113:, refused to act. Nevertheless, he returned to his place in the house of Commons after the king's death, thinking, as he said, that he might do some good, and resolving to "keep as much of the people's rights as I could". Reynolds was pledged to the republican cause by his purchases of confiscated lands. "Besides Abingdon Hall and the lands worth £400 per annum, he hath bought a good pennyworth of bishops' lands", says a contemporary libeller, and in one of his speeches he refers to an investment of £8,000 in such property. On 6 June 1650 Reynolds was appointed solicitor-general to the
101:, and used their opportunities to endeavour to make a party for the parliament among officers and officials. Charles rebuked the lords justices, and ordered the arrest of the commissioners (1 March 1643), but they left Ireland before the order could be executed. On 3 January 1644 Reynolds was appointed a member of the Westminster assembly. of whose exaggerated claims he subsequently expressed his disapproval. When the quarrel between the
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147:, while professing the greatest esteem for Richard's person. If proper constitutional securities were given for the rights of the people, he was willing to accept the new Protector. "Against the single person there is not one exception; not any other man in this nation would pass so clearly". After Richard's fall, Reynolds took his seat in the restored
151:, and was elected a member of the Council of State on 14 May 1659, and again on 31 December 1659. He also became again solicitor-general, and on 18 January 1660 was raised to the dignity of attorney-general. As he had been one of the nine members of the Council of State who promised to assist
90:, but his name does not appear in the list of admissions to that body. He was probably a member of the Middle Temple, for on 26 October 1644 the House of Commons voted him the chambers and library of Sir Edward Hyde in that society.
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