Note 152 — DIALOGUE V. ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. (continued 2)

This alludes to the proceedings against the eleven members upon the charge of the Army. Sir John Maynard was one of them. And when articles of high treason were preferred against him, and the trial was to come on before the lords, he excepted to the jurisdiction of the court, and, by a written paper presented to them, required to be tried by his peers according to Magna Charta, and the law of the land. See Whitlocke’s Memorials; and a short pamphlet written on that occasion, called The Royal Quarrel, dated 9th of Feb. 1647.—Sir John was, at this time, a close prisoner in the Tower.