Viii INTRODUCTION. on almost all the most important questions of the times. To him, in ° Journals of committees with others, were referred the petitions of Leighton,a House of Corn. 13 Nov. 1640. Prynne,b Bastwick,e and other sufferers under the Star Chamber; also, 3 Dec. 1640. 17 Dec. 1640. the consideration of the jurisdiction of the High Commission Courts ° of Canterbury and York,-of the Star Chamber, andalso of the court d 23 Dee. 1640. of the Council of the Marches of Wales ; d the acts and abuses of which courts had given such great cause of discontent. He was active in the proceedings against the Lord Strafford, -in the Scotch and Irish ° 3 Dec. 1641. affairs,e -in carrying out also the scheme of adventures for Ire- 20 Dec. 1641. 24 Feb. 1641, land,f-of the joint committee of the Commons with the Lords, 20 May, 1642. to receive from the Scotch Commissioners what they had to commu- e 3 Feb. 1643 -4. nicate to both or either house of parliament.g Hewas busily engaged in the organizingof the militia, in providing means for carrying h 19 Sept. 1642. on the civil wars ; h lending money and plate himself, and encouraging 6 Dec. 1643' others to do the same, . towards the support of the Parliamentary 23Sept. 1643. cause; in which he was of the committeefor the garrison of Glouces- k 27 Oct. 1643. ter and the security of the western counties .k Sir Robert was on 9 Oct. 1643. the committee for the Great Seal;' and also on an ordinance of Par - 10Feb. 1643 -4. liament for upholding the trade and settling the government of the Company and Fellowship of Merchants trading to the East Indies, &c. and also to the Levant seas. He was chairman of the committees for Elections, for the Universities, for Emmanuel College, also of one of the subdivisions of the Grand Committee for Religion. To Sir Robert was entrusted the preparation of the order to prohibit the wearing of 30Sept.1643. the surplice in cathedral, collegiate, and parish churches,m and for the better observing of the Lord's Day. He was of the committee to take into consideration the removing of the Communion tables in ° 30 Aug.1641. the Universities and the Imes of Court,n the Book of Sports, and all other matters of innovation, -of the committee for superstitious ° 11Feb.1641-2. pictures,-of a committee,° consisting of Strode, Cromwell, Hamp- den, and himself, to prepare letters to be sent to the Uni-
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