Note 108 — Eliot, Hampden, Pym, and the Supremacy of the Commons. 1625–1643
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“He (Eliot) was to the bottom of his heart an idealist. To him the parliament was scarcely a collection of fallible men, just as the king was hardly a being who could by any possibility go deliberately astray. If he who wore the crown had wandered from the right path, he had but to listen to those who formed, in more than a rhetorical sense, the collective wisdom of the nation.”—S. R. Gardiner.