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The leading Parliamentary politician John Pym of the reign of Charles I of Great Britain was prominent particularly for his House of Commons speeches, in the early years of the king’s reign, and during the years from 1640 to 1643, which saw Pym’s death. He spoke over 90 times in 1628, the initial year of the 3rd Parliament of Charles I.[1]
Not a natural or fluent speaker, Pym wrote out his important speeches, otherwise usually making short interventions. Passages from his notes were often reused in parliamentary reports.[2] Of his style, Thomas Carlyle wrote: the “constitutional eloquence of the admirable Pym” was “heavy as lead, barren as brick-clay”.[3] The convention of the period was that speeches in parliament were not reported, but for a period of over a year from the start of 1640 that convention was very widely flouted.[4]
Short Parliament
At the start of business in the Short Parliament, Pym gave what Noel Malcolm has called a “famous speech”, on 17 April 1640, covering “points of regal power”.[5] It followed an introductory address by Francis Rous, which provided an anti-Catholic rationale for the compilation of grievances.[2]
John Philipps Kenyon described it as being concerned “rather laboriously, to tabulate grievances in a way familiar in previous Stuart parliaments” relating to “the interaction of government and people.”[6] It is known that Pym supplied a manuscript for the speech to the newswriter Edmund Rossingham.[2] In the 19th century Charles Kendall Adams published an edited version, from a manuscript found by John Forster.[7]
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Notes
- ^ a b c “Pym, John (1584-1643), of Westminster, Brymore, Som., Whitchurch and Wherwell, Hants; later of Holborn, Mdx. and Fawsley, Northants., History of Parliament Online”. www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ^ a b c d e Russell, Conrad. “Pym, John (1584–1643)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22926. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) Cite error: The named reference “ODNB” was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ s:Sartor Resartus and On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Macmillan)/On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History/Lecture 6
- ^ Cromartie, A. D. T. (1990). “The Printing of Parliamentary Speeches November 1640-July 1642”. The Historical Journal. 33 (1): 23–44. doi:10.1017/S0018246X0001308X. ISSN 0018-246X. JSTOR 2639389.
- ^ Malcolm, Noel (7 November 2002). Aspects of Hobbes. Clarendon Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-19-152998-6.
- ^ Kenyon, J. P. (20 February 1986). The Stuart Constitution, 1603-1688: Documents and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-521-31327-8.
- ^ Adams, Charles Kendall; Alden, John (1884). Representative British Orations: Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund Burke. G. P. Putnam. pp. 35 and from 38.
