[24:3] Constitutional History, vol. ii. p. 81.
[25:1] The Apology of the Commons, 1604. See Gardiner’s History of England, 1603-1642, vol. i. pp. 180-185.
[25:2] Ibid. vol. vii. pp. 72-76.
[28:1] Loc. cit.
[29:1] This was the point of view taken at the time by the Levellers, the most active and progressive politicians of the period. In a “Humble Petition of thousands of well affected people inhabiting the City of London,” presented September 11th, 1648, the petitioners address the House of Commons as “the supreme authority of England,” and desire it so to consider itself. They complain that the Commons have declared their intention not to alter the ancient government of King, Lords and Commons, “not once mentioning, in case of difference, which of them is supreme, but leaving that point, which was the chiefest cause of all our public differences, disturbances, wars, and miseries, as uncertain as ever.” See Clarke Papers, vol. ii. p. 76.
[29:2] See “The Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace,” as presented to the Council of the Army, October 28th, 1647. Reprinted at the end of the third volume of Gardiner’s History of the Civil War.
[29:3] History of the Civil War, vol. ii. p. 67.
[30:1] History of the Civil War, vol. iv. pp. 327-328.
[31:1] History of the Civil War, vol. iii. p. 95.
[31:2] See [Appendix B].