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LONDON:
SPOTTISWOODE and SHAW, New-street-Square.
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LORD KEEPERS OF THE
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.