Note 215 — Chapter II · THE FIRST SITTINGS OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT.
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The information comes from Whitelocke’s Memorials, not a really independent authority for these years. It is chiefly compiled from Sanderson, from which Whitelocke has extracted at this place the notice of the evil omen derived from the choice of the day. Sanderson is silent about Strafford’s letter, which Whitelocke quotes. On the contrary, he makes him confer with his friends on the way, and form his determination on the ground that he intended to impeach his opponents. ‘He himself had digested his intelligence into the form of an impeachment.’ Strafford’s frame of mind is shown in a letter of Nov. 5. Fairfax, Correspondence ii. 52.