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Article INSTANCES OF RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. ← Page 2 of 2
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Instances Of Retributive Justice.
king , whose case , and the design of the Parliament , J : he Scots had mistaken . . The Parliament which raised an army to depose Charles , was deposed by the army it had raised . This army broke three . parliaments , but was at last broken itself by a free Parliament . Sir John Hothamwho repulsed his Majesty , and refused him
ad-, mittance into Hull before the war , was seized by the Parliament for which he had done it , on the same i oth day of August two years that he spilled the first blood in that war . His son , Captain Hotham , was executed the ist of January , which was the day on which he had assisted Sir Thomas -Fairfax in the first skirmish with the king ' s forces at Bramham Moor .
The 6 th of August 16 41 , the Parliament voted to raise an army against the king ; the same day and month anno 16 4 8 , the Parliament were assembled and turned out of doors by that very same army . The Earl of Holland deserted the king , who had made him general of horse , and went over to the Parliament . The king sent to him . for his assistance on the nth of June 16 41 which the ear ] refused ;
, and on the 1 ith of July 16 4 8 , seven years after , he was taken by the Parliament at St . Neot ' s , and beheaded by them on the 9 th of March 16 49 , O . S . on which day , in the year 16 41 , he had carried the declaration of the Commons , which was filled with reproaches , to the king . The Parliament voted to approve of Sir John Hotliam ' s resistance
to the king at Hull , on the 28 th of April 1641 ; the day on which , in the year 1600 , they first debated in the house the restoration of Charles the Second . Thus much for- the days of Charles ; one thing , however , is worth y to be remarked : the charge against the Earl of Strafford , whose death the king lamented all the remainder of his life , was first read in the House of Lords on the 30 th of January , six years preceding Charles ' s own death .
Nor are testimonies of similar occurrences , apparently connected by the same singularity of time , wanting in the earlier reigns , if we may credit the authoritjr whence the preceding dates are derived . Cranmer was burnt at Oxford the same day and month that he gave Henry the VIHth , the advice to divorce his queen Catherine . Queen Elizabeth died the same day and month that she resolved , in
her privy council , to behead the Queen of Scots ; and her successor , James , the same day -and month that he published his book against Bellarmine . The Long Parliament , of which so much has already been said , began the day of the month on which the Parliament that robbed the Romish church of her revenues , and suppressed abbies and
monasteries first sate : so that the same day which enriched Henry VIII . was fatal to his successor by the same means . CHRONOLOGUS
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Instances Of Retributive Justice.
king , whose case , and the design of the Parliament , J : he Scots had mistaken . . The Parliament which raised an army to depose Charles , was deposed by the army it had raised . This army broke three . parliaments , but was at last broken itself by a free Parliament . Sir John Hothamwho repulsed his Majesty , and refused him
ad-, mittance into Hull before the war , was seized by the Parliament for which he had done it , on the same i oth day of August two years that he spilled the first blood in that war . His son , Captain Hotham , was executed the ist of January , which was the day on which he had assisted Sir Thomas -Fairfax in the first skirmish with the king ' s forces at Bramham Moor .
The 6 th of August 16 41 , the Parliament voted to raise an army against the king ; the same day and month anno 16 4 8 , the Parliament were assembled and turned out of doors by that very same army . The Earl of Holland deserted the king , who had made him general of horse , and went over to the Parliament . The king sent to him . for his assistance on the nth of June 16 41 which the ear ] refused ;
, and on the 1 ith of July 16 4 8 , seven years after , he was taken by the Parliament at St . Neot ' s , and beheaded by them on the 9 th of March 16 49 , O . S . on which day , in the year 16 41 , he had carried the declaration of the Commons , which was filled with reproaches , to the king . The Parliament voted to approve of Sir John Hotliam ' s resistance
to the king at Hull , on the 28 th of April 1641 ; the day on which , in the year 1600 , they first debated in the house the restoration of Charles the Second . Thus much for- the days of Charles ; one thing , however , is worth y to be remarked : the charge against the Earl of Strafford , whose death the king lamented all the remainder of his life , was first read in the House of Lords on the 30 th of January , six years preceding Charles ' s own death .
Nor are testimonies of similar occurrences , apparently connected by the same singularity of time , wanting in the earlier reigns , if we may credit the authoritjr whence the preceding dates are derived . Cranmer was burnt at Oxford the same day and month that he gave Henry the VIHth , the advice to divorce his queen Catherine . Queen Elizabeth died the same day and month that she resolved , in
her privy council , to behead the Queen of Scots ; and her successor , James , the same day -and month that he published his book against Bellarmine . The Long Parliament , of which so much has already been said , began the day of the month on which the Parliament that robbed the Romish church of her revenues , and suppressed abbies and
monasteries first sate : so that the same day which enriched Henry VIII . was fatal to his successor by the same means . CHRONOLOGUS