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The following curious and detailed account of the apprehenfion and trial of Lord Strafford is taken from "A Journal addreffed to the Prefby

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tery of Irvine in Scotland, by Robert Baillie, "D. D. Principal of the University of Glasgow," who was fent up to London in 1640 by the Covenanting Lords of Scotland to draw up the Articles of Impeachment against Archbishop Laud, for having made fome innovations in the service of the Church of Scotland:

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"Among many more," fays the Doctor, "I "have been an affiduous affiftant of that nation (the English), and therefore I will offer to give you fome account of a part I have heard and "feen in that notable process.

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"Westminster-hall is a room as long as broad, "if not more, than the outer-house of the High "Church of Glafgow, fuppofing the pillars were " removed. In the midst of it was erected a

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stage, like that prepared for the Affembly of Glasgow, but much more large, taking up the "breadth of the whole houfe from wall to wall, "and of the length more than a third part. On "the north end was fet a throne fort he King, "and a chair for the Prince. Before it lay a

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large woolfack, covered with green, for my "Lord Steward the Earl of Arundel. Beneath "it lay two facks for my Lord Keeper and the

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Judges, with the reft of the Chancery, all in "their red robes. Beneath this, a little table "for four or five Clerks of the Parliament, in "black gowns. Round about thefe, fome forms "covered with green frieze, whereupon the Earls "and Lords did fit, in their red robes, of the "fame fafhion, lined with the fame white ermine "skins as ye see the robes of our Lords when

they ride in Parliament; the Lords on their right fleeves having two bars of white fkins, "the Viscounts two and a half, the Earls three, "the Marquis of Winchester three and a half. "England hath no more Marquiffes; and he but

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a late upstart, a creature of Queen Elizabeth. "Hamilton goes here but among the Earls, and "that a late one. Dukes they have none in "Parliament; York, Richmond, and Bucking"ham, are but boys; Lenox goes among the "late Earls. Behind the forms where the Lords "fit, there is a bar covered with green. At the

one end stands the Committee of eight or ten "Gentlemen appointed by the House of Com"mons to purfue. At the midft there is a little "defk, where the prifoner, Strafford, ftands and "fits as he pleafes, together with his Keeper,

Sir William Balfour, the Lieutenant of the

"Tower.

"Tower. At the back of this is a desk for "Strafford's four Secretaries, who carried his

papers, and affifted him in writing and reading. At their fide is a void for witneffes to ftand; and behind them a long desk at the "wall of the room for Strafford's Counsel at "Law, fome five or fix able Lawyers, who were "not permitted to dispute in matters of fact, " but questions of right, if any should be inci"dent.

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"This is the order of the Houfe Below on "the floor, the fame that is used daily in the Higher Houfe. Upon the two fides of the "House, eaft and weft, there arose a stage of "eleven ranks of forms, the highest almost "touching the roof. Every one of thefe forms 66 went from one end of the room to the other, "and contained about forty men; the two high"eft were divided from the rest by a rail; and a "rail at every end cut off fome feats. The "Gentlemen of the Lower House fat within the "rails, others without. All the doors were kept

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very ftraitly with guards. We always behoved "to be there a little after five in the morning. "Lord Willoughby Earl of Lindfay, Lord "Chamberlain of England, (Pembroke is Cham"berlain of the Court,) ordered the House with great difficulty; James Maxwell, Black Rod,

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<< was Great Ufher; a number of other fervants, "Gentlemen and Knights, affifted; by favour

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we got place within the rail among the Com

mons. The Houfe was full daily before seven. "About eight the Earl of Strafford came in "his barge from the Tower, attended with the "Lieutenant and a guard of mufqueteers and "halberdeers. The Lords in their robes were "fet about eight. The King was ufually half ' an hour before them. He came not into his "throne, for that would have marred the action; "for it is the order of England, when the King

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appears he speaks what he will, but no other "fpeaks in his prefence. At the back of the "throne were two rooms on the two fides: in the 66 one, Duke de Vanden, Duke de Valler, and "other French Nobles fat; in the other, the

King, Queen, Princefs Mary, the Prince "Elector, and fome Court Ladies. The tirlies

that made them to be fecret the King brake "down with his own hands, fo that they fat in "the eyes of all, but little more regarded than "if they had been abfent; for the Lords fat all "covered. Thofe of the Lower Houfe, and all . other, except the French Noblemen, fat dif"covered when the Lords came, not elfe. A "number of Ladies were in the boxes above "the rails, for which they paid much money. "It was daily the most glorious Affembly the

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"Ifle could afford; yet the gravity not such as I expected; oft great clamour without about the "doors. In the interval, while Strafford was making ready for answers, the Lords got al66 ways to their feet, walked and chatted: the "Lower Housemen too loud chatting. After

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ten, much public eating, not only of confec"tions, but of flesh and bread, bottles of beer " and wine going thick from mouth to mouth "without cups, and all this in the King's eye; cc yea, many but turned their backs and let water go through the forms they fat on. There was "no outgoing to return; and oft the fitting was "till two, three, or four o'clock at night.

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"TUESDAY THE THIRTEENTH.

"The feventeenth feffion. All being fet "as before, Strafford made a fpeech large two "hours and a half, went through all the articles

but these three, which imported ftatute-treafon, "the fifteenth, twenty-first, twenty-feventh, and "others which were alledged, as he spake, for "conftructive and confequential treafon. First, "the articles bearing his words, then these "which had his counfels and deeds. To all he "repeated not new, but the best of his former

answers; and in the end, after some lashness " and fagging, he made fuch a pathetic oration "for an half hour, as ever comedian did upon "a stage.

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