Index of Gardiner's History of England

Dorset, 4th Earl of, 1624 (Edward Sackville),

• is admitted to the Privy Council,
• recommends the King to raise money by prerogative,
• urges the imprisonment of the Lords who refuse to pay the forced loan,
• asks whether the Lords' additional clause will alter the Petition of Right,
• believes the Petition of Right to be injurious to the King's government,
• threatens Felton with the rack,
• takes Bagg's part in the Star Chamber,
• reference by Bastwick to the duel fought by,
• tells the vintners that they must expect to be robbed,
• charges Hamilton with treason,
• excuses a party of lawyers who had drunk confusion to Laud,
• explains to Charles the effect of the Bill against the Dissolution of Parliament,
• is placed by the King in command of a guard at Westminster, and orders his men to fire on a crowd,