[162] Rushworth, iv. 206. This Bill was under discussion in the Lords, in October, 1641.—Nalson, ii. 496.
[163] Journals.
[164] Clarendon's Hist., 94.
[165] July 1.—"The Lords, upon the reasons offered by the Commons, were satisfied to consent to pass the Bill to take away the High Commission Court both here and at York, but argued to have the Star Chamber Court not quite taken away, but bounded, limited, and reduced to what power it had in Henry VII's time."—Rushworth, iv. 304. Both Bills received the royal assent, July 5.
[166] The writers were: Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thos. Young, Matt. Newcomen, and Wm. Spurstow.
[167] The Reduction of Episcopacy, which bears Ussher's name, was not published till after his death, in 1656. Baxter says in reference to it, "I asked him (Dr. Ussher) whether the paper be his that is called, A reduction of Episcopacy to the form of Synodical Government; which he owned, and Dr. Bernard after witnessed to be his."—Life and Times, part ii. 206.
I may here observe that the Archbishop, according to his biographer, Elrington, appears always to have spelt his name with a double s.
[168] Baillie, i. 351.
[169] May 3, 1641. Parl. Hist., ii. 776.
I have here and elsewhere, in giving the substance of speeches, adhered to the quaint phraseology employed by the speakers.