Note 171 — Chapter IX

Hyde distinguished himself as chairman of the committee which brought in the bill for abolishing the court of York. In his speech on presenting this to the Lords, he alludes to the tyranny of Strafford, not rudely, but in a style hardly consistent with that of his History. Parl. Hist. 766. The editors of this, however, softened a little what he did say in one or two places; as where he uses the word tyranny, in speaking of Lord Mountnorris's case.