Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 1Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833 - Great Britain |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affairs afterwards ambassador amongst answer appears appointed archbishop archbishop Abbot Arminian authority bishop brought Buckingham catholic cause Charles church clergy command commons council court courtiers crown declared duke earl ecclesiastical Eliot England English father favor favorite fear France French friends give grant Hampden hath high-commission honor imprisoned intrigue Ireland Isle of Rhé judges justice king James king's kingdom La Rochelle lady land Laud liberty likewise London lord keeper lord-deputy majesty majesty's master ment minister Mountnorris occasion offence parliament party persons petition petition of right prelate prerogative primate prince prisoners privy privy council proceedings protestant Prynn punishment puritans queen received refused reign religion respect royal Rushworth says Scotland sent sir Edward Coke sir Robert Cotton Sir Thomas Wentworth sovereign Spain speech spirit star-chamber Strafford Letters suffered supply things tion tonnage and poundage Wentworth whilst
Popular passages
Page 40 - Poetry, in this latter age, hath proved but a mean mistress to such as have wholly addicted themselves to her, or given their names up to her family. They who have but saluted her on the by, and now and then...
Page 207 - ... or their power or will to chastise. Persons of honour and great quality, of the court, and of the country, were every day cited into the high-commission court, upon the fame of their incontinence, or other scandal in their lives, and were there prosecuted to their shame and punishment...
Page 33 - A table richly spread in regal mode, With dishes piled and meats of noblest sort And savour — beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Grisamber-steamed ; all fish, from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast...
Page 84 - I must let you know," said he, "that I will not allow any of my servants to be questioned amongst you, much less such as are of eminent place and near unto me.
Page 129 - Every man must now do according to his conscience ; wherefore, if you (which God forbid) should not do your duties in contributing what the State at this time needs, I must, in discharge of my conscience, use those other means, which God hath put into my hands, to save that which the follies of some particular men may otherwise hazard to lose.
Page 138 - Bentham. assures you, that he will maintain all his subjects in the just freedom of their persons and safety of their estates ; and that he will govern according to the laws and statutes of this realm ; and that you shall find as much security in his majesty's royal word and promise, as in the strength of any law ye can make ; so that hereafter ye shall never have cause to complain.
Page 259 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, especially in the amorous way, which, for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior, to any of that time...
Page 148 - That man is cowardly base, and deserveth not the name of a gentleman or soldier, that is not willing to sacrifice his life for the honour of his God, his king, and his country. Let no man commend me for the doing of it, but rather discommend themselves as the cause of it ; for if God had not taken our hearts for our sins, he had not gone so long unpunished.
Page 143 - Cook [old Coke upon Lyttleton], overcome with passion, seeing the desolation likely to ensue, was forced to sit down when he began to speak, by the abundance of tears.
Page 154 - And whereas Sir Ralph Clare and Sir William Croftes, ever since they were turned out of their places in the privy chamber for opposing the duke in the second parliament of King Charles, have lain within his majesty's house at St.