Index of Gardiner's History of England

Commons, the House of,

• its increased powers under Henry VIII.,
• asks for further changes in the Church,
• opposes Elizabeth on the subject of Church reform,
• composition of,
• official members elected to,
• debates on Sherley's case of privilege in,
• on Goodwin's case,
• on purveyance and wardship,
• on the Court of Wards,
• on the union with Scotland,
• objects to the title of King of Great Britain,
• is dissatisfied with the Hampton Court settlement,
• its ecclesiastical policy,
• apology of,
• omits to grant subsidies,
• opposes the monopoly of the trading companies,
• passes a Bill for opening trade,
• is scolded by the King at the prorogation,
• causes of the misunderstanding between the King and,
• rejects a proposal for inflicting extraordinary punishment on the Gunpowder Plotters,
• questions the right of Convocation to legislate,
• grants a supply,
• grants a supply,
• draws up a petition of grievances,
• discusses the proposed commercial union with Scotland,
• considers the question of naturalisation,
• agrees to pass Bills for the abolition of hostile laws and extradition of criminals,
• insists on freedom for all persons to trade with France, Spain, and Portugal,
• case of the 'Trial' brought before,
• forwards to the Lords the complaints of the merchants trading with Spain,
• Salisbury seeks to influence elections to,
• takes into consideration the support of the Crown,
• listens to Salisbury's demands,
• condemns Cowell's 'Interpreter',
• demands the commutation of feudal tenures,
• proposes to enter into the Great Contract,
• is forbidden by the King to question his right to impositions,
• receives permission to discuss the impositions,
• petition against recusants from,
• debate on impositions in,
• is almost unanimous against the King's claim to impositions,
• draws up a petition of grievances, and grants a subsidy,
• agrees to the Great Contract,
• is dissatisfied with the King's answer to its grievances,
• breaks off the Great Contract,
• refuses to grant supply till the rumours about Undertakers have been inquired into,
• receives the communion at St. Margaret's, and takes up the Bill on Impositions,
• inquires into monopolies,
• gives up the inquiry about the Undertakers, and discusses the impositions,
• asks for a conference on impositions,
• is indignant at Bishop Neile's attack,
• is not contented with Neile's excuse,
• review of the conduct of, in the Addled Parliament,
• imprisonment of members of,
• does not revive the quarrel about impositions in 1621,
• Protestant feeling of,
• objects to receive the communion in Westminster Abbey,
• receives the report of the Council of War,
• grants two subsidies,
• complains of Gondomar's permission to export ordnance,
• expels Shepherd,
• is displeased with James's refusal to persecute the Catholics,
• foreign policy of,
• inquiry into the monopolies,
• violent proceedings against Michell in,
• attack on Mompesson in,
• its jurisdiction questioned,
• demands inquiry into the conduct of the referees,
• brings charges against the referees,
• sends charges against Mompesson to the Lords,
• orders Phelips to lay before the Peers the evidence against Bacon,
• resists James's proposal for a new tribunal to inquire into Bacon's case,
• sends up the Wharton case to the Lords,
• is summoned to the Lords' bar to hear the sentence on Bacon,
• hears the Lords' sentence on Michell,
• charges Sir J. Bennett with corruption,
• refuses to grant a further supply, and condemns the patent for alehouses,
• abandons the charges against the referees,
• violent language directed against Floyd in,
• sentences Floyd,
• its jurisdiction over Floyd questioned by the King,
• refers Floyd's case to the King,
• votes certain patents to be grievances, and passes a Monopoly Bill,
• is ordered to adjourn,
• dissatisfaction in,
• Perrot's motion for a declaration about the Palatinate in.
• makes a declaration for the defence of the Palatinate,
• adjournment of,
• reassembles,
• its attention called to the imprisonment of Sandys,
• considers a demand for money for the defence of the Palatinate,
• resolves to vote supply,
• draws up a petition on religion,
• is ordered by the King not to meddle with his son's marriage,
• prepares an explanatory petition,
• sends a deputation to the King,
• James's attack on the privileges of,
• debate on the King's answer in,
• precedents on liberty of speech in,
• is unanimous in defence of its privileges,
• protestation on behalf of the privileges of,
• last sitting of, in the session of 1621,
• character of the elections to, in 1624,
• refers Eliot's motion on liberty of speech to a committee,
• exculpates Buckingham,
• debate on the Spanish treaties in,
• popularity of a war with Spain, and unpopularity of a war in Germany in,
• draws up a petition for war with Spain,
• discusses the King's speech on a war in Germany,
• votes an address calling for war with Spain,
• is dissatisfied with James's answer,
• disapproves of a French marriage and of a Continental war,
• votes three subsidies and three fifteenths,
• conditional nature of the grant made by,
• refuses to inquire into the insults offered to the Spanish Embassy,
• sends to the Lords a petition against recusants,
• is satisfied with James's answer to the petition against recusants,
• impeaches Middlesex,
• agrees to a modification of the Monopoly Bill,
• presents its grievances to James,
• is dissatisfied at the close of the session of 1624,
• growth of the influence of,
• full attendance in, at the opening of the session of 1625,
• is asked for supplies by Charles, on the ground that it has brought him into war,
• rejects Mallory's motion for an adjournment,
• goes into committee on religion,
• prepares a petition on religion, requesting the enforcement of the law against the Catholics, and a conciliatory treatment of the silenced ministers,
• the grant of one subsidy and one fifteenth proposed in,
• two subsidies voted by,
• its want of confidence in Charles,
• considers Wentworth's disputed election,
• refers Montague's New Gag for an old Goose to Abbot,
• inquires what steps Abbot has taken,
• refers the New Gag and Appello Cæsarem to a committee,
• report of its committee on Montague's books,
• commits Montague to custody,
• debate on tonnage and poundage in,
• passes a Bill granting tonnage and poundage for one year,
• estimate of expenditure laid by Coke before,
• declines to grant an additional supply,
• is adjourned to Oxford,
• re-assembles at Oxford,
• prepares a petition against the grant of pardons to Catholic priests,
• discusses Montague's case,
• question of ministerial responsibility raised in,
• is summoned before the King in Christchurch Hall,
• is puzzled by the confused way in which the King's demands are made,
• the King's ministers inefficiently represented in,
• Whistler's suggestion to consult the Lords on the proposed supply allowed to drop in,
• debate on foreign policy in,
• is summoned to Christchurch Hall to hear a communication from Buckingham,
• discusses the King's demand of an immediate supply,
• hears of the delivery of Pennington's ships to the French,
• complaints of neglect to stop piracy,
• adopts a protestation of loyalty,
• last proceedings of, in the first Parliament of Charles,
• its want of confidence in Buckingham justified,
• conservatism of,
• pronounces against Montague,
• wishes to learn the advice given by the Council of War,
• persists in requiring an answer,
• difficulties of its position,
• directs the King's Counsel to bring in a tonnage and poundage Bill,
• loyal declaration of,
• adopts Eliot's proposal to pass a resolution for the grant of subsidies, but not to convert it into a Bill,
• informed by Coventry that they have liberty of counsel, not of control,
• is told by Charles that Parliaments are to continue or not, according to their fruits,
• resolves to draw up a remonstrance,
• determines to go on with the Remonstrance in spite of Buckingham's vindication of his conduct,
• presents the Remonstrance to Charles,
• orders a committee to consider the causes of evil,
• votes the charges against Buckingham upon common fame,
• impeaches Buckingham,
• demands the imprisonment of Buckingham,
• refuses to proceed with business till Eliot and Digges are liberated,
• prepares a petition in vindication of its privileges,
• is informed that Digges is released, and that Eliot is imprisoned on account of actions done out of the House,
• suspends its sittings,
• is informed that Eliot is liberated,
• clears Eliot,
• declares tonnage and poundage illegal without consent of Parliament,
• demands an account of Buckingham's election as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but is ordered by the King to desist from further inquiry,
• draws up a Remonstrance,
• question of responsibility raised by its demand to the King to remove Buckingham from his presence,
• end of the sittings of,
• resolution of the leaders of, not to proceed against Buckingham in 1628,
• Coke's Bill against prolonged detention in prison brought into,
• debate on a proposal to grant supply in,
• refuses to vote supply in consequence of the discovery of a party of Jesuits at Clerkenwell,
• goes into a Grand Committee on Supply,
• want of support for the King in,
• passes a resolution against taxation without a Parliamentary grant,
• enters on a debate on the King's claim to imprison without showing cause,
• discussion on the genuineness of a copy of Anderson's reports in,
• resolutions on imprisonment adopted by,
• debate on the grant of supply in,
• passes resolutions on confinement and billeting,
• postpones the consideration of military grievances for that of civil ones,
• passes in committee a resolution for five subsidies,
• Bill for securing the liberties of the subject proposed by Wentworth in,
• debate on military outrages in,
• sits, by the King's orders, on Good Friday,
• debate on martial law in,
• asks the Peers to hear them before deciding on the resolutions on the liberties of the subject,
• again refuses to discuss supply,
• is informed by the Lord Keeper that Charles expects it to be content with his promise to observe the law,
• resolves that a Bill founded on its resolutions shall be brought in,
• debate in, on the Bill of Liberties,
• is informed by Sir J. Coke that, whatever law might be made, it would be the duty of a Privy Councillor to commit without showing cause,
• directs the preparation of a Remonstrance,
• orders the presentation of the Remonstrance,
• end of Wentworth's leadership of,
• discusses the King's offer to confirm Magna Carta and six other statutes,
• orders a Petition of Right to be prepared, and the resolutions for five subsidies to be reported,
• sends up the Petition to the Lords,
• refuses to accept the King's offer to declare the cause as soon as convenient,
• rejects the Lords' clause in amendment of the Petition of Right,
• rejects the clause a second time,
• supports Eliot against Wentworth,
• rejects a proposal of the Lords for a joint committee on the Petition of Right,
• listens to the King's first answer to the Petition,
• agrees, at Eliot's motion, to discuss a Remonstrance,
• is forbidden by the King to lay scandal on his ministers,
• bursts into tears,
• inserts into its Remonstrance a clause condemnatory of Buckingham,
• goes on with the Remonstrance and joins the Lords in asking for a better answer to the Petition of Right,
• impeaches Manwaring,
• passes the Subsidy Bill,
• completes the Remonstrance, and complains that Calvinism is discountenanced and Arminianism favoured,
• declares Buckingham's power to be the chief cause of evil,
• a tonnage and poundage Bill in committee in,
• proposes to pass a Bill for a temporary grant of tonnage and poundage,
• draws up a Remonstrance on tonnage and poundage,
• end of the session of,
• its case against the King,
• complains in 1629 of the enrolment of the first answer to the Petition of Right,
• considers its privileges to be violated by the seizure of Rolle's goods,
• is pleased with the King's speech, but postpones the consideration of tonnage and poundage,
• takes into consideration the question of religion,
• refers the question of religion to a committee,
• goes into committee on the report from the committee on religion,
• adopts a resolution against Arminianism, the sense of which it is unable to make clear,
• resolves to inquire into recent pardons,
• orders further inquiry into the pardons,
• challenges the authority of Convocation,
• admits that Montague is legally a bishop,
• charges brought against Neile in,
• Cromwell's first speech in,
• fresh charges brought against Neile and Cosin in,
• takes up again the question of tonnage and poundage,
• sends one of the sheriffs of London to the Tower,
• breach of the privileges of,
• sends a message to the Court of Exchequer, and summons the Custom House officers to the bar,
• attempts to evade May's argument,
• resolves that Rolle is to have privilege for his goods,
• adjourns to consider its position,
• resolutions on religion of the sub-committee of,
• attempts made to avert a rupture between the King and,
• the Speaker held down in his chair by members of,
• riotous proceedings in,
• Hobart locks the door of,
• Eliot's resolutions read by Holles in,
• end of the session of,
• at the opening of the Short Parliament Windebank reads the letter from the Scots to the King of France in,
• debate on grievances in,
• petitions from the counties to,
• Pym's speech on grievances in,
• appeal of Charles to the Lords against,
• resolves to confer with the Lords on grievances,
• votes the interference of the Lords to be a breach of privilege,
• sends for Dr. Beale,
• resolves to clear up the question of the King's right to voluntary taxation,
• discusses the King's demand of twelve subsidies,
• demand for the abolition of military charges made in,
• proposed petition against the war to be made by,
• the Short Parliament dissolved on Vane's assurance that not one penny will be voted by,
• temper of, at the opening of the Long Parliament,
• support given by the Scottish army to,
• chooses Lenthall as its Speaker,
• listens to Irish grievances,
• Pym's leadership of,
• general complaint of grievances in,
• resolves to spare the King and to call his ministers to account,
• is afraid of a Catholic plot,
• meeting of the Irish committee of,
• resolves to examine into the case against Strafford,
• alarm felt in,
• names a select committee to prepare a charge against Strafford,
• impeaches Strafford,
• sends for Radcliffe, and orders the liberation of Prynne, Bastwick, Burton, Leighton, and Lilburne,
• financial difficulties of,
• appoints a fast,
• attacks the monopolies,
• loan offered by the members of,
• takes alarm at the attempt to assassinate Heywood,
• draws up a preliminary charge against Strafford,
• two subsidies voted by,
• sends for Windebank,
• the Queen proposes to bribe members of,
• Finch defends himself before,
• Finch impeached by,
• first serious division of opinion in,
• postpones the consideration of the London petition against episcopacy, and votes that no one is bound by the new canons,
• proposes to provide for the King's revenue, and grants two more subsidies,
• a Bill for Annual Parliaments brought into,
• refuses to pay interest unless it is named damages,
• negotiation of the Queen with the leaders of,
• considers the demands of the Scots,
• turns the Annual Parliaments Bill into a Triennial Bill,
• demands Goodman's execution,
• distrusts Charles's sincerity,
• resolves to investigate the contributions of the Catholics, and presses for Goodman's execution,
• fear of the Irish army felt in,
• articles against Strafford voted in,
• votes a Brotherly Assistance to the Scots, and leaves Goodman in prison,
• receives coldly the Queen's overtures,
• the ecclesiastical petitions debated in,
• parties begin to form in,
• a compromise accepted at the end of the debate on the Londoners' petition in,
• is unanimous against the Catholics,
• impeaches Berkeley,
• asks the Lords to join in a petition against the Irish army,
• objects to the delay in Strafford's trial,
• is irritated because the Lords allow Strafford time to prepare for his defence,
• rise of a feeling against the Scots in,
• two more subsidies voted by,
• dissatisfaction in, with the Scottish declaration against English episcopacy,
• votes that reparation shall be made to Prynne, Burton, Bastwick, Leighton, and Lilburne,
• resolves that bishops shall not sit in Parliament or exercise temporal functions,
• has difficulty in finding money for the Scots,
• Pym opens the case against Strafford on behalf of,
• growth of a desire for Strafford's blood in,
• irritates the Northern army by transferring to the Scots money intended for its use,
• the Army Plot revealed to the leading members of,
• charge of intending to bring in the Irish army brought against Strafford on behalf of,
• is alarmed at the danger of the intervention of the Northern army, and passes a resolution that officers are not to command an attack without orders from the King on the advice of Parliament,
• want of unanimity in,
• withdraws from the trial in consequence of the decision of the Lords to allow Strafford to adduce fresh evidence,
• statement on Vane's notes made in,
• a Bill of Attainder proposed in,
• reads the Bill of Attainder a first time, but is persuaded by Pym to go on with the impeachment,
• Bill of Attainder read a second time in,
• Bill of Attainder in committee in,
• declares Strafford a traitor,
• passes the Attainder Bill,
• is disappointed at Charles's repeated refusals to disband the Irish army,
• renewed dissatisfaction of,
• a dissolution expected by,
• passes the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
• silence in, at the news of Suckling's levy,
• excited discussion in,
• appoints a committee to draw up a Protestation,
• accepts the Protestation,
• invites the Londoners to sign the Protestation,
• Pym reveals his knowledge of the Army Plot to,
• resolves that to counsel bringing in a foreign force is to be a public enemy, and forms a committee to examine the Army Plot,
• panic in,
• a Bill against the dissolution of Parliament brought into,
• gives a courteous answer to the demand of the Scots for an ecclesiastical union,
• growth of the Root-and-Branch party in,
• the confiscation of Church property mooted in,
• votes that the customers shall be fined,
• effect of the vote of the Lords in favour of retaining the Bishops in their House upon,
• the Root-and-Branch Bill brought into,
• argues with the Lords in favour of the Bishops' Exclusion Bill,
• Bills for limiting the prerogative brought into,
• report of the Committee on the Army Plot read in,
• a riot in,
• quality of the Presbyterianism of,
• the Root-and-Branch Bill in committee of,
• proposed new form of Church government accepted by,
• lay preachers reproved by,
• sends up a Bill making the signature of the Protestation obligatory,
• orders the impeachment of thirteen bishops, and votes that all who refuse the Protestation are unfit to bear office,
• is irritated by the opposition of the Lords,
• holds a sitting on Sunday to remonstrate against the King's proposed journey to Scotland,
• persuades the Lords to join in a request that Pembroke may be Lord Steward and Salisbury Lord Treasurer,
• Root-and-Branch Bill dropped in,
• does not accept the King's offer of a general pardon,
• declares Suckling, Percy, and Jermyn traitors, appoints a committee of defence, and considers the command of the trained bands,
• adopts the first ordinance,
• objects to the leave given to the Spanish ambassador to levy troops in Ireland, and fixes a day for the adjournment of,
• end of unanimity,
• cause of the division in,
• resolutions on ecclesiastical innovations in,
• orders on lecturers passed in,
• resents the refusal of the Lords to impart to it their resolution on Divine service, but appeals to the patience of the nation,
• adjournment of,
• effect of the news of the Incident on at its re-assembling,
• is guarded by the Westminster trained bands,
• the second Bishops' Exclusion Bill in,
• asks the Lords to suspend all the bishops from voting in their own case,
• expresses a desire that the King will regard the wishes of Parliament when he makes appointments,
• is irritated by the appointment of new bishops, and fixes a day for considering the Remonstrance,
• examinations about the second Army Plot read in, and fresh plots suspected in,
• hears of the Irish rebellion,
• votes money and men to suppress the rebellion,
• offers to pay 1,000 Scots in Ireland.
• Pym proposes an additional instruction to the Committee in Scotland to be given by,
• demands that unless a responsible ministry be granted it will provide for Ireland without the King,
• revolutionary character of the proposal made by,
• proposes to entrust Essex with authority over the trained bands,
• the Grand Remonstrance read in,
• worse news from Ireland received in,
• votes that an English and a Scottish army shall be sent to Ireland,
• votes that the Scots shall number no more than 1,000,
• votes that 5,000 Scots shall be asked to go,
• the Grand Remonstrance amended in,
• orders two priests to be proceeded against,
• wishes to place the trained bands in a posture of defence under Essex and Holland,
• fresh evidence on the second Army Plot read in,
• passes a resolution that there had been a second Army Plot,
• final debate on the Grand Remonstrance in,
• proposal to print the Grand Remonstrance, followed by a claim to protest in,
• tumult quieted by Hampden in,
• sends Palmer to the Tower,
• takes umbrage at the dismissal of its guard,
• a mob alleged to have been invited to Westminster to guard,
• suspicions of an intention to charge members with treason entertained in,
• directs the justices of Westminster to protect it,
• presents the Grand Remonstrance to the King,
• Charles's resistance to,
• constitutional position of,
• appoints a committee to throw the blame on the Lords if they do not pass the Bills sent up to them,
• a Militia Bill brought into,
• reads the Militia Bill once in spite of the strong opposition to it,
• issues a declaration against toleration,
• petition from the City against the presence of bishops and Catholic lords in, presented to,
• proclamation commanding the attendance of absent members of,
• asks for the execution of seven priests, and prints the Grand Remonstrance,
• receives a petition from ministers, who ask that their consciences may not be forced,
• refuses to its members the right of protest,
• reads the Militia Bill the first time, and asks the Lords to agree to send 10,000 Scots to Ireland,
• inquires into the hindrance thrown by the City authorities in the way of a petition to itself,
• asks the Lords to join in a petition for the dismissal of Lunsford,
• draws up a declaration for the safety of the kingdom,
• requests Newport to take personal charge of the Tower,
• receives bad news from Ireland,
• takes alarm at Dillon's evidence on the overtures of the Irish Catholics to Charles,
• refuses to blame the rioters who had insulted the bishops,
• offers to join the Lords in asking for a guard, if Essex might command it,
• refuses to send for the City trained bands, but impeaches the bishops who had signed the protest,
• asks the King to appoint the Earl of Essex to command the guard,
• sends for halberts, and orders a committee of the whole House to meet at Guildhall,
• intention of the King to impeach five members of,
• the Attorney-General impeaches five members of,
• rejection of its demand for a guard under Essex,
• asks the City for the protection of its trained bands,
• takes steps to protect its members,
• the King offers a guard commanded by Lindsey to,
• hears of the gathering of armed men at White-hall,
• warnings conveyed to,
• withdrawal of the five accused members of,
• the King takes the Speaker's chair in, and demands the five members of,
• the King's departure from,
• danger of, from the King's followers,
• proceedings of its Committee at Guildhall,
• its quarrel with the King is beyond a compromise,
• sits in committee at Grocers' Hall,
• is guarded by the City trained bands,
• return of the five members to,
• comes back to Westminster,
• agrees with the Lords to send Hotham to secure Hull,
• is alarmed by the proceedings of Digby and Lunsford at Kingston,
• invites the counties to defend themselves,
• declares that no fortresses are to be delivered up without the authority of the King signified by both Houses,
• recommends that the Lords-Lieutenants shall be appointed by Parliament,
• demands that the fortresses and the militia may be entrusted to persons in whom Parliament may confide,
• informs the Peers that it would be sorry to save the kingdom without them,
• draws up a militia ordinance,
• impeaches the Attorney-General and Digby.
• votes that the kingdom is to be put in a posture of defence,
• claims supreme power for Parliament,
• disquieting rumours reach,
• treats harshly the Kentish petitioners,
• orders the garrison of Hull to be reinforced, and the munitions at Hull to be brought to London,
• appoints a committee to prepare a declaration of its ecclesiastical policy,
• amends the King's Militia Bill,
• contributions asked from the members of,
• requests the Lords to appoint a committee of safety, and votes the raising of an army for active service,
• impeaches Gurney,
• votes that Essex shall take the command,
• attempts to defend itself against the accusation1 of setting up an arbitrary government,
• calls on its members to swear to live and die with Essex,