[188] Sir Thomas Browne, in a letter to his son, says—"Two Royalists gained it here (Norwich) against all opposition that could possibly be made; the voices in this number—Jaye, 1,070; Corie, 1,001; Barnham, 562; Church, 436. My Lord Richardson and Sir Ralph Hare carried it in the county without opposition."—Works, i. 8.
[189] As instances of such purging, we may mention that on the 25th of February, just before the election, orders of that kind were sent to Hull and Norwich.—State Papers, Dom., under date. Oldfield's History of the Original Constitution of Parliament, gives a very large number of instances in which members for boroughs in the seventeenth century were returned by the Corporation. For example:—Andover, votes 24; Banbury, votes 18; Bath, votes 18; Beaumaris, votes 24.
[190] County of Devon.
[191] Their former history is remembered in Hudibras:—
"Was not the King, by proclamation,
Declared a rebel o'er all the nation?
Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard,
To make good subjects traitors, sham hard?"
[192] Parl. Hist., iv. 383.
[193] Ibid., iv. 862.