INTRODUCTION. ix varsities concerning the complaint of pressing subscriptions upon young graduates, on taking their degrees; and also of the com- mittee on an Act to enable Members of Parliament to discharge their consciences in the proceedings of Parliament.a It would be tedious a Journals et to refer to the very frequent connection of his name in the Journals x, of am Y q 3 Juy,C1 s4.1. ofthe House ofCommons with all these matters, or with the proceedings against the Archbishop, Bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons:-The suppression of the surplice, the removal of innovations, the destruction of altars and crosses, superstitious images and inscriptions, were all highly congenial with his convictions, and not less so the rigid ob- servance of the Sabbath, and private and public fasts. We are not surprised to find him of the committee with Pym, Strode, Nath. Fienes, Hampden and others, " to prepare a declaration of the una- nimous consent and resolution of the House, for the defence of the religion established, of the King's person, and the liberty of the subject, be it by oath or any other way; "b and among the first b 3 May, 1611 of the House of Commons to take the Protestation ; again, with Selden,o Nath. Fienes, Hampden, Sir Benjamin Rudyard e4 April.1613 and others, " to prepare and present unto the House a form of declaration, which may express the intentions of the House, for the vindicating the doctrine of the Church from the aspersions laid upon it, and concerning government, discipline, and public liturgy, and concerning consultation to be had with divines thereon, and to consider of the establishing and maintaining of a preaching ministry throughout the kingdom, and the ways and means how to do it, and renewing the Protestation of the 3 May 1641, in the Sacred Vow and Covenant of 6 June 1643.; andafterwards naturally engaged busily in framing and taking the Solemn League and Covenant .d On the death d 25 Sept.1643. and in place of Pym, Sir Robert was elected into the committee of the assembly of divines,e and zealously devoted himself to its pro- e 15 Dec. 1643. ceedings ; he reported the " amendments to the Ordinance for esta- CAMP. SOC. G
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