The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-05
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take his maiestys word in parliament
tary way, and they sent the bill embody'
ing the Declaration of Right up TO the
Lords The peers passed ii with the ad-
dition Of clause, "reserving his maJes'
ty's sovereign power.
"Let us take heed" exclaimed Voke'
when the bill came observation-disclosures
with this amendment attached to it
t'let us take heed what we yield unto.
MAGMA Charta is such a fellow, that he
will have no sovereign" The amend
ment was struck out, and the peers re-
luctantly acquiesced, Nothing now re-
NAMED but the kings formal concurrence
and that given, the coveted subsidies
were at his disposal. .laF..
Charles hesitated long, but fine dingth
Commons inexorable came down TO the
Lords, and the Lower House was sum
moned in due form to hear the royal as
sent given to the bill. To the surprise
and Indignation of all who heard him,
the king, instead Of using the legal for.
mula, "Soit droit tdjt CONNIE u est desire
("Letright be done as desired, ,") he said,
aThe King willeth that right be done &C.
cordinp to the laws and customs OF the
realm, and that the statutes be put In
due execution, that his subjects may
have no cause to complain OF any wrong
or oppression contrary to their just rights
and privileges, wherein he holds himself
bound to conscience as we'll as obliged Of
his own prerogatve:
The wrath Of the Commons against the
advisors of this subterfuge was unbound
ed. Sir John Eliot tEundered against
the Duke of Buckingham as the prime
source of all the evils which afflicted the
nation. and the fatal weapon of the Com
mons impeachment, was again to be put
forth, when the king, alarmed at what
was going on, hastened down to the
Lords. and gave his assent to the Bill of
Riobts in the accustomed legal form.
The money bills were at once voted, and
London was in blaze Of illumination at
the supposed triumphant termination of
the struggle with prerogative. They
reckoned too hastily.
Soon after Sir Robert Wentworth aban-
doned the opposition, and regained Court
favor by the sacrifice of his former prin-
ciples and friends. The indignation Of
Pym was extreme when Wentworth be-
qsn to break the tidings to his old friend.
"Say no morel" interrupted Pym; II
understand it ALL but remember what |
tell you-you are going to be undone.
And remember, also, that though you
leave us now, l will never leave you as
long as your head is on your shouldersl"
Wentworth smiled in superior scorn;
and we'll, apparently, might he do so, for
before the year was out he was baron,
then an earl, and finally Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, and speedily approved him
self the ablest of the kings instruments.
Not long after, Buckingham was assassi-
mated at Portsmouth.
The Parliament reassembled in Janu-
sry, 1929, and the dispute between the
Commons and the monarch became more
vehement than ever. At length, March
I'd, Sir John Eliot rose to move remon-
STRANGE against the levying OF tonnage and
poundage without authority of Parlia-
nent, The Speaker declined to enter
tain the motion, having been ordered by
the king to adjourn the House.
A tumult ensued. The doors Of the
House were locked, and the Speaker was
held in his seat by HOLES and Valentine,
whilst the resolution passed, "Thatwhat-
ever merchant paid tonnage and poundage
was traitor to the liberties of England"
Whilst this extraordinary scene was
going on, Charles had come to the Lords,
and commanded, in the usual form,
the attendance of the Commons. His
messenger found the doors closed. His
majesty next sent for the sergeant-at-
arms. but that officer was not permitted
to obey. Charles finally directed the
captain of his guard to break in the doors
ofthe House. Before this could be done
the Commons adjourned 10 the 10th of
March. The king, on dissolving the Par
lament, denounced the leading members
as "vipers who should suffer for their
conduct" He was as good, or rather as
bad as his word" Sir John Eliot, HOLES
Valentine and several others were, not
withstanding the Bill of Right, by his or
der thrown into prison. Each sued out
a writ of hdbeds corpus, but Charles chan
ped the custody before the return was
made. and the Judges refused hearing
of the prisoners counsel in the absence
to the fraudulently withheld bodies of
their clients. Soon afterward Mr.. Attor-
ney General filed criminal information
against Sir John Eliot in the Court OF the
Kings Bench. Eliot insisted that no
court had power to review the proceed
ings of the Commons House OF Parlia-
ment. The Judges, however, decided
that they had Jurisdiction. Eliot steadi-
lv refused to acknowledge or plead to
their authority, and was condemned, in
default to pay fine of $4,000 to the
king, and be imprisoned till ne made
submission.
But he disdained to purchase personal
freedom by the surrender of great prln-.
ciple. His estate, in contemplation of
such a sentence, had been passed to trus-
tees: his two sons were intrusted to the
generous care and guidance of Hampden,
and Eliot resigned himself to bear his
fate as patiently as might be. He per-
ished gradually of the rigor of the con.
fnement to which he was subjected, and
which was constantly increased in bru-
tality and harshness. He died Nov. n,
1882.
The slovenly, ungainly looking mem
ber of Huntingdon was at this time, 1852
a farmer at St. Ives, q place about five
miles eastward Of that borough, and was
in the habit of pouring forth long prayers
before his friends, neighbors and labor
ers.
Immediately after the dissolution Of
the celebrated third Parliament, patents
comforting monopolies in every article OF
consumption were publicly and unblush-
ingly sold. There was scarcely an arti-
Gle which the hands of monopoly did not
grasp; salt, starch, Goals, iron, wine, pens,
cards and dice, beavers, felt, bone-lace,
meat dressed in taYerns, tobacco, brew
ing and distilling, kelp and seaweed, lin
en- cloth, hops, butter, hats, spectacles,
combs, tobacco pipes, salt-petre, gunpow-
der, down to the privilege Of rag.gather-
ing. Next, a commission issued for .cur-
ing defects in the titles to land, from
whom any one, for money considera-
ton, could purchase a title, good against
all claimantg