The history of this Council of State furnishes a new and most impor- tant fact towards the formation of political science PAGE Clarendon's inaccurate account of Lilburne Petition of Col. Robert Lilburne and of Elizabeth, the wife of John Difference between the tyranny of the Council of State and that of Business of the Council of State in regard to robbers, thieves, and Lodgings in Whitehall for members of the Council of State Grant of lands by the Parliament to Cromwell. Style with foreign powers "The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Lilburne, in his opening speech, says that he was one of those who first . charges Haselrig with taking his estate without law copy of the indictment, and reasonable time to consult with his Lilburne's exception to Col. Purefoy as a witness Lilburne contends that there were not two witnesses to any one fact 196-202 203-208 209 211, 212 213-220 221, 222 Acquittal of Lilburne received by the people with extraordinary accla- 247-251 The power of the nobility in Scotland was the cause of the poverty Honest fanatics are not necessarily honest men Characteristics of the democratical and of the oligarchical Scottish Prince Charles is proclaimed at Edinburgh King of Scotland 274, 275 276, 277 278-280 281, 282 283 285-288 290, 291 Assassination of Ascham, the English Parliament's agent in Spain The English Parliament prepares for war with Scotland Fairfax resigns his command and Cromwell is appointed commander- The Scottish levies-how raised and how composed 313 314-318 319-323 Cromwell's proclamation to his soldiers against plundering, and his HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. THE political condition of England upon the death of King Charles presented a phenomenon at once anomalous and complicated. It consequently presented to those who were to carry on the English government a practical problem proportionally difficult of solution. In order to furnish even an approximation to an accurate view of the elements that entered into that problem, it will be necessary to place before us the principal elements of the English Government in the early part of the 17th century. The power of the ancient English kings had been limited, not merely by the parchment provisions of the Great Charter, but by the swords of the Anglo-Norman barons and their vassals. But, between the commence ment of the wars of the Roses, and the commencement of the Great Rebellion, a vital change had taken place. At the former time there were, as Raleigh has observed, "many earls who could bring into the field a thousand barbed horses; many a baron five or six hundred barbed horses; whereas now (at the beginning of the 17th century) very few of them can furnish twenty fit to serve the king. The force, therefore, by which our kings in former times were troubled, is vanished away." In the list of the Peers summoned to the Long Parliament, 1 Birch's edition of Raleigh's Works, vol. i. p. 206. B |