Title: A Speech Of VVilliam Thomas, Esquire, Ianuary, 1641. Concerning the right of Bishops sitting and voting in Par- liament : wherein hee humbly delivereth his opinion, that their sitting and voting there, is not onely inconvenient, and un- lawfull, but that it is not necessary for the making up of free and full Parliaments; nay, that they have no right thereto, for such reasons as he declareth. Parliaments and Statutes therein made being of force, and no way nulls, notwithstanding their absence, whether volun- tary or inforced; and that they have not right to their temporalties, whereby they challenge their right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, Lay Peeres : And therefore under correction he doth thinke that the se- verall Petitions of the City of London and others, as unto that, were fairly and justly offered