Index of Gardiner's History of England

Pym, John,

• speaks against tolerating Catholics,
• political opinions of,
• confinement of,
• takes part in a petition against the recusants,
• moves for a committee on all questions relating to religion,
• charges Buckingham with obtaining honours for his kinsfolk,
• urges that the King's promise needs explanation,
• professes himself unable to understand the phrase 'sovereign power,'
• carries the charges against Manwaring before the Lords.
• replies to Manwaring's assertion of principle,
• religious and constitutional opinions of,
• asserts the supremacy of Parliament in ecclesiastical matters,
• opposes Eliot's proposal to call the Custom House officers to account,
• speaks on grievances in the Short Parliament,
• his views on parliamentary privilege and ecclesiastical innovations,
• parliamentary leadership of,
• constitutional position of,
• opposes an immediate grant of supply,
• moves that Dr. Heale be sent for,
• intends to move the House to consider the case of the Scots,
• his study searched,
• takes part in a meeting of the opponents of the Court,
• joins St. John in drawing up the petition of the twelve peers,
• is probably the adviser of the circulation of copies of the petition of the twelve peers,
• his position in the Long Parliament,
• conservatism of,
• believes in the existence of a plot for the suppression of Protestantism,
• makes a copy of Vane's notes of Strafford's speeches in the Committee of Eight,
• speaks of the state of the kingdom, and moves for a Committee of Inquiry,
• moves that the doors be locked,
• declares that the House cannot afford to give time to Strafford,
• carries the impeachment of Strafford to the Lords,
• suggests that the losses of the country may be made good out of the estates of the authors of mischief,
• recommends that the penal laws be put in execution,
• takes a leading part in the collection of evidence against Strafford,
• declares that the endeavour to subvert the laws is treason,
• moves the impeachment of Laud,
• complains of the intermission of Parliaments,
• carries up the detached charges against Strafford,
• is named by rumour Chancellor of the Exchequer,
• wishes to reform, not to abolish, episcopacy,
• his position between the extreme parties,
• proposes to compel the Londoners to lend,
• opens the case against Strafford,
• has no sympathy with the Irish Celts,
• his conception of treason,
• is informed of the Army Plot,
• is anxious to prove that Strafford had advised the King to bring the Irish army into England,
• has long had a copy of Vane's notes in his hands,
• suspects that Strafford is feigning illness in order to create delay,
• persuades the Commons to go on with the impeachment,
• replies to Strafford's general defence,
• questions involved in the charge brought against Strafford by,
• would have been content to go on with the impeachment,
• with difficulty persuades the Commons not to interrupt the proceedings before the Lords,
• supports the Attainder Bill,
• has interviews with the King, and is named by rumour Chancellor of the Exchequer,
• moves an adjournment to prevent rash speeches,
• declares his belief that the kingdom is in danger,
• proposes an appeal to the nation,
• reveals his knowledge of the Army Plot,
• is a member of the secret committee for the investigation of the Army Plot,
• obtains political information from Lady Carlisle,
• his views on the retention of episcopacy,
• brings forward the ten propositions,
• again proposed as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
• probably hears of the understanding between Charles and the Scottish Commissioners,
• is a member of the Committee of Defence,
• wishes to restrain the censure of the House to those who actually create disturbance in a church,
• listens to rumours of plots,
• his share of responsibility in the Parliamentary conflict,
• considers a Bishops' Exclusion Bill a necessary preliminary to a satisfactory Church Reform,
• a plague-rag sent to,
• loses the advantage of definiteness of plan,
• stops a motion of Holles for charging with treason the bishops impeached for their part in the canons, and asks the Lords to suspend all the bishops from voting in the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
• reveals his knowledge of the second Army Plot, and gives his opinion that other plots are in existence,
• moves an Additional Instruction for a responsible ministry on pain of refusing assistance for the reduction of Ireland,
• is obliged to change his proposal to a declaration that, if the request is not framed, the Commons will provide for Ireland without the King,
• carries the instruction thus modified,
• revolutionary character of the proposal thus make by,
• justification of,
• is the main author of the Grand Remonstrance,
• produces evidence on the second Army Plot, to influence the votes on the Grand Remonstrance,
• speaks in the final debate on the Grand Remonstrance,
• says that he has heard of conspiracy to accuse members of treason, and gives reasons for demanding a guard,
• moves that the Westminster justices be asked to set a guard on the House,
• moves for a committee to throw upon the Lords the responsibility of not passing necessary Bills,
• moves that money be provided to hasten the troops to Ireland,
• finds that the Lords will not give way to protestations,
• reports on Lord Dillon's negotiation with the Irish Catholics,
• refuses to blame the mob by which the bishops had been insulted,
• moves that the City trained bands be sent for,
• moves the impeachment of the bishops who had signed the protest,
• his intention in impeaching the bishops,
• the Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered to,
• Charles resolves to impeach,
• impeachment of,
• complains that his study has been sealed up,
• takes refuge in the City,
• triumphant return to Westminster of,
• declares that the armed gatherings of the Royalists are illegal,
• assumes that the voice of the House of Commons is the voice of the nation,
• Charles quotes from a speech of,
• moves that measures be taken to oppose Hastings in Leicestershire,
• is a member of the Committee of Safety,