England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
What the Commons did with it. The king eats his own words. Andrew Newport to Sir R. Leveson. 1660, Aug. 16.
When the Lords sent down the Act of Indemnity to the Commons with their amendments, the House of Commons nevertheless adhered to their former | |
27 | votes concerning those that should die; only joined with the Lords in excepting Hacker, and for clearing sixteen of the twenty they had formerly resolved to punish by a future Act in estate, they joined with the Lords also, and so sent up the Bill again. The Lords, upon reading the Bill, adhered to their votes also, which occasioned a conference to-day, in which the Lords gave their reasons for adhering to their first vote . ... The king hath given order to Sir Ed. Turner to acquaint the House of Commons that, by that clause in his speech " If there be any other of such dangerous principles that the safety of the nation cannot consist with their liberty, they should also be punished," he meant Haselrig, Vane, Lambert, and Axtell. |