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CHAPTER LXVIII.

PARLIAMENTARY GREAT SEAL DURING THE COMMONWEALTH

TILL THE FIRST APPOINTMENT OF LORD COMMISSIONER WHITELOCK.

Consternation of the Parliament when the Great Seal was carried to the King, page 1,

They send Writs to be sealed by Littleton, 2. Littleton's equivocal Answer, 2.

Proceedings in Parliament respecting Great Seal, 2. Ordinance against Use of

Great Seal by the King, 3. Despair of the Lawyers, 3. Plan for new Great

Seal, 3. Opposition to it, 3. Arguments for it, 4. Resolutions of the Commons

rejected by the Lords, 4. Conferences, 4. Reasons of Commons, 5. Commons

order new Great Seal to be made, 6. New Great Seal in Custody of Speaker, 7.

Perplexity of Cominons, 7. Prynne's " Opening of Great Seal of England," 7.

Committee of Commons, 8. Serjeant Wilde, 8. The Lords consent to use of

new Great Seal, 8. Ordinance, 9. Parliamentary Commissioners of Great

Seal, 9. Ceremony of swearing them in, 10. Proclamation by the King,

charging those concerned in making the new Great Seal with High Treason, 11.

Court of Chancery re-opened, 11. Origin of" Suitors' Fund" in Chancery, 11.

Activity of Serjeant Wilde, 12. Proceedings on Capture of King's Great Seal

at Oxford, 12. Self-denying Ordinance respecting the Great Seal passes

Commons, 12. Rejected by the Lords, 13. Ordinance making the Speakers

of the two Houses joint Keepers of the Great Seal, 14. Authority of the Lords

Commissioners defied by Judge Jenkins, 14.

CHAPTER LXIX.

LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE GREAT SEAL FROM THE FIRST APPOINTMENT OF WHITE-

LOCK TILL THE ADOPTION OF A NEW GREAT SEAL BEARING THE INSIGNIA OF THE

REPUBLIC.

Complaints against the two Speakers as Equity Judges, 17. Ordinance for appoint-

ing the Earl of Kent, Lord Grey de Werke, Whitelock, and Widdrington, Com-

missioners of Great Seal, 17. Reasons for writing Life of Lord Keeper

Whitelock, 18. His Origin, 18. Education, 18. Called to Bar, 19. Cir-

cuit, 19. Introduction to Noy, the Attorney General, 19. Manager of

Masque to the Queen, 20. Chairman of Quarter Sessions, 20. Takes popular

Side, 21. His Moderation, 21. Returned to Parliament, 21. His Maiden

Speech, 21. One of the Managers of Impeachment of Lord Strafford, 21.

Whitelock doubts as to the Side he ought to choose, 22. His Warning against

Civil War, 23. Takes Arms against the King, 23. He renounces Arms, 24.