Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce.

  • Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon
Date:
1845
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Credit: Verney papers: notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament temp. Charles I. printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House of Sir Ralph Verney, knight, member for the borough of Aylesbury, and now in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart / Edited by John Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Goringe saies hee tooke the oath, but hee did not see him take it. Newcastle was named by Goringe to be generall. Hee pressed Essex to be generall. Ashbernham a. Desiers neither favor of God or man, if hee have had either an ill thought, or donn an ill act, about this busi- nesse now in question. When the £l 0,000 was taken away, Percy spoke some words as though the soldiers were disobleiged by the parliment. Hee re¬ fused to do any thinge against this parliment, or to free lord Stra- ford. If the takinge the oath, or seeinge it taken, bee a crime, then he desiers not to make answere to it. Hee heard wild discourses about the army in Percys chamber, but remembers noe perticulers. Hee named Essex for a generall; lord Nuecastle named. Wilmot was committed to the tower, Ashbernham was com¬ mitted to the kings bench, Pollard was committed to the gate¬ house, uppon suspition of high treason. Sir John Berkley and Mr. Oneale are sent for by a serjeant at armes as delinquents, uppon suspition of high treason, and my lord generall is to be moved to write to the officers to assist the serjeant. [34th sheet.'] WEDNESDAY, 16TH JUNE, 1641. [THE ARMY PLOT. Percy’s letter implicated colonel Goring (see before p. 95.), who, being a member of the house, attended this day in his place by order of the house, and, according to the journal, “ made a declaration of all he knew in the business concerning the uniting the a “ Colonel Ashburnham was called in, and examined upon the same interrogatories as Mr. Wilmott formerly was.” (Journ. ii. 175.) CAMD. SOC. O
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