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| 49. King of Hearts. "The saints think it meet that the Rump make a league with Oneale." Lord Broghill, president of Munster, and Sir Charles Coote, president of Connaught had shewn enmity to the Rump, who thereupon coquetted with the Irish party.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii. p. 434). 50. King of Clubs. "Oliver declars himself, and the Rebells to be the Gadly party." This card needs no explanation. 51. King of Spades. "Bradshaw in ye High Court of Justice insulting of the King." "The King demanded by what authority they brought him thither, the President answered that they derived their authority from an act made by the Commons.... The King demurred to the jurisdiction of the Court, but the President overruled this." When the iniquitous sentence was read, "The King would have spoken something before he was withdrawn, but being accounted dead in law immediately after sentence was pronounced, it was not permitted."—(Ludlow's Imprisonment and Death of Charles I.—Aungervyle Soc. Rep. pp. 62-65). 52. King of Diamonds. "Sir H. Mildmay solicits a Cityzen's wife, for which his owne corrects him." On September 9, 1641, the House of Commons appointed Pym, St. John, Sir H. Mildmay, Sir H. Vane, and others (six to form a quorum), as a Committee, with extraordinary powers, to act during the recess, "To draw resort and reverence to them from almost all sorts of men." Mildmay is said to have used his political power to further his own projects of lust and greed.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. i., pp. 168 et seq.). |
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| 49. King of Hearts. "The saints think it meet that the Rump make a league with Oneale." Lord Broghill, president of Munster, and Sir Charles Coote, president of Connaught had shewn enmity to the Rump, who thereupon coquetted with the Irish party.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii. p. 434). 50. King of Clubs. "Oliver declars himself, and the Rebells to be the Gadly party." This card needs no explanation. 51. King of Spades. "Bradshaw in ye High Court of Justice insulting of the King." "The King demanded by what authority they brought him thither, the President answered that they derived their authority from an act made by the Commons.... The King demurred to the jurisdiction of the Court, but the President overruled this." When the iniquitous sentence was read, "The King would have spoken something before he was withdrawn, but being accounted dead in law immediately after sentence was pronounced, it was not permitted."—(Ludlow's Imprisonment and Death of Charles I.—Aungervyle Soc. Rep. pp. 62-65). 52. King of Diamonds. "Sir H. Mildmay solicits a Cityzen's wife, for which his owne corrects him." On September 9, 1641, the House of Commons appointed Pym, St. John, Sir H. Mildmay, Sir H. Vane, and others (six to form a quorum), as a Committee, with extraordinary powers, to act during the recess, "To draw resort and reverence to them from almost all sorts of men." Mildmay is said to have used his political power to further his own projects of lust and greed.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. i., pp. 168 et seq.). |
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