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Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3

Note 258 — Chapter X

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Lords and Commons' Journals; Parl. Hist. 156, etc.; Clarendon, iv. 183; Hollis's Memoirs. Hollis was a teller for the majority on this occasion; he had left the war-like party some months (Baillie, i. 356); and his name is in the journals repeatedly, from November 1642, as teller against them, though he is charged with having said the year before, that he abhorred the name of accommodation. Hutchinson, p. 296. Though a very honest, and to a certain extent, an able man, he was too much carried away by personal animosities; and as these shifted, his principles shifted also.

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