Excerpt from Orchestra: Or a Poeme of Dauncing, by Sir John DaviesIn 1606 Davies had been promoted to the Irish attorney-generalship and made an Irish Ser geant-at-law, and elected to the Irish Houseof Commons to represent F ermanagh County. In the next year, when Parliament met, he became once more the central figure in a scene of violence. A bitter struggle between the Catholic and Pro testant factions raged over the election of a new speaker. Davies was the Protestant candidate, but Sir John Everard, the Catholic nominee, fore stalled his opponent by getting into the speaker's chair, and clinging physically to his office before the election had been decided. Whereupon Oliver St. John and Ridgeway 'took Sir John Davys by the arms, lifted him from the ground, and placed him in the chair in Sir John Everard's lap, re quiring him to come forth out of the chair'. The poet in his later life was corpulent and heavy; his rival must have been exceedingly uncomfortable. Anyhow, Davies obtained the speakership.

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