"_Laird of Warriston an arrant knaue An my Soul man._"
"It was agreed that the committee of safety should consist of three-and-twenty persons, ... men try'd, and faithful to the public interest ... besides three or four others who had been the kings judges, with Warreston, Vane, Steel, and Whitlock."--(_Clarendon's History of the Rebellion_, vol. iii. p. 402).
[Illustration: Five of Hearts. The E. of Pem. in y^e H. of Com. thanks y^e Speaker for his Admission.]
[Illustration: Five of Clubs. S^r H. Mildmay beaten by a footboy a great breach of Priviledg]
[Illustration: Five of Spades. Nye and Godwin Olivers Confessors.]
[Illustration: Five of Diamonds. S^r. W. Waller looses two Armys yet getts by y^e bargaine.]
"_The E. of Pem.: in y^e H. of Com. thanks y^e Speaker for his Admission._"
On the 29th of January 1643, a letter was addressed by Members of both Houses at Oxford to the Earl of Essex. Clarendon observes "This letter was subscribed by His Highness the Prince, the Duke of York, and three-and-forty Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons, and 118 Members of the House of Commons; ... so that the numbers at London were very thin; for there were not above two-and-twenty peers, who either sat in the Parliament, or were engaged in their party; that is to say, the Earls of Northumberland, Pembroke, Essex, etc."--(_Clarendon's History of the Rebellion_, vol. ii. p. 274).
According to Clarendon, vol. ii. pp. 127-128, the Earl of Pembroke was a weak man with a great sense of his own importance, whom disappointed ambition "Got into actual rebellion, which he never intended to do."
"_Sir H. Mildmay beaten by a foot boy, a great breach of privilege._"
It is said that in the year 1642, Sir H. Mildmay got mixed up in a brawl in Fleet Street. Whether this Card alludes to that fact or not, I cannot tell. Clarendon states that Sir John Danvers and Sir H. Mildmay were the only two members of the High Court of Justice, whom the King knew besides the officers in the army.--(_Clarendon's History of the Rebellion_, vol. iii, p. 144).
In "_an ordinance appointing Commissioners for approbation of Publique Preachers_," printed by "William Du Gard and Henry Hills printers to His Highness the Lord Protector" 1653, appear the names of Dr. Thomas Goodwin and Mr. Philip Ny as Commissioners for such approbation. A copy of the pamphlet is in my possession, and it will be reprinted by the Clarendon Historical Society at an early date.