656 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII. K. Charles L « fuchas that he was perfuaded not one man in the houle of commons did 64 °' believe in his heart that he was a traitor." To which the earl of Ef. fix replied, that it was a high rfetlion upon the whole houfe of commons, toJuppooje they would charge himwith a crime which they themfelves did not ;He is coin- believe. After this his grace withdrew, and being 'called in again, - mitted to the was delivered to the ufher of the black rod, to be kept in fafe cuftody back r°d, the till the houfe of commons fhould deliver in their articles of impeach- ment. Upon the 26th of February Mr. Pym, Mr. Hampden, and Mr. May- nard, by order of the commons went up to the houfe of lords, and at the bar of that houfe prefented their lordfhips with fourteen articles, in main- tenance of their former charge of high treafon againft the archbifhop, whichwere read, hisgrace being prefent. Heads of the In thefrf, he is charged with endeavouring to fubvert the conflitu- impcachment tion by introducing an arbitrary power of government, without any li- ef the hole of commons. mitation or rule of law. In the fecond, he is charged with procuring : fermons to be preached, and other pamphlets to be printed, in which the authority of parliament is denied, and the ABSOLUTE POWER of the king affected to be agreeable to the law of God. The third article char- ges him with interrupting the courfe ofjuftice, byameffages, threatniugs, and promifes to the judges. The fourth, with felling juftice in his own perfon, under colour of ecelefiaftical jurifdi&ion, and with advifing his nia- jefty to fell places of judicaturecontrary to law. In thefifth, he is charged with the canons-and oath impofed upon the fubjeft by the late convocation. In thefixth., with robbing the king of fupremacy, by denying the ecclee - afticaljurifdiflion to be derived from the crown. In thefeventh, with bringing in popi(h doftrines opinions and ceremonies, contrary to the arti- cles of the church, and cruelly perfecuting thole who oppofed them. In the eighth, he is charged with promotingperlons to the higheft and belt prefer- ments in the church, who arecorrupt in doftrine and manners. In the ninth, with employing fuch for his domeftic chaplains as he knew to popithly affefted, andcommitting to them the licenfingofbooks, whereby fuch wri- tingshave been publifhed as have been fcandalous to the proteflant religion. The tenth article charges him with fundry attempts to reconcile the church of England with the church of Rome. The eleventh, with difcountenancing ofpreaching, and with filencing, depriving, imprifoning, and banishing, fundry godly and orthodox minifters. The twelfth, with dividing the church of England from the foreign proteftant churches. The thir- teenth, with being the author of all the late diflurbances between Eng- land and Scotland. And the laft, with endeavouring to bereave the kingdom of the legifiative power, by alienating the king's mind front his parliaments. At
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