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return the names of such as refused, or diV
covered a disposition to delay the payment of
the sums imposed. This assessment of the
general-Loan did not pass currently with the
people, for divers persons refused to subscribe
or lend at the rale proposed; the pon-subscribers of high runk in all counties were bound
over by recognizances to tender their appearance ar the Council-board, and performed the
same accordingly, and divers of them committed
to prison: which caused great murmuring.
But amongst those many gentlemen who were
imprisoned throughout England, for refusing
to lend upon the Commission of Loans, only
five of them brought their Habeas Corpus, viz.
sir Thomas Darnel, s»ir John Corbet, sir Walter
Earl, sir John lleveningham, and sir Edmund
Hampden.
ARGUMENTS
UPON THE HABEAS CORPUS.
A. D.
THE king having deprived himself of the prospect of all parliamentary Aids, by dissolving
the parliament, and yet resolving to prosccute
the war; it Was necessary to project all possible ways and means of raising money; to
which end letters were sent to the Lords Lieutenants of the counties, to return the names of
the persons of ability, and wjiat sums they could
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors
