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THE

PARLIAMENTARY.

O R

CONSTITUTIONAL

History of England;

From the earliest TIMES,

TO THE

Restoration of King CHARLES II.

COLLECTED

From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of PARLIAMENT, the JOUR-
NALS of both HOUSES, the public LIBRARIES, original MA-
NUSCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS; all compared
with the feveral Contemporary WRITERS, and connected,
throughout, with the Hiftory of the Times.

By SEVERAL

HANDS.

The SECOND EDITION.

VOL. XIII.

From the First of January 1643, to the Battle of Naseby, in June 1645.

LONDON,

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, and A. MILLAR, in the Strand; and
W. SANDBY, in Fleet-Street. MDCCLXII.

THE

Parliamentary History

O F

ENGLAND.

1643.

January.

T may be remembered, though it An. 19. Car. Iị is now fome Months ago, that the Commons fent up to the Lords an Impeachment of High Treafon against the Queen: It had laid dormant ever fince, in that House 2; but this Day, Jan. 3, we find an Entry in their Journals, which runs thus :

'Next was read the Impeachment of High The Impeach Treafon against the Queen, brought up formerly ment of the 'from the House of Commons.' A Space is then Queen. left where the Entry of the faid Impeachment was; but in the Margin is wrote, Vacat. per Order, 16 Julii, 1660; fo that the Lords, after the Reftoration, thought this Proceeding fo fcandalous, as not to fuffer the Memorial of it to remain longer on their Records. However, it is plain they were in Earnest against her at this Time, by the fubfequent Entry which still stands in their Journals.

Ordered, That the following Lords be appointed Commiffioners to confider what Method of ProVOL. XIII. ceeding,

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a This Impeachment was brought up by Mr. Pymme, on the 23d of May laft paft. Vol. XII. p. 266.

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