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See also:LENTHALL, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1591-1662) , See also:English parliamentarian, See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, second son of William Lenthall, of Lachford, See also:Oxfordshire, a descendent of an old See also:Herefordshire See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Henley-on-See also:Thames in See also:June 1591. He See also:left See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford without taking a degree in 1609, and, was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1616, becoming a bencher in 1633. He represented See also:Woodstock in the See also:Short See also:Parliament (See also:April 1640), and was chosen by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles I. to be speaker of the See also:Long Parliament, which met on the 3rd of See also:November 1640. According to See also:Clarendon, a worse choice could not have been made, for Lenthall was of a " very timorous nature." He was treated with scanty respect in the See also:chair, and seems to have had little See also:control over the proceedings. On the 4th of See also:January 1642, however, when the king entered the House of Commons to seize the five members, Lenthall behaved with See also:great prudence and dignity. Having taken the speaker's chair and looked See also:round in vain to discover the offending members, Charles turned to Lenthall See also:standing below, and demanded of him " whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he. saw any of them and where they were." Lenthall See also:fell on his knees and replied:
May it please your See also:Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor See also:tongue to speak in this See also:place but as the House is pleased to See also:direct me, whose servant I am here." On the outbreak of the great See also:rebellion, Lenthall threw in his See also:lot with the parliament. He had already called See also:attention to the inadequacy of his See also:salary and been granted a sum of £6000 (9th of April 1642); and he was now appointed See also:master of the rolls (22nd of November 1643), and one of the commissioners of the great See also:seal (Oct. 1646-See also:March 1648).
He carried on his duties as speaker without interruption till 1647, when the See also:power of the parliament had been transferred to the See also:army. On the 26th of See also:July a See also:mob invaded the House of Commons and obliged it to rescind the See also:ordinance re-establishing the old See also:parliamentary See also:committee of See also:militia; Lenthall was held in the chair by See also:main force and compelled to put to the See also:vote a See also:resolution inviting the king to See also:London. Threats of worse things came subsequently to Lenthall's ears, and, taking the See also:mace with him, he left London on the 29th to join the army and See also:Fairfax. Lenthall and See also:Manchester, the speaker of the Lords, headed the fugitive members at the See also:review on See also:Hounslow See also:Heath on the 3rd of See also:August, being received by the soldiers " as so many angels sent from See also:heaven for their See also:good." Returning to London with the army, he was installed again by Fairfax in the chair (6th August), and all votes passed during his See also:absence were annulled. He adhered henceforth to the army party, but with a See also:constant See also:bias in favour of the king.
At the Restoration he claimed to have sent See also:money to the king at Oxford, to have provided the See also:queen with comforts and necessaries and to have taken care of the royal See also:children. But he put the question for the king's trial from the chair, and continued to See also:act as speaker after the king's See also:execution. He still continued to use his See also:influence in favour of the royalists, whenever this was possible without imperilling his own interests, and he saved the lives of both the See also:earl of See also:Norwich (8th March 1649) and See also:Sir W. D'Avenant (3rd July 165o) by his casting vote. The, removal of the king had left the parliament supreme; and Lenthall as its representative, though holding little real power, was the first See also:man in the See also:state.
His speakership continued till the loth of April 1653, when the Long Parliament was summarily expelled. See also:Cromwell directed See also:Colonel See also:Harrison, on the refusal of Lenthall to quit the chair, to pull him out—and Lenthall submitted to the show of force. He took no See also:part in politics till the assembling of the first See also:protectorate parliament, on the 3rd of See also:September 1654, in which he sat as member for Oxfordshire. He was again chosen speaker, his former experience and his pliability of See also:character being his See also:chief recommendations. In the second protectorate parliament, summoned by Cromwell on the 17th of September 1656, Lenthall was again chosen member for Oxfordshire, but had some difficultyin obtaining See also:admission; and was not re-elected speaker. He supported Cromwell's See also:administration, and was active in urging the See also:protector to take the See also:title of king. In spite of his services, Lenthall was not included by Cromwell in his new House of Lords, and was much disappointed and crestfallen at his omission. The protector, See also:hearing of his " grievous complaint," sent him a See also:writ, and Lenthall was elated at believing he had secured a See also:peerage. After Cromwell's See also:death, the See also:officers, having determined to recall the Rump " Parliament, assembled at Lenthall's house at the Rolls (6th May 1659), to See also:desire him to send out the writs. Lenthall, however, had no wish to resume his duties as speaker, preferring the House of Lords, and made various excuses for not complying. Nevertheless, upon the officers threatening to. summon the parliament without his aid, and hearing the next See also:morning that several members had assembled, he led the procession to the parliament house. Lenthall was now restored to the position of dignity which he had filled before. He was temporarily made keeper of the new great seal (14th of May). On the 6th of June it was voted that all commissions should be signed by Lenthall and not by the See also:commander-in-chief. His exalted position, however, was not left long unassailed. On the 13th of See also:October See also:Lambert placed soldiers round the House and prevented the members from assembling. Lenthall's See also:coach was stopped as he was entering See also:Palace Yard, the mace was seized and he was obliged to return. The army, however, soon returned to their See also:allegiance to the parliament.
On the 24th of See also:December they marched to Lenthall's house, and expressed their sorrow. On the 29th the speaker received the thanks of the reassembled parliament.
Lenthall now turned his attention to bring about the Restoration. He " very violently " opposed the See also:oath abjuring the house of See also:Stuart, now sought to be imposed by the republican See also:faction on the parliament, and absented himself from the House for ten days, to avoid, it was said, any responsibility for the See also:bill. He had been in communication with See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and on Monk entering London with his army (3rd See also:February 166o) Lenthall met him in front of See also:Somerset House. On the 6th of February Monk visited the House of Commons, when Lenthall pronounced a speech of thanks. On the 28th of March Lenthall forwarded to the king a See also:paper containing " Heads of See also:Advice." According to Monk, he was very active for the restoring of His Majesty and performed many services . . . which could not have been soe well effected without his helpe." Lenthall notwithstanding found himself in disgrace at the Restoration. In spite of Monk's recommendation, he was not elected by Oxford University for the See also:Convention Parliament, nor was he allowed by the king, though he had sent him a See also:present of £3000, to remain master of the rolls. On the 11th of June he was included by the House of Commons, in spite of a recommendatory See also:letter from Monk, among the twenty persons excepted from the act of See also:indemnity and subject to penalties not extending to See also:life. In the House of Lords, however, Monk's testimony and intercession were effectual, and Lenthall was only declared incapable of holding for the future any public See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. His last public act was a disgraceful one. Unmindful now of the privileges of parliament,. he consented to appear as a See also:witness against the See also:regicide See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Scot, for words spoken in the House of Commons while Lenthall was in the chair. It was probably after this that he was allowed to present himself at See also:court, and his contemporaries took a malicious See also:glee in telling how " when, with some difficulty, he obtained leave to See also:kiss the king's See also:hand he, out of See also:guilt, fell backward, as he was kneeling."
Lenthall died on the 3rd of September 1662. In his will he desired to be buried without any state and without a See also:monument, " but at the utmost a See also:plain See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone with this superscription only, Vermis sum, acknowledging myself to be unworthy of the least outward regard in this See also:world and unworthy of any remembrance that See also:bath been so great a sinner." He was held in little See also:honour by his contemporaries, and was universally regarded as a time= server. He was, however, a man of good intentions, strong family affections and considerable ability. Unfortunately he was called by the See also:irony of See also:fate to fill a great office, in which.
governed constantly by fears for his See also:person and See also:estate, he was seduced into a See also:series of unworthy actions. He left one son, Sir See also:John Lenthall, who had descendants. His See also:brother, Sir John Lenthall, who, it was said, had too much influence with him, was notorious for his extortions as keeper of the King's See also:Bench See also:prison.
See C. H. See also:Firth in the See also:Diet. Nat. Biog.; See also:Wood (ed. See also:Bliss), See also:Ath. Oxon. iii. 603, who gives a See also:list of his printed speeches and letters; See also:Foss, Lives of the See also:Judges, vi. 447; and J. A. See also:Manning, Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons. There are numerous references to Lenthall in his See also:official capacity, and letters written by and to him, in the See also:Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, and in various See also:MSS. calendared in the Hist. MSS. See also:Commission Series. See also D'Ewes's See also:Diary, in the Harleian Collection, See also:British Museum, some extracts from which have been given by J. See also:Forster, See also:Case of the Five Members, 233 sq.; and Notes and Queries, See also:ser. iii., vii. 45 (" Lenthall's Lamentation "), viii., i. 165, 338, 2, ix., xi. 57.
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