503, 547.

Clarendon, vol.v.p.

45.
Here commenced the encroachments of the military upon the civil authority.

The army, in their usurpations on the parliament, copied exactly the model which the parliament itself had set them in their recent usurpations on the crown.
Every day they rose in their demands.

If one claim was granted, they had another ready, still more enormous and exorbitant; and were determined never to be satisfied.