Note 20 — THE CASTLE OF CHEPSTOW, Monmouthshire.

By him the vote was proposed, that the King’s statues at the Royal Exchange and other places should be taken down, and the following inscription substituted:—“Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus, Anno Libertatis Angliæ Restitutæ primo, A.D. 1648.” When it was proposed, “that the House of Peers in parliament was useless and dangerous, and ought to be abolished,” Marten proposed that the word dangerous should be omitted, and that useless alone should be retained, and that it should be declared that the Lords were useless, but not dangerous.—Parl. Hist.