Oliver St John, Solicitor-General. Orl.
Bridgman. Joh. Glanvill. Jeoffry Palmer. Tho. Lane. Jo. Maynard. Hdw.
Hyde. J. Glynn. Harbottle Grimstone,' &c.
"So favourable at that time were the opinions of the most constitutional
lawyers (for such were the greater part of these illustrious names) to
the prerogative. But the law on this head has been very wisely altered
by two statutes of William and Mary.--Blackstone, iv. 295.
"The other paper is of later date:--'To the King's most excellent
Majestie. The humble petition of Ambrose Pudsay, Esq., sheweth, that
your petitioner having suffered much by imprisonment, plunder, &c., for
his bounden loyalty, and having many years concealed a myne royall, in
Craven, in Yorkshire, prayeth a patent for digging and refining the
same.'"
[58] _Hist, of Whalley_, p. 504.
[59] This lady, whose attractions or good fortune must have been
uncommon, says the historian of Craven, was daughter to Henry Pudsay of
Bolton. She married, first, Sir Thomas Talbot of Bashall, who died 13
Henry VII.; after which she became the second wife of Henry, Lord
Clifford, the shepherd; and, after his decease, by the procurement of
Henry VIII.
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