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Page 152
... Waller took , and spoke every day with impunity against the sense and proceedings of the House . " Waller , as he continued to sit , was one of the commissioners nominated by the Parliament to treat with the King at Oxford ; and when ...
... Waller took , and spoke every day with impunity against the sense and proceedings of the House . " Waller , as he continued to sit , was one of the commissioners nominated by the Parliament to treat with the King at Oxford ; and when ...
Page 154
... Waller , which was an act purely civil , they compounded a horrid and dreadful plot . The discovery of Waller's design is variously related . In Clarendon's History it is told that a servant of Tomkyns , lurking behind the hangings when ...
... Waller , which was an act purely civil , they compounded a horrid and dreadful plot . The discovery of Waller's design is variously related . In Clarendon's History it is told that a servant of Tomkyns , lurking behind the hangings when ...
Page 157
... Waller having had a conference with the Lord Portland in an upper room , Lord Portland said , when he came down , " Do me the favour to tell my Lord Northumberland that Mr. Waller has extremely pressed me to save my own life and his ...
... Waller having had a conference with the Lord Portland in an upper room , Lord Portland said , when he came down , " Do me the favour to tell my Lord Northumberland that Mr. Waller has extremely pressed me to save my own life and his ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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