Mr. Jervis Hollis speech the 26 of April 1641.  
Mr. Speaker,  
I have with much difficulty persuaded myself to offer any thing, my stocks little to this Reckoning, get since I have adventured to rise, I shall take the Liberty with your Favours to deliver myself freely; I have a blunt way in speaking my Heart, it may be peradventure a folly in me, but it is a folly I love so well, I will not part with it:  
Sir, we are now upon the 5t Article of the Scots, which, as it was Empressed by a Noble Ld. at the Conference, is a very pregnant, and seeming Article, it hath produced many other, and they such, as I must confess and affirm, whatsoever jucus or Artifice they be slighted over with, I do not like their countenance: They may well be our younger brother Scotland, but like Jacob, they seem to me, as if they had an aim to supplant us, and take away our birthright.  
Sir, There is no man that hath a more charitable construction of Intentions than I had, whilst they made their addresses in humble distance, as befilled Subjects to their Sovereign; whilst they bounded their desires within the due limits of their Ancient liberties, and seemed to wish nothing but the just freedom of Subjects and Christians in their laws and Consciences my heart went along with them, and I wished them satisfaction; But now Sr. when I see them swell in their demands beyond all proportion, when I heard them endear upon their first propositions, and require things unfit for a King to grant, and dishonourable for this Nation to suffer, I cannot but fix a mark of danger upon them, I fear we have nourished in our bosoms those that will sting us to death.  

Here being interrupted, yet the House commanding him to go on he said as followeth.  
Sir, I am sorry for this Interruption, much more sorry if I have given a cause for it, for the clearness of my own thoughts acquit me; I brought no Intentions here but such as were full of Fidelity and zeal for the service of this House, and my Country, and shall always; And now if you please to command me to express myself like an Englishman, and an honest man, I shall proceed, otherwise I shall testify my obedience in my silence.   

Then he was commanded to proceed, which was as followeth.  
The miseries and calamities which this poor Kingdom hath thus long suffered; have hung like weights upon my soul, and I have groaned under the oppression for it was a great one; But these as they call them propositions, I must call them Commands and I fear they will prove so: They threaten yet more, it is to vnmam●e us quite and leave us in a Condition of all others most despiseable: For these appear to me like the demands of Naash to the men of Jabesh pulling out our right eyes.  
Sir, our Ancestors have not been acquainted with so much laments as to hear of such demands at distance, and it cannot but trouble me; that we should not only meet them at the half way, but embrace the bearers.  
Sir, we are the offspring of those Ancestors, their blood runs in our vem●s, and I hope as yet is not all turned to water, there are the Spirits of life and activity in us, and these will revive and Speak plain English to us what ever Damp or Apoplexy this Spirit of slumber hath cast upon us, and I hope we shall either yet live with Honour, or take our Honourable Farewell, and so be honest and gallant men, betwixt these two there is not much difference. Therefore Sr. my humble motion is this, That these Propositions may be committed to a Select Committee to consider of, which carry reason and modesty with them that they may be presented here, as filling to be granted, and that those which are of another Insinuation may be rejected: And if our firm peace may be had upon honest and honourable terms, I will cherish the thoughts of it, if not, there are but two ways left worthy the Entertainemt of this Nation, that is, to stand or fall with honour.  
God I hope and our English virtues will secure the first, if otherwise, he is neither worthy of life, nor memory, that shall not bury himself in the ruins of his Country.  
For this Speech by Consent of the House he was expelled the House for this Session.