Thus, two out of the five lists, by adding which Harris makes up his 2,461 attaints, are not lists of attainders at all, and one of them should be rather deducted from one of the three lists of real attaints.
King's next charge is, that the attainders of many peers were reversed to admit them.
The strength of the nobility had been grievously impaired by the bloodshed of the civil wars, and the attainders that followed them.
They knew what havoc had been made among their fathers, by multiplied attainders during the rivalry of the two Roses.
Attainders for these felonies shall not work corruption of the blood [heirs may inherit the property of the felon].
Most attainders were reversed as a term of peace made between competing factions.
After this second misfortune of the French, the English barons hastened every where to make peace with the protector, and, by an easy submission, to prevent those attainders to which they were exposed on account of their rebellion.
The attainders of lord Russel, Algernon Sidney, alderman Cornish, and lady Lisle, were now reversed.
They observed that attainders by bill constituted the most rigorous part of the law; and that the stretching of it ought to be avoided.
But still more than by the passing of attainders were the lives, liberties, and property of the nobles submitted to the will of the king, by the institution of the Court of the Star Chamber.
He issued a long list of attainders to exhaust the resources of his opponents and increase those of his adherents.
They came to the conclusion that the attainted members could not take their seats till their attainders were reversed, and a bill was passed by the remaining members accordingly.
The attainders against the great Earl of Lancaster were of course reversed, and the confiscation of the estates of the Despencer, afforded some very pretty pickings to the party that was now dominant.
Gloucester did not suffer the Parliament to dissolve without an order for the expulsion of the Bohemians who attended the queen, or without passing acts to incapacitate the king from reversing the attainders which they had issued.
He immediately moved the repeal of all the acts which had been levelled at his family and partisans during the late reign, and had the attainders of the Earls of Arundel and Warwick reversed.
Records were made away with or altered, so that of seven attainders affecting the Crown's title to land, not one could be proved by documentary evidence.
In one letter in the 'Plumpton Correspondence,' the dislike of Henry's illegal attaindersis referred to, but with bated breath.
The year 1739 witnessed the revival of the Jacobite Association, which had been annihilated by the attainders and exiles of its members after the last Rebellion.
Footnote 384: The Acts which reversed the attainders of Russell Sidney, Cornish, and Alice Lisle were private Acts.
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