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Eliot , alluding darkly to more dreadful charges , ' which is boundless , resteth not here , but , like a violent flame , bursteth forth , and getteth further scope /"—pp-43 , 44 . For this speech Eliot was committed to the Tower , but released after eight days * imprisonment , the king finding himself unable to maintain the struggle at that moment , notwithstanding the lachrymose appeal of Sir Dudley Carleton , the Vice-chamberlain ^ to the House of Commons , in delivering which he so laughably let out the real designs of the king .
A sullen silence succeeded , which was broken b y the memorable expostulation of Sir Dudley Carleton , the king ' s vice-chamberlain . Unad visedly he let the court secret out ! After complaining of the violent md contemptuous expressions resorted to by Eliot and Digges , h $ blurted forth as follows : — ' I beseech you , gentlemen , move wot his Majesty jyith trenching on his prerogative , lest you bring him out of love with parliaments . In his messages he hath told you , that if there were not porre
spondency between him and you , he should be enforced to use new counsels . Now , I pray you to consider what these new counsels are , and may be . I fear to declare those that I conceive . In all Christian : kingdoms you know that parliaments were in use anciently , until the motiarchs began to know their own strength , and , seeing the turbulent spirit of their parliaments , at length they , by little and little , began to stand upon their prerogatives , and nt last overthrew the parlia ments throughout Christendom , except here only with us . And , indeed ,
you would count it a great misery , if you knew the subjects in foreign countries as well as myself , to see them look not like our nation / with store of flesh on their backs , but like so many ghosts ., and not men * being nothing but skin and bones , with some thin cover to their nakedness , and wearing only wooden shoes on their feet ; so that they cajmot eat meat , or wear good clothes , but they must pay and be taxed unto the king for it . This is a misery beyond expression , and that which ydt we are free from ! ' "—pp . 46 , 47 .
The next imprisonment of Eliot was for refusing to pay his share of the forced loan , illegally demanded b y the king . Hw third and last , from which lie was released b y death , took pUkce after his splendid career in the famous parliament that brought forward the " Petition of Right / ' It was the masculine genius ojf JEHoJ which forced Charles from the position he had taken on that occasion , when , by giving an answer which might be cop- * strued either way , instead of the usual " Soit droit fait coinmejl
est-denrl , " this crowned equivocator thought to evade the performance of liis engagement . The appeal by which Eliot » med the House to a sense of their danger soon forced the king ' s sanction , which was given in proper form ; but neither did this apparent safeguard , nor the assassination of Buckingham , which shortly followed , preserve the people from the treachery of the court . Wentworth deserted their cause , and Laud was made Archbishop of Canterbury . The terrors of the Star Chamber
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Eminent British Statesmen . 465
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/5/
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