[326] In the pamphlet ‘Five matters of note.’ ‘The Parliament being called and established by the authority of the King and consent of the kingdom to effect all things that are agreeable to law tending to the preservation of His Majesty’s peace an welfare and the general good of the subject—if they, foreseeing a danger—endeavour to prevent it, and the persons by them commanded falsifie their trust, they are traitors.’
[327] ‘York is a sanctuary to all those that despise the Parliament.’ Letter sent by a Yorkshire gentleman to a friend in London, June 3, 1642.
[328] So says Giustiniani: ‘Protesto ad alta voce, eleggere di perdere le tre corone, che porta sopra il capo, piutosto che lasciare senza severo castigo aggravio di tanta consequenza.’
[329] A diurnal out of the north. July, 1642.
[330] England’s absolute monarchie or government of Great Britain. Thomas Bankes, 1642. He ascribes to the House of Commons the right ‘of impeaching those who for their own ends, though countenanced by any surreptitiously gotten command of the King have violated that law, which he (the King) is bound ... to protect, and to the protection of which they were bound to advise him.’
[331] ‘That the King’s vote was included in the Lords’ vote.’
[332] ‘Touching the fundamental laws or politique constitution of this kingdom.’ Pamphlet of Feb. 24, 1642/3. ‘Whenever circumscribed by written laws, it ceaseth to be supreme. Its superlative and uncircumscribed power I intend only as relating to the universe and the affairs thereof, where it is to work by its fundamental principle, not by particular precepts or statutes.’
[333] Hallam ii: ‘The nineteen propositions went to abrogate in spirit the whole existing constitution.’
[334] May’s History of the Long Parliament, ch. iv. 175: ‘In a very short space those lords became the greater number, and their departure began therefore to seem less strange than the constant sitting of the rest.’
[335] Parliamentary History xi, 208.