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Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 2—The Church of the Commonwealth

Note 585 — APPENDIX.

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Art. II. charged him with saying "that some of the Justices were all for law, and nothing would please them but law; but they should find that the King's little finger should be heavier than the loins of the law."

Art. XXI. charged him with counselling his Majesty to call a Parliament in England with a design "to break the same, and by ways of force and power to raise monies upon the subjects of this kingdom."

Art. XXIII. charged him with saying "that his Majesty having tried the affections of his people, he was loose and absolved from all rules of Government, and was to do everything that power would admit."—Rushworth's Trial of Lord Strafford, 62, 71, 72.

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