Then came baronets, knights, clergymen, squires, merchants, yeomen, artisans, women, children.
No investigation was made.

Any member who wished to rid himself of a creditor, a rival, a private enemy, gave in the name to the clerk at the table, and it was generally inserted without discussion.

The only debate of which any account has come down to us related to the Earl of Strafford.

He had friends in the House who ventured to offer something in his favour.

But a few words from Simon Luttrell settled the question.
"I have," he said, "heard the King say some hard things of that lord." This was thought sufficient, and the name of Strafford stands fifth in the long table of the proscribed, [229] Days were fixed before which those whose names were on the list were required to surrender themselves to such justice as was then administered to English Protestants in Dublin.