appeals for support against the Commons to,
• gives support to the King,
• continues by a reduced majority to support the King,
• Strafford appears in,
• receives Strafford's impeachment, and commits him to custody,
• the preliminary charges against Strafford laid before,
• ship-money condemned by,
• a congregation of Separatists brought before,
• joins the Commons in asking for the execution of the recusancy laws,
• passes the Triennial Bill,
• orders the arrest of Berkeley,
• irritates the Commons by granting time to Strafford to prepare his defence,
• grants Strafford another week,
• anxiety of Charles to win votes in,
• Strafford's answer read in,
• joins the Commons in asking for the dispersion of the Irish army, the disarmament of the Catholics, and the dismissal of the Queen's Catholic attendants,
• appoints a committee on ecclesiastical innovations,
• urges the City to lend, and the King to disarm the Catholics and disband the Irish army,
• allows both Strafford and his accusers to produce fresh evidence,
• is irritated at the introduction of the Bill of Attainder,
• hears the legal argument on behalf of Strafford,
• altercation between Savile and Strafford in,
• reads the Bill of Attainder the second time,
• hears St. John's argument on the legality of the Bill of Attainder,
• alarm felt in, at the King's intrigues,
• is beset by a mob demanding Strafford's execution,
• sees to the safety of the Tower,
• the Protestation taken in,
• appoints a committee to examine the Army Plot,
• pushes on the Attainder Bill,
• passes the Attainder Bill and the Bill against the dissolution of Parliament,
• sends a deputation to urge the King to give the Royal assent to the Attainder Bill,
• agrees to the withdrawal of the clergy from temporal functions, but excepts the bishops' seats in Parliament,
• discusses the Bishops' Exclusion Bill in conference,
• throws it out,
• does not adopt any particular plan of Church reform,
• does not support Williams's scheme of Church reform,
• throws out a Bill for making the signature of the Protestation obligatory,
• is recommended by the King not to oppose the Commons til his return from Scotland,
• joins the Commons in asking the King to make Pembroke Lord Steward and Salisbury Lord Treasurer,
• gives a day for the adjournment,
• adopts amendments to the Commons' resolutions on ecclesiastical innovations,
• orders Divine service to be performed according to law,and refuses to communicate its resolution to the Commons,
• appeals to the law,
• adjournment of,
• the second Bishops' Exclusion Bill sent up to,
• the King's declaration that he will stand by the discipline and doctrine of the Church circulated in,
• is asked to suspend the bishops from voting on the Exclusion Bill,
• postpones consideration of the suspension of the bishops,
• imprisons Father Philips,
• unpopularity of protections given by members of,
• the City petition for depriving bishops of their votes in,
• agrees to the proposal that 5,000 Scots shall be sent to Ireland,
• orders an inquiry into Beale's allegations,
• refuses to give powers to Essex and Holland in excess of those conferred by the King's commission,
• amends the Impressment Bill,
• is dissatisfied with the King's speech on the Impressment Bill,
• declares that no religion except that established by law in England is to be tolerated,
• enters into a contest with the Commons on the Scottish army for Ireland, and the Impressment Bill,
• refuses to join in a petition for Lunsford's removal,
• wishes to give Charles time to reconsider Lunsford's appointment,
• intimidation of the bishops outside,
• offers to join the Commons in bringing to justice Newport's accusers, and asks the Commons to support them in demanding a guard against riotous assemblages,
• most of the bishops absent themselves from,
• is asked by Rigby to declare that Parliament is no longer free,
• rejects Digby's motion, and attempts to mediate between the King and the Commons,
• sides with the Commons after the protest of the bishops,
• accepts the impeachment of the bishops who had signed the protest, and imprisons them,
• refuses to ask that Essex may command the guard,
• Mandeville and five members of the House of Commons' charged with treason before,
• appoints a committee to inquire into the legality of the proceeding,
• places itself in opposition to the King,
• joins the Commons in ordering Hotham to occupy Hull,
• is agreed with the Commons in taking measures of defence, but objects to ask the King to appoint Conyers Lieutenant of the Tower,
• Byron refuses to answer a summons from,
• objects to the form of the Commons' declaration for defence,
• wishes to thank the King for his conciliatory message,
• refuses to join in the demand of the Commons for the fortresses and the militia, or to censure Lennox heavily,
• resists the Commons,
• presentation of the artificers' petition to,
• joins the Commons about the militia, and passes the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
• accepts the list of Lords-Lieutenants sent up by the Commons,
• the bishops deprived of their seats in,
• accepts the Commons' resolution for putting the kingdom in a state of defence,
• sentences Benyon to fine and imprisonment,
• many Royalist peers abandon,
• sentences Sir Edward Herbert,