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STRODE, WILLIAM (1598-1645)

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STRODE, See also:WILLIAM (1598-1645) , See also:English parliamentarian, second son of See also:Sir William Strode, of Newnham, See also:Devonshire (a member of an See also:ancient See also:family See also:long established in that See also:county, which became See also:extinct in 1897), and of See also:Mary, daughter of See also:Thomas Southcote of Bovey Tracey in Devonshire, was See also:born in 1598. He was admitted as a student of the Inner See also:Temple in 1614, matriculated at See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1617, and took the degree of B.A. in 1619. He was returned to See also:parliament in 1624 for Beeralston, and represented the See also:borough in all succeeding parliaments till his See also:death. He from the first threw himself into opposition to See also:Charles I. and took a leading See also:part in the disorderly See also:scene of the 2nd of See also:March 1629, when the See also:speaker, Sir See also:John See also:Finch, refusing to put the See also:resolution of Sir J. See also:Eliot against arbitrary See also:taxation and innovations in See also:religion, was held down in the See also:chair (see See also:HOLLES, DENZIL). Prosecuted before the See also:star chamber, he refused " to See also:answer anything done in the See also:House of Parliament but in that House." On the 7th of May a fresh See also:warrant was issued, and a See also:month later, to prevent his See also:release on See also:bail, he was sent by Charles with two of his See also:fellow members to the See also:Tower. Refusing to give a See also:bond for his See also:good behaviour, he was sentenced to imprisonment during the See also:king's See also:pleasure, and was kept in confinement in various prisons for eleven years. In See also:January 164o, in accordance with the king's new policy of moderation, he was liberated; and on the 13th of See also:April took his seat in the See also:Short Parliament, with a mind embittered by the sense of his wrongs. In the Long Parliament, which met on the 3rd of See also:November 1640, he was the first to propose the See also:control by parliament over ministerial appointments, the See also:militia, and its own duration; supported the See also:Grand Remonstrance of the 7th of November 1641; and displayed a violent zeal in pursuing the See also:prosecution of See also:Strafford, actually proposing that all who appeared as the prisoner's counsel should be " charged as conspirators in the same See also:treason." As a result he was included among the five members impeached by Charles of high treason on the 3rd of January 1642. (See See also:PYM, JOHN; ELIOT, SIR JOHN; See also:HAMPDEN, JOHN; HESIBRIGE, SIR See also:ARTHUR; and CHARLES I.). He opposed all suggestions of See also:compromise with Charles, urged on the preparations for See also:war, and on the 23rd of See also:October was See also:present at the See also:battle of Edgehill. In the prosecution of See also:Laud he showed the same relentless zeal as he had in that of Strafford, and it was he who, on the 28th of November 1644, carried up the See also:message from the See also:Commons to the Lords, desiring them to hasten on the See also:ordinance for the See also:archbishop's See also:execution.

Strode did not long survive his victim. He is mentioned as having been elected a member of the See also:

assembly of divines on the 31st of January 1645. He died on the 9th of See also:September of the same See also:year, and by See also:order of parliament was accorded a public funeral in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. The See also:body was exhumed after the Restoration. Strode was a See also:man of strong See also:character, but of narrow, though clear and decided See also:judgment, both his good and his See also:bad qualities being exaggerated by the wrongs he had suffered: See also:Clarendon speaks of him as a man " of See also:low See also:account and esteem," who only gained his reputation by his accidental association with those greater than himself; but to his own party his " insuperable constancie " gave him a See also:title to See also:rank with those who had, at a See also:time when the liberties of See also:England hung in the .,glance, deserved best of their See also:country. The identity of the W. Strode imprisoned in 1628 and of the W. Strode impeached in 1642 has been questioned, but is now established (J. See also:Forster, See also:Arrest of the Five Members, p 198, See also:note; See also:Life of Sir J. Eliot, ed. 1872, ii. 237, note; J.

L. Sanford, Studies, p. 397 See also:

Gardiner, Hist. of England, ix. 223). On the other See also:hand he is to be distinguished from See also:Colonel Wm. Strode of See also:Barrington, also parliamentarian and M.P., who died in 1666; and from William Strode (1602 or 1600-1645), the orator, poet and dramatist, whose poetical See also:works were edited, with a memoir, by See also:Bertram See also:Dobell in 1907.

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