orders to the contrary; persisted in that;--and at last took to weeping. What was the House to do? Adjourn for two days; and consider what to do! On the second day, which was Wednesday, Speaker Finch signified that by his Majesty's command they were again adjourned till Monday next. On Monday next, Speaker Finch, still recusant, would not put the former nor indeed any question, having the King's order to adjourn again instantly. He refused; was reprimanded, menaced; once more took to weeping; then started up to go his ways. But young Mr. Holles, Denzil Holles, the Earl of Clare's second son, he and certain other honourable members were prepared for that movement: they seized Speaker Finch, set him down in his chair, and by main force held him there! A scene of such agitation as was never seen in Parliament before. 'The House was much troubled.' 'Let him go,' cried certain Privy Councillors, Majesty's Ministers as we should now call them, who in those days sat in front of the Speaker, 'Let Mr. Speaker go!' cried they imploringly. 'No!' answered Holles; 'God's wounds, he shall sit there till it please the House to rise!' The House in a decisive though almost distracted manner, with their Speaker thus held down for them, locked their doors; redacted Three emphatic Resolutions, their Protest against Arminianism, Papistry, and illegal Tonnage and Poundage; and passed the same by acclamation; letting no man out, refusing to let even the King's Usher in; then swiftly vanishing so soon as the resolutions were passed, for they understood the soldiery was coming. For which surprising procedure, vindicated by Necessity the mother of Invention, and supreme of Lawgivers, certain honourable gentlemen, Denzil Holles, Sir John Eliot, William Strode, John Selden, and others less known to us, suffered fine, imprisonment, and much legal tribulation: nay Sir John Eliot, refusing to submit, was kept in the Tower till he died. This scene fell out on Monday, 2d of March, 1629." _T. Carlyle, Introduction to Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, chapter 4._ ALSO IN: J. Forster, Sir John Eliot: a Biography, book 10, section 6-8 (volume 2). ENGLAND: A. D. 1630. Emigration of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, with their royal charter. See MASSACHUSETTS: A. D. 1629-1630. ENGLAND: A. D. 1631. Aid to Gustavus Adolphus in Germany. See GERMANY: A. D. 1631-1632. ENGLAND: A. D: 1632. Cession of Acadia (Nova Scotia) to France. See NOVA SCOTIA (ACADIA): A. D. 1621-1668. ENGLAND: A. D. 1632. The Palatine grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore. See MARYLAND: A. D. 1632. ENGLAND: A. D. 1633-1640. The Ecclesiastical despotism of Laud.