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Sir John Eliot

Sir John Eliot 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader. He was a staunch defender of parliamentary liberties. Eliot instituted (1626) the impeachment proceedings against Charles I's favorite, the 1st duke of Buckingham , and joined Sir Edward Coke and others in promoting the Petition of Right , which was presented to the king in 1628. In 1629 he read a protest in the House of Commons against arbitrary taxation and the advance of "popery," while the speaker was held in the chair by force in defiance of the king's order of adjournment. Eliot was committed to the Tower of London where he died three years later.

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Eliot, Sir John (1592–1632). Eliot, a parliamentarian, was initially a client of the royal favourite Buckingham, but turned against him, and in 1626 took part in the impeachment proceedings. For this, Charles I imprisoned him in the Tower. Further imprisonment followed in 1627, when Eliot refused to pay the forced loan. In 1629 he led the Commons' attack on Arminianism and prerogative taxation, and organized the coup on 2 May when the Speaker was held down in his chair to prevent him foreclosing debate. Eliot was again sent to the Tower, where he spent the rest of his life.

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