Chap. V. The HIS ·TORY oj the PuRITANS. I2I it came on, lord Grey of Werk fpeaker of the houfe of krds, was ap- K. Charles!. pointed prefident ; but the archbilhop complains, that there were feldom ~ more than fixteen or eighteen peers at a time. The managers for the commons were Mr. Serjeant Wild and Mr. Maynard, Mr. Broum, Mr. Nicolas and Mr. Hill, whom the archbi{hop calls confol bibulus, becaufe he faid nothing; their follicitor was Mr. Prynne, the archbilhop's grand enemy. His grace's counfel were, Mr. Htarne, Mr. Hales, Mr. Chute, Mr. Gerard; and his follicitor was his owr~ fecretary, Mr Dell. The trial was depending almo!l: five months, in which time the archbilhop was heard twenty days, with as much liberty and fi-eed{)tn of fpeech as could be reafonably defired. When he complained of the feizure of his papers, the lord's ordered him a copy of all fuch as he ihould fay were neceifary for his defence; and when he acquainted them, that by reafon of the fequefhation of his efiate, he was incapable of feeing his counfel, they moved the committee of fequefirations in his favour, who ordered him two hundred pounds. His counfel had free accefs to him at all times, and fiood by to advife him during the whole of his trial. The method of proceeding was this; the archbifhop had three or four days notice of the day of his appearance, and of the articles they defigned to proceed on; he was brought to the bar about ten in the morning, and the managers were till one making good their charge; the houfe then adjourned till four, when the archbilhop made his defence, after which one of the managers replied, and the archbilhop returned to the 'fo~ver between Jeven and eight of -the clock in the evening. . 'Tis unhappy that this remarkable trial, which contains the chief heads of controverfy between the puritans and the hierarchy, was not publifhed by order of the houfe of peers, that the world might have feen the arguments 0n both fides in their fullilrength. Mr. Prynne by order of the houfe of commons, has given us their evidence to that branch of the charge which relates to religion, and the arcbbi!hop has left behind him his own defence on every day's hearing, mixed with keen and fatyrical reflexions on his adverfaries; but thefe being detached performances, I have endea– voured to reduce the mofi material paifages into a proper method, with– out confining myfelf to the exacr order of time in which the articles were debated. All the articles may be reduced to thefe three general heads. Summary of tbe chargt. Fi1jf, "That the archbifhop had traiterou i1y attempted, and endea– ,, voured to j ufJwr t the rigbts of parliament, and to exalt the king's power " abcve law. Second6•, " T hat he had tmiterouily endeavoured to fubvert the fun da– " mental temporal laws and government of the realq1 of England, and VoL. I l. R "to
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