vol.i.p.

365.

This irregular government, which no king and no house of commons had been able to remedy, was the source of the licentiousness of the great, and turbulency of the people, as well as tyranny of the princes.

If subjects would enjoy liberty, and kings security, the laws must be executed.
In the ninth of this reign, also the commons discovered an accuracy and a jealousy of liberty, which we should little expect in those rude times.

"It was agreed by parliament," says Cotton, (p.309), "that the subsidy of wools, woolfels, and skins, granted to the king until the time of midsummer then ensuing, should cease from the same time unto the feast of St.Peter 'ad vincula' for that thereby the king should be interrupted for claiming such grant as due." See also Cotton, p.