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211:, summing up the case in the House of Lords and carrying up the ordinance for his attainder passed by the Commons in November 1644. His speech has not been preserved, but from the constant references which Laud makes to it he appears to have put the case against the archbishop in a very effective way.
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Browne's renown derives less from his work as a jurist than from his astute performance as a parliamentary manager during the critical years of the
English civil war. ... Browne's success as a parliamentary manager derived from his reputation as a man of genuine integrity. He was widely admired by
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Browne inherited from his father various small properties lying in
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and London. He also purchased the manor of Arlesey in Bedfordshire from Florence, daughter of Thomas Emery of Arlesey (died 1636), widow of Henry Goodwin in 1646 or 1649, but he must have
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The next day, 12 October 1648, he was included in the batch of twenty-two who were made
Serjeants by the parliament, when both he and his cousin St. John were also elevated to the bench, he as judge of the King's Bench, and St. John as chief justice of the Common Pleas. With the failure of the
248:, and after remaining a commissioner of the Great Seal for nearly three years, the lords commissioners were removed in October 1646, and the Great Seal transferred to the speakers of the two houses. With his workload in Parliament reduced he resumed his practice at the bar.
222:, to lay before the House of Lords the reasons which, in the opinion of the House of Commons, justified an ordinance of attainder against the archbishop. This had already been passed by the Commons, and the Lords immediately followed suit.
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The commoners appointed as commissioner of the Great Seal still continued to perform their other parliamentary functions. Lord
Commissioner Browne was most active in the proceedings against
165:, in the Long Parliament of November 1640. He appears to have had no connection with the constituency before he was elected and he may have gained it through the patronage of his cousin
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133:, and it is not always possible to identify which of the Brownes made a statement on the subject. Although he is often associated with parliamentary radicals, his position like other "
263:), the House of Commons, after voting the king's terms unsatisfactory, resolved "that notice be taken of the extraordinary wise management of this treaty by the commissioners".
137:" was that they wanted more tolerance of other Protestant creeds than King Charles was willing to allow, and so Browne took up arms to force the King into toleration (see also
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and a lawyer for the company. Browne along with John Browne, member for Dorset, and
Richard Browne member for New Romney, were all zealous about matters of religion in the
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271:), the House of Commons resolved to try King Charles for treason, Browne with five of his colleagues, resigned their seats on the bench rather than participate in the
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Justice of the Peace in Essex, his wife's county, however, and had been named in 1630 for the sewers commission in Bedfordshire.
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and his time of sitting on the
Committee of Both Kingdoms came to an end. He was also sent as one of the commissioners to treat with the king in the
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been living in it before that date as in 1644 he complained that
Arlesley was used for quartering troops, and he procured an order for their removal.
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Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660".
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laid before the king at Oxford, which came to nothing. Around the same time he joined the newly formed
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on 28 October 1616, where he was called to the Bar in October 1623, and elected reader in Autumn 1642.
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moderates and radicals alike for his intelligence, his learning, and his consummate professionalism.
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Keeler, Mary Frear (1954). "The Long Parliament, 1640-1641: a biographical study of its members".
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Samuel Browne, was born about the year 1598 and was the eldest son of a vicar, Nicholas Browne of
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Hart, James S. Jr. (2004). "Browne, Sir Samuel (b. in or before 1598, d. 1668)".
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Newport negotiations (and the reconstitution of the House of Commons by
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Browne married Elizabeth, daughter of John Meade, of Nortofts,
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