FOOTNOTES:
[68] According to an act passed in the first year of George I. (1717), Parliaments now sit for seven years, unless previously dissolved by the crown.
[69] The statute abolishing the arbitrary courts contained a clause, that any person imprisoned by the command or warrant of the king, or any of his council, should be entitled to a writ of Habeas Corpus from the Courts of King’s Bench or Common Pleas, without delay on any pretence whatsoever.—See p. 16.
[70] May, L. P., 75.
[71] Warwick, Memoirs, 177.
[72] Lingard, vii. 283, from Nalson.
[73] The suspicion against the queen was revived at the Restoration by the extraordinary exertions she then made to procure for Antrim the restoration of the estates forfeited by his treasonable help to Cromwell. It was supposed he knew some dark secret; and the only other motive her apologist suggests was certainly inadequate. See Carte’s Ormond, 277–293.
[74] Godwin, ii.
[76] Forster’s Grand Remonstrance; Warwick’s Mem.
[77] Ludlow, i. 19.
[78] Charles Louis, p. 14.
[79] Forster, Five Members.
[80] Hallam, Const. Hist. i. p. 552.
[81] Clar. Mem. 114.
[82] Clar. Mem. 134.
[83] Hallam, i. 537.
[84] May, 139.
[85] May, 134.
[86] Forster, B. S. iii. 50.
[87] Clar. Mem. 160.