Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART THE THIRD. From 1628 to 1629. Eminent Persona of the Country Party won over by the Court—Went- worth—Saville—Noy—A new Session—A Bill proposed to legalize Tonnage and Poundage—The Speaker refuses to put a Resolution of Privilege—The Commons' Protest— Dissolution—Hampden on divers Committees of the House—Members committed to the Tower—Removed to prevent their Appearance to a Writ of Habeas Corpus—Sir John Eliot—Certain unjust Aspersions on his Memory—Letters to Him from Hampden concerning his Sons—Hampden retires into Private Life—Violences of Laud, and Sufferings of the Puritans—Dr. Morley, Dr. Hales, and Dr. Heylin—Star Chamber, and High Com. mission Court—Hampden's first Wife dies—First Writ for the Levy of the Ship-Money. PART THE THIRD. From 1628 to 1629. The troops, returning from the second expedition, were again billeted on the people ; and their excesses now surpassed those of which the country had so lately and so loudly complained. The King's first, and unfavourable, answer to the Petition of Right, and his speech on closing the session, were, by his command, entered, with the petition itself, on the Rolls of Parliament, and of the courts below; and, next, as if it were likely that those persons by whose activity and address such an Act of Parliament had been carried through, would suffer it to be reversed by so poor an artifice as that of a fraudulent record, 15,000 copies were circulated, in which that answer was substituted for the final words of assent. No means were left untried by the Court to weaken the impression of so greata triumph of privilege, and to frustrate the purpose of an Act, the provisions of which it was intended so soon to overthrow. 'Till now, the frontier lines of royal prerogative and Parliamentary privilege, like the borders ...