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• We had power so to do / I doubt not you will satisfy my Lord Protectof with it . I think it altogether improper to admit any debate upon your jurisdiction . " " Sir William Strickland . If you arraign the jurisdiction of your Parliament , I shall desire to go home . " I cannot stay to serve my country with
freedom of my conscience . What can the Cavaliers say , but to deny our jurisdiction , or the sectaries abroad ? I hope we shall be able to dispute and assert our jurisdiction . This is the essence and being of a Parliament . If we have such a power , let us assert it . I desire a Committee may attend his Highness , to satisfy him of the reasons of our proceedings , and that we have done nothing but what former precedents do warrant . "—P . 253 . ' " Lord Lambert . I would not have you rise without a question , or adjourn this debate . I doubt this cannot so easily be laid aside as the petition
was . I wish it could be laid aside with satisfaction to all parties . I desire you would adjourn this debate till to-morrow . "—P . 258 . " Colonel Markkam . If this should pass in the affirmative , you will do my Lord Protector the greatest dishonour that ever was . He does abhor the crime . I am confident he does not desire a reprieve . If . he did not abhor it , for my part , I would never serve him . It will be ill news through all the three nations , to say that a letter came to us on the behalf of a blasphemer . It is an abominable thing to hear such unjust things informed to this House , as that of his whipping so hard , or his being sick . I would have the merchant ' s wife that reported it sent for , and whipped . I am informed it was quite otherwise . I tremble to consider it . I am confident the letter is mistaken . I desire you would be so tender of your honour as to put that
ques-< Lord Lambert . Calmness better becomes this House . I like not these reflections . I desire the gentleman may explain liiinself , if any of this House have informed it . " " Colonel Markhdm stood up to justify himself , and said he reflected upon no member , but only upon the merchant's wife . He believed he that told the House of it was so informed . He honoured the Parliament and every member , &c . " The question being put , to suspend the punishment , the House was divided by Mr . Highland : in the mean time the Speaker retired , being very sick " Yeas , 59 , went out : Noes , 113 , sate . "—P . 264 .
The House persevered in executing its sentence , and the affair of privilege with the Protector , after much discussion , seems to have dropped ; probably from the ministerial party finding the impolicy of pushing matters too far . Nayler ' s business , however , is repeatedly brought on by attempts at relaxation .
" Mr . Highland ( on Dec . 30 ) stood up and made a long speech , how much the lives , and liberties , and estates of the people of England were concerned in our late judgment against Nayler . Better we had never been born than have taken that liberty to ourselves , to exercise such a power over the liberties of the people . We had better deny ourselves , than let such a thing pass . "—P . 26 . 9 .
" Colonel Si / denkam . We live as Parliament men but for a time , but we live as Englishmen always . I would not have us be so tender of the privilege of Parliament , as to forget the liberties of Englishmen . We ou ^ ht to walk tegibu 8 , non eaemplis . Precedents are not to Y > e followed at all times . The Long * Parliament Wl more need to resume their power than I hope we have . Then was war , but we are now at peace I humbly lay it to the heart of every gentleman here , if the case do not much differ . I appeal to every man here . ' * We have not a power here to do what we please . There is something in
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Revieiv . —Burton ' s Diary . 393
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/33/
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