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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 203

Sir  Roger Twysdens Journal from the Roydon Hall MSS

as upon Wensday at noone, old Sr Henry Palmer asking me, I told hym truly I did not know.
   26. Yet, that very day, towards night, Sr Edward Dering and his associates came to the Judge wth certayn bills of ye Assize, and, wthall, acquaynted hym and the rest of ye Bench the wishes of divers were to petition the Parlnt from these Assizes, as other parts had done; that if we yt sate there were willing to joyn wth them they should goe forward, otherwise leave it of. To wch Mr. Justice Mallet made answer, this was that did not at all concerne him as Judge of th' Assize, that he would leave them to consider of it wth ye Justices of the Peace, and so, having no partner, went immediately to try causes in the other Court, the others easyly assenting to ye motion, and he after was committed to ye Tower for not opposing it.1
   27. Amongst us, the question grewe, who should draw this Petition. It was concluded (truly upon my motion) the Grand Jury should nominate some of ye Bench, and they some of ye Grand Jury, to consider and doe it. Upon wch, such as were chosen of eyther side went together in a private lodging, of well number I myselfe was one, where were presented unto us divers heads, of wch some were approved, some corrected, others expunged. I remember that in the second period, "for ye children of Papists to have beene brought up in the reformed religion," to have beene added on Sr John Sedley's motion (perhaps the hardest and least justifiable
  1  "This Petition," says Clarendon, " was communicated by many to their friends, and copies thereof sent abroad before the Subscription was ready, whereupon the House of Peers took notice of it, as tending to some commotion in Kent; and in the Debate, the Earl of Bristol taking notice that he had seen a Copy of it, and had had some conference about it with Judge Mallet,' who was then Judge of Assize in Kent, and newly return'd out of his Circuit, both the Earl and the Judge, for having but seen the Petition, were presently committed to the Tower, and a Declaration published, ' that none should presume to deliver that, or the like Petition, to either House.' " (Clarendon's ' Hist, of the Rebellion,' book v. p. 382, folio edit. 1704.)—ED.

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