Note 208 — Chapter II · THE FIRST SITTINGS OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT.

The editing of these speeches in Rushworth and in the Parliamentary History leaves much to be desired. In the second speech the King is made to say, ‘when I called my Lords and Great ones at York,’ although ‘Great ones’ is not an English political phrase. The King really said ‘when I called the lords of my great counsel to York:’ he accuses the Scots, because they ‘did cavil a delay,’ not merely ‘delay.’ As has before been said, all these important documents require to be better edited.