305, 306.
Such were the abuses which Elizabeth would neither permit her parliaments to meddle with, nor redress herself.

I believe it will readily be allowed, that this slight prerogative alone, which has passed almost unobserved amidst other branches of so much greater importance, was sufficient to extinguish all regular liberty.

For what elector, or member of parliament, or even juryman, durst oppose the will of the court, while he lay under the lash of such an arbitrary prerogative?
For a further account of the grievous and incredible oppressions of purveyors, see the Journals of the house of commons, vol.i.p.

190.
There is a story of a carter, which may be worth mentioning on this occasion.

"A carter had three times been at Windsor with his cart, to carry away, upon summons of a remove, some part of the stuff of her majesty's wardrobe; and when he had repaired thither once, twice, and the third time, and that they of the wardrobe had told him the third time, that the remove held not, the carter, slapping his hand on his thigh, said, 'Now I see that the queen is a woman as well as my wife;' which words being overheard by her majesty, who then stood at the window, she said, 'What a villain is this ?' and so sent him three angels to stop his mouth." Birch's Memoirs, vol.i.p.