History of Newcastle and Gateshead . THIRD DECADE—1621-1630. I 62 I. 18 and 19 James of Durham—Richard Neile. Mayor mid Sheriff of Nezucastle till Michaelmas:— Henry Chapman, Mayor, and Nicholas Tempest, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :— Mayor—William Jenison. Arms : Azure, a bend or, between two swans argent. Sheriff—Henry Liddell. Arms : Argent, a fret and a chief gules, the last charged with three leopards heads or. FTER governing for six years without a parliament,the king summoned both houses to assemble atWestminster in January. Newcastle was repre-sented by Si
History of Newcastle and Gateshead . THIRD DECADE—1621-1630. I 62 I. 18 and 19 James of Durham—Richard Neile. Mayor mid Sheriff of Nezucastle till Michaelmas:— Henry Chapman, Mayor, and Nicholas Tempest, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :— Mayor—William Jenison. Arms : Azure, a bend or, between two swans argent. Sheriff—Henry Liddell. Arms : Argent, a fret and a chief gules, the last charged with three leopards heads or. FTER governing for six years without a parliament,the king summoned both houses to assemble atWestminster in January. Newcastle was repre-sented by Sir Henry Anderson and Thomas Riddell,Knights. A committee on religion and supply, obtainedby Sir Robert Phillips, presented a report, directed against the policyof the court, in which popery was described as incompatible with. 236 NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD. [1621. protestantism and freedom, and the king was adjured not to cultivatefriendship with Spain, but to marry his son to one of his own admonished the Commons in his wrath not to meddle with hisstate mysteries, but to know that they had their seats, not of right,but solely of grace. The answer of the Commons was a protestasserting those rights and privileges which parliament now enjoys ;and the king, with the journals of the House before him in council,passionately tore out the record with his own hand. Phillips, andPym, and Coke, and others were cast into prison ; and, in short, thegreat war of the seventeenth century was begun. [J. C] Parliament sat a little over a year, and while it lasted two localquestions gave animation to the debates. One of them was the oft-recurring subject of the coal trade. On the 27th February thejournals of the House record the first and only reading of a billintended to throw the trade open :— An Act for the
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