Index of Gardiner's History of England

St. John, Oliver (Solicitor-General, 1641),

• borrows Dudley's paper of advice, and is sent to the Tower,
• is prosecuted in the Star Chamber,
• is retained to plead for Hampden,
• argument of,
• is pleased at the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
• joins Pym in drawing up the petition of the twelve peers,
• asserts that Convocation cannot bind even the clergy,
• moves that the King's subsistence may be provided for,
• becomes Solicitor-General,
• wishes the Londoners' petition to go before a committee,
• argues before the Lords on the Bill of Attainder,
• draws up the Root-and-Branch Bill,