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<P><ADD>The Manner of Impeachment of the Twelve Bishops<LB>
1641</ADD></P>
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<HEAD><ADD>The 12 Bishops</ADD></HEAD>
<ITEM><ADD>Jo. Abp of York</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Ths. Bp of Durham</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Joseph Bp of Norwich</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Rob. B. of Coventry &amp; Litchfield</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>John B. of St. Asaph</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>W^m B. of Bath &amp; Wells</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Geo. B. of Hereford</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Matthew B. of Ely</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Rob^t. B. of Oxford</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Godfrey B. of Glocester</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>John B. of Peterborough</ADD></ITEM>
<ITEM><ADD>Morgan B. of Llandaff</ADD></ITEM>
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The manner of the Impeachment of the 12 Bi&s;hops, accu&s;ed of High Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>For preferring a Petition and making a Prote&s;tation to the &s;ubverting of the Fundamentall Lawes, and being of Parliaments.</P>
<P>Wherunto is added the &s;aid petition and Remon&s;trance of the &s;aids Bi&s;hops.</P>
<P>Printed at <HI>London,</HI> and re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="historical account">
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<P>THe Hou&s;e of Lords was plea&s;ed on the 10. of December, to &s;end a me&s;&s;age to the Hou&s;e of Commons by Sir <HI>John Bankes,</HI> and Judge <HI>Reeves,</HI> to de&s;ire a pre&s;ent conference by a Committee of both Hou&s;es, touching matters of dan|gerous and high con&s;equence.</P>
<P>And at the conference, the Lord Keeper in the name of the Hou&s;e of Peeres delivered, as followeth.</P>
<P>That this Petition and Prote&s;tation of the twelve Bi&s;hops, containing matter of high and dangerous con|&s;equence, and &s;uch as my Lords are very &s;en&s;ible of, and &s;uch as require a &s;peedy and &s;udden re&s;olution: It extending to the deep intrinching upon the funda|mentall priviledges and being of Parliaments. There|fore the Lords have thought fit, that this matter con|cerning the whole Parliament may be communicated to the Hou&s;e of Commons; it being a thing of &s;o great and &s;o generall concernment.</P>
<P>This being thus communicated to the Hou&s;e of Commons, they came to this re&s;olution, to accu&s;e the&s;e twelve Bi&s;hops of high Trea&s;on, for indeavour|ing to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Laws and being of Parliaments.</P>
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And Ma&s;ter <HI>Glynne</HI> was ordered to go to the Lords, and at their barre in the name of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons and all the Commons of England, to accu&s;e the&s;e twelve prelats of high Trea&s;on, for indeavour|ing to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Lawes of the Realme, and the very being of Parliaments manife&s;ted by pre|ferring that Petition and Prote&s;tation: and to de&s;ire the Lords that they may bee forthwith &s;eque&s;tred from Parliament, and put into &s;afe cu&s;tody, and that their Lord&s;hips would appoint a &s;peedy day for the Commons to charge them, and they to an&s;wer for that, the Commons were ready to make good their charge.</P>
<P>He was further ordered, to give the Lords thanks for communicating this Petition, with &s;o much affection and &s;peed, and for expre&s;&s;ing their &s;en&s;e thereof.</P>
<P>After Ma&s;ter <HI>Glynne</HI> had delivered this at the barre, the Lords &s;ent the Black Rod in&s;tantly to finde out the&s;e Bi&s;hops and apprehend them: and by eight of the clock at night they were all taken and brought upon their knees to the barre; and ten of them committed to the Towre, and two (in regard of their age, and in|deed of the worthy parts of one of them, the learned Bi&s;hop of <HI>Durham</HI>) were committed to the Blak Rod.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="petition">
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<HEAD>To the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, and the Lords and Peeres now a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition and Prote&s;tation of all the Bi&s;hops and Prelates now called by his Maje&s;ties Writs, to attend the Parliament and pre&s;ent about London and We&s;tmin&s;ter for that &s;ervice.</HEAD>
<P>THat whereas the Petitioners are called up by &s;everall and re&s;pective Writs, and under great penulties, to attend in Parliament: and have a clear and undubitate right to Vote in Bills, and other matters what&s;oever debetable in Parliament, by the ancient cu&s;tomes, Laws, and &s;tatutes of this Realme, and ought to be protected by your Maje&s;ty, quietly to attend and pro&s;ecute that great &s;ervice.</P>
<P>They humbly remon&s;trate and prote&s;t before God, your Maje&s;tie, and the noble Lords and Peeres now a&s;|&s;embled in Parliament; that as they have an undubi|tate right to &s;it and vote in the Hou&s;e of the Lords, &s;o are they (if they be protected from force &amp; violence) mo&s;t ready and willing to performe their duties ac|cordingly. And that they doe abhominate all actions or opinions tending to Poperie, and the maintenance thereof: As al&s;o, all propention and inclination to
<PB N="3" REF="6">any malignant party, or any other &s;ect or party what|&s;oever, to the which, their own rea&s;ons, and con&s;cien|ces, &s;hall not move them to adhere.</P>
<P>But whereas they have been at &s;everall times vio|lently mana&s;&s;ed, affronted, and a&s;&s;aulted by multi|tudes of people, in their coming to perform their &s;er|vices in that honourable Hou&s;e, and lately cha&s;ed a|way and put in danger of their lives, and can finde no redre&s;&s;e for protection, upon &s;undry complaints made to both Hou&s;es in the&s;e particulars.</P>
<P>They likewi&s;e humbly prote&s;t before your Maje&s;ty, and the noble Hou&s;e of Peeres, that &s;aving unto them|&s;elves all their rights and interi&s;ts of &s;itting and voting in that hou&s;e at other times. They dare not &s;it or vote in the Hou&s;e of Peeres, untill your Maje&s;ty &s;hall fur|ther &s;ecure them from all affronts, indignities, and dan|gers in the premi&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, whereas their fears are not built upon fan|ta&s;ies or conceits, but upon &s;uch grounds and objects as may well terrifie men of good re&s;olutions, and much con&s;tancie. They do in all duty and humility prote&s;t before your Maje&s;ty, and the Peeres of that mo&s;t ho|nourable Hou&s;e of Parliament, again&s;t all Lawes, or|ders, votes, re&s;oluitons, and determinations, as in them&s;elves null, and of no effect, which in their ab&s;ence &s;ince the twenty &s;eventh of this in&s;tant moneth of De|cember, 1641 yeares, have already pa&s;&s;ed: as likewi&s;e again&s;t all &s;uch as &s;hall hereafter pa&s;&s;e in that mo&s;t ho|nourable Hou&s;e, during the time of this their forced &amp;
<PB N="5" REF="6">violent ab&s;ence from the &s;aid mo&s;t Hon: Hou&s;e, not denying: but if the ab&s;enting of them&s;elves were wil|full and voluntary, that mo&s;t honourable Hou&s;e might proceed in all the&s;e premi&s;&s;es, their ab&s;ence for this their Prote&s;tation notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And humbly be&s;eeching your mo&s;t excellent Ma|je&s;ty to command the Clerk of that Hou&s;e of Peeres to enter this their Petition and Prote&s;tation among&s;t his Records.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>They will ever pray to God to ble&s;&s;e and pre&s;erve, &amp;c.
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<ITEM>Jo: Eborac.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas, Dure&s;me.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert. Co: Lich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;: Norwitch,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo: A&s;aphen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Guil. Ba: &amp; Wells.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Geo: Hereford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert: Oxon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma: Ely.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Godfr. Glouc.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Peterburg.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mor: Llandaff.</ITEM>
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<P>&V;era Copia,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Jo: Brown</HI> Cleric. Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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