"May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, in this place, but as the house is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and I humbly ask pardon that I cannot give any other answer to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me."
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Response to King Charles I on being asked the whereabouts of five fugitive members of the House of Commons (4 January 1642), from the journal of Sir Simonds d'Ewes, quoted in Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England : From the Norman conquest, in 1066. To the year, 1803 (1807), p. 1010.
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William Lenthall
1640 – 1653
William Lenthall (1591 – 9 November 1662) was an English politician during the period of the English Civil War, and Speaker of the House of Commons in the Long Parliament (1640–1653).
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