[408] D'Ewes, 156, etc. There is no mention of Strickland's business in the journal.
[409] Something of this sort seems to have occurred in the session of 1566, as may be inferred from the lord keeper's reproof to the speaker for calling her majesty's letters patent in question. Id. 115.
[410] Id. 158; Journals, 7 Apr.
[411] Journals, 9 and 10 Apr.
[412] D'Ewes, 159.
[413] D'Ewes, 151.
[414] Bell, I suppose, had reconciled himself to the court, which would have approved no speaker chosen without its recommendation. There was always an understanding between this servant of the house and the government. Proofs and presumptions of this are not unfrequent. In Strype's Annals, vol. iv. p. 124, we find instructions for the speaker's speech in 1592, drawn up by Lord Burleigh, as might very likely be the case on other occasions.
[415] D'Ewes, 219.
[416] Id., 213, 214.
[417] D'Ewes, 236.