No More Learning

Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of. Private Letters from the Earl of
Strafford to his third Wife. Ed. Milnes, R. M. (Lord Houghton) in
Philobiblon Society's Miscellanies, vol. 1. 1854.
Verney Letters. Letters and Papers of the Verney Family down to the end
of the year 1639. Printed from the original MSS. Ed. Bruce, J.
Camden Soc. Publ. LIII. 1853.
Memoirs of the Verney Family. 1642-96. Edd. Verney, Lady F. P.
and Verney, Lady M. M. 4 vols. 1892–9.
Wills. A Selection of the Wills of Eminent Persons, preserved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1495–1695. Edd. Nic Is, J. G. and
Bruce, J. Camden Soc. Publ. 1863. (Includes the wills of Elizabeth
of Bohemia, speaker Lenthall, John Hampden, and others. )
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IV. DEBATES AND SPEECHES
No reference is here made to sermons and other religious discourses,
which were specially numerous in the latter part of the period. The
political speeches increase in both quality and importance as the authority
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in the Elizabethan age, had, for the most part, been in better order than
that of the Lords) continued to preserve reports of speeches delivered there,
though in a very condensed form; but in the Lords no speeches (except the
king's) were entered in the Journals, though a rough record was kept for
reference by the peers themselves. In the time of the Long parliament,
feeling was still strong in both Houses against allowing any full record of
speeches. Rushworth was prevented from expanding entries in the Journals,
and members of the House of Commons (as in the cases of Sir Edward Deering
and Lord Digby) were actually expelled for taking notes.
The following is a list, in chronological order, of reports of parliamentary
proceedings preserved to us. Of the Parliamentary History, vol. 1 (1806)
covers the ground from 1066 to 1624; vol. II deals with 1625, and the sub-
sequent volumes advance even less expeditiously. Rushworth's Historical
Collections (1659-80)-see Sec. I, A-which begin with the year 1618, contain
an account of parliamentary proceedings during the sessions covered.
D'Ewes, Sir Simonds. A Compleat Journal of the Votes, Speeches and
Debates, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons, through-
out the whole Reign of Elizabeth of Glorious Memory. 2nd ed. 1693.
This is taken from the Journal Books of both Houses and other
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Townshend, Hayward (f. 1601). Historical Collections; or, An exact Account
of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of Famous
Memory. Wherein is contained The Compleat Journals Both of the
Lords and Commons, Taken from the Original Records of Their Houses,
As also The more particular Behaviours of the Worthy Members during
all the last notable Sessions. 1680.
Includes speeches by Robert Cecil Bacon and Ralegh, who, on one
occasion, is described as blushing at the mention of 'Monopolies of Cards. '
Parliamentary Debates in 1610. Ed. from the notes of a member of the
house of Commons by Gardiner, S. R. Camden Soc. Publ. 1862.
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Clerk of the Parliaments A. D. 1621. Ed. Gardiner, S. R. Camden Soc.
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Clerk of the Parliaments AD. 1624 and 1626. Ed. Gardiner, S. R. Camden
Soc. Publ. N. S. xxiv. Westminster, 1879.
Contains notes of the last parliament of James and the first of
Charles--including the impeachments of Middlesex, Buckingham and
Bacon, and the charges against Bristol. The Petition of Right debates,
1628, remain unprinted.
Debates in the House of Commons 1625. Ed. Gardiner, S. R. Camden Soc.
Publ. 1873.
In these debates, which turn on the ambitious designs of Buckingham,
Eliot already comes to the front.
Verney, Sir Ralph. Notes of Proceedings in the Long Parliament, temp.
Charles I. Printed from original pencil memoranda taken in the House
by Sir Ralph Verney, Knight. Ed. Bruce, J. Camden Soc. Publ.
XXXI. 1845. (Sir Ralph Verney was member for Aylesbury. )
Burton, Thomas. Diary. Vols. 1-IV. Ed. by Rutt, T. 1828.
Thomas Burton sat in the House of Commons for Westmorland,
1656-9; his note-books are of value for the end of the protectorate, though
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The practice of entering in the Journals of the House of Lords protests,
accompanied by a statement of reasons, which dates from the time of the
Long parliament (1641), is fully elucidated, and the protests are printed
from the Journal of the Lords, in
Rogers, James E. Thorold. A Complete Collection of the Protests of the
Lords. With Historical Introductions. 3 vols. Oxford, 1875.
Of particular speeches dating from this period it would answer no purpose
to attempt anything like a complete list. James I and Charles I, and, again,
Charles II (with his back to the fire) addressed the House of Lords with a
freedom and frequency unknown to later times; but it was not till after the
restoration that it seems to have become customary to publish at the opening,
prorogation or dissolution of parliament, or on other important occasions,
speeches delivered from the throne which, although still, in a measure, in-
formal, were intended to convey carefully prepared announcements of policy.
Such speeches, delivered by Charles II on 13 September 1660,29 December 1660,
and 8 May 1661, were published with companion speeches by lord chancellor
Clarendon. As to the speeches of Oliver Cromwell, cf. Sec. I, A. Among
the speeches by eminent ministers and members of parliament, those of
Bacon claim precedence. (See Letters and Life etc. , by Spedding J. , 7 vols. ,
1861-4; of which vols. III and iv contain many of Bacon's parliamentary
speeches; vol. v his charge as attorney general against Somerset in the
Overbury case; and vol. vi his speech on assuming office as lord chancellor. )
From the great days of the Long parliament are preserved deliverances
of critical moment, such as Falkland's great speech on episcopacy (1641),
showing the parting of the waters, and Pym's against Laud (of the same
year), which, with several speeches against Strafford, marks the first great
sweep of the revolutionary movement. Any list of extant speeches would
have to include several by Hyde (Clarendon), in both phases of his political
life, and examples of the oratory of Prynne (with whom everything was inter-
minable) and of Prynne's adversaries, sectaries whose ideas of liberty were
very divergent from his own. Sir Dudley Digges put on record
A Conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses,
concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subjects. Discoursed by
Sir Dudley Digges, Sir Edward Littleton, Knight, now Lord Keeper,
Master Selden, Sir Edward Cooke. With the Objections by Sir Robert
Heath, Knight, then Attorney Generall, and the Answer. 3° Apr. 3 Car.
1628. 1642.
The question at issue is that of illegal imprisonment, redress by
demand of Habeas Corpus failing.
Sir Simonds d'Ewes preserved, together with The Greeke Postscripts of
the Epistles to Timothy and Titus cleared in Parliament. And an occasionall
Speech touching the Bill of Acapitation, or Poll-Money, 1641, rptd in Har-
leian Miscellany, ed. Park, T. , vol. ix, 1812:
Two speeches: the first touching the antiquity of Cambridge, the other
concerning the Priviledge of Parliament, in Causes Civill and Criminall.
1642.
Finally, though the genuineness of dying speeches is at all times open to
doubt, the last words of Charles I in the Life and Death of Charles the First,
with his Tryal, Sentence and Dying Words seem to have been reported very
soon after the catastrophe. Still, like these, archbishop Laud's Speech or
Funerall Sermon preacht by himself on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill (10
January 1644) may be less trustworthy than are some of the speeches delivered
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in The Second Volume of the Remains of Archbishop Laud (Written by
Himself). Collected by Henry Wharton and published by Edmund Wharton,
1700, as a supplement to the Diary (1694). The speech which Sir Henry
Vane was prevented from delivering, but which was included in The Tryal
of Sir Henry Vane, Kº at the King's Bench, Westminster June 24 and 6
1662 (1662) has every internal sign of genuineness. But it falls in date,
though not in spirit, outside the period covered by these chapters.
V. HISTORIES AND BIOGRAPHIES
A. English and General
For a bibliography of the Tudor chroniclers see ante, vol. II, pp. 527-32.
In John Speed, who had the assistance of the eminent antiquaries Sir Henry
Cotton (especially in his account of the reign of Henry VIII), Spelman and
others, some critics have recognised the earliest of English historians as well
as one of the trustiest of annalists. A great impulse was, no doubt, given to
the study of English history by the author of Britannia (1586), William
Camden, whose Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth Selden couples with
Bacon's Henry VIII as distinguished from all other attempts at writing
contemporary English history. For a list of the works comprised in vols. I
and 11 of bishop White Kennett's History of England to the death of
William III, 1706, see Gardiner, S. R. and Mullinger, J. B. , Introduction
to English History (3rd ed. ), p. 217, note 5; vol. 111 was Kennett's own com-
position.
Bacon, Francis (Viscount Si Alban). The Historie of the Reigne of King
Henry the Seventh. 1622. Rptd in Bacon's Literary and Professional
Works, edd. Spedding, J. and Ellis, R. L. , vol. 1, 1858.
Of the History of the reign of Henry VIII, which Bacon was recom-
mended to write by Charles prince of Wales, only a page or two were
written. See L. and P. Works, u. s. pp. 267–8. A rather larger fragment,
not devoid of grandeur, remains of The Beginning of the History of Great
Britain, written a little before 1610; see ibid. pp. 271 ff. Of much
historical interest are:
Advertisement touching on Holy Warre, written in 1622, ptd by
Rawley, W.
, in Certain Miscellany Works of (Bacon), 1629, and rptd in
L. and P. Works, u. s. vol. II, pp. 8 ff. ; and the fragment of the True
Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain, ptd 1634, rptd L, and P. Works,
vol. II, pp. 37 ff. The former, in dialogue form, advocates a war against
the Turks; the latter advocates the policy of employing in war energies
otherwise likely to spend themselves in domestic quarrels.
Bedell, William, Bishop of Kilmore (1571-1642). A True Relation, of the
Life and Death of William Bedell, Lord Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland.
Ed. Jones, T. Wharton. Camden Soc. Publ. 1872. (Previously publ.
without notes 'by Mayor, J. E. B. , 1871. )
Speculum Episcoporum; or The Apostolique Bishop, being a brieffe
Account of the Lyfe and Death of that Reverend Father in God,
D. William Bedell, etc. (By his son-in-law, Alexander Clogy. ) Edd.
Wilkins, W. W. , 1862, and, with A True Relation, Letters, etc. under
the title Two Biographies of William Bedell, Shuckburgh, E. S. , Cam-
bridge, 1902.
Bedell was, as Sir Henry Wotton's chaplain at Venice, associated
with his protestant schemes. He died in 1642, as a victim of the Irish
rebellion. Later lives of him were published by Burnet (1685) and by
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Bolton, Edmund (15757-1633? ). Hypercritica; or A Rule of Judgment for
writing, or reading our History's. (Occasioned by a Censorian Epistle,
prefixed to Sir Henry Savile's Edition of some of our oldest Historians
in Latin (1618). ) First publ. by Hall, A. , in Nicolai Triveti Annalium
Continuatio, 1722. Rptd by Haslewood, J. , in Ancient Critical Essays
npon English Poets and Poësy, vol. 11, 1815.
- (Philanactophil). Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie Depraved. 1624. The 2nd
ed. (1627) contains as an Appendix An Historical Parallel, or, A
demonstration of the notable oddes, for the more use of life, betweene
reading large Histories, and briefe ones, how excellent soever, as those
of Lucius Florus. ?
This work recapitulates the affairs of Britain from the time of Julius
Caesar to that of Nero, taking occasion to show that Stonehenge (more
commonly called Stonage) is a monument to Boadicea.
Buc, or Buck, [Sir] George (d. 1623). The History of the Life and Reigne
of Richard The Third. Composed in five Bookes. 1646.
Rptd in Kennett, u. s. vol. I, 1705. The "George Buck Esquire'
mentioned on the title-page as the author of this work, which anticipates
in lucid style Horace Walpole's defence of Richard, is thought by Ritson
to be identical with Sir George Buc or Buck, author of The Third
Universitie of England. Or A Treatise of the Foundations of all the
Colledges, Auncient Schooles of Priviledge, and of Houses of Learning
and Liberall Arts, within and about the most famous Cittie of London.
1615, appended to Stow's Annales, ed. Howe, E. , 1615.
Camden, William. See ante, vol. 111, pp. 527-8.
Charles I. Memoirs of the Two last Years of the Reign of that unparallelld
Prince, of ever Blessed Memory, King Charles I. By Sir Thomas Herbert,
Major Huntington, Col. Edw. Cohe, and M Hen. Firebrace. With the
Character of that Blessed Martyr, by The Reverend MJohn Diodati,
M' Alexander Henderson, and the Author of the Princely Pelican. To
which is added, The Death-Bed Repentance of M' Lenthal, Speaker of
the Long-Parliament; Extracted out of a Letter written from Oxford,
Sept. 1662. 1702. Re-ed. by Nicol], G. , 1813.
The Reign of Charles I. 1656. (Annalistic. )
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil
Wars in England, together with an Historical View of the Affairs of
Ireland. Now for the first time carefully printed from the original MS
preserved in the Bodleian Library. To which are subjoined the Notes of
Bishop Warburton. 7 vols. Oxford, 1849.
The Miscellaneous Works of . . . being a Collection of Several Valuable
Tracts, Published from His Lordship’s Original MSS. 2nd ed. 1751.
Contains:
Contemplations and Reflections upon the Psalms of David. Con-
cluded. Montpelier, 1670. A Discussion, by Way of Vindication
of my self from the Charge of High-Treason, with which I was
charged by the House of Commons, November, 1667. Montpelier,
1668. (Embodied in Life. )
Essays Divine and Moral.
Of Human Nature; Of Pride [on funerals]; Of Anger;
Of Patience in Adversity; Of Friendship [lofty, but temperate);
Of Counsel and Conversation; Of Promises (a notable essay);
Of Liberty [attack, of an orthodox kind, on Hobbes]; Of
Industry; Of Sickness [fine]; Of Repentance; Of Conscience
[also polemical]; Of an Active and Contemplative Life, and when
and Why the One ought to be preferred before the other; Of
War; Of Peace [both these are humane in spirit]; Of Sacrilege


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(caustio on the misuse of fast days; reasonable as to secularisa-
tion); Of the Reverence due to Antiquity (practical and cheerful];
Against the multiplying Controversies, by insisting upon Par-
ticulars that are not necessary to the Point in Debate (against
re-union' conferences as useless]; A Dialogue between A. an
old Courtier, B. an old Lawyer, C. an old Soldier, D. an old
Country Gentleman, and E. an old Alderman, of the Want of
Respect due to Age; A Dialogue between the same Persons and
a Bishop, concerning Education (dated Montpelier, 1668).
See, also: Boyle, G. D. , Characters and Episodes of the Great Rebellion.
Selected from the History and Autobiography of Edward Earl of Clarendon,
Oxford, 1889; Lewis, Lady Theresa, Lives of the Friends and Contem-
poraries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon: illustrations of Portraits in his
Gallery, 3 vols. , 1852.
Among critical estimates of Clarendon as a historian may be mentioned:
Firth, C. H. Edward Earl of Clarendon, as Statesman, Historian and
Chancellor of the University, delivered as a lecture at Oxford on
the occasion of the Tercentenary of Clarendon's birth (18 February,
1909). Oxford, 1909.
Ranke, L. von. History of England in the Seventeenth Century.
Eng. trans. vol. VI, Criticism of the Historians, pp. 1-29:
Clarendon. Oxford, 1875.
Stephen, Sir J. F. Horae Sabbaticae. 2 vols. 1892.
Compare, also: Atterbury, Francis, Bp of Rochester, The late B. of Ri's
Vindication of Bp Smallridge, Dr Aldrich and Himself, from the Reflections
of Oldmixon relating to the Publication of Lord Clarendon's History, 1731
(0. , in the preface to his History of England, had asserted that Clarendon's
MS was altered in some important places by Smith, Edward, of Christ Church);
and Buff, A. , Die Politik Karls I in den ersten Wochen nach seiner Flucht
von London und Lord Clarendon’s Darstellung dieser Zeit, Giessen, 1868
(intended to show Clarendon's untrustworthiness).
See, also, under Whitelocke, Bulstrode, below.
As to Clarendon's speeches, see text; as to the Clarendon State Papers,
see Sec. I, A.
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619). The Collection of the History of England. To
Stephen, 1612, reissued 1613; to Edward III, 1617; With a Continuation
of the History, unto the reign of Henry the Seventh. By John Trussell.
1685.
Trussell (d. 1642) was author of Touchstone of Tradition, an account
of Winchester antiquities, written c. 1642 and preserved among Lord
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Forde, Thomas. Virtus Rediviva: or, a Panegyrick On the late K. Charls
the I. 1660.
Points of comparison are found with all the best people in the world's
history, and of contrast with some of the bad.
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G. R. , S. J. Quarterly Series, vol. lvi. 1886.
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of the Gunpowder Plot. Ed. with his life, by Morris, J. 1871.
Godwin, Francis (Bishop of Hereford) (1562-1633). Annals of the Reign of
Queen Mary. Trans. by H[ughes), J. , from Bishop Godwin's Rerum
Anglicarum Hen. VIII, Edw. VI et Maria regn. 1616. Ptd in Kennett,
u. s. vol. 11.


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