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A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 176 — Chapter V · STRAFFORD AND THE SHORT PARLIAMENT.

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Speech in Rushworth iii. 1153. Parl. Hist. viii. 467. The original words were ‘His Majesty cannot but resent it, as that which per adventure is without any precedent of such behaviour from subjects to the King, and not suitable to that antient reverence and duty formerly paid by the house of commons to the crown in the cases of this nature.’

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