Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty Author:Robert Vaughan 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: CHAP. XIV. PARLIAMENT OF 1640. OVERSIGHT OF CHARLES AND HIS MINISTERS. SCOTLAND AND EPISCOPACY. ALARM OF LAUD AND STRAFFORD. IMPOVERISHED STATE OK THE ... more » GOVERNMENT. DISAPPOINTED OF FORF.IGN AID. DISCOURAGING ASPECT OF THE KINO'S AFFAIRS. PACIFICATION OF BERWICK. RENEWED PRE- PARATIONS FOR WAR/ RESOLUTION TO CALL A PARLIAMENT. MOTIVES OF LAUD AND STRAFFORD IN SUPPORTING IT. DIFFERENT ANTICIPA- TIONS RESPECTING IT. PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. ITS CAUTIOUS MANNER OF PROCEEDING.—SPEECHES OF GRIMSTONE AND PYM.— DIS- PUTE BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES. KING'S MESSAGE BY SIR HENRY VANE. — PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED.— UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES OF THE GOVERNMENT RESUMED.—COUNCIL OF PEERS. LONG PARLIAMENT SUMMONED. The reader has seen that when Charles resolved to Chap. xi v govern without a parliament, he speedily closed his v/,O hostilities with France and Spain. It has appeared, overh t or also, that to avoid the recurrence of any similar hi occasion of expenditure, was urged on the king by' his ministers as of the first importance. But it does not seem to have been remembered that a treasury scarcely less considerable than would be required to prosecute a war abroad, might be necessary to preserve tranquillity at home. Neither Charles, nor his favourite advisers, Strafford and Laud, could at all conceive of an opposition to the government, whether relating to the laws or the religion of the kingdom, which it would not be possible, and even easy, to subdue. " Strafford could only view in the daring unyielding spirit of Eliot a fantastic apparition,' and at a much later period classes the meditative Hence the same arbitrary measures which had spread so much disaffection through England and Ireland, were extended to Scotland, and with the same effect. The est...« less