Excerpt from The Fairfax Correspondence, Vol. 1 of 2: Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the FirstFairfax mss.-epitaph on James the First, by Edward Fairfax, the Poet - Accession of Charles the First - Dissolution of the Old Par liament - General Election - Sir Thomas Fairfax and Sir Thomas Wentworth stand for Yorkshire - Correspondence connected with the election-sir Thomas Fairfax's Letter to the Lord President - Sir George Wentworth to Sir T. Fairfax - Sir Thomas Wentworth to the same - Sir T. Wentworth returned - Sir T. Fairfax buys a Peerage -his Letters to Lord Colville - The Plague rages - Adjournment of the Parliament to Oxford - The Lord Keeper's warning to the King and Buckingham on its Dissolution - Admiral Pennington - His refusal to deliver up the English Ships - Sir Ferdinand Gorge Empty Exchequer - Necessity for speedily re-assembling Parliament - The enmity between the Duke and the Lord Keeper - Lord Keeper resigns the Seals - Sir Thomas Coventry succeeds - The Parliament re-as sembles - Sir Ferdinando Fairfax again returned to Parliament Letters to his Father - The King nominates Seven Sheriffs - Struggle against their selection - Sir E. Coke objects to the Sheriff 's Oath Proclamations against Papacy - The Coronation - Omens of future evil-laud assists at the Coronation to the exclusion of Williams The Parliament reassembles - King's peremptory Messages - Dr. Tur ner's impeachment of Buckingham - The King's Anger - He sum monses both Houses to Whitehall - His severity to the Commons Buckingham's explanation to the House - The Cause of Causes - The Earl of Bristol - Charges against the Duke - Buckingham likened to Sejanus - The King interferes - Sir Dudley Digges and Sir John Eliot committed to the Tower - Buckingham, Chancellor of Cambridge Imprisonment of the Earl of Arundel offends the Lords - The King dissolves the Parliament - Remonstrance of the Commons - Lord Arundel again imprisoned - Earl of Bristol re-committed to the Tower.
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