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THE

PARLIAMENTARY

OR

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, scarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS; all compared
with the several Contemporary WRITERS, and connected,
throughout, with the History of the Times.

By SEVERAL HANDS.

The SECOND EDITΙΟΝ.

VOL. XIII.

From the First of January 1643, to the Battle of Nafeby, 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

OF

ENGLAND.

1643.

January.

T may be remembered, though it An. 19. Car. 1, is now fome Months agó, that the Commons fent up to the Lords an Impeachment of High Treason against the Queen: It had laid dormant ever fince, in that House *; but this Day, Jan. 3, we find an Entry in their Journals, which runs thus :

ment of the

up formerly Queen

• Next was read the Impeachment of High The Impeach • Treason against the Queen, brought ' from the House of Commons.' A Space is then left where the Entry of the said Impeachment was ; but in the Margin is wrote, Vacat. per Order, 16 Julii, 1660; so that the Lords, after the Restoration, thought this Proceeding so scandalous, 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 subsequent Entry which still stands in their Journals.

Ordered, That the following Lords be appointed Commiffioners to confider what Method of Pro

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