That the said Earl of Strafford, in the Term of holy Trinity, in the Thirteenth Year of His now Majesties Reign, did cause a Case, com∣monly called The Case of Tenures upon defective Titles, to be made and drawn up without any Iury or Tryal, or other Legal Process, and without the consent of Parties, and did then procure the Iudges of the said Realm of Ireland, to deliver their Opinions and Resolu∣tions to that case, and by colour of such Opinion, did without any Legal procéeding, cause Thomas Lord Dillon, a Péer of the said Realm of Ireland, to be put out of the possession of divers Lands and Tene∣ments, being his Fréehold in the Country of Mayo and Roscomen, in the said Kingdom, and divers other of His Majesties Subjects to be put out of Possession, and disseised of their Fréehold by colour of the same Resolution, without Legal proceedings, whereby many hundreds of His Majesties Subjects were undone, and their Families utterly ruinated.
The Tryal of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon an impeachment of high treason by the Commons then assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and of all the Commons in England, begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640, and continued before judgment was given until the 10th of May, 1641 shewing the form of parliamentary proceedings in an impeachment of treason : to which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both houses of Parliament, precedent, concomitant, and subsequent to the said tryal : with some special arguments in law relating to a bill of attainder / faithfully collected, and impartially published, without observation or reflection, by John Rushworth of Lincolnes-Inn, Esq.
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- The Tryal of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon an impeachment of high treason by the Commons then assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and of all the Commons in England, begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640, and continued before judgment was given until the 10th of May, 1641 shewing the form of parliamentary proceedings in an impeachment of treason : to which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both houses of Parliament, precedent, concomitant, and subsequent to the said tryal : with some special arguments in law relating to a bill of attainder / faithfully collected, and impartially published, without observation or reflection, by John Rushworth of Lincolnes-Inn, Esq.
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- Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641, defendant.
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- 1680.
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- Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, -- Earl of, 1593-1641.
- Trials (Impeachment) -- England.
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"The Tryal of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, upon an impeachment of high treason by the Commons then assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and of all the Commons in England, begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640, and continued before judgment was given until the 10th of May, 1641 shewing the form of parliamentary proceedings in an impeachment of treason : to which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both houses of Parliament, precedent, concomitant, and subsequent to the said tryal : with some special arguments in law relating to a bill of attainder / faithfully collected, and impartially published, without observation or reflection, by John Rushworth of Lincolnes-Inn, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57925.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2025.
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