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Mr. WALLER's Speech Ju­ly 6. 1641.

MY LORDS,

I am commanded by the House of Commons, to present you with these Articles against Mr. Justice Crawley, which when your Lordships shall have been pleased to hear read, I shall take leave (according to custom) to say something of what I have collected from the sense of that House, concerning the Crimes therein con­tained.

Then the Charge was read, containing his extraju­dicial Opinions subscribed, and judgment given for Ship-money; and afterward, a Declaration in his charge at an Assize, That Ship-money was so Inherent a Right in the Crown, that it would not be in the pow­er of a Parliament to take it away.

My Lords,

Not only my Wants, but my Affections render me less fit for this Employment: For though it has not been my happiness to have the Law a part of my breeding; there is no Manho

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