Excerpt from Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments, Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618, and Ending the Fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629: Digested in Order of Time Relations, building and battering Cafiles in'the Air; publilhing Speeches as fpoken in Parliament, which were never lpoken there; Printing Declara tions which were never palled, relating Battels which Were never fought, and Vie'tories which were never obtained 5 difperfing Letters which were never writ by the Authors; together with many luch Contrivances, to' abet a Party or Inte refi. Pudot hac opprohria. Such practifes, and the experience I had thereof, and the impollibility for any man in After-ages to ground a true Hillo ry, by relying on the Printed Pamphlets in our days, which palled the Pt'efs whillt it was without con trol, obliged me to all the pains and charge I have been at for many years together, to make a great Colleiiion; and whillt things were frelh in memo Ly, to feparate Truth from Fallhood things re al from things fictitious or imaginary. Whereof I {hall not at all repent, if I may but prove an or dinary Infirument to. Undeceive thole 'that come after us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.