The king contented himself with proroguing them to a very long term.

Whether these quarrels between the houses arose from contrivance or accident, was not certainly known.

Each party might, according to their different views, esteem themselves either gainers or losers by them.

The court might desire to obstruct all attacks from the commons, by giving them other employment.

The country party might desire the dissolution of a parliament, which, notwithstanding all disgusts, still contained too many royalists ever to serve all the purposes of the malecontents.
* Several historians have affirmed, that the commons found this session, upon inquiry, that the king's revenue was one million six hundred thousand pounds a year, and that the necessary expense was out seven hundred thousand pounds; and have appealed to the journals for a proof.