Note 36 — INTRODUCTION.
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The Court was threatened before the opening of the Long Parliament.
"We are growing here at London into some Edinburgh tumults, for upon Thursday last, the High Commission being kept at St. Paul's, there came in very near 2,000 Brownists, and, at the end of the court made a foul clamour: and tore down all the benches that were in the consistory, crying out they would have no Bishops nor High Commission. I like not this preface to the Parliament, and this day I shall see what the Lords will do concerning this tumult."—Laud's Letter, 186. Works, vi. 585. Oxford edition. Diary, Oct. 22, 1640, iii, 237.